ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the mobilities of working artists in the cultural quarter of Newcastle upon Tyne the Ouseburn Valley. It also focuses on the development of the Ouseburn Valley as a leisure and tourist resource, and also on the Valley as a tourist-generating area for other bohemias. Developments in this part of Newcastle upon Tyne, as well as marking the area as a place of creative production, have also signified the growth of the Ouseburn Valley as a space of leisure and tourist consumption. A different frequenter of the Valley suggested that although they were in fact a photographic technician they often defined themselves as a musician as the creation of music in time outside work was a key point of their leisure practice and self-identification. Although many artists in the study therefore may denigrate the tourist bubble and experiences of travel that rely upon the traditional tourist infrastructure, there is a parallel creative-cosmopolitan' environmental bubble on display.
