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SETTING THE FELL ON FIRE 2nd Apr 2009 - Sept 09 Join Allenheads Contemporary Arts in a double celebration: the launch of a new arts space ACAdovetail in Newcastle City Centre and the launch of their book "Setting the Fell on Fire" which charts ACA's work over 12 years from their base in the village of Allenheads, Northumberland. ACAdovetail (Allenheads Contemporary Arts) Amy House, 61 Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1HZ. 01434 685040 www.acart.org.uk.. Kate van Suddesse 13th Jun - 31st Aug 2009  Biscuit Factory Stoddart Street. Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne. 0191 261 1103 www.thebiscuitfactory.com.. Mon and Sun 11-5, Tues-Sat 10-8, free. Buddle Arts Centre Wallsend, Newcastle - Upon - Tyne Cluny Gallery 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 0191 2304474 www.johnson-perkins.co.uk David Fry Pottery Studio Black Swan Court, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, 0191 261 7512 Open Tues - Sat, 11am to 4pm. Closed Christmas Day, New Years Day & Jan 2nd. Entrance Free Amy Dover From 2nd July 2009  Known for her delicately detailed pencil sketches with a darker side, Amy is having a very successful 2009 with a number of shows under her belt. Seb Lester From 6th August 2009  Passionate about letterforms and typography, Seb illustrates and animates with letter forms to created prints with a very strong message. Si Scott From 3rd September 2009  Si is one of the few artists of the moment with a very unique style of his own and we are very please to be hosting a solo show with him. Jon Burgerman From 27th November 2009  Jon's doodley style is instantly recognisable and his show will be a great way to end 2009 at ES! Electric Sheep Gallery 22 Pink Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 5DW. 0191 261 4444 Open Mon - Sat, 10am to 6pm www.electricsheep.co.uk Gallagher & Turner St Thomas Street Workshops, St Thomas Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 0191 261 4465 www.gallagherandturner.co.uk Mon-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-3. Free Entry. ART SALE 10th Jul - 8th Aug 2009  Preview Evening: Thursday 9th July @ 6pm - 10pm This summer, Globe Gallery presents a unique Art Sale showcasing hidden gems from the studios of over fifty artists and designer makers. From July 10th to August 8th, the gallery will transform into a market-place offering 100s of pieces of original artwork with prices ranging from £10 to £350. If you are looking for the rare and unexpected, then this is the perfect opportunity. Including work by: Mr Arteest / Eva Bauer / Oliver Beck / Lyndsey Best / Louise Bradley / Frank Briffa / Hannah Brown / Elly Clarke / James Crowther / Colin Davison / Edmund Francis / Esther G. Garcia / Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau / Yvette Hawkins / Lauren Healey / Laura Hebron / Adam Hogarth / Tessa Holland / Ruth Houston / Peter-Ashley Jackson / Daniel Jagger / Stephen Jaques / Adam Kissack / Hannah Mackay / Mikhak Mirmahmoudi / Sebastian Muscio / Tessa Payne / Victoria Proudfoot / Amanda Raby / Claire Rousell / Helen Schell / Andy Slater / Joseph Steele / Pauline Thomas / Maggie Walker / Roxy Walsh / Harry Watton / David Webb / Sarah West / Sarah Woodburn / Mick Wootton The Globe Gallery - City Curtis Mayfield House, Carliol Square, Newcastle upon Tyne. 0191 222 1666 www.globegallery.org Wed-Sat 11.30am-5pm Wildlife Photographer of the Year 27th Jun - 20th Sept 2009  A selection of striking and memorable photographs, from stunning landscapes to intimate portraits of animal behaviour, offering an insight into the beauty and diversity of the natural world. A Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine exhibition. Hancock Museum Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne. 0191 222 7418 www.twmuseums.org.uk/hancock Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5, £3.95 concs, £9.95 Family. Northern Print Biennale 26th Jun - 15th Aug 2009  The first major competition and exhibition of contemporary printmaking in the UK for almost 20 years. The exhibition, jointly hosted by the Hatton, the Laing Art Gallery and Northern Print, will showcase the very best in new British and international printmaking attracting the broad range of artists whose work encounters print. Hatton Gallery The