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le of the area by continued investment in the textile industry. They were, however, unable to prevent the influx of alternative commercial sectors and large-scale development and the Lace Market became at risk from commercial gentrification.

 

‘In such quarters the necessity of reconciling the various exigencies of conservation and revitalization, of balancing economic development while respecting environmental quality is particularly challenging.’ (Tiesdell, et. al.,1996)

 

Interestingly, the original functional diversification from industrial to cultural quarter occurred,

 

‘not through a process of planning and policy-making, but as something that has grown ‘organically’ over the years… a process that was informal, unstructured and do-it-yourself.’ (Bell, et. al., 2004, p.149)

 

Examples of such cultural development in the area include the Broadway Theatre, and the formation in the 1980’s of the arts based Midland Group. The continued sustainability of such an organic transformation has however been dependent on the intervention and continued support of the City Council. The Council, mindful of the failures of earlier policies, saw the need to diversify. Building on the success of these smaller independent units such as the theatre, they invested in establishing the area as a cultural hub within the city. As Bell continues to explain,

 

‘some infrastructural support for this fragile hidden ecology of creative people could be a vital stage in consolidating and developing the Lace Market as a cultural quarter.’ (ibid, p.161)

 

It was within this multi-faceted context that the Nottingham Contemporary gallery was conceived.

 

Such economic investment in public art, paralleled the actions of other provincial cities throughout the UK, such as Walsall and Gateshead where new landmark galleries are synonymous with the image of that individual city. Widely known as the ‘Guggenheim Effect’, such culture-led regeneration has become a respected means of attracting investment and tourism to a city. The regenerative success stimulated by the Guggenheim Museum in the once industrial town of Bilbao, being the prime example.

 

The Nottingham Contemporary, as the largest single gallery in the East Midlands and one of the largest contemporary art spaces in the UK, was opened to the public on Nov 14th 2009 amid significant media attention. Situated on one of the oldest locations in the city, and following numerous failed attempts to regenerate the site, the Nottingham Contemporary has not sprung up by chance.

 

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