Newcastle Arts Centre Gallery 2010

www.newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk

67, Westgate Road , Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1SG near the Central Station

Here is some of the events at Newcastle Arts Centre. We hope that you will come along and see for yourself.

NEW GALLERY CAFE NOW OPEN

Umber Printmakers Invites

NATURAL FORMS - a new exhibition

Umber printmakers -
Deborah Snell, Jacqueline Quinn

Michelle Wood, Joanna Bourne

and invited guests:

Theresa Easton, Jo Westgate

Marion Kuit, Karen Davies

Each artist uses different approaches and printmaking techniques in their work,
but they are linked by their love of the natural world and traditional printmaking.

Newcastle Arts Centre Gallery - admission free - closed Sundays

Meet artist William Sparksman whose painting and sculpture exhibition
Art School Confidential is currently on display. William will be on hand to answer any questions about his distinctive work throughout the evening.

ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL - WILLIAM SPARKSMAN

Saturday 15 May - 26 June

Currently practicing at a studio on the North East coast, William Sparksman is engaged with making the process of drawing and painting using visual imagery cropped and collected over time in sketchbooks and journals before being transferred to paper or canvas. These images are built from memories of the near past and the fictional narratives which sometimes spring from meditations upon those thought patterns and the visual accumulation of time and space passing. Landscape and memory, lo-fi pop culture, the beauty of language and visual sparring come together to create textural collage, delicate drawing, rich painting and dream-like constructions. A sense of the search for self on a peripheral landscape caught between two points.

William Sparksman is currently a Lecturer in Fine Art at Newcastle College.

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5 new events - one night - one location

Visit the Diner of Desire and encounter an evening of cabaret beyond your wildest dreams and darkest nightmares.
Order a song or two from the extensive Black Cab cabaret repertoire, whilst experiencing the spectacle of Jenny and Walter attempting to reduce their debt mountain in an amusing performance while you sit down to a menu of chicken (rubber, of course) and gin.

Rolling programme from 7.30pm - Licenced Bar - Adult event - Free Admission -
Trust Fund donations optional.

This cosy pottery studio is opening its doors once again and inviting you to have a go at throwing pots on the wheel, enjoy some live folk music and see an exhibition of pottery, sculpture, paintings, prints and jewellery.

Black Swan Courtyard

Phone (0191) 232 5302 ....www. Dave Fry

More Late Show Events and Exhibitions at Newcastle Arts Centre
for the evening of Saturday 15th of May

Friday 14th and Saturday 15th

'Tomorrow' - a Video installation by Bob Lee at 69 Westgate

A rare showing including production sets

The City that never was......

A personal view of development on Tyne
Exhibition and talks by Mike Tilley

Exhibition - 16th April - 23rd Work in Progress

drop in question and answer sessions
Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd,12 noon - 2pm

Talk - Saturday 24th April 10.30 am, - post war to the future

Exhibition continues - 24th April - 8th May, 9am -5pm -closed Sundays

at Newcastle Arts Centre 2010

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Dan Wilde is a Newcastle based artist and recent exhibitions include: ‘Engage - A University and Shieldfield community collaboration, Gallery North, Northumbria University. ‘Walls and Bridges’, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick. ‘Emerging Artists’, Newcastle/Gateshead Art Fair, The Sage, Gateshead

Preview: Friday April 16st, 6~8pm, MOVING GALLERY, 67b Westgate Road NE1

Dan Wilde’s new series of silkscreen and photo-polymer prints consist of adapted reproductions of advertisements taken from 1960’s architectural magazines. Such adverts promote somewhat mundane products that are synonymous with modernist construction and habitual modernity - such as polystyrene roofing tiles, bitumen products, room dividers and polypropylene chairs. Through the appropriation and removal of certain intrinsic commercial information in the ads, their original context is lost, taking on a more universal rendering in terms of modernism and modernity. Their messages of idealism and utopias can now be read critically; with an ambiguity that references the past but touches upon modernism’s struggle and failings.

