The Shed is home to many of Gateshead's leading creative businesses.
The building was transformed from an empty furniture store, The Bed Shed, on Gateshead High Street to provide space for creative businesses to develop and exhibit their ideas.
Artists working at The Shed
Eleven businesses moved in to The Shed in November 2009 and another 25 joined in 2010.
The Shed has fast become a hub for creativity in Gateshead, with its tenants producing exciting and innovative work.
Businesses working in The Shed include:
Paul King - One Day Later
Status: Limited company (private)
Area of work: Media/software/web
Summary: Design web-based software for freelancers and SMEs that allows users to track their everyday time, money and mileage. Consult on software and web development, accredited mentors for web development software.
Michael Gandham, James Taylor, Greg Fraiser - Arcus Studios
Status: Unincorporated group
Area of work: Animation/comedy
Summary: Four individuals creating high-quality animated comedy.
Cecilia Stenbom - Individual
Area of work: Fine art
Summary: Contemporary visual artist concerned with notions of identity in a mediated world.
Rachel Magdeburg - Individual
Area of work: Fine art
Summary: A painter who examines the relationship between word and image, and the language of painting.
Daniel Marston - Individual
Area of work: Fine art/media/photography
Summary: Focuses on fashion photography aimed at editorial market.
Corinne Lewis - Individual
Area of work: Fine art/media/design/craft/training/education
Summary: Primarily works with lens-based media and digital reproduction, and is concerned with the relationship between technology and natural environment. Corinne also designs and makes her own wearable art collection, and is currently developing and selling a number of jewellery items from brooches, rings and pendants influenced by her creative practice.
Claire Morgan, Viv Wiggins, Robbie Hurst, James Fisher, Simon Hymers - Monkfish Productions
Status: Limited company (community interest)
Area of work: Performance poetry/multi-media
Summary: Specialise in producing new work in spoken word, performance poerty and live litrature.
Jonny Britton - JP Britton Ltd
Status: Limited company
Area of work: Media/education
Summary: Designs education software and applications.
Laura Hebron - Individual
Status: Sole trader
Area of work: Design/craft
Summary: A jewellery designer specialising in pieces made from objects discovered in coastal areas and manipulated with textile techniques.
Taryn Edmonds - pin:point Collective
Status: Unincorporated ground
Area of work: Fine art/media
Summary: A collaboration between visual artists to share skills and ideas based on a belief in creativity as a platform for learning and expression.
Chris Barter, Stephen Gibbs - Boreal
Status: Unincorporated group of individuals
Area of work: Fine art/design/craft/fashion
Summary: Design and produce limited edition, bespoke wallets.
Jen McHugh - Individual
Area of work: Fine art/design craft/print illustration
Summary: Primarily concerned with drawing and illustration.
Eve Oram - Individual
Area of work: Design/craft
Summary: Designer and producer of ladies' bespoke vintage-inspired clothing.
Sam Watson, Adam Phillips - CIRCA
Status: Unincorporated group of individuals
Area of work: Fine art/media
Summary: A non-commercial arts organisation that aims to facilitate greater public engagement, understanding and enjoyment of contemporary art.
Annie Rigby, Leyla Asadi - Unfolding Theatre
Status: Company limited by guarantee
Area of work: Theatre
Summary: Makes theatre for public performance, and delivers community theatre projects and drama workshops.
Aidan Moesby - Individual
Area of work: Text-based media
Summary: A text-based artist and writer. Practice includes educational and community workshops particularly around emotional literacy and well-being. Studio skills include printing, letterpress, installation and digital media.
Suzanne Hutton, Janine Goldsworthy, Maria Downes, Michael Branthwaite, Sam Taylor, Steve Wright - Rednile Projects Ltd
Area of work: Fine art/public art/cross-art forms
Summary: Collaborates with artists, specialists, businesses and communities and temporary venues to create projects and artworks that respond to site.
Kathryn Brame - Individual
Area of work: Fine art
Summary: Painting and installations involving tiny delicate figures of elderly people surrounded by expanses of white space.
Edwin Mingard - Individual
Area of work: Media
Summary: A filmmaker who produces bespoke projects with collaborators.
Gloria Ronchi, Claudio Benghi - Aether & Hemera
Area of work: Lighting installations
Area of work: A lighting design and new media architecture partnership specialising in art installations and lighting schemes.
Jennifer Douglas - Fine Art
Area of work: Fine art
Summary: A visual artist whose practice focuses on sculpture, large-scale installation and drawing.
Kate Craddock - Mouth to mouth
Area of work: Multi-disciplinary
Summary: Kate Craddock is co-founder and artistic director of 'Mouth to mouth' international performance collective.
Christoph Oschatz - Kiosk Architecture Design and Direction
Area of work: Architect/education
Summary: Specialises in residential projects but is also interested in art collaborations and education.
Laura Jane Vest - Laura Jane Vest Photography
Area of work: Fashion photography
Summary: A fashion and beauty photographer who regularly does fashion and beauty shoots for the regional Accent magazine and was commissioned to do a series of images for the launch of the Vivienne Westwood Store, Newcastle.
Liam Murray - Individual
Area of work: Fine art
Summary: Visual artist with a degree in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art 2004.
Verity Quinn - Left Luggage Theatre
Area of work: Multi-disciplinary
Summary: A group of theatre practitioners and visual artists whose specialisms include costume and textiles, puppetry, animation, theatre design, site-responsive installation and performance.
Colin Davies, Geoff Kirkwood - OneNineFour Studios
Area of work: Graphic design/curator
Summary: Graphic design studio specialising in creating branding, editorial design and art direction for the cultural sector, and the curation of design exhibitions.
Ben Jones - Individual
Area of work: Visual arts
Summary: An artist, curator, arts educator and writer who is interested in the possibilities of technology and media as places for discussion and action. Works in video, photography, drawing, text and online media. Currently studying a PhD at Culture Lab, Newcastle University, and is collaborating with CIRCA at The Shed.
Kate Eccles - Individual
Area of work: Multi-disciplinary
Summary: A visual artist and costume designer and maker in dance, site responsive theatre and film. The diverse inspirations for Kate's work include Japanese fashion, origami folding techniques, the body in movement and traditional boat-making skills. She has worked with theatre companies around the North East and delivered educational workshops with other theatre designers focusing on costume, textiles and design.
Laura Maragoudaki - Individual
Area of work: Fine art/media
Summary: Visual artist, filmmaker, animator and workshop leader.
Molly Barratt - Individual
Area of work: Multi-disciplinary
Summary: Theatre practitioner whose specialisms include puppetry, animation, theatre design, site-responsive installation and performance.
Nick Kennedy - Individual
Area of work: Fine art
Summary: An artist who produces works on paper, installations, performance and sculpture that explore the notions of chance, order, control and serendipity. Central to his work is the conflict between chance and influence, order and chaos, success and failure, rules and irregularity.
Rachael Clewlow - Individual
Area of work: Fine art
Summary: Visual artist whose practise is based around the logging of journeys and the organisation and presentation of accumulated data through rigorous and dedicated daily recording.