Summary
Mike Tilley has spent his career working towards opening a centre for culture. James Barton meets the owner of the Newcastle Arts Centre and learns of his plans for the future.
Mike Tilley met his wife, Norma, at art school in the heady days of the 1960s. It was there that they decided on photography as their shared passion and preferred artistic medium.See the full content of this document
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Passion Became Artistic Mission
By the early 1970s they were in business together in a building in Station Road, Whitley Bay, which had been run as a photographic studio since the 1890s.
Running it as an open workshop and exhibition space, having renamed it Spectro Arts Workshop, by 1972 they had received their first grant from what was then known as the Experimental Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain, later to become Northern Arts."Even back then we set it up as a not-for-profit company and ploughed back everything we could into the studio," Mike says.As part of the conditions of receiving the grant, Spectro had to become a registered charity with a board of trustees elected by a membership."We w...See the full content of this document
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