Newark creative space Coreset brings established and new artists and exhibitions to town
A dynamic new creative community and art space in Newark has welcomed three artists in residence — and is to host a variety of exhibitions.
A former 1950’s maker space and Pulfront corset factory on Friary Road has now become Coreset — boasting artist studios and workshops, a co-lab, splash and paint spaces, art and common rooms, and kitchen and living spaces.
It is home to twelve established artists — including three new artists welcomed to the creative community in the first of its 6-month long residencies, launched in December 2024.
The three selected from a large number of applications were Chloe Brierley, Rebecca Greene and Liam Skillen, who all have Newark connections.
Chloe is a painter, and explores her reflections of the physical and mental realm through self-portraits.
She is a BSc Product Design student at Nottingham Trent University, following a UAL Foundation diploma in Art and Design at Lincoln College School of Art and Design where she achieved a Distinction.
Rebecca is a multi-disciplinary artist who graduated with a BA Illustration in 2004, having suffered a traumatic brain injury in 1999.
Her work focuses on enabling creative engagement with excluded and vulnerable people, and she is the recipient of Arts Council England funding for Drawing Connections.
Liam’s work explores cultural identity and traditions, particularly the identity of historic and contemporary Central and Eastern European communities in the UK — looking to find commonalities in traditions and ways of preserving culture by examining his own environment and that of communities living memories.
The creative community has also launched it’s Spring 2025 programme of exhibitions and events, Back to Earth.
The season opens on March 3 with Aproximity, an exhibition recently shown in London, which highlights the impact of human activity on the world.
It includes sound, photography, sculpture, digital art, and video by Coreset artists Fiona Carruthers and David Carruthers, and interdisciplinary artist and researcher Annie Morrad, and runs until April 12.
From April 28 to May 24, Coreset presents the photographic exhibition, Forming Threads, which reveals the skills and creativity of makers in Xuzhou and Guizhou, China, and considers different ways to minimise the environmental footprint of production and consumption.
The season concludes with Drift, from June 9 to July 12, an exhibition of works from fine artist Daniel Rapley, which takes viewers on a journey to other worldly destinations created by fusing found 35mm slides to create vibrant compound images.
During the exhibitions Coreset will also host gatherings, conversations and readings. The exhibitions are open from Thursday to Saturday from 11am to 3pm.
