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You are cordially invited to a student-led exhibition event concluding the project ‘Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Ancient Technologies – Bloomery Iron Smelting’. The event will be taking place on
Thursday 25th April, 5.30-7.30pm, The Long Gallery, Fine Art Department, King Edward VII Building.
Refreshments will be served.
Archie Ogus | Ardra Nair | Brandon Pearce | Elizabeth Oughton | Frank Pretorius | Kitty McKay
Preview: Thursday 24 April, 6 – 9pm
25 April– 4 May 2024
Some Assembly Required brings together the work of six Newcastle University MFA students at Slugtown, Newcastle upon Tyne. Featuring new works by Ardra Nair, Frank Pretorius, Elizabeth Oughton, Brandon Pearce, Archie Ogus and Kitty McKay the show makes visible the collaborative nature of group exhibitions, and considers what might be achieved when artists embrace their differences and produce work in divergence.
Eschewing tight thematics, Some Assembly Required explores contrasting relationships towards the purpose of exhibition building and meaning making. The works in this exhibition span a range of media and references; including painting, urban cartographies, and class and queer politics. Through bringing these diverse practices together in this exhibition, the show aims to both flatten the hierarchies of prescribed value, and to adopt the position of a playful experiment into the messiness of curation as creative practice.
Workshop with painter Maggie Ayliffe (Liverpool John Moores) and Christian Mieves
Between 1952 and 1957 the Fine Art Department set the foundation for a painting collection, as part of the Hatton Gallery. This collection , called the “teaching collection”, was an integral part of the Fine Art department. We want to use the opportunity to revisit the unique resource and want to ask, how the use of language encountering paintings has changed in in the decades.
For this reason, we invite you, as part of the Painting Forum, to take part in the project, to access the archive at our doorsteps and respond creatively to a painting from the collection.
Take part in the exhibition and workshop with painter Maggie Ayliffe.
Key Dates:
7 March 2024, 10 AM : Submission
8 March 2024, 10 AM: Painting Forum
Fri 8 March 10 AM, XL Gallery
Join us for the Painting Forum on Fri 8 March, 10 AM. The forum is open to everyone, no need to sign up. In the forum we will speak with painter Maggie Ayliffe, Liverpool, and we will have unique opportunity to look at Patrick Heron’s Red Table from the Hatton Archive.
Exhibition: A Red Table
As part of the painting forum there will be an exhibition. You still have a chance to submit a piece of practice for the exhibition (see details below). The extended deadline is Thursday 7 March, 10 AM at the XL gallery.
Painting + 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.
Every forum meeting we will discuss paintings or a text (see Readings for previous discussions).
More info about the forum
Future Climates: Artists and Curators respond to the Climate Crisis is a new series of talks developed in collaboration between Art Monthly and the School of Arts and Cultures,Newcastle University. The series brings together international artists, curators, writers to reflect on how cultural practices can respond to the climate crisis and its complex, societal, political, economic, historical entanglements with a specific focus on practices and thinking that go beyond aesthetic and conceptual engagement and set about making a real-life difference.
Lise Autogena is a Danish artist and Professor. Since the early 90’s her collaborations with Joshua Portway have explored impacts of the economic, geographic, technological, and societal systems we have created. Projects include, for example, ‘Most Blue Skies’ that uses real-time changes in the atmosphere to visualize and locate the bluest sky in the world, Black Shoals; Dark Matter visualises the world’s financial markets as a night sky of constellations. Recent work has documented the question of uranium mining in Greenland and in 2020 Autogena established the non-profit organisation Narsaq International Research Station (NIRS), which hosts scientific and cultural research projects in South Greenland. Her projects have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide including Tate Britain and the Gwangju Biennial amongst many others.https://www.autogena.org
Maja and Reuben Fowkes are art historians, curators, and directors of the Postsocialist Art Centre (PACT) at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London. Their publications include Art and Climate Change (Thames & Hudson, 2022), Ilona Németh: Eastern Sugar (Sternberg Press, 2021) and Maja’s The Green Bloc: Neo-avant-garde Art and Ecology under Socialism (CEU Press, 2015). Recent curatorial projects include the exhibitions Colliding Epistemes at Bozar Brussels (2022) and Potential Agrarianism at Kunsthalle Bratislava (2021). Their Horizon Europe research project into the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA) is supported by UKRI and they are co-founders of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art. www.translocal.org
Chair: Chris McCormack is a writer and associate editor of Art Monthly. He has devised and participated in numerous talks and events, including for Newcastle University as co-devisor of ‘The Producers’ and the Paul Mellon Centre in London. He is the editor of Charlie Prodger’s monograph (Konig), commissioning editor of ON&BY Andy Warhol (MIT/Whitechapel), project editor of Talking Art 2 (Ridinghouse) and has written extensively on art, and contributed numerous essays for catalogues including James Richards’ Requests and Antisongs, Queer Spaces (RIBA) and the MIT/Whitechapel anthology Moving Image. He has also collaborated with artists including Hilary Lloyd, Oreet Ashery, Ursula Mayer and Jade Montserrat.
