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Jericho: An Ancient City Revealed

Pioneering archaeologist Dame Kathleen Kenyon (1906-1978) excavated at the site of Ancient Jericho and established it as one of the oldest cities in the world. Kenyon was influential in the field of archaeology as a result of her skill and innovation, setting a new standard of practice through her work at Jericho. This exhibition explores the significance of Kenyon’s work, life and death in Ancient Jericho and the importance of the site in archaeological history.

Venue:
Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill, (off South Road), Durham, DH1 3TH
Date:
Jun 10th 2021 - Jun 10th 2023
Opening Times:
Sat-Sun 12:00 - 17:00 , Mon-Fri 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

The Lost Spells: Listening to a Landscape of Voices

Inspired by the beautiful new book, The Lost Spells, which features artwork and words by the beloved creators of The Lost Words – artist Jackie Morris and writer Robert Macfarlane - The Lost Spells: Listening to a Landscape of Voices is an immersive exhibition that features original artwork, soundscapes and interactive experiences.

Venue:
The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre, Bardon Mill, Hexham, NE47 7AN
Date:
Jul 23rd 2022 - Jun 4th 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Lowry at the Seaside

An exhibition inspired by seaside holidays in Berwick-upon-Tweed and Lowry's visits to the town.

Venue:
Berwick Museum and Art Gallery, The Barracks Parade, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1DG
Date:
Mar 1st 2023 - Nov 4th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Annual pass £5/£4/under 16s Free

The Ord Cross

This new display showcases 'The Ord Cross', a unique piece of Anglo-Saxon jewellery discovered on the banks of the River Tweed in 2019.

Venue:
Berwick Museum and Art Gallery, The Barracks Parade, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1DG
Date:
Mar 1st 2023 - Nov 4th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Annual pass £5/£4/under 16s Free

Fine Art Exhibition

Over 150 pieces of art of all genres painted by local artists attending DianArt classes in Cullercoats, many available for purchase over the May spring bank holiday.

Venue:
Cullercoats Community Centre, Belle Vue Street, Cullercoats, North Tyneside, NE30 4QX
Date:
May 28th 2023 - May 29th 2023
Opening Times:
28th - 29th May 2023 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

Harvest: Fruit Gathering

This exhibition features the work of two of Britain’s leading artists working in hot glass. Rachael Woodman and Neil Wilkin have worked collaboratively for almost 40 years, however, Harvest: Fruit Gathering is their first opportunity to present their work together. This exhibition has allowed both artists to express their mastery of glass as a medium, through the creation of beautiful new work inspired by the natural and spiritual world.

Venue:
National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL
Date:
Sep 24th 2022 - Sep 3rd 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

National Glass Centre Collection

A chance to see a selection of works from the National Glass Centre’s collection of international Studio Glass.

Venue:
National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL
Date:
Sep 24th 2022 - Sep 3rd 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Shalom!

This new display introduces two new Jewish heritage partnerships projects in the North East, the Lahav Jewish Heritage Project and Unlocking North East Jewish Heritage. Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums are working with members of the Jewish community and Newcastle Libraries to preserve and celebrate the rich history of the Jewish community, and increase access to records and archival collections.

Venue:
Discovery Museum, (Closed on all Bank Holidays) Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA
Date:
Jan 26th 2023 - Oct 1st 2023
Opening Times:
Sat-Sun 11:00 - 16:00 , Mon-Fri 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

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Hew Locke: The Procession

The Procession invites visitors to ‘reflect on the cycles of history, and the ebb and flow of cultures, people and finance and power.’ In the installation Locke says he ‘makes links with the historical after-effects of the sugar business, and revisits his artistic journey so far, including for example work with statues, share certificates, cardboard, rising sea levels, Carnival and the military. Throughout, visitors will see figures who travel through space and time. Here, they carry historical and cultural baggage, from evidence of global financial and violent colonial control embellished on their clothes and banners, alongside powerful images of some of the disappearing colonial architecture of Locke’s childhood in Guyana. The installation takes inspiration from real events and histories but overall, the figures invite us to walk alongside them, into an enlarged vision of an imagined future.

