Paul Harvey: Burning Up Time

This project consists of a painting representing every year from 1960, the year Paul was born, to 2000, each a snapshot of the people, the objects, the events, the memories. There is a strong autobiographical element to the work, yet also universal components that will reach out to anyone who experienced or has a relationship with these decades.

Venue:

Newcastle Arts Centre, 67 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SG

Date:

Oct 5th 2024 - Nov 9th 2024

Opening Times:

Sat 00:00 - 17:00 , Mon-Sat 09:30 - 17:00

Price:

Free

Framing Fashion: Art and Inspiration from a Private Collection of Vivienne Westwood

Fashion and art collide in a golden decade of design later this year, in this exciting new exhibition featuring some of Vivienne Westwood’s most recognisable creations from the mid 80s to the mid 90s. Framing Fashion: Art and Inspiration from a Private Collection of Vivienne Westwood will feature a new selection of the late iconic designer’s ensembles from the private collection of Peter Smithson, who has spent nearly 30 years adding to his compilation of her work. This captivating show will explore the inspiration Westwood took from paintings, sitters in portraits and the materials and techniques used by artists.

Venue:

The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, DL12 8NP

Date:

Oct 19th 2024 - Mar 2nd 2025

Opening Times:

Daily 10:00 - 17:00

Price:

£17.50/under 18s 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

Hannah Perry: Manual Labour

A major body of new work that considers labour, motherhood and class. British artist Hannah Perry works across installation, sculpture, film and printmaking. Perry continuously generates and manipulates materials to develop a sprawling network of references. The result is an often candid, and personal exploration of mental and emotional health in our contemporary, hyper-networked society.

Venue:

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA

Date:

Jun 22nd 2024 - Mar 16th 2025

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00

Price:

Free

Len Tabner: Elements of Darkness

This new exhibition brings together a selection of Len Tabner’s drawings and paintings of Boulby Potash Mine on the North Yorkshire coast – the deepest mine in Britain. Len explored the unfamiliar underground world of the miner in the early 1980s, drawing and painting in situ in the mine.

Venue:

Mining Art Gallery, Bishop Auckland, County Durham

Date:

Nov 1st 2023 - Oct 27th 2024

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00

Price:

£6/£3 child

Joanne Coates: Middle of Somewhere

Joanne Coates is a working-class visual artist working in the medium of photography who 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. Coates uses photography to question the concepts of power, identity, wealth, and poverty, by exploring the social histories of land, gender, and class to narrate stories that have long been forgotten – or simply never told.

Venue:

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA

Date:

May 11th 2024 - Nov 17th 2024

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00

Price:

Free

Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works

The first major retrospective exhibition of feminist, activist, social documentary photographer Franki Raffles (1955–1994). Raffles documented the lives of women in the UK, predominantly in Scotland, and during travels with her family in the 1980s across the Soviet Union (Russia, Georgia and Ukraine), China, Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Israel and Palestine. In Edinburgh she worked as a freelance photographer with schools and women’s groups. Her photography focused attention on women’s lives and their work, addressing issues such as inequality, gendered violence, disability, activism and sisterhood.

Venue:

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA

Date:

May 11th 2024 - Mar 16th 2025

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00

Price:

Free

Hewing Out the Image by David Venables

Venue:

Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, 13 West Terrace, Redcar, TS10 1DS

Date:

Oct 14th 2024 - Nov 2nd 2024

Opening Times:

Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00

Price:

Free

Lakes, Lords & Queens by Bobby Benjamin

Venue:

Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, 13 West Terrace, Redcar, TS10 1DS

Date:

Oct 14th 2024 - Nov 2nd 2024

Opening Times:

Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00

Price:

Free

Coalface Drawers: 90 Years of the Pitmen Painters

In October 1934, Robert Lyon arrived in Ashington for the first time to deliver a class on Art Appreciation to a group of local mine workers. What began as a series of slideshow lectures soon developed into a career defining project for Lyon and a lifelong passion for the soon-to-be ‘Ashington Art Group’. Reuniting artworks and artefacts back together where it all began in Ashington, ‘Coalface Drawers’ offers an exciting opportunity to revisit the beginnings of the Pitmen Painters project and to celebrate their innovation and vision anew, nine decades on.