ON ARKA - Ben Jean Houghton
1st Apr - 14th Apr 2010

The print is a silent witness. Whether deliberate, as with a constructed print, or involuntary (a fingerprint, the impression left on a pillow in the morning), a print is always the tangible evidence left from a past action, now gone. It seems significant therefore that Ben Jeans Houghton's new edition of prints were germinated by a double absence. First of all, by his discovery of a discarded collection of illustrations (the author absent or gone), and secondly, by the subject matter of these illustrations: cadavers in the Newcastle University morgue (the body without the presence of self).

The atmospheric virtue of this series of prints doesn't just lie in the myth of their origins however, but in their sublime and delicate rendering. The Series begins as a literal, figurative transcription from the found illustrations and original cadavers which Jeans Houghton visited in the Morgue. Then with the idiosyncratic trepidation and wonder of an artist exploring his subject on the edge of discovery, Jeans Houghton's images become increasingly volatile. The recognisable, figurative human elements (simultaneously beautiful and horrible) rupture and destabalize as the images become permeated with the mists of the unknown, and the imaginary.

While the series begins as a witness to real death, these prints do not depict fear or explicit horror but instead they speak of a latent divine, and the corporeal, which exists at the border of ourselves, our imagination, and non-existence.

The Moving Gallery
67b Westgate Road (Next door to the Newcastle Arts Centre) near the Central Station
Monday to Saturday 11am – 5pm. Free Entry
www.movinggallery.co.uk

Courses at the Arts Centre are planned for the New Term.
For Subscriptions please call 0191 515 2800 or
email lifelong.learning@sunderland.ac.uk

Jetstream Partnership presents
DETOUR: A Photographic Exhibition
By Johnny Jetstream & Michelle Hobby
30th Jan - 6th Mar 2010

The Urban Desert by Johnny Jetstream series of photographs, map out the seemingly artificial spaces of a ficticious city. Each of these spaces offers the possibility that something may happen or exist without ever being defined. Their fragile tension is sometimes disrupted by the anonymous figures that observe from afar as if waiting for something.

Michelle Hobby uses surfaces as a unique way to describe place and space. The titles are partial address of Chateau Versailles. For Michelle the fragmentary style of the shots piece together an overwhelming sensory experience of opulence and power that occupy the place. The sensual silk decorated walls hung with baroque paitnings, with gilded frames speak the history of wealth.

As the titles suggest this is a partial view and the absence of the thing opens a space for the imagination to wonder what lies beyond the doors, down the corridors, or occupies the gilded frame of which we are offered no more than a tantalising glimpse. This contemplation of absence is what links the work of these artists.

21st November 2009 till 23rd January 2010

The British Debut for Columbian artist Herman Angarita
“a series of suspended elements that create many sensations in the observer… one feels, the poetic world of space, the sensation of movement, the permanent feeling of undefined construction, the tensions and the shapes establish a warm communication with the spirit and the senses. This work breaks the existing limits between painting and sculpture using methods seen in today’s art”.

Herman Angarita was born in Colombia where he completed studies in Fine Art, Visual Arts and Illustration. As a Latin American artist, Herman impregnates his work with cultural values and features which result in a unique combination of shapes and textures able to dominate any given space. His work is a mixture of painting and sculpture created using unexpected materials such as wire, iron wood, glass, canvas and celluloid.

Herman’s work has been developing for over twenty years. Herman seeks to expand his work in the UK, challenge and enrich his creativity and commitment whilst sharing his own thoughts, experiences and mature vision of the world.

Herman obtained his degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His work has been exhibited in major Colombian galleries, giving him great recognition in the Latin American art world. His portfolio has earned him a place in several contemporary art publications. His work can be found in public, private and corporate collections.

Herman starts from a drawing using welded metal sticks. The pieces supporting the colour are made from canvas, silk, celluloses and glass respectively. Industrial threads or fibres make the weave and the tension very resistant. The colour and treatment of the painted surfaces are prepared the same way as with the canvas. The dimensions can vary in accordance with the objects itself and the way they are distributed in the space, they consist of individual pieces that can be installed from a single piece measuring 10” x 10” or as several pieces that can fill a large wall.

To see more of Herman and his work along with a short video please visit his website: www.hermanangarita.com