Venue:
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
Date:
Feb 18th 2023 - Jun 11th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00
Price:
Free

Chris Killip, Retrospective

Baltic presents a full career retrospective by one of the UK’s most important and influential post-war documentary photographers, Chris Killip (1946–2020). The exhibition serves as the most comprehensive survey of the photographer’s work, with his images from the North East of England at the core. Grounded in sustained immersion into the communities he photographed, Chris Killip's photographs of those affected by economic shifts throughout the 1970s and 80s in the North of England remain without parallel. Whilst marking a moment of de-industrialisation, Killip's stark yet tender observation moves beyond the urgency to record such circumstances, to affirm the value of lives he grew close to – lives that, as he once described 'had history done to them'.

Venue:
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
Date:
May 20th 2023 - Oct 29th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00
Price:
Free, donations welcome

Take a Stitch 2 Durham

Creative textile artists and stitchers Take a Stitch 2 Durham present their 2023 exhibition inspired by 950 years of Durham Castle.

Venue:
Durham Castle, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RW
Date:
Apr 1st 2023 - Jun 30th 2023
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 07:30 - 18:00 , Sun 12:30 - 17:30
Price:
Included in admission

Larry Achiampong: Wayfinder

In May 2023, Baltic will present the first major solo exhibition by British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong. Working in film, sculpture, installation, sound, collage, music and performance, Achiampong draws on his shared and personal heritage to explore class, gender, the intersection between popular culture and the residues of colonisation. His work examines digital identities and constructions of ‘the self’, offering multiple perspectives that reveal the deeply entrenched inequalities in our society. The exhibition in our Level 3 gallery will include the commissioned feature-length film Wayfinder (2022) which follows a young girl’s intrepid journey across England, from Hadrian’s Wall in the North to Margate in the South, and the people and places she encounters. Set in a pandemic, Achiampong’s most ambitious film to date considers class and economic exclusion, belonging and displacement, cultural heritage and the meaning of home. Other works include the largest UK presentation of the artist’s multi-disciplinary Relic Traveller project (2017–ongoing) alongside sculpture, photographs, video and a gaming room.

Venue:
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
Date:
May 20th 2023 - Oct 29th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00
Price:
Free, donations welcome

Deep Horizons

Deep Horizons starts with the topic of excavation and presents sculpture, drawing, painting, installation, ceramics, photography and moving image from the last 50 years. Developed through a series of conversations, the exhibition explores layers of themes, including history and time, geology and land, memory and dreams and the politics of how we record and understand the past. The exhibition presents two very different collections of modern and contemporary art: the Middlesbrough Collection, cared for by MIMA, and the David and Indrė Roberts Collection, managed by The Roberts Institute of Art. Seen together, they present connected and contrasting artworks in new combinations to allow fresh readings. A number of the pieces displayed have not been seen in a public gallery.

Venue:
Mima, Centre Square, Middlesbrough, TS1 2AZ
Date:
Mar 10th 2023 - Jun 18th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun 12:00 - 16:00 , Tue-Sat 10:00 - 16:30
Price:
Free

Anne Redpath and her Circle

Anne Redpath was one of Scotland’s finest mid-20th century artists, whose formative years were spent in Edinburgh but mainly in the south of France where she painted alongside Scottish Colourists Samuel Peploe and Leslie Hunter. Returning to the Scottish Borders in 1934, a single mother of three children, and penniless, Redpath never wavered from pursuing a career as an artist and was elected as President of the Society of Scottish Women Artists in 1944. Moving to Edinburgh in 1949, Redpath became a standard bearer for the group now known as the ‘Edinburgh School’, all of whom, including Redpath, had been trained at Edinburgh College of Art. In this new exhibition, curated in partnership with the prestigious Fleming Collection, works by Redpath will hang alongside fellow ‘Edinburgh School’ artists to revive the achievements of the now largely forgotten group.

Venue:
Granary Gallery, Dewar’s Lane, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1HJ
Date:
May 20th 2023 - Oct 8th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

Innovation Platform

Innovation Platform will inspire visitors with the inventiveness and ingenuity in rail. This exhibition highlights emerging ideas and extraordinary achievements from across the rail industry. Showcasing the latest and greatest in rail innovation, Innovation Platform celebrates the creative by focusing not only on the technology itself, but by giving just as much attention to the context in which objects were developed. Through imaginative problem-solving and original thinking, the railways are progressing, armed with technologies designed to improve all aspects of the industry. The Innovation Platform will show the very best of these to those who will feel their benefit most greatly—you!

