In autumn 2023, the Friends of the Hatton lecture programme is focussing on art in public space and the role of artists in planning and urban design. In September we are looking forward to welcoming Prof Wolfgang Weileder, who will speak about the changing and challenging relationship between art and architecture, followed by a lecture … Continue reading Autumn Lecture Programme
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
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
Our summer exhibition opens on 17th July. We are hosted again in the Ex Libris Gallery at Newcastle University. The exhibition runs for two weeks, finishing on 28th July. The exhibition is primarily a selling exhibition. We hope you’ll be able to pop in and have a look round what promises to be a varied … Continue reading Friends’ Summer Exhibition 2023
The hand in date for your works for this year’s Summer Exhibition is Saturday 15th July. Hand in your work between 10:30am and 12:30 in the Ex Libris Gallery at the university. There will also be the opportunity to sign up for invigilations slots (usually 2 hours long) during the two week run of the … Continue reading Hand in date for the 2023 Summer Exhibition
Following on from out Featured Friend with Maggie Bassendine earlier this month, the exhibition in Australia of her late husband’s work she has been working on opens next week. The exhibition runs from the 27th May to 17th June at Defiance Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales.
Dear Friends At the time of writing this article the weather is continuing to be on the cold side for late April, let’s hope the summer is much warmer and sunnier. We had our Annual General Meeting in April which was well attended. We managed to get a couple of new Trustees, as well as … Continue reading Friends Bulletin May 2023
Retirement of Professor Eric Cross, President Professor Eric Cross has been President of the Friends since its beginning. In the lead in to the April AGM Professor Cross sadly decided it was time for him to retire. He wrote: “I think it is time for me to step down as President. It has been a … Continue reading Updates from the recent Annual General Meeting held on 15th April 2023
Our Featured Friend is Maggie Bassendine. Maggie has been a member of the Friends for over 40 years. She is currently planning an exhibition of her late husband’s work in his native Australia. Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your interest in art… I have been a long-standing Friend of the Hatton … Continue reading Featured Friend – Maggie Bassendine
“The art of weaving is a profound metaphor for understanding the workings of the universe and our place in it. Through the physical/metaphorical process of weaving, we gain a better understanding of this world and how we as human beings are woven into it. We are bound to our bodies with the fragile threads of earth”. … Continue reading Weaving in art and life… Weaving the Cosmos
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