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Newcastle
THIS IS
THE FUTURE
On the heels of a global recession and the
ever increasing concerns over climate change,
population and energy, ACA is inviting artists
to take a role in visioning the future.
The remote microcosm of Allenheads, in the
High Forest Area of the west Allen Valley with a
population of around 200 might seem a curious
place to be considering the subject of ‘The
Future’. Until the mid-90’s there was
little or no television reception in the
village, no broadband or mobile phone reception,
all of which heightened a feeling of isolation,
a sense of being caught in a time capsule.
The local community has grown over the past
two decades, as people from urban areas have
moved into the region restoring the old and some
derelict buildings to create their personal,
romantic, rural idyll and improve their quality
of life.
They also introduced more diverse
expectations of the countryside transforming the
rural lifestyle.
This period coincided with technological
advances becoming more mainstream and attainable
to remote rural communities; broadband, mobile
phone reception and crucial for comfort and
economy at home, renewable energy; budgeted for
at early stages of planning a rebuild and
illustrating a more prosperous economy.
Unlike the heritage industry which
selectively looks back at narrow periods of
time, with the likes of Beamish Museum
describing itself as ‘a superb living,
working experience of life in the Great
North,’ Allenheads and the surrounding High
Forest area with its naturally evolving
community, provide a truly ‘living’
thought-provoking insight into the past and
present while offering a rich platform for the
conception of imaginative, predictive
visualisations of what might be
ACAdovetail (Allenheads
Contemporary Arts)
Amy House, 61 Blandford Square, Newcastle
upon Tyne NE1 1HZ.
T: 01434 685040
www.acart.org.uk..
Janet
Lambert
opening on
Friday 14th October 5-8pm
55 Westgate Road
Biscuit
Factory
Stoddart Street, Byker, Newcastle upon
Tyne
T: 0191 261 1103
Open: Mon and Sun 11-5, Tues-Sat
10-8, free.
www.thebiscuitfactory.com..
Winter Exhibition
Cluny
Gallery
36
Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle Upon Tyne
T: 0191 2304474
Dance
City
Temple
Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4BR
T: 0191 261 0505
www.dancecity.co.uk
David
Fry Pottery Studio
Black
Swan Court, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon
Tyne
T: 07789 743634 / 0191 2325302
Open: Tues - Sat, 11am to 4pm.
[Closed
Christmas Day, New Years Day & Jan
2nd] Entrance
Free
www.davidfryceramics.com
Discovery
Museum
Bladnford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1
4JA. 0191 232 6789
www.twmuseums.org.uk/discovery/
NORTH EAST LANDSCAPES
& CITYSCAPES
BY
TYNESIDE-BASED PHOTOGRAPHER
STEVE
MAYES
This exhibition will run from
November 21st through to January
2012.
F-Stop
Gallery @ Digital
Lab
8 Stepney Bank
Ouseburn
Newcastle
NE1 2PW
T: 0191
2323558
Gallagher
& Turner
St
Thomas Street Workshops, St Thomas Street,
Newcastle Upon Tyne. 0191 261 4465
Mon-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-3
Free Entry.
www.gallagherandturner.co.uk
New venue
now open
Globe
Gallery
53-57
Blandford Square
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 4HZ
Wed-Sat
11.30am-5pm
Free
We reveal our new venue with 3 dynamic
exhibitions
Auction Room, fastforward>>NCL &
The Collection
Open from 15th Oct to 26th Nov 2011, Wed to
Sat, 11.30am to 5pm
www.globegallery.org
AV
Festival 2012: Julien Marie
02
Mar - 18 May 2012
For AV
2012 the Hatton presents the first UK solo
exhibition of work by Berlin-based French artist
Julien Marie. Marie’s work uses obsolete
audio-visual technology and performance to
explore the connections between space, vision
and memory. His previous exhibitions include the
group show The Persistance of Vision at FACT,
Liverpool in 2010.
For the
Hatton, a series of installations throughout the
Gallery will create an immersive environment
encouraging the visitors to linger in the
space.
Part of
the AV Festival 2012.