Venue:
Locomotion, (previously Shildon Locomotion Museum), Dale Road Industrial Estate, Dale Road, Shildon, County Durham, DL4 2RE
Date:
Jan 11th 2023 - Dec 24th 2024
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

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Fiona Crisp: Weighting Time

Weighting Time is a survey exhibition across two venues (Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art) exploring 30 years of work by renowned British artist, photographer and filmmaker Fiona Crisp. From the subterranean world of dark-matter laboratories to the midnight sun of the Norwegian mountains in summer, Crisp’s work explores how we might connect to spaces and ideas beyond our own lived experience. Her practice interrogates the ontology of the photographic image – a branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being. Across the exhibitions elements of her large-scale photography and film installations will be reconfigured and recontextualised to reveal new insights into our changing relationships to space, place and time.

Venue:
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, c/o National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL
Date:
May 6th 2023 - Sep 3rd 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Coal: Mining The Gemini Collection

The renowned Gemini Collection of mining art includes over 400 works by acclaimed mining artists. The thought-provoking artworks document coal miners’ lives above and below ground, revealing how mining artists use art as a powerful means of expression and illustrating the industry’s impact on the landscape and loved ones. Coal: Mining The Gemini Collection features some old favourites, as well as works of art that have not been displayed in The Mining Art Gallery before, and includes artworks by four female artists: Marjorie Arnfield, Janet Buckle, Tisa Hess and Gill Holloway.

Venue:
Mining Art Gallery, Bishop Auckland, County Durham
Date:
Mar 8th 2023 - May 28th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
£7 adult/£3 child

Missing Women and ‘With Dinah’

13 biblical portraits by Francisco de Zurbarán hang in Auckland Castle, depicting Jacob and his twelve sons. The women in their lives go unrecorded. Inspired by these Missing Women, five groups of young people from the Bishop Auckland area and five professional artists have created collaborative exhibitions of work in Auckland Castle and Bishop Auckland Town Hall – Missing Women and ‘With Dinah’. The exhibitions explore the idea of giving these women a voice and creating a platform for the young people’s self-expression.

Venue:
Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14 7NR
Date:
Mar 8th 2023 - May 28th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 11:00 - 15:00
Price:
Adult £14/Child £7

Great British Comics Exhibition

Ranging from the political comics of the Victorian era to the shenanigans of Dennis the Menace. This exhibition celebrates 150 years of Great British Comics. Visitors will be able to experience the printing process and create their own pages from a comic book during this exhibition.

Venue:
Preston Park Museum, Yarm Road, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 3RH
Date:
Apr 1st 2023 - Jun 4th 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
£5/£3

Myth Quest: Monsters and Mortals

In 2023, the Great North Museum: Hancock will present a mystical adventure of an exhibition. This will be a different type of show – an original fantasy adventure in which visitors, can be the hero. Part story, part game, visitors will take on the role of an adventurer, navigating the museum to achieve the ‘reward’ at the end of their quest.

Venue:
Great North Museum: Hancock, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4PT
Date:
Mar 25th 2023 - Sep 3rd 2023
Opening Times:
Mon-Fri 10:00 - 17:00 , Sun 11:00 - 16:00 , Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

To the Roar of the Crowd

Gladiator fights and chariot-races were popular Roman spectator sports that still capture our imagination today. Scenes and images of the games were often depicted on everyday Roman objects. A selection of these artefacts will be displayed in this exhibition which explores the different types of gladiator and their weapons and equipment, the experiences of charioteers and the rituals of the arena and the circus.

