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 …
Time once again to lift a banner to the Pitmen Painters whose inspiring and heartwarming story now spans nine decades. Ashington Group 90 is a year-long programme marking the 90th anniversary of the coming together of this group of working men who met in a former army hut near some allotments and became an art …
Ross Millard, 41 is a guitarist and songwriter in The Futureheads, a printmaker and a photographer. He’s also puts together the Summer Streets festival in his native Sunderland. An upcoming exhibition of his photographs at community cultural venue, Pop Recs Ltd got our attention, so we thought we’d ask Ross if he’d be so kind …
The shipyards of the North East were a vital front line in the First World War as they battled to replace the heavy losses caused by U-boats of vessels carrying crucial supplies. But with so many shipyard workers fighting in the armed forces, women stepped forward to fill the gaps and tackle the many jobs …
The winter of 1962-63 is remembered as the ‘big freeze’, one of the coldest on record. In some parts of the country snow lay metres high, bringing things to a grinding halt. In Hartlepool, recording the worst unemployment figures in the country, hardship was piled on hardship. William Gray & Co. had recently closed its …
For artist and photographer Ingrid Pollard, it was a year spent in ‘wonderland’. Ingrid, appointed as English Heritage’s first visual art fellow, was presented with the opportunity of a year-long fellowship at Belsay Hall in Northumberland. Spread out before her was a medieval castle and an impressive 20 acres of gardens, including the location’s atmospheric …
Railway sleepers from the River Tyne and jay feathers found in Northumberland can become art materials as potent as paint or pastel in the right hands. This much is clear in the second exhibition curated by Jed Buttress at Newcastle Arts Centre as part of a project called Brass Tacks. The first, in September, was …
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