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Dancing to the beat of the taiko drum
31st October 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
As the white fabric danced and swirled across the stage, illuminated in a UV light like some strange underwater creature or a wisp of smoke, I felt my eyes begin to close. The lilting sound of Nobuko Miyazake’s flute reached my ears and then there was a pause – before the walls and the floor of The Sage theatre began to throb in time with the taiko drums that filed...
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Turner Prize 2011 at BALTIC
31st October 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
From bath bombs to dog shit bins ... the Turner Prize 2011 opened to crowds at BALTIC last week
Turner Prize 2011 at BALTIC
Thankfully the North wind did not blow quite as hard as it can last Friday night as crowds of visitors queued up outside BALTIC in Gateshead for a chance to see this year's Turner Prize nominees. The BALTIC building reached capacity at around 7pm... -
Eclectic Mix – For One Week Only
19th April 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The weather is promising blue skies and gardens full of blossoms. On the streets of Newcastle the heavy leather boots of winter are giving way to colourful pumps and even the odd t-shirt. The colour is returning to our streets once again and no where is more colourful this week than the Holy Biscuit Gallery, for here women like Judith Frankland, the Blitz Kid fashion designer who appeared in David...
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There’s Beauty in Dog Shit Bins and Humbrol Paint – George Shaw at The Baltic
31st March 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
They look like photographs. Images of empty streets in the rain, woodlands strewn with broken branches, garage doors daubed with delicate graffiti and postboxes, their scarlet red coats standing out against the flat greys and greens of the West Midlands landscapes they inhabit.
George Shaw’s exhibition, The Sly and Unseen Day, is showing at The Baltic until the 15th of May and it depicts scenes from the artist’s childhood home on... -
The Complete Prints – Albert Irvin RA
8th March 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Spring has sprung in Newcastle. The University Gallery is bursting with vibrant colours, shapes, movement and life, all barely contained beneath the spotless glass paneled frames that line the white walls. The complete works of Albert Irvin RA are being shown as a major retrospective of the artist's printmaking output and they sing with life and passion. Citrus orange swirls sit alongside deep violet slashes in the screen print and...
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Love Me – Zed Nelson at The Side Gallery
9th February 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
As our role models become even younger and more idealised, we are so more afraid of ageing that the quest for youthful preservation generates an obsession with our bodies. As we align our sense of self-worth with self-image, the psychological and emotional consequences are tortuous.
Zed Nelson
The Side Gallery in Newcastle was the perfect North East location for Zed Nelson's 'Love Me' exhibition. Signs on the gallery wall warned that some... -
Don’t Call Me Urban! The Time of Grime
5th November 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Simon Wheatley at The Side Gallery "DON'T CALL ME URBAN! The Time of Grime' is a photographic record compiled over a 12 year period, focussing on the youth of London's inner-city at a vital time, taking as its prism the genre of grime - the most significant and controversial musical expression to emerge from the UK since punk. Grime was essentially the UK's own authentic response to hip hop,...
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Silence is Golden – Cornelia Parker at The Baltic
29th June 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
CORNELIA PARKER
Doubtful Sound19 JUNE - 19 SEPTEMBER 2010As a Yorkshire girl I know a thing or two about marching bands. I sang with them in my youth as an enthusiastic member of The Huddersfield Choral Society Youth Choir. The strains of 'Jerusalem' at full pelt accompanied by The Brighouse and Rastrick Band must have echoed up, down and across the slopes of the Pennines all those years ago, thanks to... -
Celia Paul – Mothers, Daughters and Sisters
21st June 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
There is a real presence to Celia Paul's exhibition: Mothers, Daughters and Sisters.Visitors to the University Gallery at Northumbria stood back from the water-colour paintings which hung at the entrance as if to give the framed female figures space to breathe. Light played upon the creases and layers of fabric in each of Paul's works. The white dress worn by her mother in My Mother seemed to glow in places... -
Chris Steele-Perkins’ ‘England My England’ opens at Northumbria University
16th April 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
A big question occurred to me tonight as I looked around Chris Steele - Perkins' new exhibition, England My England. The question was so big, in fact, that it was the very first thing I wrote down in my notebook, even bypassing writing my name and reward amount for return inside the front cover (the joys of a brand new Moleskine). The question was, 'How does he get where he gets?'...
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Katherine Wildman
Katherine Wildman is a Yorkshire lass who recently returned to the UK after two sticky years spent living in Singapore where learned how to distinguish her apertures from her shutter speeds, how to 'show not tell', to know a purple chakra when she sees one and do a downward dog with her heels on the mat. Now based in Newcastle upon Tyne she plans to investigate Northern arts scene with her trusty Nikon in one hand and a pad and paper in the other.
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