Venue:

Woodhorn Museum , Queen Elizabeth 2nd Country Park, Ashington, Northumberland, NE63 9YF

Date:

Oct 5th 2024 - Jan 5th 2025

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 16:00

Price:

£9.50/£8.50/under 18s Free

Ted Holloway: A Bevin Boy Remembered

Eighty years ago, during the Second World War, artist Ted Holloway was conscripted to work in the coal mines as a Bevin Boy. This exhibition brings together a selection of his paintings and drawings spanning the course of his life and journey from miner to art teacher and professional artist, and reveals the enduring influence of mining on his work as an artist.

Venue:

Mining Art Gallery, Bishop Auckland, County Durham

Date:

Oct 19th 2024 - Jun 8th 2025

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00

Price:

£6/conc £4/child £3

Foundation Club Artist Commission

In 2023, two artists, Axel and Blossom were commissioned to make new work to display at Baltic as part of their Foundation Club Residencies. Foundation Club has been designed to support young people from the North East aged 16-25 to access, engage with, learn from and be mentored by creative and cultural professionals, to progress their artistic talent and realise their creative potential. Blossom’s lightbox design can be found on the Ground Floor. Axel’s photographs can be found on Level 2.

Venue:

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA

Date:

Jul 1st 2024 - Nov 17th 2024

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00

Price:

Free

Leap then Look | Play, Interact, Explore

The exhibition explores play, collaboration and materials. Featuring large, tactile sculptural objects and colourful assemblages, everything in the space is interactive. Lively, exciting and curiosity-filled, Play Interact Explore is designed to support and encourage taking part in different ways to create sculptures, take photographs, move things around, rock, roll, stack and play.

Venue:

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA

Date:

Oct 12th 2024 - Apr 27th 2025

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00

Price:

Free

Happy Mart

Baltic’s latest pop-up Happy Mart is a collaboration between textile artist Bianco Perry and ceramicist Alex Sickling. Located on Ground Floor opposite Baltic Shop, Happy Mart brings together a playful mix of gifts and handmade decorative pieces to buy and make your home a little happier. Their work, all of it available to purchase, is inspired by finding humour in the everyday, being out in nature, hugging the dog and eating a Greggs together. 

Venue:

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA

Date:

Oct 12th 2024 - Mar 2nd 2025

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00

Price:

Free

Yoko Ono: IMAGINE PEACE

During a time of significant and destabilising conflict across the world affecting communities near and far, Baltic will re-stage Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE  artwork on its building exterior with the artist’s blessing. Ono’s iconic IMAGINE PEACE billboard artwork has been seen across the globe as part of multiple street campaigns and gallery exhibitions. It was originally seen on Baltic’s exterior wall in 2008 as part of Baltic’s Yoko Ono exhibition Between the Sky and My Head. This 2024 installation of the banner coincides with International Day of Peace on Saturday 21 September, and encourages everyone -as Ono expresses- to “think peace, spread peace and act peace”.

Venue:

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA

Date:

Sep 19th 2024 - Dec 29th 2024

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00

Price:

Free

Helen Schell: The Human Spaceship – Sea of the Edge

Coinciding with World Space Week, this solo exhibition by British American artist, Helen Schell, is inspired by the challenges of twenty-first century human space exploration. The artworks depict the concept of movement in space conditions, whilst we balance on the edge of our human abilities, both mental and physical. Schell addresses the mechanisms of human physiology and psychology, employing bold geometric patterns and colour manipulation to ask why matter moves and why humans are compelled to migrate to hostile ‘alien’ worlds when Earth is our natural habitat. The artist employs creativity to unite the arts and sciences, proposing resolutions to these questions. This is further explored in her recently published research paper, The Human Spaceship – Off Balance.

Venue:

Vane, 65 High St, Gateshead, NE8 2AP

Date:

Oct 10th 2024 - Oct 26th 2024

Opening Times:

Wed-Sat 12:00 - 17:00

Price:

Free

Brasília of the North

An exhibition exploring the ideas, personalities and broader social, cultural and political climate that underpinned the aspirations to transform Newcastle into a modernist city. During the 1960s, policymakers, planners and architects had the highest aspirations for Newcastle and the North East, imagining it being transformed into the ‘Brasília of the North’ – a shining north European equivalent to the futuristic new Brazilian capital city then emerging from the Cerrado savanna. This exhibition, which forms part of the Concrete Dreams project, explores the ideas, personalities and broader social, cultural and political climate that shaped these aspirations. It brings together a range of models, drawings, photographs, films, archival materials and other artefacts, relating to Tyneside’s 1960s and 1970s transformations.