Quadrangle, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne. 0191 222 6059 www.ncl.ac.uk/hatton Mon-Sat 10-5, Free. La Boca 6 Upper Princess Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 0191 230 5756 www.laboca.org.uk Mon-Sat 8.30-5. Free POSITIONS: THE PRIMITIVE 7th Jun 2009 - 7th Feb 2010  POSITIONS: THE PRIMITIVE is the first part of an exciting new project curated by the Laing Art Gallery together with artists Cullinan Richards, called POSITIONS. Significant pieces of modern and contemporary British sculpture will be on show in the Laing's Marble Hall, starting with Sir Anthony Caro's Early One Morning, 1962 (on show from August 2009). Cullinan Richards will respond with newly commissioned artworks. The Laing New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. 0191 232 7734 www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing ... Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5, free. SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTS 6th Jun - 11th Jul 2009  With World Environment day taking place on 5th June, Mushroom Works presents an exhibition which asks, should designers, makers and artists consider the environmental, sustainable and ethical concerns of modern day society within their work? Good design, within and of our buildings and homes, is an important way forward in addressing the environmental challenges of today. Too much waste, not enough energy, too many people, not enough resources, complaints and worries we all hear. Mushroom Works St Lawrence Road, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1AR www.mushroomworks.com Wed-Fri 12-5pm. Sat 10am - 5pm. Free Entry SEASCAPES - Jason Skill 19th Jun 2009 - 1st August 2009  Jason lives at Ryton on Tyne and has a growing reputation as a seascape artist capable of pushing the medium of watercolour beyond the conventional norm of scale and brushwork. To produce work like this requires speed and confidence that comes from years of practice combined with talent and enthusiasm all of which all well demonstrated in this show. Newcastle Arts Centre 67 Westgate Road near the Central Station 0191 261 5618 www.newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk Monday to Saturday 9am – 5pm. Free Entry Northern Print Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 0191 261 7000 http://www.northernprint.org.uk/ Wed to Fri 11am – 5pm, Sat 12pm - 4pm. POLAROIDS - by Sir Peter Blake 20th June - 1st Aug 2009  Opus Art is proud to launch a collection of Polaroids by Godfather of British Pop Art Sir Peter Blake RA. This is the first time Peter Blake has worked with Polaroid film, and Opus Art is thrilled to be offering them exclusively, worldwide. Each Polaroid is completely unique, and is signed by Peter Blake and inscribed with his thoughts on the subject matter. The Polaroids, which have been taken at the artist’s studio and home using an SLR680 camera, are available exclusively through Opus Art. This new collection continues the tradition of artists and photographers including Andy Warhol, Helmut Newton and Marc Quinn exploring Polaroids as a medium. Polaroids are, by their very nature, unique, and in this digital age stocks of Polaroid film are becoming increasingly limited. Peter Blake is one of the best-known artists of the British Pop Art movement. He was made a Royal Academician in 1981 and received a knighthood in 2002. He is most famous for creating the artwork for The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band album cover. Opus Gallery West Avenue, Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 0191 213 0295 www.opus-art.com Mon- Sat 10am- 5.30pm, free BOB BARRON 10th Jul - 4th Sept 2009  Bob Barron's art is a place of retreat from today's world. It is a deliberate remove from a digitally manipulated, glossy, advertising culture with its emphasis on instant gratification. He uses card that was once packaging for this consumerist society, and slate which appeals because of its age and sedimentary origins. On both he etches, assembling images which express musings about the passage of time. Red Box Gallery St. Nicholas Chare, Newcastle. 