Art Exhibitions on Tyne and Wear
June-July
2010
Newcastle,
Gateshead,
North
Shields,
South
Shields,
Sunderland,
Northumberland,
County
Durham.
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through other sites but we believe that this is
the only one-stop exhibitions page for
Tyneside.
To be fair we could not leave out Sunderland so
it has become 'Exhibitions on Tyne and
Wear'.
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Newcastle
ACAdovetail (Allenheads
Contemporary Arts)
Amy House, 61 Blandford Square, Newcastle upon
Tyne NE1 1HZ. 01434 685040
www.acart.org.uk..
Gallery 67b Westgate Road,
near Newcastle Arts Centre
www.newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk
MAP
A New Arts Space for Artists-led
projects
OFF THE RECORD
- Dave Barden
12th Mar - 11th Jun 2010
Spring
Exhibition
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
Dance
City
Temple
Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4BR 0191 261
0505
www.dancecity.co.uk
David
Fry Pottery Studio
Black
Swan Court, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne,
07789 743634 / 0191 2325302
Open Tues - Sat, 11am to 4pm.
www.davidfryceramics.com
Closed Christmas Day, New Years Day
& Jan 2nd. Entrance Free
COLLINGWOOD
- A Northumbrian
Abroad
23rd Jan - 27th Jun 2010
An
exhibition to commemorate the 200th anniversary
of Admiral Lord Collingwood's death at sea on 7
March 1810. Using objects, paintings and
extracts from his letters it explores not only
Collingwood's long naval career away from his
home but also the influence on him of his
lifelong love of Northumberland and the friends
and family he left behind.
Discovery
Museum
Bladnford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA.
0191 232 6789
www.twmuseums.org.uk/discovery/
EELUS,
MR JAGO and more...
from
25th Mar 2010
 
Following
the success of his first Solo Show in our
nations capital ‘The Colour Out of
Space’, Electric Sheep welcome a re-stock
from Eelus. Along with a few old favourites
comes new piece "High Hopes" and 32 colour show
piece "Dress Up". They also welcome Mr Jago to
their gallery walls. 14 pieces consisting of
spray paint and acrylic on fine art paper.
Signed by the artist and only available
in-store.
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.
The
Globe Gallery - City
Curtis
Mayfield House, Carliol Square, Newcastle upon
Tyne. 0191 222 1666
www.globegallery.org
Wed-Sat
11.30am-5pm
MAP
Great
North Museum
Barras
Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne. 0191 222 7418
www.twmuseums.org.uk/hancock
Mon-Sat
10am-5pm, Sun 2pm-5pm, Free.
Pearl
and Edmund at the Quayside
12
June - 23 July 2010
In her
Newcastle debut, Wilda Goyetche introduces her
fun-loving characters to the North East. In a
very short time this self-taught artist has
achieved global recognition, largely due to two
lead characters - Pearl and Edmund.
Gusto
Resaurant, The Quayside, Newcastle Upon Tyne,
NE1 3DX
http://www.gustorestaurants.uk.com
Open daily: Noon-10:00 PM
Hatton
Gallery
The
Quadrangle, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon
Tyne. 0191 222 6047
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
JAPANESE WAVE
01 MAY-05 SEPT 2010
Highlights from Laing's collection of Japanese
prints and artefacts will be on show in a new
exhibition called Japanese Wave. It will be the
first time many of the items have been on show
to the public for almost a decade.
The exhibition focuses on Japanese imagery from
the 19th century and includes depictions of
geisha, Japanese theatre and
landscape.
LUCY SKAER
08 May - 12 Sep 2010
To complement the exhibition Japanese Wave, the
Laing will be showing works by Turner Prize
nominee Lucy Skaer.
On loan from the Arts Council Collection,
Skaer's work The Great Wave (Expanded) (2007) is
inspired by 19th century Japanese printmaker
Hokusai's most famous print, Under the Wave, off
Kanagawa. Skaer re-creates the wave in three
panels to form a triptych.
NEWCASTLE REINVENTED:
Views Over The Ages
19th
Sept 2009 - 26th Sept 2010
Watercolours and drawings spanning more than 200
years celebrate the heritage and renewal of
Newcastle. On display will be fascinating views
of the old centre of Newcastle around the
quayside, castle and cathedral. Alongside these
are scenes by John Dobson and Benjamin Green
picturing the imposing new city centre they were
creating in Grey Street and Grainger Street.
