New Art Spaces

New Art Spaces: Pop-up creative spaces for emerging talent in the North West

Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces manages pop-up project and gallery spaces which offer a unique testing ground for experimental and large-scale creative project development.

Use of the spaces is available to members of our Castlefield Gallery Associates membership initiative, allowing them to develop their creative practice at a very low cost. To date we have managed many spaces across Greater Manchester and the North West region since the New Art Spaces scheme originated in 2009. 

Presently we are managing one space in Bolton town centre and this is available for new project applications (full details of the location below). Projects will be hosted for a maximum of six months. 

For further information and to request an application form please contact
Nicholas James, New Art Spaces Coordinator. 

Castlefield Gallery operates with the ambition to make the North West a place where artists can live, produce work and thrive. This scheme is just one of the ways in which we support artists to maintain their creative practice, rehearse and test out new work. We have hosted emerging and established artists, performers, musicians and other creative practitioners through our network of New Art Spaces sites. Our mission is to nurture artistic skills, explore cultural trends, and deepen our audience’s relationship to contemporary art.