Rescheduled lecture by Charles Danby – Sensory Realms: More than visual stories in contemporary painting 

Fictions, Causewayed Enclosure, Windmill Hill, Avebury, 2024 

Saturday 22 February, 1.30pm Charles Danby is an artist, critical art writer, independent curator and Assistant Professor in Fine Art at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. His writing explores hidden sensory realms within contemporary painting and tensions in the sensory knowledge of painting being formalised in language. His recent chapter Interspecies Cyborgs: Edges of Contemporary … Continue reading Rescheduled lecture by Charles Danby – Sensory Realms: More than visual stories in contemporary painting 

Lecture by Catrin Huber – From Expanded Interiors to Screaming and Dreaming

Screaming and Dreaming by Catrin Huber

Saturday 30 November 1.30pm Catrin Huber is artist and Professor of Fine Art at Newcastle University. Her large-scale works are often in dialogue with specific places, exploring their contexts and histories, and their architectural features and idiosyncrasies. While working across a range of media, She is interested in how paintings can define or subvert places, … Continue reading Lecture by Catrin Huber – From Expanded Interiors to Screaming and Dreaming

Lecture by Charles Danby – Sensory Realms:More than visual stories in contemporary painting 

Fictions, Causewayed Enclosure, Windmill Hill, Avebury, 2024 

Saturday 29 October 1.30pm Charles Danby is an artist, critical art writer, independent curator and Assistant Professor in Fine Art at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. His writing explores hidden sensory realms within contemporary painting and tensions in the sensory knowledge of painting being formalised in language. His recent chapter Interspecies Cyborgs: Edges of Contemporary … Continue reading Lecture by Charles Danby – Sensory Realms:More than visual stories in contemporary painting 

Lecture by Dr Narbi Price: – Searching for the Subject – A Painter’s Journey

Untitled Bench Painting (Lockdown) by Narbi Price

Saturday 28th September 1.30pm Artist, Curator and Academic Dr Narbi Price will talk candidly about his career to date, focussing on how interests and subject matter can coalesce into a cohesive practice. His work takes seemingly everyday scenes which hold additional historical, cultural or personal significance, applying diverse techniques to a photographically derived painting style. … Continue reading Lecture by Dr Narbi Price: – Searching for the Subject – A Painter’s Journey

Lecture by printmaker Erika Servin Gonzalez

A portrait of Erika Servin Gonzalez holding up one of her prints

We are delighted to announce our next speaker : Erika Servin Gonzalez, who will introduce us to her practice which is inspired by Mexican prints. The lecture will take place at 12:30pm, Satruday 2nd July 2022 Erika is a professional printmaker who exhibits frequently, nationally, and internationally. She is a Master of Arts graduate from … Continue reading Lecture by printmaker Erika Servin Gonzalez

“Conceptual Art in Britain and the U.S.” a lecture by Dr Stephen Moonie

Saturday 8th June, 11.00--‐13.00, Learning Room, Hatton Gallery Dr Stephen Moonie is an art historian. He specialises in the art and theory of the post-war United States, with a particular interest in the discourse of Modernist painting in the 1950s and 1960s. More broadly, he is interested in art writing, aesthetics and contemporary painting. Previously, … Continue reading “Conceptual Art in Britain and the U.S.” a lecture by Dr Stephen Moonie