0191 245 7121 www.redboxgallery.com Rising StART @ The Art Works Gallery Stepney Bank, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2NP. www.risingstart.co.uk Seven Stories: The Centre for Children's Books Lime Street, Byker, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 0845 274 0777 www.sevenstories.org.uk Mon to Wed, Fri & Sat 10-5, Thu 10-6, Sun 11-5. £5/£40 Side Gallery Side, Newcastle upon Tyne. 0191 232 2208 www.amber-online.com Tues-Sun 11-5, free. Square Yard Gallery will be closed throughout July while some building work is done in the space. Square Yard Gallery 14 Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JX. www.squareyardgallery.co.uk Open 12pm - 4pm. The HOMEGROWN Affordable Art Show  The Art Works Galleries present the HOME GROWN Affordable Art Show: an exhibition featuring artists from across the country, presenting original art for £150 or less. We’ve capped the sale price of works to tailor the exhibition to the current buying trends of our clients providing the perfect sales environment for artists and buyers alike. Featuring artists... Gordon Johnson • Darren Cairney • Andy Johnson •Carol White • Victoria Proudfoot • Costas Petrides • Lizzie Williams • Sheila Black • Melanie Armstrong • Ian Armstrong • Pat Litman • Barbara Segal • Emma Wolfindale • Adam Brown • Stephen Anderson • Emily Robson • Petra Ondrova • Emma Fawcett • George Hunter • Barbara Anderson  New exhibitions are previewed on the F1RST THURSDAY of every month with an evening of art, music and refreshments. F1RST THURSDAYS allow the artists behind the works, those interested in buying art and members of the wider creative and business communities to come together and meet in a vibrant and inspiring environment. The Art Works Gallery Stepney Bank, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2NP. 0191 261 9922 www.theartworksgalleries.com Open 10am-5pm Mon-Sat, 11am-4pm Sun. Tynemouth Metro Station Tynemouth 0191 515 3610 www.locatorart.org Daily 24 hours. Free Tyneside Cinema 10 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. 0845 217 9909 www.tynecine.org Approx. 10-8.30 Mon-Sun. MIMMO PALADINO - Prints 5th Jun - 24th Jul 2009  Mimmo Paladino’s art crosses the boundaries between figuration and abstraction but it is neither narrative nor symbolic. His repertoire of motifs includes hands, heads and masks which are freely drawn from many cultures, from art and antiquity and can be applied in different configurations to his painting, sculpture and particularly his prints. THE LOST ART OF THE PICTURE LIBRARY 5th Jun - 24th Jul 2009  The 70 pictures chosen for this exhibition and publication are an idiosyncratic sample of a wildly idiosyncratic collection. There is much that is familiar: 20th-century dictators get a good showing as does sport. But it is the uncanny ones that make a lasting impression: bullet holes in a door from a crime scene in Liverpool, a lonesome bottle of milk on a doorstep. And then there is the wonderful shot of Marilyn Monroe being ushered through a crowd with a stern-looking Arthur Miller in the background. The blue of the picture editor's crop lines could not be more explicit; they exclude everything except that face which was never more alive than when being photographed. NICO WIDERBERG - Sculpture 5th Jun - 24th Jul 2009  Having reinvigorated neo-classicism by producing work which exists in a continuum accommodating Middle Kingdom Egyptian, Hellenistic and archaic art, Nicolaus Widerberg makes sculpture which remains unmistakably of today. After graduating from the Academy in Oslo, he continued his studies in France and in 1984 travelled to Italy where he worked alongside the jobbing masons of the Carrara quarries, quickly learning to identify cut stone by its smell. While in Italy he also developed an interest in the work of Marino Marini and Mimmo Paladino, important additions to his personal pantheon of artists including Moore, Rodin, Ipousteguy, Picasso and Giacometti. Widerberg’s predominantly still and monolithic pillar figures clearly have a kinship with Giacometti’s elongated presences, but Paladino with his insouciant reintroduction to sculpture of narrative, myth and surrealist invention has arguably had the greater influence. University Gallery and Baring Wing University of Northumbria, Sandyford Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. 