Venue:
Segedunum Roman Fort, 2 Buddle Street, Wallsend, NE28 6HR
Date:
Apr 8th 2023 - Oct 29th 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00 , Mon-Sat 10:00 - 15:00
Price:
Free

Confluence

Confluence brings three artist/makers together who work predominantly in the ceramics field, and introduces them to the world of glass. Sunderland’s forty year history in teaching both ceramics and glass side by side, provides the ideal platform for the two genres to combine through an investigation of techniques that can bridge the two. This is an exploratory project that promises some exciting results. Artists taking part are Andrew Livingstone, Bouke de Vries and Andrea Walsh.

Venue:
National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL
Date:
Mar 25th 2023 - Sep 10th 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

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Re-imagining Regina: Past and Present

Installation exploring contemporary artistic approaches to memory, memorial and ritual inspired by creative community conversations and enquiry led by Artist Rachel Eleanor Brook.

Venue:
Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum, Baring Street, South Shields, NE33 2BB
Date:
Mar 27th 2023 - Sep 30th 2023
Opening Times:
Mon-Fri 10:00 - 17:00 , Sun 13:00 - 16:00 , Sat 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

Refracted Panorama: molecular scenes from beyond the horizon

If a panorama depicts an all-encompassing view across a landscape, what does a refracted panorama offer? Graduating artists from Northumbria University’s BA and MFA programmes suggest ways of seeing through and beyond the horizon of the human; views from elsewhere, broken sightlines, experiences that move across time and space from embodied knowledges that alter our ways of being.

Venue:
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
Date:
May 24th 2023 - May 28th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00
Price:
Free

More with Less: Reimagining Architecture for a Changing World

An exhibition offering compelling new visions for architecture in the face of the climate emergency. For their inaugural exhibition, The Farrell Centre have asked four architectural practices and collaborators – Dress for the Weather, McCloy + Muchemwa, Office S&M and the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE) at Newcastle University – to create installations that challenge the ways we conceive, make and experience architecture in response to the seismic challenges of the climate emergency. Together, the four installations offer visions for architecture that are open, experimental, inclusive and, above all, optimistic, celebrating architecture’s potential to help us adapt in a rapidly changing world.

Venue:
Farrell Centre, The Sir Terry Farrell Building, Eldon Place, Newcastle, NE1 7RD
Date:
Apr 22nd 2023 - Sep 10th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Olga Prinku: Nature as My Thread

Olga Prinku is an embroidery artist based in North Yorkshire. She created the concept of flowers on tulle embroidery in 2016, publishing her first book on the method in 2021. Her artworks have also been displayed in various exhibitions and featured in media such as Channel 4’s Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas.

Venue:
The Biscuit Factory, 16 Stoddard Street, Newcastle, NE2 1AN
Date:
Apr 1st 2023 - Jul 30th 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Samson Tudor

Samson Tudor presents a series of original paintings, drawing and mixed media artworks that explore the current socio-political climate; investigating themes of uncertainty, division and melancholy. The imagery is underpinned by an interpretation of the concept ‘the world as stage’- using imagery and allegories of theatre that allude to notions of the Carnivalesque.

Venue:
The Biscuit Factory, 16 Stoddard Street, Newcastle, NE2 1AN
Date:
Apr 28th 2023 - Jun 4th 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Modern Makers

Modern Makers introduces the next generation of artists, makers and designers. Like so many before them, artists from The Northern School of Art, Teesside, have been inspired by The Bowes Museum’s unique collection. Through a series of ornamental objects and textiles, this show presents their 21st century responses to one of the most significant fine and decorative arts collections in the country. Shown alongside rarely seen, and re-sited pieces, this series of work introduces visitors to the production process behind an exhibited object; showcasing the stages from initial design to realised artwork through a collection of source drawings and film.

Venue:
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, DL12 8NP
Date:
Mar 11th 2023 - Jun 18th 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
£15.50/Over 60s £13.50/Students £6/Young people £5

Fragments

The pieces in Conrad Milne’s new exhibition don’t have focal points. Instead, they send your eye skittering across the visual signifiers of everyday life: the structures, the buildings, the signs, the symbols. He says: “The work is derived from personal experience, memory, encounter, and thought. The imagery that forms the inspiration for ‘Fragments’ is predominantly taken from the north-east and brings together many disparate and contrasting elements that I encounter, often over prolonged periods of time. Reporting on daily experiences, putting down what I see in unique visual terms.” The results are arresting and demand closer inspection: all surface, but thrumming with depth. It’s all taking place at the wonderful Republic Gallery in Blyth who continue to punch well above their weight when it comes to cutting edge contemporary stuff.

