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We have been busy over the summer months making preparations for the new academic year and to develop our priorities areas for the department.: Developing Praxis opportunities and Thinking-Through-Making  : With this in mind, We have have devised an exciting programme workshops and talks focussed on Art practice, as well at LifeWorkArt sessions focussed on exhibition and professional practice that we will be sharing with you at the inductions.

We are very much looking forward to having you all back in the department , being active with your practice in the studios and workshop , or sharing your work with others in the long gallery, lecture theatre and other internal spaces – and of course to bringing energy and enthusiasm you bring our to community with initiatives like the soup wednesday , open studios, or popup exhibitions off campus and extra-curricular events that make Newcastle University Fine Art such a unique and extraordinary place to work and study. 

Nick Fox & Andrew Burton

Co-Heads of Fine Art

Induction Timetable

Stage1 : Monday 15 Sept 10am -Welcome Meeting . 2pm Induction briefing

Stage 2: Tuesday 16 Sept 10am -Induction & Q&A

Stage 3: Tuesday 16 Sept 12am -Induction & Q&A

Stage 4 Tuesday 16 Sept 12pm -Induction & Q&A

MFA Stage 1 Wednesday 17 Sept 10am -Induction & Q&A

MFA Stage 2 Wednesday 17 Sept 2pm -Induction & Q&A

We would like to invite you to a special Open Day for Fine Art offer holders. 

April  3, 2025 12:00 PM (GMT) (via Zoom)

The event will give you the opportunity to find out more about the course, the Fine Art facilities, scholarships and the cultural life in Newcastle.

You will have the opportunity to speak with other artists and faculty members in the department and hear from current students about the programme.

To join the Open Day please e-mail: Christian.Mieves@newcastle.ac.uk and we will send you a link.

Thank you!

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.

Connie Gaunt (UG) <C.R.Gaunt2@newcastle.ac.uk> 

Hello everyone, 

Me, Bobbie Felstead and Grace Rain will be exhibiting our work in the Tic Space next week from Tuesday 25^th to Wednesday 26^th of March, with a preview on Monday 24^th 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. 

We hope to see you there!

Best Regards 

Oliver Davies (He/Him) 

University of Victoria Canada and University of Newcastle
3-7 Feb 2025
XL Gallery

Hi All,

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.

Thanks

Steve

Next Painting Forum:

With Mali Morris

Weds 27 Nov 2024, 

2-3 PM, Long Gallery

Open to everyone! Any questions, please contact  Christian.Mieves@newcastle.ac.uk

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.

More info

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).

All the best,

Petra