page_title: Cultural Quarter, Northampton
section_title: NN Contemporary Art
hierarchical_section_title: Cultural Quarter, Northampton / NN Contemporary Art
caption_attribution_description: English: External view of 9 Guildhall Road, Northampton by E F Law
context_page_description: The Cultural Quarter of the town Northampton, England, is a Northampton Borough Council initiative to promote the depressed centre of the town. Part of it was referred to as Derngate, the name of a gate in the old town walls.
  The re-branding was launched in early 2013. It encompasses the Northampton Museum, theatre complex Royal & Derngate, a historic house 78 Derngate, an art gallery NN Contemporary Art and a cinema, the Errol Flynn Filmhouse. Bars, restaurants, pubs, hair salons and fashion shops, housing and offices are included. Northampton High School for Girls was once located in the zone, its site has since been sold for housing.
context_section_description: NN is an independent contemporary art space in the centre of Northampton. The gallery  works with artists at all stages of their careers to present an international programme of contemporary art and multi-disciplinary events.
  The gallery is run by the Northampton Arts Collective, which moved in 2012 from the old Fishmarket, later demolished to make way for a new bus station. NN Cafe, a café and performance venue, opened upstairs in October 2013 and ran until 2016. The Artist Table took on the Cafe space opening in spring 2017. In 2014 NN was awarded charitable status by the charities commission. and was awarded National Portfolio Organisation status by Arts Council England in June 2017 for the period 2018–22.
  In 2003 a group of artists and practitioners came together to form Northampton Arts Collective (NAC). They were united by the common goal to elevate contemporary art within Northamptonshire. The group's first flagship project was Fishmarket, which  launched in 2006 as an independently run, not-for-profit visual arts space in the former abandoned Fishmarket building off the market square in central Northampton. This building housed the largest gallery space outside a city in the UK, alongside retail units and café. From 2006–2011 it presented changing exhibitions of contemporary art featuring artists such as Jamie Shovlin, Bill Drummond, and CJ Mahony, and interdisciplinary events including music and spoken word performances by artists such as Alan Moore, Lyric Lounge, and Don Letts. 
  NAC's structure has changed significantly over the years but the desire to elevate contemporary art in Northamptonshire and spirit of multi-disciplinary collaboration remain at the heart of NN. NAC now forms the board for NN in the new space at Number Nine, which is run by a dedicated team of curatorial and operational staff.
caption: NN Arts Collective Gallery on Guildhall Road; the building is by Edmund Francis Law and was originally an hotel
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