Venue:
rePUBlic Gallery, Access Through The King's Head Cafe, 85 Bridge Street, Blyth, NE24 3AE
Date:
May 7th 2023 - Jun 10th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Tue-Sat 08:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

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Foundation Club Residency 2023

The selected artists in 2022 were Annabelle Blackett, Rachel Campbell Hewson and Cameron Lings. Their commissions can be found on Ground Floor, Level 4 Viewing Terrace and Level 5 Viewing Platform.

Venue:
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
Date:
Mar 24th 2023 - Jul 17th 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00
Price:
Free

Theo Harper: The Liminal Guard

Theo Harper’s work comes from an interaction between clay, 3D scanning, movement tracking and digital fabrication techniques. It takes the form of physical and digital sculpture, installation, film and drawing. In this exhibition Harper shows a selection of his ‘sculptural guardians’ that have been discovered and evolved through his research.

Venue:
National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL
Date:
Mar 25th 2023 - Oct 14th 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Cory Arcangel

Arcangel’s work explores the potential and failures of old and new digital technologies, highlighting their obsolescence, humour, aesthetics and, at times, eerie influence on contemporary life. This exhibition consists of a single-channel screen recording of a live bot performance on Instagram. Screen captured via a smartphone on 8 December 2019 the recording scrolls through a year’s worth of Amazon’s Instagram feed with a live bot programmed by the artist liking each post in turn. The screen has been turned horizontally to give the viewer the impression of watching a film tracking from left to right as opposed to the conventional scrolling down motion of Instagram. The artist’s intention is to highlight the pervasiveness of advertising that encourages capitalist consumerism.

Venue:
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, c/o National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL
Date:
Apr 22nd 2023 - Jul 9th 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Design [over] Site

Design [over] Site is a body of research undertaken by three final-year March students at Newcastle University, Anushka Juneja, Zongshui Jiang, and John Roberts. It stems from the TF/TK initiative - ‘Translating Ferro / Transforming Knowledge' - an international collaboration studying the work of Brazilian-French architect and theorist Sergio Ferro. TF/TK responds to the global crisis within the building industry by looking at Ferro’s primary interest in the relationship between architectural design and the construction site. Their focus is to translate Ferro’s work which revolves around advancing the critical understanding of this relationship between the design and then the production and labour of building, to foster, responsible and just alternatives and develop an urgently needed field of Production Studies.

Venue:
Farrell Centre, The Sir Terry Farrell Building, Eldon Place, Newcastle, NE1 7RD
Date:
Apr 22nd 2023 - Aug 1st 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Alan Smith Page: A Retrospective

A retrospective exhibiton of the work of local artist Alan Smith Page. This retrospective show brings together over 20 original works and prints that wonderfully showcase Alan's much admired and distinctive style. This collection explores Alan's fascination with the everyday and how a sense of place can be captured on canvas.

Venue:
The Biscuit Factory, 16 Stoddard Street, Newcastle, NE2 1AN
Date:
May 27th 2023 - Jul 8th 2023
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Talking Coquetdale

Coquetdale is a sparsely populated rural area in North Northumberland but it has a rich heritage, a unique dialect, and teems with tales to tell. Since 2019 the OOT Museum project has been working with local people to create a permanent record of a former way of life before the memories are gone forever. To that end, oral history recordings, photographs, documents, artefacts, music and songs about the heritage of the area have all been collected that reflect people’s day-to-day lives as well as all the local traditions that include shows and fairs, rural music heritage, village green sports and more. The landscape also features heavily, for while it affords stunning views it can also be harsh and wild.