This exhibition is part of the Reinventing the
City.
The
Laing
New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. 0191 232
7734
www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing
...
Mon-Sat
10-5, Sun 2-5, free.
MAP
Mushroom
Works
St Lawrence Road, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE6 1AR
www.mushroomworks.com
Wed-Fri
12-5pm. Sat 10am - 5pm. Free Entry
The
City that never was......
A personal view of
development on Tyne
Exhibition by Mike Tilley
August 6th -27th. 2010
-closed Sundays
click
for information and online preview
at Newcastle Arts Centre 2010
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.
Art
School Confidential
is currently on display. William will be on hand
to answer any questions about his distinctive
work throughout the evening.
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
EntryMAP
Saturday
3rd - 31st July
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
"HE
IS DEAD AND HE IS GOING TO
DIE"
-
Sebastian Trend & Adam
Hogarth
17th
Jun - 1st Jul 2010
An exhibition showing new works from emerging
artists Adam Hogarth and Sebastian Trend. The
works give insight into the role of the domestic
photograph and examines it as a fugitive object.
This is interpreted through painting,
printmaking and photographs.
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
MAP
Click
for Courses
at the
Arts Centre for the New Term
For Subscriptions please call 0191 515 2800
or
email lifelong.learning@sunderland.ac.uk
JAPANESE
WAVE - NEW
SHORE
23rd Apr - 26th Jun 2010
Japanese
Wave - New Shores. will present contemporary
Japanese Woodcuts from Scotland, Finland &
Japan. Artists will include Paul Furneaux, Annu
Vertanen & Fusako Yoshikawa. The show will
be opened by Marie Conte-Helme the Director
General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
in London.
Northern
Print
Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon
Tyne.
0191
261 7000
http://www.northernprint.org.uk/
Wed to Fri 11am – 5pm, Sat 12pm - 4pm.
Opus
Gallery
West
Avenue, Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 0191 213
0295
www.opus-art.com
Mon-
Sat 10am- 5.30pm, free
Red
Box Gallery
St.
Nicholas Chare, Newcastle. 0191 245 7121
by appointment only
www.redboxgallery.com
Stephenson
Works,
20 South Street (behind Central Station),
Newcastle
JUNEAU PROJECTS
From 9th Apr 2010
Juneau
Projects present recent works including
electrified hand-made instruments hosting
effigies of wild, native animals. These
instruments are played in live performances
into sound-reactive plug in software that
responds visually to music via midi input.
This work is all an extension of their
enquiry into the evolving interfaces between
humanity and nature. Satellite presents an
installation of these objects alongside their
latest low-fi, sound-reactive visuals
responding to pre-recorded music played by
the artists.
Satellite
Gallery
61
Thornton Street, Newcastle NE1 4AW. 0191 477
2200
www.satellitesatellite.org
Open Mon to Sat 10.30am - 6pm.
FOOTBALL
AND
FAIRYTALES WEEK
29th May - 6th Jun 2010
Football
Vs Fairies – but which side are you on?
Whether you are gearing up for the World Cup
or your goal is to hide away with a good book
we have it all here at Seven Stories. All
week we will be celebrating fairytales from
around the world with a football twist.
We’ll be adding a good sprinkling of art
and craft activities as well as some exciting
events. Book early to avoid the red card!
CREATE A COMIC BOOK IN A WEEK
1st Jun - 6th Jun 2010
Do
you have the powers to create the next
Spiderman or Superman? Unleash your creative
talents with Jack and Daniel for a 4 day
intensive comic book workshop. Learn the
basic steps to a superhuman comic creation,
which will be published and sent on to you!
Marvel-ous. Booking
Essential
Seven
Stories: The Centre for Children's Books
30
Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle Upon
Tyne NE1 2PQ. 0845 274
0777
www.sevenstories.org.uk
Mon
to Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 10am - 4pm.
Entrance Prices: Adult £6.00*,
Child/Concession £5.00*, Family+
£17.00
Side
Gallery
Side, Newcastle upon Tyne. 0191 232 2208
www.amber-online.com
Tues-Sun
11-5, free.
