Lectures are held in the Learning Room at the gallery. These free lectures offer a chance to open a public dialogue about historical and contemporary practices including artists, photographers, poets, and musicians.
There is a £5 charge for non-members.
All lectures generally start at 1.30pm, with doors at 1:00pm. Past lectures include the following:
2024
Charles Danby, Sensory Realms: More than visual stories in contemporary painting
Catrin Huber, From Expanded Interiors to Screaming and Dreaming
Dr Narbi Price: Searching for the Subject – A Painter’s Journey
Prof Wolfgang Weileder, visual artist and sculptor: Artist talk
Joanne Coates, photographer: Artist talk
Euan Lynn: An Instant History: The Story Of Instant Photography
2023
Julie Crawshaw: Practice, placements, and planning
Prof Vee Pollock: Public Art and Urban Cultural Regeneration in the UK: Gateshead Riverside Park
Holly Argent: The North East Women’s Library
2022
Dan Russell: The Collective Studio project
Jenny McNamara: Colour in 20th Century Art
Erika Servin Gonzalez: Artist talk
Dr Malcolm Gee: Cézanne: from outsider to Old Master
Dr Melanie Stephenson: “A great little man” Professor Richard George Hatton (1864-1926)
2021 and 2020
All lectures were cancelled during this period due to Lockdown and restrictions imposed by COVID 19
2019
Professor Richard Talbot: Should all art students learn to paint and draw
Jeffrey Sarmiento: Artist talk
Margaret Woodliff Wright: Creating “The Northumberland Milliner”
Dr Stephen Moonie: Conceptual Art in Britain and the U.S.
Rhonda Fenwick: Art and the Creative Process
Katherine Renton: From Flamingos to Sandcastles, Artist talk
2018
Fiona Gray: Artist talk
Prof Andrew Burton: Art on Campus – a guided tour
Melanie Stephenson: ’A case study of the Hatton Gallery Collection,1948 – 1968′
Melanie Stephenson & Harriet Sutcliffe: Work in progress, Workshop & Talk
Al Palmer: Brown Owl Press
2017
In conversation with Mike Wells
Simon Court: Hassan Musa
2016
Tracey Tofield:
Julie Milne: THE HATTON: A HERITAGE LOTTERY FUNDED PROJECT
Nadia Hebson: Artist talk
Older lectures:
Malcolm Yorke: Edward Bawden and The Great Bardfield Artists Colony
Malcolm Gee: Richard Hamilton and Marcel Duchamp – The Newcastle Connection
Malcolm Yorke: Josef Herman
Kelsey Thornton: John Skipsey
Tracey Tolfield: Goya
Alysia Trackim: Regarding the pain of others: photographing war
Anne Massey & Gil Hedley: FOTH & Hatton present “Newcastle Goes Pop!”
Bill Varley: COOL and ANTI-COOL: A Survey of Contemporary Art
Kelsey Thornton: Ivor Gurney: Poet of War
Alysia Trackim: John Cage on Silence
Tracey Tolfield: Andy Warhol Drawings
Fred Brookes: Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn: past, present, and future
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