0191 227 4424 www.northumbria.ac.uk/universitygallery Monday to Thursday 10am – 5pm, Friday and Saturday 10am to 4pm Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays Admission free. ROTATE 24th Jun - 25th Sept 2009  For Rotate, Vane directors Paul Stone and Christopher Yeats have curated an exhibition of seventeen artists from the UK, Europe and USA whose work is concerned with the construction of new and/or personal narratives. Their sources range from found objects or images, the everyday, the playful and the subconscious — whether drawn from popular culture/mass media, souvenirs, everyday ephemera, art history, mythology, politics, the environment (both built and natural) or science. These artists include: Héctor Arce-Espasas / Paul Becker / Claire Davies / Graham Dolphin / Kerstin Drechsel / Jorn Ebner / Nadia Hebson / Simon Le Ruez / Dodda Maggý / Jock Mooney / Stephen Palmer / Josué Pellot / Morten Schelde / Matthew Smith / Alison Unsworth / Barbara Walker / Flora Whiteley Vane Kings House, Forth Banks, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3PA. 0191 261 8281 www.vane.org.uk Wed to Sat - 12 noon - 5pm, Free FRESH EYES Three exhibitions, by four women artists, who bring fresh eyes to issues of space, time, memory and the unknown. Maria Helena Magalhàes 27th Jun – 18th Jul 2009  Studying aspects of Newcastle's rich history, Brazilian artist Maria Helena Magalhàes draws on local culture in her investigations. She observes past and present economic transformations in the city and many of her current studies focus around the Grainger Market. Looking at space, place and time, Maria manifests herself as an ‘explorer‘, revealing the nature of a place and presenting a ‘moment in reality’. Nicky Coutts & Liz Murray "Is Mary Here Again?" 25th July – 22nd Aug 2009  ‘Is Mary Here Again?’ is a film made from footage recorded during a recent paranormal event at Kielder Castle in Northumberland. The title is one of the questions a medium asked of the spirits believed to be present, “Are you a child?”, “Do you mind us being here?”, “...is Mary here again?” Kielder Castle is also an exhibition space containing wildlife, endangered species and local history displays. This becomes the backdrop for the film. Table tipping, spirit writing and trance mediumship take place against images of giant red squirrels, pitchforks and fantasy dioramas. Heather Allen 29th Aug – 26th Sept 2009  Heather Allen has been modelling small self-portraits for several years. At first, they were female and then came male versions of herself, either clothed or naked. Several hundreds now exist, many in private collections. The figures are individuals with their own gestures, expressions and actions and are exhibited in groups in response to their surroundings. Some stand alone, others interact with each other or observe the viewers. The constellations evoke subtle meanings and histories that the viewer unravels according to his/her own history. Waygood Art Boutique 31-39 High Bridge, Newcastle, NE1 1EW. 0191 265 6857 www.waygood.org Wed - Sat 12noon - 5pm MEGA BLOK PAINTINGS - James Johnson-Perkins 20th Jun - 1st Aug 2009  These Mega blok paintings draw heavily on the modernist precedents and principles of Structuralism and Minimalism. James Johnson-Perkins is known for his artworks inspired by ’80s nostalgia, often using Lego, ’80s TV programmes and computer games as his inspiration.Especially for the reception the artist will build a den-like structure in the space, which will be both child and adult friendly. Waygood Art Boutique @ Northern Stage Barras Bridge, Newcastle, NE1 7RH. 0191 265 6857 www.waygood.org Wed - Sat 12noon - 5pm Gateshead THE BAREFOOT LONE PILGRIM - David Blandy 27th Apr - 19th July 2009  David Blandy’s work deals with his problematic relationship with popular culture, integrating fantasy adventures with real life in a search for his cultural position in the world. His video performance work The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim documents a journey of discovery. The Pilgrim, is a lone character wearing the orange robes of a Buddhist Shaolin Monk and carrying a portable record player. In his episodic adventure he is searching for ‘soul’, as a hermit in an 18th Century Park in Surrey, on an American road trip, journeying through the Lake District and the city of London. A DUCK FOR MR DARWIN 10th Apr - 31st Aug 2009  A Duck for Mr. Darwin is a group exhibition of contemporary artists exploring evolutionary thinking and the Theory of Natural Selection. The exhibition focuses