Talk: Dr Julie Crawshaw – reserve your ticket

28 October - 1pm - The Learning Room of the Hatton Gallery. If you would like to reserve a place for Dr Crawshaw's talk please use the Eventbrite link below. The talk is free for members and £5 for non-members which will be requested on the day. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foh-lectures-practice-placements-and-planning-by-dr-julie-crawshaw-tickets-738528477557?aff=oddtdtcreator If you are interested in attending, please … Continue reading Talk: Dr Julie Crawshaw – reserve your ticket

Cyanotype workshop with Brenda Procter

Cyanotype by Bernd Hutschenreuther: https://www.flickr.com/photos/116228447@N06/

Friday 17 November 2023 - 11.30 to 4pm A four hour workshop with artist Brenda Procter exploring the fascinating medium of Cyanotype. This is a photographic technique that doesn’t require sophisticated equipment or a darkroom to process the images. This activity produces images using sunlight to expose shapes on photosensitive paper. We will prepare these … Continue reading Cyanotype workshop with Brenda Procter

Talk: Dr Julie Crawshaw – Practice, placements, and planning

28 October - 1pm - The Learning Room of the Hatton Gallery In relation to artists’ placements and the role of artists in urban and rural planning this talk will explore what we might mean by ‘practice’ and the potential of practice(s). To trace practice as it takes place in different formations and scales this … Continue reading Talk: Dr Julie Crawshaw – Practice, placements, and planning

Talk: Wolfgang Weileder – visual artist and sculptor

30 September - 1.00pm, The Learning Room at the Hatton Gallery Contemporary art has always had a changing and often challenging relationship with public space, the surrounding architecture, as well as the urban context and the people therein. The temporary time-based and site-specific works of Wolfgang Weileder offer a new approach to question our understanding … Continue reading Talk: Wolfgang Weileder – visual artist and sculptor

Workshop by Katherine Renton – Coal, Colour & Castles

Saturday 16 September 2023 11.30 - 3.30pm Cost: £17 (£22 for non members)Learning Room at the Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. A four hour workshop with Northumberland-based artist Katherine Renton. Katherine will give a talk and demonstration on her work in which she uses watercolours that she makes from seacoal and other materials that she sources … Continue reading Workshop by Katherine Renton – Coal, Colour & Castles

Reviews of our recent talk by Lindsay Roberts

Skeins of wool and pieces of fabric

Our recent demonstration and talk by The Border Tart (Lindsay Roberts) was really interesting. Here are some short reviews of the session which included a spinning demonstration and the opportunity to see examples of some gorgeous embroidered, printed and block printed fabrics… I originally came across Lindsay, The Border Tart, at an Edinburgh Yarn Festival … Continue reading Reviews of our recent talk by Lindsay Roberts

Talk/demonstration/workshop by Kittie Jones

Friday 9th June 1.00 - 4:00pm Cost: £15 (£20 for non members)Learning Room at the Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. Kittie Jones is an award-winning artist based in Edinburgh. Her practice focuses on drawing and printmaking - she produces mixed media drawings on paper out in the landscape, unique multi-layered monotypes and small edition screen prints. … Continue reading Talk/demonstration/workshop by Kittie Jones