Meditative Threads applique workshop – a space to discuss women’s safety and feminist issues, each participant will make and take away a small applique piece!
A sign up sheet will be on the board by the art cafe this afternoon.
Me, Bobbie Felstead and Grace Rain will be exhibiting our work in the Tic Space next week from Tuesday 25th to Wednesday 26th of March, with a preview on Monday 24th from 4 – 5pm.
Our work explores the eeriness and mystery surrounding the mouth of the River Tyne, an interactive installation focused on the visualisation of the unseen, and a sound-producing sculptural machine that repeatedly destroys itself, in addition to multiple performance pieces from myself and Grace alongside the installation using DIY instruments.
The Tic Space is located halfway down the stairs next to Ray’s shop on the way down to the metal workshop.
To all in the Fine Art community, staff & students alike , who use bicycles to commute to and from the department I’m offering to help out with some bike maintenance – so if you’re having some problems with your bike at the moment then please take a look below:
There are 10 bike maintenance slots available on Tuesday 10th Dec mostly for students but some for staff :
9:30 am
9:50 am
10:10 am
10:30 am
10:50 am
11:10 am
11:30 am
11:50 am
12:10 am
12:30 am
Please email me back if you are interested with the time slot that suits you best. I am not a certified bike mechanic but will aim to help out where I can with the tools that I have available – however ultimately I may recommend you take your bike to a repair shop.
Please see the reading (please read before next week) for the meeting with Mali Morris here
Painting + Forum is a place for regular studio discussions about painting, an exchange of ideas and texts dealing with the everyday task of painting. It started in autumn 2019 with a series of informal discussions on painting with Newcastle University Fine Art students from all years (Undergraduate and Postgraduate).
This year we will have a series of conversations with painters, practical painting workshops and reading group meetings, discussing texts dealing with the idea of painting.
Upcoming is another Animation Forum workshoppe/advice session! For those of you who wrote down “AfterEffects” on the “what kind of workshops do you want?” posters, this is your chance.
‘Animation’ as a word may sound very specific, but we take it in the broadest sense possible, including all sorts of video and experimental moving image. Not sure if you fit? Come along and I’ll tell you how your work is actually animation.
WORKSHOP DETAILS
21 Nov (THURSDAY) 10am – 1pm in the Media Suite (upstairs near printmaking)
Want to learn some new skills? Troubleshoot an ongoing project? Figure out how to make your moving image dreams come true? Want to make a game/VN? Interested in video but don’t know where to start?
Next up on the Animation Forum agenda is a loosely structured workshop/coworking session in the Media Suite, where you can come to learn new skills and/or develop existing work and receive feedback + help. There’s also drawing tablets to use. Bring your own tablet/laptop if applicable!
Come scan in IRL work to digitize it and try and make it move; come edit videos; come to learn about and experiment with AfterEffects; come draw some animation; come to talk and think about anime/games you enjoy and moving image at large; anything is possible.
Everyone is welcome, no experience needed. Bring your ideas and your enthusiasm.
Please sign up on the noticeboard bc space is limited, but you can come along anyway, and we shall try and make it work. The sign-up sheet is already up.
If you’re curious about what the Animation Forum is all about generally, you can read stuff on the blog (link in my email signature below).
Sergio Ricaño Gutiérrez is Director of the National Art School in Mexico City(Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda”). He holds a degree in Visual Arts from the National School of Plastic Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. His work belongs to national and international collections, such as the Museo José Guadalupe Posada; the Museo Nacional de la Estampa; the special collections of Ibero-American art of the universities of Stanford and Berkeley; the Museo Iconográfico de Guanajuato; the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez, Oaxaca; the Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, in Valencia, Spain, and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, among others. In 2012 he received the Takeda Biennial Prize, Oaxaca, and an Honourable Mention at the Zalce Biennial in Morelia, Michoacán, whose acquisition prize he won in 2014. Since 2008 he founded and directs TACO, Talleres de Arte Contemporáneo, a space for education, dissemination, exhibition and production for the visual arts.