Venue:

Farrell Centre, The Sir Terry Farrell Building, Eldon Place, Newcastle, NE1 7RD

Date:

Sep 19th 2024 - Jun 1st 2025

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 17:00

Price:

Free

Adam York Gregory & Gillian Jane Lees: FOUNDATION

Would you like some free art? Maybe you’d prefer some free bricks? What if they were the same thing? Between Friday 25 and Tuesday 29 October, Gillian and Adam will be making sculptures out of 4,000 bricks as part of their project, FOUNDATION. They will be monuments to buildings, to public art in public spaces, to bricklayers and architects, to demolition and re-building. And they want to give the bricks away.

Venue:

Arc, Dovecot Street, Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 1LL

Date:

Oct 25th 2024 - Oct 29th 2024

Opening Times:

Mon 12:00 - 16:00 , Wed-Sat 10:00 - 20:00 , Tue 10:00 - 16:00

Price:

Free

Festival of Light

A stunning light projection and sparkling lighting installations are set to brighten the dark nights in Sunderland this autumn as the annual Festival of Light returns! A dazzling laser garden, a giant glitter ball and stunning new light projections are among the sparkling lighting displays to look forward to.

Venue:

Mowbray Park, Burdon Road, Sunderland, SR2 7DN

Date:

Oct 25th 2024 - Nov 24th 2024

Opening Times:

25th Oct - 24th Nov 2024 TBC

Price:

£5.75adv

Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs

MIMA presents an exhibition dedicated to artist Winifred Nicholson’s relationship with the tradition of rag rug making. Best known for her luminous flower paintings, Nicholson (1893-1981) was an influential figure in British 20th century art. Presenting 28 rag rugs, many of which have never been shown in public, this exhibition shines a light on an unknown aspect of her work.

Venue:

Mima, Centre Square, Middlesbrough, TS1 2AZ

Date:

Oct 25th 2024 - Mar 23rd 2025

Opening Times:

Sun 12:00 - 16:00 , Tue-Sat 10:00 - 16:30

Price:

Free

Portraits with Purpose: Continuing Bonds

In collaboration with St Oswald’s Hospice, artist Leanne Pearce created 12 poignant portraits, working with bereaved and pre-bereaved families who have accessed the hospice’s bereavement support and/or other care services. The collection celebrates the lives of loved ones, provides a positive, creative focus for grieving or pre-bereaved families, and supports them in their ‘continuing bonds’ process. The exhibition opens conversations about death, dying and grief while challenging some perceptions around ‘hospice care’.

Venue:

Newcastle Cathedral, Newcastle, NE1 1DF

Date:

Oct 26th 2024 - Nov 26th 2024

Opening Times:

Mon-Fri 08:00 - 18:00 , Sat-Sun 08:00 - 17:00

Price:

Free

Portraits with Purpose: Continuing Bonds

In collaboration with St Oswald’s Hospice, artist Leanne Pearce created 12 poignant portraits, working with bereaved and pre-bereaved families who have accessed the hospice’s bereavement support and/or other care services. The collection celebrates the lives of loved ones, provides a positive, creative focus for grieving or pre-bereaved families, and supports them in their ‘continuing bonds’ process. The exhibition opens conversations about death, dying and grief while challenging some perceptions around ‘hospice care’.

Venue:

Newcastle Cathedral, Newcastle, NE1 1DF

Date:

Oct 26th 2024 - Nov 26th 2024

Opening Times:

Mon-Fri 08:00 - 18:00 , Sat-Sun 08:00 - 17:00

Price:

Free

A Sleave Unravelled: Work by Textile Artist Sue Bowhay Pringle

The exhibition takes its title from one of Shakespeare's many references to sleep as restorative rest, peace, innocence or death. Drawing inspiration from the landscapes and natural forms of Northumberland and Umbria, Italy, as well as architectural and literary references, the work explores the themes of change, memory, adjustment, scarring and repair.

