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
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Lecture by Catrin Huber – From Expanded Interiors to Screaming and Dreaming
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
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
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
CANCELLED – Talk by Andy Martin, Photographer, Visual Artist and Filmmaker
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
Talk by artist Euan Lynn: An Instant History: The Story Of Instant Photography
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
Talk by Dr Harriet Sutcliffe – Curating Matt Rugg: Connected Form
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
Talk by artist Joanne Coates
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
Talk by Andy Martin, Photographer, Visual Artist and Filmmaker
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
Talk by Prof Wolfgang Weileder
9th March, 1:30 pm Often related to his temporary time-based and site-specific installations and sculptures, Wolfgang Weileder explores in his photographic work the relationship between space and time. He uses specially for each project developed cameras and processes to capture changes and transformations onto single images. Questioning and challenging our understanding of space, he proposes … Continue reading Talk by Prof Wolfgang Weileder






