It has been voted as the nation’s favourite painting, features on the £20 bank note and is going on show for the first time in the North East. JMW Turner’s 1839 portrayal of The Fighting Temeraire will be the centrepiece of an exhibition, Turner: Art, Industry, Nostalgia which runs from May 10 to September 7 …
An exhibition exploring the experience of motherhood will get a fitting finale next month (May). Katie Cuddon’s A is for Alma at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle will offer a stage to three dancers from balletLORENT — and their toddlers — for a series of free performances. Newcastle-based artist Katie invited the award-winning dance company …
Sunderland has embraced culture in recent years, mounting a spirited bid for UK City of Culture, hosting the Tall Ships Races, investing in new cultural facilities such as The Fire Station and celebrating a decade of The Cultural Spring, the Arts Council-funded initiative designed to ensure its benefits are felt in every community. There’s even …
We’ve all had one, and it has had a powerful influence on our later lives. For many, it has left a mix of good, and perhaps not so good, memories. It’s childhood, and that is the subject of the summer exhibition at Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery in Alnwick. The volunteer-run museum has delved into its …
Special consideration has to be given to an artist who reckoned he spent about a third of his life in semi-darkness. It was a miner’s lot but Oliver Kilbourn endured it uncomplainingly and dedicated many of his daylight hours to standing at an easel, recording what those half-lit subterranean hours were like. “I couldn’t express …
About 15 years ago, I invented something which was pretty nifty. It was a piece of breastfeeding underwear which made every top a breastfeeding top, so new and nursing mums could get back into their favourite clothes while keeping their postnatal tummy comfortably wrapped up*. *Can’t tell you how easily the marketing spiel just tripped …
Artist and comic, Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) was in Gateshead this afternoon (March 15) to join forces with Maximo Park’s Paul Smith and unveil the Baltic Open Submission exhibition. The group exhibition features the work of 104 North-East-based self-taught and hobbyist artists and includes painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, film, and installation pieces. It opens …
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 …
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 …
Nobody could have been more delighted than Jim Donnelly to win this year’s Northumberland Open exhibition — the first photographer to do so and at the first time of entering. He received his prize in front of a large preview audience in Woodhorn Museum’s Workshop Galleries. Rowan Brown, chief executive of Museums Northumberland, called it …
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