Curator Tony Knox from 2000 june to 2005 March A good bye to the egg space tony knox leaves after four and a half period, he had committed himself to assisted artist and help nurture the new Generation of artist into the city on a voluntary bases, he has now parted ways with the space this was a free space for artist to show there work. "I feel that there are now other Gallery spaces in liverpool like, corner stone and Qiggins gallery & South botheman and issue gallery in Smithdown road that are now exist, giving artist the opportunity to show work when I started the egg space there was a void of gallery spaces in Liverpool the hanover gallery closed 2002, fact building did not exit and Jump ship rat was closed after the 2002 biannual as did the view and collect gallery, this was one of the many reasons, this void of opportunity for artist to show in liverpool was a principal reason I started the take over the acorn gallery and changed it to egg space, in 2000 there was a lack of gallery spaces in Liverpool, now that is not the case but how long can they sustain themselves is another matter. Article published in www.artinliverpool.com Acticle : End of an Era Written by Francis Duffy (click here)
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