Now in her eighties, acclaimed artist and animator Sheila Graber has been capturing the region in her sketchbook for more than seven decades. Born and raised in South Shields, South Tyneside and the wider North East features heavily in her archives, which she is generously using to raise money for three causes close to her …
New investment secured for Sunderland music project Sunderland Music Arts and Culture (MAC) Trust, the organisation behind The Fire Station, has secured £337,500 of funding for new project Sunderland Music City. The project, which will be delivered alongside a number of local partners, aims to raise the profile of the city’s culture offering, with a …
When James Lowther, head of visual arts for The Maltings (Berwick) Trust, visited Matilda Bevan’s studio near Hexham, Northumberland, he asked which artists had influenced her. Immediately she mentioned Thomas Hennell so plans were laid for an exhibition in Berwick’s Granary Gallery that would include his work and her artistic responses to it. There could …
Travelling gave Topher McGrillis his first taste of the joys of digital photography, sowing the seeds for a passion which would become part of his professional career. Up until that point, his big passion had been film-making . “I was always obsessed with playing with my friends’ camcorders growing up but didn’t get my first …
Behind every artwork lies a story and Baltic’s latest Open Submission exhibition represents a veritable anthology with 104 submissions having made the cut. “We were aiming for 100 but snuck in an extra four,” smiles Baltic assistant curator Rose McMurray who was on the judging panel. That’s understandable, given the numbers involved here — a …
It’s not every day you peer at a painting and find yourself in it (and I don’t mean your reflection in the glass). That’s exactly what happened to me during a recce of Emma Holliday’s studio at 36 Lime Street, although I can’t guarantee it’ll be the same for others attending Ouseburn Open Studios this …
Hand-painted birthday cards by anonymous artist Banksy are set to realise happy financial returns in a sale on Tyneside. The cards by Banksy were sent to close friend Emma Houghton, who has now put them up for auction with Anderson & Garland at the Newcastle firm’s Spring sale on March 20. Estimates for the cards …
A double boost is on the way for the North East’s mining heritage. A sculpture of George Stephenson’s miner’s safety lamp is to be unveiled near Dial Cottage, his former home in North Tyneside. Meanwhile work is due to start on improving Albany Park, as part of wider £4.6m regeneration plans for Washington’s F-Pit Museum …
Easily the most enthusiastic speaker at the launch of Creative Central NCL, Newcastle’s new creative zone, was Jodie Robertson, not an artist or even employed in the cultural sector. It wasn’t that there was a lack of enthusiasm in the room (Alphabetti Theatre, as so often, was buzzing). But Jodie, client services manager at the …
There are many ways of documenting motherhood and while Katie Cuddon’s might not be the most conventional, it’s via a medium she understands and has loved since she was a child. She still treasures the clay animals she made in primary school, early signs of an artistic calling. Now here she is in the Hatton …
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