Newcastle Arts Centre Gallery 2011

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-

Out of the Woods
Shot paper and other drawings by
Jenny Purrett

 

Newcastle Arts Centre, Westgate Road, Newcastle, NE1 1 SG

You are invited to view the show and meet the artist :
Thursday 24th November 6pm-8pm

Exhibition continues

Friday 25 November 2011 - Saturday 21st January 2011

Monday to Saturday 9am - 5pm admission free

 

Jenny Purrett will be showing Shot Paper and other work in which she explores various approaches to drawing. Her starting point is the woodland around Highgreen in Tarset, Northumberland where she has spent the past year as artist in residence. The outcomes are varied.

Shot Paper is exactly that: rolls of paper pockmarked with lead shot, the effect suggesting peeling birch bark. In Limb Drawings she has applied graphite powder to the surface of the paper using her fingertips. These precarious, dusty drawings record the debris found in the aftermath of a storm. In contrast, Scars, drawn from studying beech bark, are deeply inscribed into the paper with sharp pencil. In her large Dissection monoprints, she has carefully pulled apart clumps of moss and printed each individual strand. Her fascination for the small things that make up the whole is a common thread that can be found running through all of her work. As she says in her catalogue, “However small an action might be, however tiny an element is, it is significant. It is part of the big picture.”

Alongside these pieces are extracts from her daily journal. Highly detailed pen and ink drawings log the minutiae, such as deer-chewed trees, lichen encrusted fence posts, sheep’s wool caught on barbed wire and curious ice formations. Notes accompany each drawing describing weather conditions, sounds, smells and colours, providing a full sensory record of her experience. Drawing and writing out in the field brings an immediacy to each page, giving the viewer a sense of what it is like to be living in such a remote and wild spot.

Jenny Purrett studied Fine Art at the University of Central England, Birmingham and gained a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Bath Spa University in 2009. She has exhibited work in Bath, Bristol, London, Birmingham and the North East. Since completing her Artist Residency for VARC (Visual Arts in Rural Communities), she continues to make work in response to the landscape of the North East.

Newcastle Arts Centre

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

 

www.newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk

 


New Exhibition
Odd Collection by Nous Vous

15 - 29 October

PREVIEW: 14 October 18.00 – 20.00 All welcome

Newcastle Arts Centre, 67 Westgate Road NE1 1SG

www.nousvous.eu

Odd Collection is an exhibition of new print work by Nous Vous collective, inspired by and promoting various philosophical and motivational ideas.
It is part of an ongoing series of simple, direct graphic prints based on found philosophies, positive thinking, creative processes, everyday experiences and the collaborative nature of Nous Vous’ practice.

Nous Vous is a collective of three artists/designers, who collaborate on various commercial and artistic projects.
This exhibition sees the collective continuing to explore an ongoing interest in self-motivation, creative processes and positive philosophy.

Original inspiration for this series came about from a fascination with overly-sentimental and badly-designed motivational posters. We work together very closely, and often come up with humourous or odd ideas whilst developing projects. These ‘philosophies’ are not arrived at by force, rather they come about whilst thinking thorough design problems or are inspired by everyday experiences. We started visualising these ideas as a way to motivate ourselves, and have exhibited several pieces from the series previously, though we aim to never make the same work twice.

Based across Leeds and London, Nous Vous is Nicolas Burrows, Jay Cover and William Edmonds,
who have been working together since 2006 on commercial design projects, workshops, installations and curatorial projects.

Exhibition printed and framed by Newcastle Arts Centre for Design Event

Lilly Langtry by William Downey

William Downey who was known as the 'Queen's Photographer' was born in King Street South Shields in 1829.
 ( ten years before the invention of photography )

About 1855 he set up the town's first photographic studio with his brothers Daniel and James in a wooden building adjoining the old parsonage.Their first Royal Order was for photographs of the Hartley Colliery Disaster in January 1862 for Queen Victoria. Soon after William and Daniel moved to London and established a studio at 5 Eaton Street.

During 1890-4 Cassel and Co. published 'The Cabinet Portrait Gallery ' a five volume series of photographs by W & D Downey. This exhibition is largely made from digitally enhanced copies of a selection of the Woodburytypes from the first two of those volumes.

These pictures were of a technical and artistic quality that made William Downey the most sought after Portrait Photographer in England, and now more than 115 years later his work remains as one of the most
complete records of how famous Victorians viewed themselves.

Northern Clay Exhibition

Return of the Neb!

AN EXHIBITION OF NEW PAINTINGS BY

MIKE CLAY

NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE
19 November 2010 to 15 January 2011
Mon – Sat 9am-5pm admission free

This exhibition consists of 45 paintings largely based on overheard or reported conversations and incidents around his home in Hendon, Sunderland. Originally from West Sussex, Mike has lived in the north east for 30 years since college at Sunderland Polytechnic where he graduated in 1982.

This show contains work done since January 2010 and is part of a rolling programme of some 300 works many of which have been sold. This body of work describes the mistakes, accidents, situations and poor choices that make being human so entertaining.

As a compulsive eavesdropper, he tunes in to private and not so private conversations (thanks to the mobile phone!) which become the subjects of the paintings. All are on hardboard, and are made from acrylic and gouache colour, applied by brush and rag and removed with sandpaper and Stanley knife blade - as he was trained as a printmaker and sculptor he’s not sure that this is the way to make paintings.

He’s fascinated by the “crap side of life”, things occurring in the next street, children’s perceptions of a confusing adult world, and “just general sauciness really!”. The link between the Royal Family and Newcastle Arts Centre, the defacement of Dalmatian dogs and the poor fashion choices of those around him are all fodder for The Neb - Mike Clay.

 

Exquisite Corps

Saturday 14 May 7.00 -11pm

new events - one night - one location

Black Cab cabaret - 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 -

Northern Clay Exhibition.

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 14th of May

Courses at the Arts Centre are planned for the New Term.
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