John
Graham Lough
02
Dec 2011 - 18 Feb 2012
This
exhibition explores the work of the 19th century
neoclassical sculptor born at Greenhead, County
Durham. John Graham Lough is responsible for the
Collingwood monument at Tynemouth and the
Stephenson monument in Newcastle city
centre.
Focusing
on a newly conserved group of sculptures that
were donated to the Hatton by the 3rd Duke of
Northumberland, the exhibition also features
loans from public and private collections
including the British Museum, the National
Portrait Gallery, the V&A, Alnwick Castle,
Laing Art Gallery and Northumberland
Archives.
Hatton
Gallery
The
Quadrangle, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon
Tyne. 0191 222 6047
Mon-Sat 10-5, Free.
www.ncl.ac.uk/hatton
SIS
Arts Studio
First Floor
5 Charlotte Square
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 4XF
La
Boca
6
Upper Princess Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 0191
230 5756
Mon-Sat 8.30-5. Free
www.laboca.org.uk
La Boca is
located up the ramp next to the new library,
under Bewick Court.
Northern
City Renaissance
21 Jan - 06 May
2012
Centred on Sting’s commissioned painting
'Northern City Renaissance, Newcastle, England'
(2004-2008) by leading contemporary American
artist Stephen Hannock, this exhibition will
show scenes from the Laing Art Gallery’s
collection depicting the Tyne’s sites of
industrial shipbuilding and coalmining
history.
Northern City Renaissance is a celebration of
Newcastle past and present. Like many modern
cityscapes, old and new architecture combine to
form a mix of monuments to particular moments in
time. At the heart of the painting is the
contemporary, marked by the Sage music centre
and Gateshead Millennium Bridge, signifying the
region’s recent regeneration through
culture. Embedded in this modern-day cityscape
are, also importantly, references to
Newcastle’s industrial past. Closed
shipyards line the river and former coalmines
located towards the horizon are mapped with
areas of light. Burning brightly, the lights
signify the boom in industry on the Tyne, as
well as anticipating its eventual decline during
the 1970s-80s.
Stephen Hannock works within a tradition of
19th century American painters such as Thomas
Cole and Frederic Edwin Church, known
collectively as the Hudson River School. These
in turn took inspiration from British masters
such as J M W Turner and John Constable. The
artist is represented by Marlborough Gallery in
New York and London. For more infomation about
Stephen Hannock, please visit his website:
http://www.stephenhannock-northerncityrenaissance.com/pages/details.html
Summer
Heat to Winter Freeze
21 Jan - 19 Feb 2012
The pictures on display have been chosen from
the Laing’s collection of 19th and 20th
century paintings.
They show how artists have been fascinated by
the challenge of capturing springtime freshness,
summer heat, autumn breeziness, and the chill of
winter. As well as landscapes, the subjects
range from holiday relaxation to work in the
fields and daily life in the colder months.
The
Laing
New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. 0191
232 7734
Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5, free.
www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing
...
Mushroom
Works
St Lawrence Road, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon
Tyne, NE6 1AR
Wed-Fri 12-5pm. Sat 10am - 5pm
Free Entry
www.mushroomworks.com
The
Moving Gallery
@ Barkollo
Top Floor
22 Leazes Park Road
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 4PG
0191 232 5871
The NewBridge
Project is an artist-led initiative based in
Newcastle city centre that provides a platform
from which artists are able to practice in a
discursive and supportive community. We are
committed to developing ideas-led visual art in
the North East and establishing a critical mass
from which emerging artists are able to move
toward professional practice. The NewBridge
Project makes use of an abandoned office block
as a studio complex and has converted an empty
shop into NewBridge Space, a street level,
publicly accessible gallery that promotes new
work from the region and further a
field.
The
New Bridge Project
18 New Bridge Street West
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 8AS
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
Northern
Print
Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon
Tyne.
T: 0191
261 7000
Open:
Wed to Fri 11am – 5pm, Sat 12pm - 4pm.
http://www.northernprint.org.uk/
Red
Box Gallery
St.