PIONEERING
SPECIES
19th June 2009 - 31st June 2010
Rednile
Projects Ltd have been commissioned by North
Tyneside Council and the Tynemouth Station
working group to undertake a large scale
temporary public art work on the hoardings in
Tynemouth Station. The project is underway
and is aimed to be installed in mid June
2009.
Please visit their website for more
information: www.rednile.org
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.
NEW PAINTINGS
- Alexander
Adams
16th Apr - 4th Jun 2010
Like
the images, both textual and visual, in W G
Sebald’s masterpiece,
‘Austerlitz’, Adams explores the
implicit narratives of his newspaper sources.
Each of his paintings refers to worlds beyond
what is depicted. Like Sebald his process is
both ‘archeological’ and
sensual.
SELF PORTRAITS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
11th
Jun - 6th Aug 2010
The
Ruth Borchard Collection of British
Self-Portraits in the Twentieth Century
constitutes a labour of love on the part of a
collector who conceived it as a logical
extension of her taste for reading diaries,
autobiographies and letters. The pictorial
version of such introspective texts appears
in the self-depiction of the artist, the
decision to subject his or her own appearance
to a necessary process of scrutiny,
revisualisation and expression. Style,
technique and medium may vary, but this basic
decision remains central to all
self-portraiture.
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.
O'PHANTASIEBLUME
- Nick
Fox
22nd Apr - 5th Jun 2010
OPhantasieblume¹
reveals Nick Fox¹s aesthetic exploration
of material and image, through which a
nostalgic desire for a Wilde-like encoding of
oppressed sexuality unfolds and is made
potent. Fox¹s paintings, drawings and
objects are informed by romantic
idealisation, cultural artifact and social
codes. Historically, the austere morality
codes of Victorian society forced courtship
into a clandestine world of signs and
symbols. Floriography, a coded form of
language developed in which the act of giving
and receiving flowers became loaded with
secretive messages of longing from one lover
to another. In 1884, Kate Greenaway published
OLanguage of Flowers¹, a common
dictionary of codes that subsequently fell
into decline. Fox is interested in how we
communicate our desires in a contemporary
context. Rather than merely resurrecting this
forgotten language of the fin de
siècle, Fox has found his own way of
inverting the coded articulation of desire,
playfully and subtly expressing a highly
personal and symbolic pictorial language of
concealment.
Vane
Kings
House, Forth Banks, Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3PA. 0191 261 8281
www.vane.org.uk
Wed
to Sat - 12 noon - 5pm, Free
Waygood
Art Boutique @ Northern Stage
Barras
Bridge, Newcastle, NE1 7RH. 0191 265 6857
www.waygood.org
Wed - Sat 12noon - 5pm
Gateshead
RAQS
MEDIA COLLECTIVE
2nd
Apr - 20th Jun 2010
Raqs Media Collective, based in New Delhi,
comprises the artists Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica
Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. At the
heart of its method is a sophisticated yet
playful approach to language, memory and
myth. For BALTIC, Raqs have created a new
installation that explores ways of life that
die and are reborn elsewhere, as industries
such as shipbuilding relocate from one
continent to another. Inspired by archival
images of giant shipbuilding cranes on a
voyage to India from the River Tyne, The
Things That Happen When Falling in Love
reveals a global web of wills and longings
that sustain life and encourage unexpected
intimacies across vast distances. Using
photographs, films and text, Raqs transform
this global experience into a personal
metaphor: the disappearance of the cranes and
the history they represent suggests onshore
sweethearts bidding farewell to loved
ones.
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
TAYLOR WESSING
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZE
27th
Mar - 6th Jun 2010
Organised by
the National Portrait Gallery, London and
sponsored by Taylor Wessing, the Taylor
Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize has
firmly established itself as the leading
showcase for new talent in portrait
photography. The exhibition displays work by
some of the most talented emerging young
photographers, alongside that of established
professionals, students and gifted
amateurs.
TREASURES FROM THE SHIPLEY ART GALLERY
18th
Feb - 7th Nov 2010
The Shipley's
superb painting collection includes works
from the 16th to the 20th centuries and
features landscapes, seascapes, portraits and
religious subjects. This exhibition of the
collection will show a range of paintings,
including old favourites and some rarely seen
treasures.
