We host a variety of events throughout the year from selling exhibitions, lecture series, workshops, talks and most recently a Christmas Market.
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
Saturday 29 June - 11.30 - 3.30pm - Learning Room at the gallery Photographs are one of the richest sources of inspiration for landscape painters and almost all artists will use them at some point to create work. This workshop will help participants gain a deeper understanding of the potential of this way of working … Continue reading Painting Expressive Landscapes from photographs inspired by the work of David Bomberg and Joan Eardley – Edward Hillier
Saturday 16th March, 1pm Andy Martin's talk this Saturday has had to be cancelled. We are hoping to reschedule the talk for a date in the autumn. ----- Andy works primarily with older, higher quality analogue processes - medium and large format film cameras to tell their stories. He is also one of a handful … Continue reading CANCELLED – Talk by Andy Martin, Photographer, Visual Artist and Filmmaker
Friday 19th April, 11 till 3 pm Louise is a textile artist based in 36 Lime Street, Newcastle, making unique pieces, working with traditional northeast techniques such as patchwork and quilting, hooky and proggy matting, as well as spinning, embroidery, felting, batik along with upholstery, printing and community yarnbombing. She has collaborated on and co-coordinated … Continue reading Patchwork Workshop by Louise Underwood
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
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