Venue:
Bailiffgate Museum, 14 Bailiffgate, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 1LX
Date:
May 24th 2023 - Jul 2nd 2023
Opening Times:
Sun and Tue-Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Adults £5/conc £4/children £1

The Untold Stories and the Tides of Change to Come

This display is curated by L-INK. L-INK are a group of young people who work with the Laing Art Gallery to make exhibitions, produce events, work with artists and create artworks. L-INK were invited to create an exhibition inspired by the Lindisfarne Gospels. L-INK 2022 participants are: Rea Gkarouli, Remy Harkensee, Andrew Parr, Abigail Durr, Sara Gkarouli, Naomi Harrison, Katie Carr, Sidney Parker-Fuller and Beth Driscoll, with support from Ella Nixon and Dale Glenister

Venue:
Laing Art Gallery, New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AG
Date:
Sep 1st 2022 - Jul 6th 2024
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 10:00 - 16:30
Price:
Free

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The Pre-Raphaelites: Women in the Picture

Women were the heartbeat of the Pre-Raphaelite movements. Through Tullie House’s superb collections they explore how women were the objects of the artists’ gaze often becoming a symbol for morality. Featuring favourite works by Gabriel Dante Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, Edward Burne-Jones, Phoebe Anna Traquair and Arthur Hughes, they look at the pioneering nature of the Pre Raphaelites, asking the question: when before had gender been so central to art?

Venue:
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 8TP
Date:
Sep 1st 2022 - Sep 1st 2025
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
£10/under 18s Free

Nature Inspires

A redisplay of the panelled room in Old Tullie House, showcasing Sheila Fell and Percy Kelly’s different approaches to the varied Cumbrian landscape, which inspired much of their work. alongside, contemporary artist Lynn Dennison incorporates natural motifs in her costume sculptures. Her pieces have recently been acquired through the Contemporary Art Society and are on display in the museum for the first time.

Venue:
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 8TP
Date:
Oct 7th 2022 - Sep 1st 2023
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
£10/under 18s Free

The Legend of King Arthur

Cumbria is a land steeped in myth, legend, and folklore; perhaps none more iconic than that of King Arthur. The stories of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round table, Guinevere, Merlin, The Lady of Shalott and Lancelot conjure up images of castles rising from the mist, sweeping landscapes and caves shrouded in mystery. After falling out of fashion in the late Middle Ages, the 19th century saw a renewed interest in the Arthurian legend. This exhibition explores the legend of King Arthur within the Victorian imagination, presenting national myths and legends through the eyes of Pre-Raphaelite artists. This ‘swoon of a show’ (as it was hailed by The Times, no less!), will feature paintings, drawings, tapestries and more by an incredible line up of Pre-Raphaelite artists, including:

Venue:
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 8TP
Date:
Feb 4th 2023 - Jun 3rd 2023
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
£10/under 18s Free

Looking to the Light

Experience over 200 captivating photographic images on display, ranging from landscape and wildlife to architecture, fashion and personal portraits. Brought to the museum by South Shields Photographic Society and South Shields Digital Group.

Venue:
South Shields Museum & Art Gallery, Ocean Road, South Shields, NE33 2JA
Date:
Jan 20th 2023 - Jun 3rd 2023
Opening Times:
Mon-Fri 10:00 - 17:00 , Sat 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

Another Place: Another Space

Another Place: Another Space is the innovation of artist, Ken Ellison Lockwood, and has been over a year in the making. Ken wanted to focus people’s creative talents on something positive as the country emerged from the height of the Covid19 pandemic. This exhibition celebrates the endurance and diversity of this unlikely group of artists who created it. LVAC is an artists’ cooperative who previously held studio spaces in the same East Durham art space. The artists range from new and emerging to the more established, including self-taught and academics. They come from all over the North East, with the greatest concentration living in ‘SR’ postcode areas. They use a variety of media to create multiple art genres.

Venue:
Arts Centre Washington, Biddick Lane, Fatfield, Washington, NE38 8AB
Date:
May 11th 2023 - Jun 17th 2023
Opening Times:
Mon 09:30 - 17:00 , Tue-Sat 09:30 - 20:00
Price:
Free

Gathering light: A Bronze Age Golden Sun

The Shropshire sun pendant, a gold bulla over 3000 years old, is one of the most significant pieces of Bronze Age metalwork ever discovered in Britain. The British Museum’s Spotlight Loan reveals the importance of the sun to the lives of our Bronze Age ancestors. Accompanying the sun pendant are other spectacular Bronze Age gold artefacts, from a gold lunula discovered in an Irish bog to a hoard of Cornish gold torcs and rings. The exhibition will also feature Bronze Age objects from the North East.