Venue:

Bailiffgate Museum, 14 Bailiffgate, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 1LX

Date:

Oct 29th 2024 - Feb 2nd 2025

Opening Times:

Sun and Tue-Sat 10:00 - 16:00

Price:

Adults £5/conc £4/children £1

The Newcastle Project

The Newcastle Project is a photography series and exhibition rooted in DIY culture and punk ethos. David Hall’s (Nostalgia Kid) photography series promotes the importance of documenting and archiving our communities and subcultures. The Newcastle Project is a celebration of our community and some of the people and places that make it at this moment in time.

Venue:

The NewBridge Project, Shieldfield Centre 4 - 8, Clarence Walk, off Stoddart St, Newcastle, NE2 1AL

Date:

Nov 1st 2024 - Nov 9th 2024

Opening Times:

Daily 12:00 - 17:00

Price:

Free

Festival of Light

This exhibition celebrates secular and religious festivals of light, ancient and modern that characterise the winter period.

Venue:

EDAN Gallery, The Art Block, 74 Church Street, Seaham, County Durham, SR7 7HF

Date:

Nov 5th 2024 - Dec 22nd 2024

Opening Times:

Tue-Fri 11:00 - 15:00 , Sat 10:00 - 16:00

Price:

Free

You Look Like You by Michael Sreenan

Venue:

Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, 13 West Terrace, Redcar, TS10 1DS

Date:

Nov 8th 2024 - Dec 13th 2024

Opening Times:

Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00

Price:

Free

Precarious by Samba

Venue:

Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, 13 West Terrace, Redcar, TS10 1DS

Date:

Nov 8th 2024 - Dec 13th 2024

Opening Times:

Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00

Price:

Free

Redcar Affordable Art Fair

Venue:

Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, 13 West Terrace, Redcar, TS10 1DS

Date:

Nov 8th 2024 - Dec 13th 2024

Opening Times:

Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00

Price:

Free

LEGEPS N∃ I MOƧÅƧ | Owen Piper & Martin Poyner

Owen Piper and Martin Poyner drag portraiture, video, and sculpture together as they wrestle with the shame and responsibility of Art. Their sharp, messy, unsettling new works don’t simply question what we see, or what an image conveys, but confront a deep-rooted need to assign meaning. Sifting for sense, a quiet hope flickers at the edges as familiar structures begin to dissolve.

Venue:

36 Lime Street, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ

Date:

Nov 8th 2024 - Nov 17th 2024

Opening Times:

Sat-Sun 10:30 - 19:30 , Mon-Fri 12:00 - 14:00 , Mon-Fri 17:00 - 20:00

Price:

Free

Angels of the North

An exploration of angels in Ushaw’s collections through a display of art and theology objects and archives from our permanent holdings.

Venue:

Ushaw: Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, Woodland Road, Durham, DH7 9RH

Date:

Nov 9th 2024 - Jan 26th 2025

Opening Times:

Mon-Sat 11:00 - 16:00

Price:

Adults £10 / Children £6 / under 5s free / annual memberships available

Romey Chaffer: Tipping Points

A selling exhibition of new work by well-known Durham- based artist Romey Chaffer exploring themes of ecology and landscape.

Venue:

Ushaw: Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, Woodland Road, Durham, DH7 9RH

Date:

Nov 9th 2024 - Jan 26th 2025

Opening Times:

Mon-Sat 11:00 - 16:00

Price:

Adults £10 / Children £6 / under 5s free / annual memberships available

Houghton Art Club: Group Show

A group exhibition of new work by members of Houghton Art Club. The selling exhibition includes oils, drawings and watercolours.

Venue:

Ushaw: Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, Woodland Road, Durham, DH7 9RH

Date:

Nov 9th 2024 - Jan 26th 2025

Opening Times:

Mon-Sat 11:00 - 16:00

Price:

Adults £10 / Children £6 / under 5s free / annual memberships available

Paxton House: Crossing Borders

Paxton House: Crossing Borders reveals how the history of this magnificent Georgian house and its beautiful setting entwines the people of Berwick and the Borderlands. It tells the story of the Home family who built and owned Paxton House for over 250 years, through splendid costume, furniture, paintings and family histories. The exhibition is a new opportunity to discover the secrets and stories of this fascinating home, situated in Scotland, but at the same time Berwick’s ‘hidden gem,’ just over the border.