on the legacy of Charles Darwin’s ideas and is informed by the spirit of experimentation which was so distinctive to the time in which he lived. Artists include: Charles Avery // Marcus Coates // Dorothy Cross // Mark Dion // Andrew Dodds // Mark Fairnington // Ben Jeans Houghton // Tania Kovats // Conrad Shawcross TILTING PLANET - Sarah Sze 10th Apr - 31st Aug 2009  BALTIC presents American Artist, Sarah Sze’s largest UK solo exhibition to date. Tilting Planet is a cluster of sculptural installations each cobbled together out of common disposable items such as water bottles, drawing pins, paper, salt, string, lamps, matchsticks and wire. Sze’s expansive sculptural vocabulary uses these items constructively to precisely build structures that defamiliarise our preconceived ideas of these objects, lending them a new found use and vitality. These cumulative sculptures mould themselves into spaces – spreading ivy-like throughout the gallery. Baltic South Shore Road, Gateshead. 0191 478 1810 www.balticmill.com ... Mon-Wed and Fri-Sun 10-6, Thurs 10-8, free. Closed Christmas Day & Boxing Day, New Years Eve & New Years Day. Entrance Free A CENTURY OF OLYMPIC POSTERS 12th Jun - 23rd Aug 2009  Over the past 100 years, the modern Olympic Games have come to represent the pinnacle of athletic achievement, and now occupy a place on a global stage as 'the greatest sporting show on Earth'. This vibrant new exhibition will explore the fascinating representation of the Olympic Games through the intensely visual medium of the poster. Marking the Beijing Olympic Games of 2008 and the build-up to London 2012, exhibits will be drawn from the V&A's rich collections of posters and ephemera, including stunning recent acquisitions. Shipley Art Gallery Prince Consort Road, Gateshead. 0191 477 1495 www.twmuseums.org.uk/shipley.... Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5, free. The WorkPlace Gallery The Old Post Office, 19-21 West Street, Gateshead. 0191 477 2200 www.workplacegallery.co.uk Tues to Sat 11am - 5pm or by appointment. Sunderland The Art Studio 1-3 Hind Street, Sunderland. 0191 567 7414 www.theartstudio.org Wed - Fri 11am - 3pm. Free. SPACE - TIME 6th Apr - 6th Sept 2009  'Space-Time’ reflects upon the relevance of astronomical observations and the role of time in our everyday lives, memory and future. This exhibition combines artists work that offer a means through which we can think and explore common interests between art and science in many aspects of cosmology and the celestial world. Artists include: Heike Brachlow, William S Burroughs, Vaclav Cigler, Keith Cummings, Bill Drummond, Tehching Hsieh, Dominick Labino, Liliane Lijn, Steven Pippin, Ginny Reed, Kiki Smith. National Glass Centre Liberty Way, Sunderland. 0191 515 5555 www.nationalglasscentre.com Daily 10am-5pm, free. THE FOOL 31st Jul - 19th Sept 2009  All the artists featured in 'The Fool', re-imagine the figure of the clown for the twenty-first century. Here, the fool is more than a simple figure of fun; oblivious to the rules of polite society the fool can tell uncomfortable truths, reminding us of our own shortcomings. These artists include: Katia Bassanini, Natasha Caruana, Marcos Chaves, Moyna Flannigan, Michael Gardiner, Alexander Heim, Jim Hollands, Nick Osborn, Alex Pollard, Clare Stephenson RANK: Picturing the Social Order 1516 - 2009 15th May - 11th July 2009  Who do we think ‘we’ are? ‘Rank’ asks: how have we imagined the shape of our society? It brings together nearly 100 contributors, putting masterpieces from almost all England’s national collections – the British Library, Tate, British Museum, V&A and Arts Council Collection – next to images made for the urban poor from the Working Class Movement Library, and those for Victorian middle-class collectors from numerous libraries and archives. It places works by some of the greatest names in British art with new research from academic experts and public agencies, so that pictures of our myths and stereotypes of our national life sit alongside those based on hard fact. All seek to visualise the ways in which our societies is, and has been ordered and classified. Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art City Library and Arts Centre, Fawcett Street, Sunderland. 0191 514 1235 www.ngca.co.uk Mon and Wed 9.30-7.30, Tues, Thurs and Fri 9.30-5, Sat 9.30-4, free Reg Vardy Gallery Sunderland University, Ashburne House, Ryhope Road, Sunderland. 