Shipley
Art Gallery
Prince Consort Road, Gateshead. 0191 477
1495
www.twmuseums.org.uk/shipley....
Mon-Sat
10-5, Sun 2-5, free.
CECILIA STENBOM
from
17th Mar 2010
Cecilia
Stenbom’s artworks and films explore
notions of identity and relationships in a
mediated world. She examines our desires by
appropriating genres of mass media and
commodity such as advertising, documentary
and the TV movie, fulfilling the expectations
that those genres set up. Previous works have
included “The Protocol” (2008), a
re-enactment of an American infomercial,
“The Inspector” (2007) a narrative
based on female television cops and
“Search & Destroy” (2006) a
“first person” account of
experiences as a US marine in the Vietnam War
based on cult movies on that subject.
During the research residency at ISIS Arts
Cecilia is developing and producing a new
body of work that is investigating
capitalisation and dramatisation of domestic
concerns, such as health, security and
safety. As part of this project, Cecilia is
using a wide range of source material such as
real rescue drama documentaries, mortality
statistics and first aid equipment. This
project will culminate in a solo exhibition
at Workplace Gallery in 2010. Cecilia has
received a grant from Arts Council England to
develop and produce this work.
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
TRACE
-
Sally Hall, Barrie West and Stephen
McNulty
28th
May - 31st Jul 2010
A group show of new works by Sally Hall,
Barrie West and Stephen McNulty. Sally
Hall’s work traces the surface of
selected objects to exploit their visual and
hidden histories. Barrie West’s art lies
somewhere in the space between what is
revealed and what is yet to be revealed.
These personal images somehow become
universal when we associate something in the
work which has significance to ourselves.
Stephen McNulty’s pieces are built up
using graphite: they are monotone, and yet
between the spaces of drawn lines, colour
emerges; is this paradox significant or
merely coincidental?
Arts
Centre Washington
Biddick Lane, Fatfield, District 7,
Washington.
www.artscentrewashington.com
The
Art Studio
1-3 Hind Street, Sunderland. 0191 567
7414
Wed - Fri 11am - 3pm. Free.
National
Glass Centre
Liberty Way, Sunderland. 0191 515 5555
www.nationalglasscentre.com
Daily
10am-5pm, free.
ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI
Exhibition
dates: 30 July – 9 October
2010
Artur
Zmijewski is based in Warsaw, Poland, and is
one of the most consistently provocative
artists working today. This major UK touring
exhibition spans his practice from 2003 to
the present day. Zmijewski is known for
creating situations that test
participants’ and audiences’
beliefs and opinions and in which we are made
brutally aware of how fragile our moral codes
are.
SYSTEMIC
-
Chad McCail
21st
May 2010 - 3rd Jul 2010
Systemic brings together two bodies of new
and previously unseen work made over the last
decade. McCail’s paintings and prints
adapt familiar visual styles such as
children’s comic book illustrations to
discuss ideas that seldom enter wider public
debate.
The exhibition includes McCail’s largest
work to date, ‘Compulsory
Education’ a 100-foot long painted mural
that questions the origins of the educational
institutions that shape all of our lives and
his new work Systemic, both show here for the
first time.
McCail’s work continues to be an
investigation into how society produces, and
fails to produce, ‘normal’
individuals who accept its rules. His latest
work, ‘Systemic’, reveals a school
“that prepares children for adult roles
in a hierarchical world”. The work
traces the children’s path through the
school to illuminate their development and
socialization. ‘Systemic’ examines
how children’s relationships to each
other are directed by the nature of their
environment. McCail re-imagines the strange
landscape of childhood that makes us who we
are, and determines our roles in life.
Littlewhitehead
3rd May 2010 - 26th Jun 2010
New works by Glasgow based artists Craig
Little and Blake Whitehead.
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
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.
University
of Sunderland
The
Design Centre Gallery, St Michaels Way, City
Campus, Sunderland.
www.sunderland.ac.uk
Mon - Fri 9am - 5.30pm & Saturdays
10am - 4pm. Free
Entry.