Venue:

Granary Gallery, Dewar’s Lane, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1HJ

Date:

Nov 9th 2024 - Feb 23rd 2025

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00

Price:

Free

Geodesic Sounds

Experience a unique soundscape of the North York Moors by award-winning ecological sound artist, composer, bassist, and music technician David de la Haye. The soundscape is inspired by the iconic radar domes of RAF Fylingdales, which dominated the landscape of the North York Moors. The geodesic domes were a space age design innovation by the architect Buckminster Fuller. They surrounded the radar dishes at RAF Fylingdales, which tracked satellites in Earth orbit and watched for signs of nuclear attack.

Venue:

Mima, Centre Square, Middlesbrough, TS1 2AZ

Date:

Nov 12th 2024 - Nov 16th 2024

Opening Times:

Sun 12:00 - 16:00 , Tue-Sat 10:00 - 16:30

Price:

Free

In League with Devils

With a keen eye for historic techniques and materials, the London-based American artist Michael Petry, casts mysterious objects and ritual appurtenance from silver, gold and bronze. For his installation At the Foot of the Gods, Petry cast dozens of bronze toes, each from someone in the arts or an athlete. The installation mimics the real-world problem of sculptures losing a nose, toe, or thumb, the most common accidental changes to the appearance of Classical works.

Venue:

Vane, 65 High St, Gateshead, NE8 2AP

Date:

Nov 14th 2024 - Dec 7th 2024

Opening Times:

Wed-Sat 12:00 - 17:00

Price:

Free

Artists Of Newcastle Arts Centre 24

This exhibition celebrates the creative practice of those who work and spend time in Newcastle Arts Centre buildings.

Venue:

Newcastle Arts Centre, 67 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SG

Date:

Nov 16th 2024 - Jan 1st 2025

Opening Times:

Sat 00:00 - 17:00 , Mon-Sat 09:30 - 17:00

Price:

Free

Angel Wings and Winter Things: A Festive Trail

A brand new indoor festive art trail on the theme of angels. New artworks and installations produced by Ushaw studio artists, local businesses, societies, charities, and community groups will be on display throughout the buildings and chapels, transforming spaces and providing visitors with a host of unique photo opportunities.

Venue:

Ushaw: Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, Woodland Road, Durham, DH7 9RH

Date:

Nov 23rd 2024 - Dec 22nd 2024

Opening Times:

Mon-Sat 11:00 - 16:00

Price:

Adults £10 / Children £6 / under 5s free / annual memberships available

The Skin We Live In: Portraits from the NGCA Collection

The inaugural exhibition of artwork from Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art’s (NGCA) collection brought together in a group show exploring contemporary portraiture through photography, painting, sculpture, film, and printmaking. The exhibition features artwork by 28 contemporary artists and photographers who turn the tables on historic associations and practices of portraiture to go beyond ‘skin deep’ delving further into our shared human condition.

Venue:

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, c/o National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL

Date:

Nov 23rd 2024 - Mar 2nd 2025

Opening Times:

Daily 10:00 - 17:00

Price:

Free

Harry Griffin: My name is Harry, these are my pictures and they are nice

The first gallery exhibition of British photographer Harry Griffin on display across NGCA Collection Space and Pop Recs (172-175 High St W, Sunniside, Sunderland, SR1 1UP). The exhibition comprises hundreds of photographs from Harry’s photographic archive providing a unique insight into Britain’s vibrant comedy circuit, family and friendships, moments of joy, celebration and boredom all shot through with wit, humour and candid moments of life on tour.

Venue:

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, c/o National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL

Date:

Nov 23rd 2024 - Mar 2nd 2025

Opening Times:

Daily 10:00 - 17:00

Price:

Free

Sheila Fell: Cumberland on Canvas

Sheila Fell RA FRSA (1931 – 1979) was one of Cumbria and, indeed, the 20th century’s most significant artists. Championed by Lowry, her expressionist landscapes showed her native Cumberland beyond the pastoral and picturesque. Though she lived her adult life in London, it was her birthplace that served as inspiration throughout her career. Sheila Fell: Cumberland on Canvas will be the first major retrospective of Fell’s work in over thirty years.

Venue:

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 8TP

Date:

Nov 23rd 2024 - Mar 16th 2025

Opening Times:

Mon-Sat 10:00 - 16:00

Price:

Adult admission (valid for 12 months) £15/Under 18s Free

Made @ 36 | Studio Members Group Exhibition

A celebration of making within 36 Lime Street. This November the gallery will be transformed into a living space/room set, inhabited by objects designed, made, or recreated by members of Lime Street. The exhibition celebrates the exciting breadth of creativity of their studio holders.