0191 515 2128 www.regvardygallery.org Tues 10-8, Wed-Fri 10-6, Sat by appointment, free MAKING HISTORY: 300 Years of Antiquaries in Britain 11th Jul - 4th Oct 2009  Making History offers an opportunity to see rare and unique treasures from the Society of Antiquaries of London. Guest curated by celebrated historian Dr David Starkey CBE FSA, the show is based on the widely acclaimed exhibition shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2007. The exhibition explores the creation of Britain's heritage over the three hundred years since the Society was founded in a London tavern in 1707. Making History will celebrate the contribution of the society to our appreciation of the past. Fascinating artefacts from the society's own collections, which cannot usually be seen by members of the public, include a lock of Edward III's hair, a rare copy of Magna Carta and a spectacular bronze shield more than 3,000 years old. They will be shown alongside items of local interest, including objects from the World Heritage Candidate site of Wearmouth-Jarrow. Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens Mowbray Gardens, Burdon Road, Sunderland. 0191 553 2323 www.twmuseums.org.uk/sunderland Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5, free. South Shields Customs House Mill Dam, South Shields. 0191 454 1234 www.customshouse.co.uk Mon - Sat 10am - 8.30pm, Sun 11am - 8.30pm, Free. MARSDEN BAY - Paul Gibson 2nd May - 12th Jul 2009  Marsden Bay has been carved out of the landscape by winds, rain, snow and the raw power of the North Sea. This photographic exhibition by Paul Gibson captures different elements of this beautiful stretch of coastline. GOTTA HAVE IT - You and Your Collections 18th Jul - 31st Oct 2009  From china dolls and football memorabilia to holiday souvenirs, most people have at least the beginnings of a collection at home. This quirky exhibition will showcase the prized collections of local people, and tell the stories behind them. Do you live in Tyne & Wear and have a collection you would like to share? To be a part of this exciting exhibition, please contact Grace Dunne on grace.dunne@twmuseums.org.uk or at Discovery Museum,Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4JA including the following information: Name: Contact number: What you collect: The approximate size of your collection: Why you started collecting: South Shields Museum and Art Gallery Ocean Road, South Shields. 0191 456 8740 www.twmuseums.org.uk/southshields Mon to Sat 10am to 5.30pm, Sun 1pm to 5pm, free. North Shields Globe Hub 97 Howard Street, North Shields.0191 259 2614 www.globegallery.org Wed-Sat 11.30am-5pm, Free County Durham CANALETTO & THE VIEW PAINTERS OF VENICE 14th Feb 2009 - 27th Jul 2009  An exploration of the Museum’s two famous large Canaletto’s saved for the nation in 1980 by The Art Fund; Regatta on the Grand Canal and The Bucintoro Returning to the Molo. Displayed alongside other pieces of Venetian art from the Museum’s collections, the exhibition explores, topographical painting in Venice, Canaletto and his influences, his market in France and England; the provenance of the paintings and exactly what is depicted in his works. Bowes Museum Barnard Castle, County Durham. 01833 690606 www.bowesmuseum.org.uk 11am - 5pm. £7.00/£6.00 Concs, free for under 16's ARMOUR BOYS - Laura Ford 13th Jun 2009 - 30th Sept 2009  Laura Ford is showing five powerful bronze sculptures entitled 'Armour Boys' as part of the annual Sculpture in the Park programme in the grounds of the DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery through the Summer. Armour Boys reminds us of the quiet after the storm, five small bronze armour clad figures lie scattered, lifeless, limp and twisted. The 'playing dead' of children's war games becomes all too real and we are reminded not only of the plight of child soldiers, but of the vulnerability of all children around the world. GLORY GLORY - Laura Ford 13th Jun 2009 - 19th Jul 2009  Originally produced for the Venice Biennale in 2005, this is a series of works influenced by emblems from national stereotypes which the artist grew up with: the Russian spy, the terrorist, the redneck, the image of the outsider, the foreigner and the witch. Through this hotchpotch of