Nicholas Chare, Newcastle
T: 0191 245 7121
Viewings by appointment only
www.redboxgallery.com
Stephenson
Works
20 South Street (behind Central Station),
Newcastle
Seven
Stories: The Centre for Children's
Books
30
Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle Upon
Tyne NE1 2PQ.
T: 0845 274 0777
Mon to
Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 10am - 4pm.
Entry: Adult £6.00*, Child/Concession
£5.00*, Family+
£17.00
www.sevenstories.org.uk
Side
Gallery
Side, Newcastle upon Tyne
T: 0191 232 2208
Tues-Sun 11-5,
Free entry.
www.amber-online.com
THINKTANK@
Hoults Yard
Hoults Yard, Walker Road,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE6 2HL
Tyneside
Cinema
10
Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
T: 0845 217 9909
Open approx. 10-8.30 Mon-Sun
www.tynecine.org
.
KEITH PATTISON:
No Redemption
Exhibitions
dates: 2nd December - 27th January
2012
‘No Redemption’, the exhibition,
which resulted from this is nakedly political
but one would have to have a heart of stone not
to be moved by Pattison’s images of weeping
women pleading with police, desperate miners
scrabbling for sea coal or the hurt in the eyes
of people wearing ‘Still Alive’
badges. The interviews, too, are still, after 25
years, full of bitterness. As well as being
emotionally searing this exhibition provokes
several "What if?" questions. "What if the
strike had succeeded?" for instance.
ANGELA HUGHES:
Transitions
Exhibitions
dates: 2nd December - 27th January
2012
Angela Hughes's
atmospheric paintings and drawing produced
during her residencies at Swan Hunter Shipyard
and Lemington Glassworks shortly before they
closed are a poignant reminder of two other
Northern industries that no longer
exist.
Rather Than
'Transitions', her exhibition might equally have
been titled 'Apparitions'. The Piranesi-like
spaces of the Glassworks became the arena for
diaphanous mists and phantom objects. At Swan
Hunter's her quasi-archaeological researches,
finding wooden stumps of the slipway for the
launch of the "Mauretania" over a hundread years
ago generate constant meditations on change and
renewal
SIMON NICHOLAS
Paintings
Exhibition
dates: 3rd February -16th March
2012
Working within a set of
almost mathematically rigorous constraints,
Nicholas has created works of paradoxical
richness and depth. painted in warm reds,
ochres, greens, blues and gold, Nicholas's
interiors, exteriors and crane shots of thickly
populated masses of people and objects create
giddy sensations of colour, movement and scale
of a fictitious world of abstract patterns.
BRITA
GRANSTROM:
Life
in Landscape
Lapland, Sweden
& Northumberland
Exhibition
dates: 3rd February - 16th March
2012
If there
were and Alternative Turner Prize, devored this
time to what Turner actually did, which was to
work outdoors in all weathers (on one occasion
being strapped to the mast of a ship during a
storm), Brita Granström would have to be a
serious contender for it. Photographs of her
caught in the act of painting show her totally
concentrated and oblivious to anything else
around her including the cold.
University
Gallery
Northumbria
University
Sandyford Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
T: 0191 227 4424.
Open: Mon-Thurs 10am–5pm, Fri & Sat
10am-4pm [Closed
Sun]
Admission free.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/universitygallery
Galleries
Inc.
4th
Floor
Central Square
Forth Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3PL
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/universitygallery/galleriesinc/
Exhibitions
at Galleries Inc are organised by the
University Gallery, Northunbria
University
Vane
Kings
House, Forth Banks, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1
3PA. 0191 261 8281
www.vane.org.uk
Wed to
Sat - 12 noon - 5pm
Free
Arts
Centre Washington
Granary Gallery
Biddick Lane
Fatfield
Washington
Tyne and Wear
NE38 8AB
T: 0191 219 3455
Opening
times
Monday 9am-5pm
Tuesday to Saturday 9am-9.30pm
Gateshead
BANI
ABIDI
Exhibition Dates: 11
November 2011 - 12 February 2012
Working with photography, video and drawing,
Pakistani artist, Bani Abidi looks at
manifestations of state power and resilience in
civil society. For this her first UK solo public
exhibition, Abidi is presenting Section Yellow,
comprising the film The Distance from Here along
with several photographic series.