South
Shields
COAL MINING IN ABSTRACTION:
Bob
Olley
5th
Jun - 31st Jul 2010
This retrospective exhibition celebrates the
forty year career of the much celebrated
visual artist Robert Olley. This exhibition
takes us on a journey from his early days of
depicting the Coal Mining community through
to a body of new work inspired by a recent
trip he made to India. Paintings will be
shown in all areas of the Customs House, with
the new work in the main gallery and will no
doubt be inspiring for all audiences.
Customs
House
Mill
Dam, South Shields. 0191 454 1234
www.customshouse.co.uk
Mon
- Sat 10am - 8.30pm, Sun 11am - 8.30pm,
Free.
DINOMITES
-
The A-Z of
Dinosaurs
12th
Jun - 26th Sept 2010
Travel
back 150 million years and come face to face
with baby and juvenile dinosaurs in DinoMites
- The A- Z of Dinosaurs, from the armour that
protects plant eaters like Polacanthus, to
zoos, with captive breeding programmes that
try to prevent the extinction of today's
species.
DinoMites shows 15 species, including
children's favourites such as T. rex and
Triceratops, and less well-known dinosaurs
such as Gallimimus and Oviraptor. Each
display and interactive exhibit explores a
different aspect of the prehistoric world,
and takes the visitor through the lives of
these animals, from hatching out of their
eggs to a peaceful forest death.
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
CRUNCH!
A selection of
images from CRUNCH! are now on display in
Globe Hub, viewable 24 hours a day through
the gallery windows.
Globe
Hub
97
Howard Street, North Shields.0191 259
2614
www.globegallery.org
Wed-Sat
11.30am-5pm, Free
County
Durham
Bowes
Museum
Barnard
Castle, County Durham. 01833 690606
www.bowesmuseum.org.uk
11am
- 5pm. £7.00/£6.00 Concs, free
for under 16's
A DIAGNOSIS OF EXCLUSION:
Juliet Cheney-Robson
24th
Apr - 6th Jun 2010
County
Durham based artist Juliet Chenery-Robson
exhibits a series of portraits detailing the
lives of those living in the shadow of
Myalgic Encephalopathy, usually known as ME.
Often referred to as the disease of a
thousand names, M.E. affects over 250,000
people in the UK and many thousands more
throughout the world. Yet this devastating
illness is shrouded behind an aura of
scepticism.
Often regarded as an 'invisible' illness due
to its internal symptoms and the uncertainty
surrounding its causes and existence,
Chenery-Robson seeks to make this somewhat
misunderstood illness 'visible' to an often
disbelieving audience.
TOO CLOSE TO HOME:
Rosy Martin
24th
Apr - 6th Jun 2010
This
installation by Rosy Martin features
photographs and videos, offering glances at
fragments of working class suburban social
history. Martin maps the traces of 'absent
presence.' The camera's eye clings tenderly
to every worn surface of the artist's
childhood home; a 1930's semi-detached house
where her ninety-three year old widowed
mother lived amidst interior decoration and
paintings created by her father. This attempt
to retain a sense of place forever focuses us
upon the contradictions of our
attachments.
Photography offers the opportunity to relfect
upon and confront in isolation, elements of
lived experience, made strange by their
sudden removal from the continuum of
day-to-day living, stilled. Rosy Martin
evolved and developed phototherapy with the
late Jo Spence, from 1983. She has exhibited
nationally and internationally and published
widely since 1985. Her work examines the
overlaps between photography, memory,
identity and unconscious processes.
PAUL ROONEY
12th
Jun - 18th Jul 2010
Exploring
themes of the passage of time, personal and
artistic regrets, failure, abandonment and
irretrievable loss, Paul Rooney has created a
newly commissioned video exhibition for
Durham Art Gallery. Using County Durham and
the film 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg' as his
inspiration Rooney's work centres on a petrol
station in the county and explores a dialogue
between a fictional artist and his former
lover and their relationship to the site.
Winner of the second Northern Art Prize in
2008, Rooney has recently shown work in group
projects at the Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool,
and Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. He has had
solo shows at Matt's Gallery, London and
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh and his work
was included in the touring exhibition
British Art Show 6. Rooney's work has also
been broadcast on both Radio 1 and BBC 6
Music. Commissioned with support from the
Elephant Trust.
