Saturday 8 February, 11:30am - 2.30pm. £20 for Friends, £25 for non-members If you missed out on the first workshop this is a chance to join in and learn about AI art in a relaxed participatory session. You don’t need any prior experience with technology, this is a playful artistic look at artificial intelligence. If … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence and the Artist (part 2) a workshop with Dr Leila Hogarth
Saturday 7 December, 11am - 3pm - Learning Room at the gallery In this workshop you can decorate a ready-made drawstring bag with a hand stitched robin or a tree made from a piece of vintage quilt, you can create a Scottie dog decoration or wall hanging, try the clippy-mat rag rug technique to make … Continue reading Let’s have fun with fabrics – a seasonal workshop with Kath Price
Saturday 30 November 1.30pm Catrin Huber is artist and Professor of Fine Art at Newcastle University. Her large-scale works are often in dialogue with specific places, exploring their contexts and histories, and their architectural features and idiosyncrasies. While working across a range of media, She is interested in how paintings can define or subvert places, … Continue reading Lecture by Catrin Huber – From Expanded Interiors to Screaming and Dreaming
Saturday 9 November, 11.30 till 2.30pm - Learning Room at the gallery During the workshop, Louise will provide you with a brief guide to Fabric Art Memory Books looking at the work of other artists who use this beautiful and engaging technique to create lasting and useable artworks. You will look at the many different … Continue reading Fabric Memory Book workshop with Louise Underwood
Saturday 29 October 1.30pm Charles Danby is an artist, critical art writer, independent curator and Assistant Professor in Fine Art at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. His writing explores hidden sensory realms within contemporary painting and tensions in the sensory knowledge of painting being formalised in language. His recent chapter Interspecies Cyborgs: Edges of Contemporary … Continue reading Lecture by Charles Danby – Sensory Realms:More than visual stories in contemporary painting
Saturday 26 October, 11.30 till 2.30pm - Learning Room at the gallery Lindsey McLaren is a North East-based contemporary impressionist artist who has exhibited at the Alnmouth Arts Festival, Arts Centre Washington and the Customs House in South Shields. Her work can be viewed at http://www.lindseymclaren.co.uk and a collection of her oil paintings will be … Continue reading Learn how to paint a loose impressionistic landscape in oils with Lindsey McLaren
Saturday 21 September, 11.30 till 2.30pm - Learning Room at the gallery Leila’s workshop looks like it will be a fascinating and activity packed three hours. In the first part she will introduce her work and research and show some of the objects she has made during recent practice. Following on from this she will … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence and the Artist – a playful talk and workshop with collage by Leila Hogarth
Saturday 28th September 1.30pm Artist, Curator and Academic Dr Narbi Price will talk candidly about his career to date, focussing on how interests and subject matter can coalesce into a cohesive practice. His work takes seemingly everyday scenes which hold additional historical, cultural or personal significance, applying diverse techniques to a photographically derived painting style. … Continue reading Lecture by Dr Narbi Price: – Searching for the Subject – A Painter’s Journey
Saturday 17 August, 11 till 3 pm - Learning Room at the gallery Have fun trying out clippy and hooky rag rug techniques; then select one of these methods to create a clippy flower brooch or a hooked coaster using, amongst other materials, some colourful recycled sari fabric. No experience is necessary and we shall … Continue reading Kath Price – Introducing Traditional Clippy and Hooky Matmaking
Saturday, 20 July - 11.30 till 3.30pm - Learning Room at the gallery In this Summer-inspired workshop, Jo Duncan will demonstrate how to make appealing wool hedgehogs, using a simple pompom method which guarantees perfect results. In the second part of the workshop, we’ll create some little yarn birds which can be customised as standing, … Continue reading Woolly Creatures Workshop with Jo Duncan
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