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Amal Khalaf is a curator and artist and currently Director of Programmes at Cubitt, Civic Curator at the Serpentine Galleries, and co-curator of the forthcoming Sharjah Biennial in 2025. Recent projects include Radio Ballads (2019-22) and Sensing the Planet (2021). She is a founding member of artist collective GCC, a trustee of Mophradat, Athens; not/nowhere, London and Art Night, London. In 2019 she curated Bahrain’s pavilion for Venice, in 2018 she co-curated an international arts and social justice conference called Rights to the City in 2016 she co-directed the 10th edition of the Global Art Forum, Art Dubai.
Oliver Ressler is an artist and filmmaker whose installations and projects in the public realm address issues of democracy, racism, climate breakdown, forms of resistance and social alternatives. Ressler’s has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; SALT Galata, Istanbul; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville; Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes, Mexico and Belvedere 21, Vienna and in more than 400 group exhibitions, including Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris and the biennials in Taipei, Venice, Athens, Kyiv, Gothenburg, Istanbul and at Documenta 14, Kassel, 2017 amongst others. www.ressler.at
Chair: Neil Bromwich is part of the Glasgow based collaborative duo Walker & Bromwich and Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University. At the core of their practice is the exploration of the role art can play as an active agent in society, with a specific focus on climate justice. Walker & Bromwich have exhibited work at documenta-fifteen, SEA + Triennale Jakarta, Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece, MCA Sydney; Tate Britain; V&A London; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art; Glasgow International; Edinburgh Art Festival, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki. Their most recent initiative sets about creating a new platform for the exchange and production of new work withing the context of climate justice in collaboration with the Indonesian non-profits arts organisation Rodha Among Karsa.
Where: Studio 1.17, next to wood workshop.
This swap space is a student-led project to reduce material waste within the art department; this pilot scheme will be reviewed.
If you take something, please try to donate something sometime in the future.
This space needs to be used as a gallery space in the summer.
Therefore, the swap space will close on 7th May; please do not clear out your studios into this space.
Unfortunately, donated materials cannot be stored over the summer, and any materials left in the swap shop after this date will be disposed of within the university waste system.
Closes: 7 May 2024
Any questions: Beth Willoughby (UG) b.willoughby1@newcastle.ac.uk
Thank you for your support for Soup Wednesday in Sem 1.
Soup Wednesday has been a very important part of the department last year, and we have many more recipes to come! We are very committed to keep Soup Wednesday going.
Anyone interested getting involved please join us for a brief info meeting .
Soup Wednesday Planning Meeting
Tues 30 Jan 1 AM, Fine Art cafe.
If you know any other student who might be interested, please let them know and bring them along.
Christian
Semester 2 Workshops
Mobile Making with Giles Bailey
Thursday 8th February 14.00-15.00 Life Room
Animated Flip Books using Sound with Alice Highett
Friday 9th February 10.00-13.00 meet outside the art shop
Natural Materials: Cordage with Miki Z.
Thursday 15th & Friday 16th February 10.00-13.00 Life Room
Painting and Collage Workshop with Theresa Poulton
Thursday 22nd February 10.00-16.00 Life Room
Turning project ideas into practice with Olivia Turner
Thursday 22nd February 10.00-13.00 Seminar Room
Soft Sculptures with Melanie Kyles
Thursday 29th February & Friday 1st March 10.00-16.00 Orbis Community
Clay sculpture workshop with Liam Aldridge
Thursday 29th February & Friday 1st March 10.00-16.00 Life Room
Introduction to bookbinding with Theresa Easton
Thursday 7th March 9.30-17.00 Life Room
Introduction to Blender with Claire Breach
Friday 8th March 10-13.00 or 14.00-17.00 Digital Media Suite
Gond Inspired Collage with Sofia Barton
Friday 15th March 10.00-16.00 Life Room
Letterpress Printing with Theresa Easton
Thursday 21st March 10.00-16.00 Print Workshop
Book HERE: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/fineartcommunityboard/workshops-21-22/
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The above rules have to be observed in addition to the standard health and safety regulations which apply at all times.
Regular ‘spot checks’, will take place and anyone failing to observe the rules for out of hours access will be regarded as a breach of health and safety policy and may well result in the privilege of late and weekend working being withdrawn and/or disciplinary action.
22/9/23
Dear colleagues,
I am excited to present the programme for the newly established research seminars in art history in Fine Art, taking place fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17.15, with refreshments available after each event, from 18.30.
This new seminar series offers a platform for engagement with research in history of art at a time when the discipline is undergoing change in response to issues of urgent significance, including intergenerational justice, colonial legacies, and environmental breakdown.
‘Art and Ecology’ is the topic for the inaugural series of seminars. This is a great opportunity to hear leading international and UK-based scholars present on subjects as diverse as the colours of the Anthropocene and art made by bowerbirds. The full schedule is attached below; further information for each talk will be circulated a week in advance.
Most of the seminars are in-person events. Please note, however, that two of the events will use a hybrid format, as a virtual presentation presented the most sustainable option due to the distance of the speakers’ travel.
All are welcome!
Olga
Convenor: Dr Olga Smith olga.smith@ncl.ac.uk