moustaches, upper lips and berets, Ford became assailed by darker thoughts of hostages and prisoners in postures of humiliation and defeat. BURMA: CHILDREN OF CONFLICT - Dean Chapman 13th Jun 2009 - 19th Jul 2009  Since Burma regained independence from Britain in 1948, its peoples have known neither stability nor peace. Children continue to suffer lives of danger, hunger and fear. Tens of thousands of boys serve in the Burma Army, experiencing combat, fighting insurgent armies that also recruit children into their ranks. Chapman has been documenting Burma since 1990. He is the recipient of the European Publishers' Award for Photography 1998, which resulted in the publication of the book, '"Karenni, the Forgotten War of a Nation Beseiged".' His photographs of Burma have been published and exhibited internationally. Durham Gallery Aykley Heads, Durham. 0191 384 2214 http://county.durham.gov.uk/sites/dli/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx 10am - 5pm (April - October) 10am - 4pm (November - March) £3.25/£2.15 Concs, £1.35 Child (5-16yrs), free for under 5's. Family ticket £7.50. The Lamplight Arts Centre Front Street, Stanley, County Durham. 01207 218899 www.derwentside.org.uk/whatson 9am - 5pm, Free Northumberland Crown Studio Gallery Elsdon, Northumberland 01830 520144 www.crownstudio.co.uk Open Tues - Sun. 10am to 5pm. Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Years Day. Entrance Free. The Dial Gallery 5 Dial Place, Warkworth, Northumberland, NE65 0UR. 01665 71082 Fi Fie Fo Fum Gallery Open for online sales or viewing by appointment only. Newton, Off A69, Northumberland. 01661 843778 www.fifiefofum.com Wed-Fri 11am to 5pm, Sat 10am to 5pm, Sun 11am to 4pm. Free VESTIGES III - Tony Charles 6th Jun 2009 - 19th Jul 2009  Tony Charles is an International Artist based in the North East of England where influences of an industrial backdrop continue to feature within his work. His current investigation is a continuation of the "Vestiges" series which explores issue and irony between the industrial and technological revolutions. Saltburn Artists Projects @ Saltburn Gallery 30-32 Marke Road, Saltburn by the Sea, TS12 1QG. 01287 62 60 60 Wed to Sun 12pm - 4pm Nature's Art: Four Responses - Art4Art's Sake 10th Jun 2009 - 1st Aug 2009  Art4 is a group of artists living and working in the North-East of England. They produce a artwork in a variety of media, including printmaking, collage, ceramics and paint. They are: Caroline Coode - printmaker, Pauline Hughes - collagiste, Tess Spencer - painter/ceramicist, Vhairi Cardinal - Ceramicist/printmaker. Art4 agreed at the start of the year that their project for their summer exhibition would be in response to the natural environment of The Garden Station. Tess has commented: ‘Spring and the Nature’s Art project have been an inspirational combination.’ Although all four artists are experienced and have had many exhibitions independently, this is the inaugural exhibition for them as ‘Art4’. www.geocities.com/art4.artists/ The Garden Station Langley, Hexham, Northumberland. 01434 684391 www.thegardenstation.co.uk Wed-Fri 11am to 5pm, Sat 10am to 5pm, Sun 11am to 4pm. Free Teesside Museum of Hartlepool V & A Museum of Childhood, Maritime Avenue, Hartlepool, TS24 0XZ 01429 860077 MAPPING AN UNCERTAIN TERRAIN 22nd May 2009 - 16th Aug 2009  Mapping an Uncertain Terrain will bring together a group of works from mima's fine art and craft collections that will address or propose awkward questions about the meandering path of art history. POSSIBILITIES & LOSSES - Transitions in Clay 22nd May 2009 - 16th Aug 2009  Bringing together a range of artists working with clay, Possibilities and Losses exposes contemporary thinking and making in this media. These artists challenge traditional perceptions about clay practice and its relationship to the historic model of craft. Possibilities and Losses has been curated by mima together with Clare Twomey, an artist who is at the forefront of practice in this area, and whose work is included in the exhibition. An accompanying publication will map the dialogues and histories that have led crafts makers to seek conceptually challenging practice on the borders of craft knowledge. Mima ( Middlesbrough Museum of Modern Art) Middlesbrough, TS1 2YB www.visitmima.com
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