Newcastle Visit

Gavin Robson introducing HN CAP to the Hatton Gallery

Tour of the studios. Newcastle Uni

Paul Diamond in the Workplace

Newcastle Uni; Long Gallery featuring work by Paul Diamond.

Intro talk at the Workplace Gallery Gateshead

Newcastle Uni printmaking studio

Sarah with tea at Newcastle Uni

Intro talk at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead

Ben Fallon at the Workplace Gallery

The images above are from our recent day trip to Newcastle with our colleagues from the HND Vis Com Illustration course. First stop was the Fine Art School at Newcastle University where we were greeted with light refreshments and an excellent introduction to the courses and facilities by admissions tutor Gavin Robson.

After a quick lunch the next stop was the Workplace Gallery which has re-located to new premises in a former post office. The gallery can be found in the shadow of the iconic Gateshead multi storey car park designed by Owen Luder Partnership 1964 and was made famous in the classic 1970’s british gangster flick ‘Get Carter ‘ featuring Michael Caine. Workplace is a commercial gallery run by artists and it represents a portfolio of emerging and established artists through the gallery programme, curatorial projects and art fairs. The current show FEEDBACKER by Peter J. Evans features drawing, sculpture and performance over 3 floors and is very much worth a visit before it ends on 20th Dec 2008.

On then to the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art for an introduction to the institution and the George Maciunas Fluxus exhibition which brings together the largest collection of Fluxus work ever exhibited in the UK. The extensive exhibition continues till 15th Feb 2009 and is supported by a range of online resources available through the Baltic Archive.

Finally we herded back on the bus for a moonlit and frankly baltic pit stop at the Angel of the North our final destination on the itinerary before our return to Edinburgh.

ContemporaryArtETC.com at Edinburgh’s Telford College would like to thank everyone who contributed to a great day out of the studio Mike from Hunters Coaches of Loanhead who’s good humour and patience was very much appreciated.

For more information regarding the places we visited click on the links above or visit the recently added Art e-Map of Newcastle in the links panel.

Fin.

All round it was a fantastic time and Documenta 12 not living up to expectation we would all recommend the trip. The only regret is that we cannot manage to get to Venice for the Biennale.

Before moving on to subjects new we will leave you with a few additional photos.

A Walk in the Park

As any parents among you will know, very small children do not like to follow the rules of vacation and needless to say some of us were up very early this morning. This allowed for leisurely breakfasts before the serious business of Art took hold. It must be noted that there is no shortage of information or free maps available to help the avid viewer negotiate their way around what is a fairly compact city centre, which contains the significant majority of the art works. So off to work with the odd pit stop for coffee, book buying and play parks. As you will see Ben was clearly hogging the best games in the play park. There is a lot of work to see and the specially designed map allows the viewer to locate not only works commissioned for the 2007 event but also several works still in existence from previous projects.

for information about each project and a the artist biography click on the artists name

Manfred Pernice:

Thomas Schütte:

Andreas Siekmann:

Iza Ganzken:

Martha Rosler:

Planes Trains and Automobiles:

 As the title suggests all manner of transport was engaged during our epic 11hr journey  via Amsterdam the most interesting of which was the unexpected Auto Bus journey  due to rail maintenance. Although caught unawares and slightly panicked all coped admirable particularly the pigeon Deutsche speakers who prevented us taking a 200 mile detour.  Top marks go to the youngest member of the group who despite it all remained in good cheer throughout. Finally we made it to our respective accommodation in central Munster, home for the next 5 days.   

This would seem like an appropriate moment to introduce the members of the travel party.

  

From Let right: Lesley, Jenny, Nicola, Ben, Francesca, David, Colette & Rose.  

The next week or so we hope to make as many posts as possible including photos of the works we encounter and keeping you up to date with goings on.

ED.