I offer my full support to this cause.
Raul Ortega Ayala, Mexico

We feel that Tramway is a vital and important institution for the art world in the city of Glasgow,
its inititiative in supporting local artists has helped to establish Glasgow as one of the leading
cities in Britain for Art. Without this building we feel the downtown area of Glasgow will be depleted of a great place for struggling young artists alike.
Dara Alexis Bedick and Chris Meighan

Tramway should be kept open as a wonderful exhibition space with fantastic history, ambience and physical dimensions, not least because one day I'd like to show there.
Sally Barker

I am no longer a resident of Scotland but all I ever hear is of all the scottish traditions that are being taken away. If you want us to have no tradtions this is the way to go if I can help let me know I am not wealthy by any means but if there is something I can do to help keep a bit of Scotland where it belongs I will. It's amazing how they tell other countries not to lose their traditions
Margaret Rolland Amato

This is such a terrible situation Tramway being such a viable exhibition space, having shown there it is obvious how important the venue is to the community. Currently I am an external examiner on the MFA at GSA so I get to visit Tramway to see the degree show. This is such an incredible opportunity to have a professional exhibition. If there is anything else to do concerning this please let me know.
Pamela Golden

I would like to register my support of your campaign to Save Tramway Gallery. It is inconceivable to think the space is being brushed aside due to whims of Scottish Arts Council. This comes at time when art within the United Kingdom is receiving more international attention than ever before - just witness the success of the Frieze Art Fair. The Arts Council needs to back such spaces.
Please register my wholehearted support.
Graham Dolphin

Don't let SOS Tramway close!! However much I loveBallet, it's reallyimportant to keep experimental arts projects alive and give them the space they need!! Why are they being ousted from their space to make way for another group?
Sally Timmis

I'm writing as a UK based artist to register my support for Tramway as a Visual Art & Live Art Venue. It seems incredible to me that Scottish Ballet could seriously think to undermine another art form by depriving it of one of its respected and popular venues. Different artistic/cultural fields should support each other not vie for spaces. I have heard a lot about Tramway and about work that happens there. Glasgow is an artistic centre that artists and art lovers WANT to visit. By taking away Tramway, Scottish Ballet would be lessening the attraction of Glasgow as a city for cultural tourism - not improving it.
Pippa Koszerek

As an artist, I have always been aware of Tramway as an important and valuable exhibition space and working group. The shows I have seen at Tramway have always demonstrated an imaginative transformation and use of the building. With the dearth of excellent exhibition spaces outside of London, I believe it would be a great loss for the Scottish and British art scene if the Tramway were to close.
Jo Coupe

I would like to express my support to Tramway and a continuiing activity at this extremely important international venue for the arts in the Glasgow region.
It will be a great loss, not only to the region, but to the European artcommunity as well as audience to lose Tramway as an interdisciplinary venue for the contemporary arts!
Camilla Eeg, board member Oslo Kunsthall, Senior Exhibition Co-ordinator, Education Programmes at National Touring Exhibitions, Norway

I am sending support from the ICA in Philadelphia to protest the proposed closure of Tramway. We say "No".
Tanya Leighton

Tramway's space is unique amongst visual arts spaces in the UK and it must be retained for the visual arts and for the artists of Glasgow and Scotland
Stephen Snoddy, Director, Milton Keynes Gallery

Just wanted to add my name to the list of supporters for keeping
tramway the way it is.
Anthony Schrag, 1st Year MFA, Glasgow School of Art

Tramway needs its exhibition space.
And all the art-scene, in Glasgow and abroad, needs Tramway.
Frédéric Paul
directeur, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, centre d'art contemporain, Bignan, France

I am an artist based in Finland where regard for Glasgow's Tramway is high. It would be very sad and short-sighted for Glasgow to loose a British and international landmark institution without serious awareness of its value outside Scotland.
I will certainly make known among those art lovers from Finland who have enjoyed visiting Tramway and Glasgow the current situation and encourage them to respond.
yours sincerely and greetings from Finland,
Charles Sandison

"I have a real attachment to Tramway and have so many great memories! The highlights being: the show I was a part of in conjuction with Bruce McLean's show there in 96 or 97; henry VIII's Wives smashed up car and Ulay and Abramovic's huge show in 98..."
Helen Clara Hemsley (GSA graduate 1998) Copenhagen, Denmark

Tramway, as an exhibition space for contemporary art, has an importance well beyond Glasgow and Scotland. As one of the largest gallery spaces in Europe it has accordingly attracted individuals with ambition and works often otherwise unrealisable. Other cities can only dream of having such a successful venue. Glasgow City Council and the Arts Council should be looking to invest more into visual arts at Tramway, not abandoning it to the ballet. The threatened change of use is another example of the visual arts in Scotland being sold short. Of all Scotland's contemporary arts it is in the visual arts that it achieves the most recognition abroad. At home, sadly, it is a different story but one that can only change with
investment and belief.
Rob Tufnell, former Tramway employee, currently Exhibitions Organiser, Kettle's Yard,
Universtiy of Cambridge

"I am a performance-artist and poet, I have given performances in England, France, Ireland, Italy, Chile, Scotland, Spain, Thailand, and a number of locations in the U.S., etc. I have just been invited to perform at Festivals in China and Korea. Please add my name and information to the protest letters or statements concerning Tramway 2! Thank you, and good luck!"
Séamas Cain, Cloquet, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Just wanted to show my support in this testing time and say how ridiculous I think Glasgow council are being in their short-sightedness...Tramway has long provided an international link for the city and is an important cultural contributor regionally, nationally and internationally...I don't want to wax lyrical about how fab tramway is because everybody knows it! However, please do let people know that there is a whole cultural contingency that relies on Tramway to support artists and produce shows etc of exemplary standard that aren't all based in Scotland!
Good luck with it all and crossed fingers that the powers that be see sense!
Best wishes
Ceri Hand, Deputy Director, Grizedale Arts

I am an artist living in London and I have been following the Tramway story closely. I want to offer you my long distance support in your campaign. I think Tramway 2 is a great visual arts space and I am saddened to see another arts organisation being responsible for threatening its closure. I think its location on the southside makes it particularly important that it be saved.
I wonder if Tramways reputation internationally and nationally is perhaps greater than its local reputation. Perhaps the council are unaware of just what an asset they have in Tramway.
For what its worth I shall be getting as many signatures from London artists and workers in the arts as I can for the petition.
Victoria Putler, London