Article: Artists hoping to raise lots of cash

When twenty-something artists David Bethell and Andrew Branscombe opened the AirSpace gallery in Hanley 18 months ago, they fulfilled a dream.

The gallery, which has since moved from the old Falcon Works to its new home in Broad Street, needed a huge amount of hard work to get off the ground, not to mention financial backing and support from a whole number of organisations.

Knowing that Arts Council England's funding would at some point run out, the pair knew they had to come up with a new way of raising money to ensure exhibitions could be held there in future - and so an exciting auction project called AirTrade was born.

A cry for help to the local and national arts community has rewarded ...

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