Baltic
South Shore Road, Gateshead.
T:0191 478 1810
Mon-Wed
and Fri-Sun 10-6, Thurs 10-8
[Closed
Christmas Day & Boxing Day, New
Years Eve & New Years
Day]
Free Entry
www.balticmill.com
The
Dice Players by Georges de la Tour
Exhibition
dates: 19 Mar 2011 - 03 Jan
2012
George de
la Tour was greatly influenced by Caravaggio and
produced work for the King of France and the
Duke of Lorraine as well as the bourgeoisie of
Luneville. The Dice Players, painted in about
1650, was probably La Tour's last major work
before his death.
The
painting is on loan to the Shipley for the first
time from Preston Hall Museum and Park,
Stockton.
Treasures
from the Shipley Art Gallery: Dutch and Flemish
Artists
Explore
the Shipley's superb painting collection in
Treasures from the Shipley, highlighting the
Gallery's important collection of Dutch
paintings.
Treasures
will also feature Dutch paintings on loan from
the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle.
Shipley
Art Gallery
Prince Consort Road, Gateshead.
T: 0191 477 1495
Mon-Sat 10-5pm, Sun 2-5pm
Free.
www.twmuseums.org.uk/shipley....
The
WorkPlace Gallery
The Old Post Office, 19-21 West Street,
Gateshead.
T: 0191 477 2200
Tues to Sat 11am - 5pm or by appointment.
www.workplacegallery.co.uk
Gateshead
Heritage@ St Mary's
Oakwellgate
Gateshead
NE8 2AU
Sunderland
The
Art Studio
1-3 Hind Street, Sunderland.
T: 0191 567 7414
Wed - Fri 11am - 3pm.
Free.
Showing at:
National
Glass Centre
Liberty Way, Sunderland.
T: 0191 515 5555
Daily 10am-5pm,
Free.
www.nationalglasscentre.com
The
Wonders of the Visible World
Preview:
Wednesday 26 October 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition
dates: 27 October 2011 - 4 February 2012
Ulla von
Brandenburg, Mark Wallinger, Yves Klein, Camillo
Paravicini, Michael Crowe, Katja Mayer &
Peter Chadwick, Chris Cornish, Samantha Clark,
Georgina Mascolo, Susanne Ludwig, Victoria
Jenkins, Natasha Caruana, Hannes Ribarits, Anton
Corbijn, Tom Pope, Peter Watkins and Tereza
Zelenkova, Michelle Hannah, Martin Kellett,
Sophie Helas-Kwo, Jason Dee
"Let us be
witness to the unrepresentable". Jean-Francois
Lyotard, 'The Postmodern Condition'
"Vision is
the art of seeing the invisible." Jonathan
Swift
'The
Wonders of the Visible World' brings together 21
international artists who use photography and
video to explore the relationship between the
visible and the invisible worlds. The artists
explore the ongoing potency of myth and illusion
in the visual arts - finding that the world we
imagine we know is far less secure than we might
first believe. As all of the artists use
lens-based media, they all capture physical
phenomena that defy belief, or defy
description.
Here, the
camera lens is a tool that allows us to see
precisely what is not usually visible to the
naked eye, and to have faith in the
unimaginable. Many of the artists explore what
might be described as imaginative archetypes. We
become witnesses to the end of the world; to
hair-raising experiments in new branches of the
physical sciences; to our souls made into
symbols; and to feats of levitation,
self-combustion, magnetism and
transubstantiation. We are asked what the limits
of our beliefs are, and what the limits of our
capacity to suspend disbelief are.
Northern
Gallery for
Contemporary
Art
City
Library and Arts Centre, Fawcett Street,
Sunderland.
T: 0191 561 8407
Mon and Wed 9.30-7.30, Tues, Thurs and Fri
9.30-5, Sat 9.30-4, Free
www.ngca.co.uk
Reg
Vardy Gallery
Sunderland
University, Ashburne House, Ryhope Road,
Sunderland.
