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Anja Percival & Joanna Bourne: This Common Place 3rd September – 30th September You are invited to join us at the Private View on Friday 2nd of September 5pm till 7pm. This Common Place brings together work by Anja Percival and Joanna Bourne, printmakers who both draw inspiration from their immediate and everyday surroundings. This exhibition explores the different […]

NORTHERN MONKEY BRASS BAND Swinging jazz from the finest New Orleans Jazz Band in the north east! Friday 19th August at The Black Swan. Double Bill: Northern Monkey Brass Band and Harry Keeble Duo Newcastle Arts Centre is very happy to be bringing the Newcastle Jazz Festival to the Black Swan on Friday 19th August with an exciting double bill – […]

A fresh Summer Programme is underway at Newcastle Arts Centre as Newcastle’s West End looks forward to being a new Creative Cultural Zone.   North of Tyne Authority and Newcastle City see the area around Clayton Street running between the Life Centre and Eldon Square Shopping Centre as a focus for Arts development in the City. […]

NOEL DENNIS TRIO Thursday 21st July at The Black Swan Thursday 21st July sees the return of professional jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player Noel Dennis with his trio that includes Mark Williams on guitar and Andy Champion on bass performing a mixture of be-bop and post-bop. Expect to hear jazz influenced by some of Noel’s favourite trumpet players – Miles […]

Our Lives, Ephemera is a group show exhibiting the collage work of six artists whose visual arts practice has been uncovered through their activity within the no-audience underground. The no-audience underground is a self-sustaining ‘sub-section of the noise and experimental music scene’1 where there are no passive audience members, only active participants. Within this rich network of practitioners, […]

June 23rd is OPEN THURSDAY. 5pm to 9pm. Free Exhibitions. Free Workshops. Free Music. Late Night Shopping. New for 2022, OPEN THURSDAY is a pilot project by CVAN – Contemporary Visual Arts Network England. Following the successful launch of their quarterly Art Maps (a free map of Tyneside arts venues listing upcoming exhibitions and events), […]

Liz Atkin: Drawings, Collage and Writing – A Retrospective You are invited to join us at the Private View of our newest gallery exhibition.  Liz Atkin: Drawings, Collage and Writing – A Retrospective is an exhibition showcasing the eclectic practice of the late Liz Atkin (1951 – 2018). Well known for her detailed and large-scale drawings, the […]

Bookkeeper/Accounts Administrator & Room Hire Administrator – 30 hours per week Newcastle Arts Centre is a Social Enterprise comprising a not for profit company and a charity, we run courses, room hire, venue hire, live jazz, art exhibitions, rent studios to artists plus some commercial retail lets. We run three shops which sell art materials, craft […]

Our newest exhibition in The Show Case is now open! Slow Dance is an exhibition of handcrafted glass that draws upon the artist’s interests in relics, local history and folktales. Weaving mytho-poetic personal narratives with extensive research and regard for both art and cultural conservation, Natasha’s work questions when art becomes artefact, and the necessity […]

Reflecting on their recent exhibition at the Newcastle Arts Centre, Artist and Maker Kelsey Lynn Mayo sits down with Jed Buttress (Curator, Artist) to discuss their influences, skills and motivations.  Shown at Newcastle Arts Centre from 19th March – 16th April.   Interviewer(J): Jed Buttress, Curator and Programme Co-ordinator Interviewee (K): Kelsey Lynn Mayo, Artist […]

Open studios, events and family activities here at Newcastle Arts Centre on Saturday Evening 14 May! May 14th The Late Shows and Open Studios At Newcastle Arts Centre 7pm – 11 pm – Free Admission Explore Newcastle Arts Centre alive with arts events and activity. Meet and buy from artists in their open studios. Visit our Gallery […]

‘Delicate Blooms’ a series of watercolour portraits by Sian Jordan Our latest exhibition in The Show Case is on display now! The walls of our newest exhibition space are filled with beautiful new and never-before-seen artworks. Each piece is painted subtly in watercolours, but with a boldness that showcases the unpredictability of the medium. The […]

Assembly House.A Newcastle Arts Centre Event – the story of a building. Tour and talk. [Tours fully booked.] For Centuries Newcastle was valued as a Northern boundary outpost, first for the Roman Empire and later for the English Monarchy. The two Empires intersected at the West Gate where the lines of the City Wall and […]

Rethinking The Craftsperson In A World Submerged In Technology  An exhibition by Kelsey Lynn Mayo shown at Newcastle Arts Centre from 19th March – 16th April. Exhibition Preview: 18th March – 5pm Artist Talk: 9th April – 1pm   Glass. Ceramics. Textiles. Woodwork. Performance. EXHIBITION PREVIEW: Come along and be the first to witness this […]

This exhibition is a selection of the artist’s current experiments with colour, for a future exhibition of large scale ‘Tantric’ paintings. Also included is a small selection of rare antique Shamanic sculptures collected in remote villages of Western Nepal, together with a selection of rapid portrait drawings by the artist.

Our Spring/Summer Courses are available to book now!  

The next generation of fashion designers has executed a professional contemporary fashion design project in their first year of the BA Hon Degree at Northumbria University. The designers illustrated sketchbooks hosting a plethora of mixed media and 2D design work, which they then translated their designs and inspiration into 3D fully functioning Garments. Communicating a […]

  Exhibition by Royal Photographic Society at Newcastle Arts Centre. Saturday 7th May – Saturday 4th June. The RPS Documentary Photographer of the Year is an international competition attracting exceptional visual storytellers from across the world.Documentary photography is a unique medium that communicates the human condition seen through a moment in time. Documentary Group Chair, Mark […]