Gasworks - Public gallery and artists' studios

Gallery Films is a new series of interviews with five galleries from around England that gives insight into the different ways in which exhibition spaces can operate.

Galleries can play a key role in the careers of artists, but for many reaching them appears a remote goal. Understanding how a gallery works and its priorities are the first steps in building a relationship with a space. This series of interviews interrogates 5 different models of gallery operation, identifying the commonalities and the differences in how they work and interact with artists, audiences and their contexts.

Many public funded exhibition spaces run a number of different strands of activities and functions to sustain themselves. As well as being an exhibition space, Gasworks houses artists' studios and is the hub of an international arts network (The Triangle Network). Here, Gasworks Director Alessio Antoniolli, talks about these activities, the influence of funding on the organisation and how Gasworks operates within an international context. The film also features interviews with a number of artists who work within the studios there.