Venue:

36 Lime Street, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ

Date:

Nov 23rd 2024 - Nov 24th 2024

Opening Times:

Sat-Sun 10:30 - 19:30 , Mon-Fri 12:00 - 14:00 , Mon-Fri 17:00 - 20:00

Price:

Free

Santa’s Helpers: Being Santa (Exhibition by Matthew Askey)

A unique collection of portraits of people who've dressed up as Santa Claus, inspired by the enduring legacy of St Nicholas, the patron saint of Newcastle Cathedral. In 2022, Matthew Askey was artist-in-residence at ‘SantaCon London’, where he joined hundreds of others clad in Santa suits, parading the streets. From this ‘non-profit, non-political, and non-sensical Christmas parade’, Askey created these evocative works, reflecting on the timeless appeal of St Nicholas and reminding us of the power of generosity, kindness and community.

Venue:

Newcastle Cathedral, Newcastle, NE1 1DF

Date:

Nov 29th 2024 - Jan 6th 2025

Opening Times:

Mon-Fri 08:00 - 18:00 , Sat-Sun 08:00 - 17:00

Price:

Free

Gingerbread Street

A tiny street made entirely from gingerbread will go on display at The Biscuit Factory this December. The edible exhibition is the first of its kind in North-East England and is part of local charity Oasis Community Housing’s Christmas Appeal. Many biscuity buildings will create the Gingerbread Street exhibition, which aims to raise awareness of homelessness and the community that is needed to make people feel they have a home. All of the confectionery constructions have been built by teams from local businesses and schools. Regrettably, nibbling the exhibit is not allowed!

Venue:

The Biscuit Factory, 16 Stoddard Street, Newcastle, NE2 1AN

Date:

Dec 3rd 2024 - Dec 27th 2024

Opening Times:

Daily 10:00 - 17:00

Price:

Free

Eat filaments for breakfast and shine all day | Ella Burgess, Oisin Stanley-Stephenson & Benjamin Belinska

A theatrical exhibition blurring fantastical fiction with mundane reality. An installation to help understand the times we live in through the objects we keep and dispose of.

Venue:

36 Lime Street, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ

Date:

Dec 6th 2024 - Dec 15th 2024

Opening Times:

Sat-Sun 10:30 - 19:30 , Mon-Fri 12:00 - 14:00 , Mon-Fri 17:00 - 20:00

Price:

Free

Mani Kambo

Mani Kambo is a multidisciplinary Newcastle-based artist who explores the inner spirit by drawing on her own personal totemic symbols, influenced by her upbringing in a Sikh household filled with superstition, prayer, and religious ceremony. Textile, fabric dying, and printmaking is rooted in Kambo’s family history within the caste system. She focuses on objects, routines and rituals distilled textile, fabric dyeing, and printmaking is rooted in Mani Kambo’s family history within the caste system. She focuses on objects, routines and rituals distilled both from the everyday and mythology, her work recording movement and documenting performative actions: the hand that creates, fire that reveals, water which purifies and eyes that perceive. Through layering and editing images together she collages narratives and weaves dreamscapes. These visuals are repeated throughout her work like markers linking to notions of spirituality and belief in reincarnation.

Venue:

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA

Date:

Dec 7th 2024 - Jun 1st 2025

Opening Times:

Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00

Price:

Free

Losing Track, Holding Traces

An exhibition of work by three artists who connect with the landscape and each other through walking, drawing and making. Jane Gower creates ephemeral sculptures made in the landscape from natural materials found on her journeys, Omi Pharncote works in felt, often incorporating textures and found materials in her textile works and Jenny Purrett’s drawings capture the vitality of nature, including tree portraits and delicate drawings using pigment. This exhibition explores how their work has developed over the course of a year through their shared experiences of places and collaborations with nature.

Venue:

Gateshead Central Library, Prince Consort Road, Gateshead, NE8 4LN

Date:

Jan 18th 2025 - Mar 29th 2025

Opening Times:

Sat 09:00 - 13:00 , Tue-Wed and Fri 09:00 - 17:00 , Mon and Thu 09:00 - 19:00

Price:

Free