Venue:
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Mowbray Gardens, Burdon Road, Sunderland, SR1 1PP
Date:
Feb 25th 2023 - Jun 3rd 2023
Opening Times:
Sat 10:00 - 16:00 , Mon-Fri 09:30 - 17:00
Price:
Free

The Power of Image: Versailles and The Sun King

This exhibition explores Louis XIV’s relationship with Versailles through the Cabinet du Roi, the series of printed engravings produced to reflect the glory of his reign. In addition to a display of the rare original volumes, all produced in the second half of the seventeenth century, the exhibition features over 100 of the prints, reproduced and enlarged to show their rich details. Highlights of the exhibition include reproductions of the engravings illustrating the spectacular decoration of the ceiling of the Ambassadors’ Staircase and the stunning Grotto with its interior design composed of rocks, seashells and marble sculptures. As these features were demolished not long after they built, the 350-year-old engravings are the only visual record we have of them. Louis’s development of the Château and the astounding festivals he held in its gardens are also revealed in the exhibition.

Venue:
Ushaw: Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, Woodland Road, Durham, DH7 9RH
Date:
Apr 1st 2023 - Jun 25th 2023
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
Adults £8/children £5/under 5s Free

My South Tyneside Mini Display

This mini display features popular South Tyneside food and drink items from yesteryear. The items on display provide visitors with a taster of what's to expect in June, when the museum's larger exhibition SCRAN: Food & Drink on South Tyneside launches to the public.

Venue:
South Shields Museum & Art Gallery, Ocean Road, South Shields, NE33 2JA
Date:
Mar 1st 2023 - Jun 21st 2023
Opening Times:
Mon-Fri 10:00 - 17:00 , Sat 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

Essence of Nature: Pre-Raphaelites to British Impressionists

This significant exhibition traces radically different approaches to landscape painting, starting with the Pre-Raphaelites’ ideal of ‘truth to nature’, represented by such artists as William Holman Hunt, John Ruskin, William Dyce, John Brett and Anna Blunden. Rustic Naturalist painters, including George Clausen, Henry La Thangue, Edward Stott, and Isa Jobling, also painted on the spot. However, they turned away from hyper-real detail, aiming to capture the character and atmosphere of rural working landscapes. Light and colour characterise British Impressionist pictures by artists such as Wynford Dewhurst, Henry Scott Tuke, Ethel Walker and Philip Steer. This group of pictures also includes outstanding British Impressionist compositions by George Clausen and Henry La Thangue. Sketching in front of their subjects, they produced beautiful pictures of sunny hillsides, orchards and gardens, balancing scenes of relaxation with working farmland. Newlyn artists similarly took their easels to beaches and sunny uplands, and the exhibition includes lovely scenes by Laura Knight, Samuel John Lamorna Birch, and Elizabeth Forbes.

Venue:
Laing Art Gallery, New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AG
Date:
May 27th 2023 - Oct 14th 2023
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 10:00 - 16:30
Price:
£8/£7.20/under 12s Free

Creative Calligraphy: Inspired by the Lindisfarne Gospels

This exhibition has been created by a group of talented amateur calligraphers, who are part of two groups who meet weekly at Mortimer Community Centre in South Shields. The groups were given the opportunity to attend the Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery in September 2022, and then spent several weeks creating individual responses to the exhibition, based on the question: What do you take as Gospel? The exhibition features calligraphy, illuminated lettering, Celtic knotwork, handmade books, photographs and draft pieces, to show the work that went on behind the scenes.

Venue:
South Shields Museum & Art Gallery, Ocean Road, South Shields, NE33 2JA
Date:
Apr 22nd 2023 - Sep 30th 2023
Opening Times:
Mon-Fri 10:00 - 17:00 , Sat 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

Sun Cultures

The Sun is an important symbol for people across the world and is celebrated in many different faiths and cultures. Inspired by the British Museum Spotlight Loan, Gathering light: a Bronze Age golden sun, participants from ethnically diverse community groups in Sunderland have been working with artists to create artworks and performances inspired by the Sun and sharing their stories about the Sun’s significance in their lives. Their responses have been brought together in the Sun Cultures exhibition.

