Saturday 1st April, 12:30pm.
Learning Room at the Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Women Artists of the North East Library
The Women Artists of the North East Library is a growing library collection, an itinerant public programme of events and artist commissions, setting up contexts and perspectives for exploring artistic legacies of women and non-binary artists associated with the North East region of England.
Established in 2017 through a public invitation for donations to begin a Library, the collection now includes publications, audio, images and other forms of documentation that record historic and current artistic practice and programming across the North East. Always open to donations, the library works collaboratively with artists, communities and cultural organisations to expand and share its collection.
Holly Argent
Holly Argent is an artist, curator and researcher. Through her work she is interested in why we look for figures, particularly in libraries and archives, and what this searching might demonstrate; a perceived absence or lack in society, reappraisal, a desire for intimacy, belonging or community. This work finds shape through activities including, performance, video, sculpture, reading groups, screenings and publications. Finding ways to explore and test models of kinship, whether speculative or manifest runs through these several different strands of her practice.
A dominant element of my practice is leading the Women Artists of the North East Library (WANE), which I founded in October 2017. The WANE Library is a radical and anti-patriarchal project. It is nomadic with no physical space but runs an itinerant programme in collaboration with arts workers and partner institutions. Its collection of 350+ items is made from donations and its catalogue remains unfixed and uncategorised.
Holly has shown at Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle upon Tyne), Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Grand Union, (Birmingham), CGP (London), and curated exhibitions and programmes at Workplace Foundation and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA).
She has been awarded the BALTIC Bothy residency (2021) and Paul Mellon Research Support Grant (2020) and ACE Project Grant (2021-23). She has been artist in-residence at Hospitalfields, Arbroath (2019) and The British School at Rome (2017), and in residence at MIMA, Northumbria University and Visual Arts in Rural Communities (VARC) with the Women Artists of the North East Library (2021-22).
She is based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
If you are interested in attending, please email hatton.friends@btinternet.com.
Please note, the talk is free for members and £5 for non-members.
Friends of the Hatton 