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Thursday, 01 November 2007 |
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A challenge is being mounted against the management of the Newlyn and
Exchange art galleries.The annual meeting of the Newlyn Art Galleries
takes place next Wednesday (November 6) at 6.30pm at the Exchange
Gallery in Princes Street, Penzance.
There,
gallery members Simon Turney, Suze White and Francis Howie are standing
for election to the committee in a bid to oust chairman Charles Hancock.
And
there will also be a vote of no confidence in ProjectBase Cornwall Ltd,
the company that manages exhibitions at the two galleries.
Mr
Turney, an emergency planner, says he has become "increasingly
disenchanted" with the management of the galleries during his three
years as a member of Newlyn Art Galleries and hopes his election will
help to bring about the changes he believes are necessary.
Mr Turney is being backed by Bernard Evans, a former chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists.
He
claims that management blunders at the galleries have vitally affected
the interests of the Newlyn Society of Artists (NSA) and calls for the
NSA to be allowed a third of the programming at both Newlyn and the
Exchange.
He also questions the finances of ProjectBase Ltd,
saying that "bureaucracy in the arts is burgeoning at the expense of
practising artists".
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I was there as a non member and naturally did not speak or vote
but although we signed a book on admission nobody asked the voters if they were members - does this make the vote invalid ?