T: 0191 515 2128
Tues 10-8, Wed-Fri 10-6, Sat by
appointment
Free
www.regvardygallery.org
Sunderland
Museum and Winter Gardens
Mowbray
Gardens, Burdon Road, Sunderland
T: 0191 553 2323
Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5,
Free.
www.twmuseums.org.uk/sunderland
University
of Sunderland
The
Design Centre Gallery, St Michaels Way, City
Campus, Sunderland.
Mon - Fri 9am -
5.30pm & Saturdays 10am - 4pm.
Free Entry.
www.sunderland.ac.uk
South
Shields
Customs
House
Mill
Dam, South Shields
0191 454 1234
Mon - Sat 10am - 8.30pm, Sun 11am -
8.30pm
Free.
www.customshouse.co.uk
South
Shields Museum and Art Gallery
Ocean
Road, South Shields. 0191 456 8740
Mon to Sat 10am to 5.30pm, Sun 1pm to
5pm,
Free.
www.twmuseums.org.uk/southshields
North
Shields
County
Durham
Bowes
Museum
Barnard
Castle, County Durham. 01833 690606
11am - 5pm. £7.00/£6.00 Concs,
free for under 16's
www.bowesmuseum.org.uk
DLI Museum
& Durham Art Gallery
Aykley
Heads, Durham, DH1 5TU
0191 384 2214
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.
www.durham.gov.uk/dli/
The
Lamplight Arts Centre
Front
Street, Stanley, County Durham
01207 218899
www.leisureworksonline.co.uk
9am
- 5pm, Free
Northumberland
Drawing
Inspiration
In partnership with BALTIC Centre for
Contemporary Art
After the success of hosting the Turner
Prize 2011, BALTIC and their team of
professional artists are coming to The
Alnwick Garden from 16th-18th February to
give you the opportunity to create line
drawings reflecting your dreams and
aspirations.
Inspired by the goals and aspirations of
athletes taking part in the London Olympic
Games 2012, you will get the chance to
explore creative techniques of making your
own drawings and designs.
The drawings created will be used to
produce a giant banner which will be on
display outside BALTIC in the run-up to the
Olympic celebrations in the summer.
Alnwick
Gardens Exhibition Room
Denwick
Lane, Alnwick, Northumberland
01665 511350
www.alnwickgarden.com
Granary
Gallery
Dewar's
Lane
Berwick-upon-Tweed
TD15 1HJ
Balman
Gallery
2-3
Town Hall Buildings, Princes Street, Corbridge,
Northumberland, NE45 5AD
T: 01434 634 629
www.balmangallery.com
January-March:
Gallery closed
Gymnasium
Gallery
Berwick Barracks, The Parade,
Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1DG
Open: Wednesday - Sunday 11am -
5pm
T: 01289 30 45 35
gymnasiumgallery@hotmail.co.uk
Crown
Studio Gallery
Elsdon,
Northumberland 01830 520144
Open Tues - Sun. 10am to 5pm.
Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New
Years Day.
Entrance Free.
www.crownstudio.co.uk
Fi
Fie Fo Fum Gallery
Open for online sales or viewing by
appointment only.
Newton,
Off A69, Northumberland. 01661 843778
Wed-Fri 11am to 5pm, Sat 10am to 5pm, Sun
11am to 4pm. Free
www.fifiefofum.com
The
Gate Gallery
12
Bondgate Within, Alnwick, Northumberland. 01665
602165
www.thegategalleryuk.com
Leam Studio,West
Woodburn, Hexham, Northumberland NE48 2SE
T: 01434 270 216
E: info@marogers.com
Saltburn
Artists Projects @ Saltburn
Gallery
30-32 Marke Road, Saltburn by the Sea, TS12
1QG.
T: 01287 626060
Wed to Sun 12pm - 4pm
www.saltburnartistsproject.org.uk
The
Garden Station
Langley, Hexham, Northumberland.
T: 01434 684391
Autumn opening times 10am to
5pm.
Free Entry
www.thegardenstation.co.uk
Teesside
Mima
( Middlesbrough Museum of Modern Art)
Middlesbrough,
TS1 2YB
www.visitmima.com
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