Venue:
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Mowbray Gardens, Burdon Road, Sunderland, SR1 1PP
Date:
May 20th 2023 - Jun 3rd 2023
Opening Times:
Sat 10:00 - 16:00 , Mon-Fri 09:30 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Pyrex100: Down the Decades

The third and final of the centenary celebration displays features Pyrex homewares, shown in the 20th Century Gallery. Reassuringly familiar Pyrex can evoke memories and conjure up thoughts of past meals enjoyed with family or friends. Hear some of those stories collected as part of the project through specially commissioned films.

Venue:
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Mowbray Gardens, Burdon Road, Sunderland, SR1 1PP
Date:
May 20th 2023 - Aug 31st 2023
Opening Times:
Sat 10:00 - 16:00 , Mon-Fri 09:30 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Where the Boat Comes In: Focus on the Harbour, Seaham

Seaham Docks, past & present. Paint, print, textiles, photography, ceramics, wood.

Venue:
EDAN Gallery, The Art Block, 74 Church Street, Seaham, County Durham, SR7 7HF
Date:
May 23rd 2023 - Jun 17th 2023
Opening Times:
Tue-Fri 11:00 - 15:00 , Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

Metamorphose

From bud to bloom. As spring unfolds outdoors, join Hartlepool Art Gallery for a mesmerising glimpse into botanical artworks from their collection.

Venue:
Hartlepool Art Gallery, The Tourist Information Centre, Church Square, Hartlepool, TS24 7EQ
Date:
Apr 1st 2023 - Jun 3rd 2023
Opening Times:
Tue-Sat 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Lionel Playford: Revering Ancient Woodland

Step into the ancient woodland of North East England, as captured by renowned artist Lionel Playford. Best known for his depictions of the unique landscapes of northern Britain, Lionel’s artistic residency at Castle Eden Dene thirty years ago began a fascination with the remaining wildwoods which once covered much of these isles.

Venue:
Hartlepool Art Gallery, The Tourist Information Centre, Church Square, Hartlepool, TS24 7EQ
Date:
Jan 28th 2023 - Jun 3rd 2023
Opening Times:
Tue-Sat 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

A Voyage Through Friendship

In a world which increasingly feels lonely, A Voyage Through Friendship explores what friendship means and looks like in 2023. It's an invitation to think about friendship's role in our own lives and society through art, painting, illustration and discussion. Preview: Friday 21 April, 6-8pm: Bring your own picnic and explore the exhibition.

Venue:
Shieldfield Art Works, Formerly The Holy Biscuit, Opposite The Biscuit Factory, 1 Clarence Street, Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1YH
Date:
Apr 22nd 2023 - Jun 22nd 2023
Opening Times:
Tue-Thu 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

Solid Matter: Effie Burns, Jill Tate & Katy Cole

Solid Matter explores the alchemic premise: as above so below. The exhibition draws together three artists, Effie Burns, Jill Tate and Katy Cole who look at earthly materials, the built dwelling and cosmic space, using glass, painting and drawing, suggesting a triadic way of relating to being in the world.

Venue:
Gallagher & Turner, 30 St Mary’s Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7PQ
Date:
May 12th 2023 - Jun 24th 2023
Opening Times:
Sat 10:00 - 17:00 , Tue-Fri 10:00 - 18:00
Price:
Free

Lockdown Lives 2

Five local artists have worked alongside diverse groups of younger and older people across Gateshead. Through dance, visual art, ceramics, writing and podcasting, together they reflected on the impact of Covid 19 on their lives and thought about what they would love to share with others. Some of our community never want to talk about the pandemic again. Others have found comfort making and talking, discovering their experiences and finding others share the same complex range of feelings, with every experience unique and shaping our lives now. Artists include Bridget Hamilton, Sharon Bailey, Lizzie Klotz, Megan Randall and Leanne Pearce.

Venue:
St Mary's Heritage Centre, St Mary's Church, Oakwellgate, Gateshead, NE8 2AU
Date:
May 9th 2023 - Jun 30th 2023
Opening Times:
Tue-Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free