Notice is hereby given that the Friends of the Hatton Annual General Meeting will be held in the Learning Room in the Hatton Gallery on Saturday, 4th May 2024. The AGM will follow a similar format as in previous years which is as follows: 10.00 Coffee and biscuits 10.15 Show and Talk. We are inviting … Continue reading Notice of 2024 Annual General Meeting
11th May, 1:30 pm The concept of a photograph becoming available to us instantly is something we now take for granted – but it was the Polaroid Company who first brought us this miracle in the 1940’s, and then subsequently refined it over the coming decades. Pioneered by Edwin Land, instant photography cut out the … Continue reading Talk by artist Euan Lynn: An Instant History: The Story Of Instant Photography
Saturday 27th April, 1-2pm Connecting Form was the first major retrospective of the work of Matt Rugg (1935 - 2020), a highly regarded British artist and teacher who was at the forefront of radical changes in art education in the UK during the second half of the 20th century. Matt Rugg’s work occupies a distinctive … Continue reading Talk by Dr Harriet Sutcliffe – Curating Matt Rugg: Connected Form
6th April, 1:30 pm Joanne Coates is a working class visual artist using the medium of photography. She lives and works across the North East of England. Her work explores rurality, hidden histories, and inequalities relating to low income through photography, installations, and audio. She uses photography to question stories around power, identity, wealth, and … Continue reading Talk by artist Joanne Coates
Saturday 16th March, 1pm Andy Martin is a photographer and filmmaker from Sunderland, County Durham. He has a passion for the North East, its industry and people. His experience as a practitioner spans almost 20 years. He is especially drawn to working with marginalised communities who are still living through the cultural, social and economic … Continue reading Talk by Andy Martin, Photographer, Visual Artist and Filmmaker
Saturday 23 March - 11.30 - 3.30pm Jo Duncan will be demonstrating and teaching two very simple stitching techniques, one for bookbinding and one for fabric embroidery. The joy of these two techniques is their simplicity - they take no special skills to achieve masterful results. In addition, the act of hand-stitching and concentration can … Continue reading Japanese ‘Mindful’ stitching workshop – Stab-binding and Sashiko by Jo Duncan
9th March, 1:30 pm Often related to his temporary time-based and site-specific installations and sculptures, Wolfgang Weileder explores in his photographic work the relationship between space and time. He uses specially for each project developed cameras and processes to capture changes and transformations onto single images. Questioning and challenging our understanding of space, he proposes … Continue reading Talk by Prof Wolfgang Weileder
Saturday 27 January - 11.30 till 3.30 Luke comes from the Amble in Northumberland. He will give a talk before his workshop which will focus on his background, his influences and his relationship to place and the landscape. Luke has a great love for Art History and thinks that a huge part of progressing as … Continue reading Talk and workshop by our featured artist Luke McTaggart ‘Drawing From Art History’
Saturday 17 February - 11.30 till 2.30 Join the artist Edward Hillier for an energetic 3 hour workshop. Suitable for everyone from the newly minted beginner to seasoned veterans, landscape, portrait, abstract or none of the above - this workshop will help you reconnect with the things that inspired you to paint in the first … Continue reading Workshop by Edward Hillier – Falling in Love with Paint (again)
From March 2024, we are delighted to present a series of lectures on photography and lens-based media. The series will be started by Prof Wolfgang Weileder, who introduced us to his public art practice back in September. Wolfgang hoped to also mention his photography practice (or sculpting in time as he referred to it), but … Continue reading Spring Lecture Programme – Focus on Photography
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