HANNAH MARSDEN
24th
Apr - 6th Jun 2010
Hannah
produces sculpture and performances that
reflect on the diversity and commonality of
people across the world. She selects and
combines objects and activities from a
variety of cultures, to express both
difference and repetition. For this
exhibition Hannah explores the symbolic
potential of the umbrella to create a vibrant
installation inspired by her observations and
interactions with local people. Hannah
studied at Newcastle University. She has
shown at Platform00000008, Gallery Glue, and
Saltburn Artist Projects.
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.leisureworksonline.co.uk
9am
- 5pm, Free
Northumberland
Alnwick
Gardens Exhibition Room
Denwick
Lane, Alnwick, Northumberland. 01665
511350
www.alnwickgarden.com
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.
SPRING EXHIBITION
From
6th Mar 2010
Fifiefofum
is once again hosting a mixed Spring show
including work from some of their favourite
artists and makers. Glynnis Carter, Ian
Greensitt, Susanna Hanl, Peter Hicks, Richard
Kidd, Sue Moffitt, Tom Moore, Eric Moss,
Chris Mouncey, Anja Percival, Christine
Pybus, Lucy Sylvester, Catherine Boyne
Whitelegg, William Wilson, Peter Wray, and
more.
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
The
Gate Gallery
12
Bondgate Within, Alnwick, Northumberland.
01665 602165
www.thegategalleryuk.com
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24th
Apr - 20th Jun 2010
An
exhibition of image based performance and
performative interventions along a line. A
line intersects, divides and connects space.
Physical space, conceptual space, emotional
space and imagined space. It emphasises and
erases. It marks an action and prompts an
action.
Peter Spiers incorporates performative
actions and processes with photography,
video, site-specific gallery and
context-based installations and
interventions. These can be seen as a series
of experiments into phenomenological concepts
of perception, meaning, belief, actuality and
how we engage with the world we
inhabit...
Saltburn
Artists Projects @ Saltburn
Gallery
30-32 Marke Road, Saltburn by the Sea, TS12
1QG. 01287 626060
www.saltburnartistsproject.org.uk
Wed to Sun 12pm - 4pm
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
Entry
Teesside
Museum
of Hartlepool
V
& A Museum of Childhood, Maritime Avenue,
Hartlepool, TS24 0XZ
01429 860077
http://www.destinationhartlepool.com
Open Daily 10am - 5pm. Free Entry
A
CERTAIN DISTANCE, ENDLESS LIGHT
A
Project by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and William
McKeown
5th
Mar - 4th Jul 2010
The
exhibition, inspired by the theme of AV
Festival 10, energy, will bring together two
extraordinary artists, Cuban born American
artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Irish
artist William McKeown. Both artists’
work answer the theme of energy in different
ways, through highly personal pursuits of
beauty, happiness and freedom.
Part of AV Festival 10: Energy
5-14 March 2010
International festival of electronic arts
featuring visual art, music and moving image
NewcastleGateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland
- www.avfestival.co.uk
ULTRA-RED
- The
Middlesbrough
Session
5th
Mar - 4th Jul 2010
Ultra-red
pursue a fragile but dynamic exchange between
art, sound and political organising. Founded
in 1994 by two AIDS activists, over the years
they have expanded to include artists,
researchers and organisers from different
social movements. The work in the sound space
is derived from a series of performances, or
‘Listening Sessions’ in which
Ultra-red members share recordings from their
investigations within the struggles
surrounding migration, anti-racism, fair
housing, youth and HIV/AIDS. The
Middlesbrough Session will take place during
June, after which visitors will see the
results in project space 1.
RAILWAY MANIA
- Bonnie
Camplin
15th
Jul - 14th Nov 2010
Highly
acclaimed artist Bonnie Camplin will present
her first major solo exhibition in a public
institution at mima this July. Known for her
willfully subjective drawings, films and
video. Camplins’ work can be seen as a
narrative on social history and an insight to
the present. As part of her ongoing
investigation into the deeper meaning of
science, technology and rational thought the
exhibition will incorporate aesthetic and
historical material relating to the
industrial revolution and in particular the
birth of the railways.
The project is the result of a two-year
collaboration with the artist that
incorporated a number of research visits to
the region in order to gather information,
texts, manifestos, public declarations and
verbal histories.
Mima
( Middlesbrough Museum of Modern Art)
Middlesbrough,
TS1 2YB
www.visitmima.com
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