This week’s guests: Peter Todd and Dave Critchley talk about 2B Butler’s Wharf, and Ayton Basement Newcastle. In the 1970s and early 1980s Dave Critchley made and exhibited films, audio and performance works, and especially video from 1976. He collaborated with many artists on projects and exhibitions at 2B Butler’s Wharf and was one of the founder members of London Video Arts where he worked until 1986. Filmmaker, writer and curator Peter Todd was a founder member of the artists’ venue in Newcastle: Ayton Basement. This venue became Basement Group of which he was a founder member which evolved into Projects UK and today continues as Locus +.
