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Opening night attendants: Cameron Emerson-Elliott, Emma Nicholson, Kathryn Ryan
"Visitors to Red check were also performers in the last show
at the Tin Sheds Gallery at 154 City Road. The building is to be demolished
soon, after hosting 16 years of Tin Sheds exhibitions. Gallery walls,
lighting etc were removed so that the building, as well as its visitors,
was integral to this last show. The building was constructed as a
brick factory in the late 1920s, housed the Commercial Motor Company
for many years, became the Architectural Science Annex in the 1960s
and opened as the Tin Sheds Gallery on 7 April 1988. For Red Check,
a check pattern in red iron oxide pigment crossed the cement floor,
hand towels hung along the walls, and swings from the rafters. On
opening night, the red stuck to people's feet, leaving footprints
everywhere. Attendants removed what red they could from people's shoes,
returning it to the
shelves of the gallery storeroom. The rest was walked into the
night. … At the same time, two doors down
the road at 148 City Road, the first shows opened at the new Tin Sheds
Gallery at 148 City Road, Darlington: Deborah Vaughan, eye full and Bevan Honey, Split. The three works are curated by Jan Fieldsend, Director of the Tin Sheds Gallery, as the show, SEEsaw.
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