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The first major retrospective of the work of the British abstract artist and teacher Matt Rugg (1935-2020).
Until 13 January 2024, Hatton Gallery
Congratulations to Guest curated by Dr Harriet Sutcliffe.
Tues 19 September 4.30 – 7pm
Exhibition Dates: Mon 18 – Sat 30 September
Venue: Fine Art Department XL gallery & Long Gallery,
NE1 7RU
Please join Fine Art to celebrate the opening of Right Here, Right Now, and to mark the Launch of FINE ART 100, our four-year long celebration of the creation and awarding of the very first BA (Hons) of Fine Art in England, at Newcastle University
Over the next four years and leading up to the 100th anniversary of the awarding of our first degree, Fine Art 100 will mark this milestone in the history of Art Education by curating and hosting a series of exhibitions, events and creative activities with alumni , students, staff and partners. Our programme marks the innovation, value, and contribution of the department across pedagogy, research, and creative practice.
This inaugural exhibition Right Here, Right Now shines a spotlight on the present, bringing together the work of all the current staff and students in one space, offering a snapshot of the Fine Art department as it exists now, at this significant point in it’s history. The exhibition continues Mon 18 – Sat 30 September, XL gallery.
An accompanying timeline display in the Long Gallery highlights the historical and current innovations that has kept Fine Art at Newcastle at the forefront of academic and creative practice in the UK.
Looking to the next 100 years, we want to ensure that Fine Art at Newcastle University remains an inclusive and diverse place for the artists of tomorrow to think, create, experiment, and thrive. As part of the Fine Art 100 celebrations, we are also launching the FINE ART 100 Fund . This will help support our creative & civic vision for fair and equal access to Fine Art education at Newcastle University for all students.
Please Join us on Tuesday 19 Sept from 4.30pm as we celebrate the past, look at the present, and question what the next 100 years of Fine Art education and research might be.
All are Welcome !
From Fine Art
This opportunity allows up to 5 Fine Art students (UG and PG) to engage in a 12-day intensive stone and wood carving workshop, led by architectural and artistic master carver Paul Lewis. The workshop will take place in Galicia (North-West Spain) during the summer period (28 August- 9 September 2023). The students have the opportunity to join a professional stone carving workshop in a taller / apprenticeship setting developing their skills set by start working on individual projects.
Costs for travel, accommodation, and transport within Spain will be covered.
The place of the workshop is significant: the region has a long tradition of ornamental and prehistoric stone carvings (petroglyphs), going back 4,000 years. Paul Lewis set up his workshop in the Pontevedra region 15 Years ago. Students will experience prehistoric stone art and the opportunity to source local stone (granite) from a local quarry. Lewis has experiences of working in stone through artistic and architectural carving in cathedrals, historic properties, private houses and public buildings.
In the first briefing session we had a strong response of over 20 students joining us which indicates a a demand.
Students would be selected through an open selection process by submitting an expression of interest form (see details below);
The workshop will cover opportunities to:
2 Feb 2023 First briefing session with students;
16 Feb 2023 Deadline of Expression of Interest.
2 March 2023 Interviews of shortlisted students (on Zoom) with Paul Lewis;
Mid-March 2023 successful candidates will be contacted ;
28 Aug -9 Sept 2023: Workshops Dates: Galicia, Spain.
Send an Expression of Interest by answering three questions (max 200 words total):
Deadline of Expression of interest: 16 Feb 2023
E-mail: Christian.Mieves@newcastle.ac.uk
Use Subject Heading: Stone Carving
Interviews of shortlisted candidates will take place on
Thursday 2 March 2023.
Imposter syndrome is common during the PhD process when a shift towards theory and writing can overshadow practice. Relying heavily on reflections about my own PhD experience, I hope to offer some useful guidance on how to take on and navigate the research, writing and examination process so that it feels authentic to your ethos as an artist. Unlearning and allowing yourself to get lost in the research is a fundamental part of the journey. What can you uniquely offer as researchers that those in other disciplines may not be able to? Should you be creative with the format of your submission or is it more productive to keep the format within set examination guidelines? There is a debate around whether a thesis is even necessary in practice-based research but how do you balance freedom to experiment, with the requirements of the examination process and the necessary publication of original knowledge? By showing examples of successful PhD’s that interrogated these seemingly set conventions, this seminar wants to open up the debate so that you can chose the path that is right for you with your research and defend your arguments before a panel.
About Practice is a series of practice workshops led by international artists. Each workshop focuses on particular skill sets. Workshops are optional and extra-curricular activities in addition to regular studio teaching in Fine Art.
Check the Fine Art Community Board how to sign up.
Click here to book a workshop
Writing Practice Forum Thursday 8 December: ARCHIVE SPECIAL 📖
Writing Practice Forum
10:00-12:30
8 December, Philip Robinson Library Special Collections – Meet at main library reception
In this session we’ll be looking at materials from the archive of the poetry publisher Bloodaxe Books, which was acquired by the university a few years ago. Northumbria based and international in focus, Bloodaxe publish modernists, Nobel Laureates, works in translation and contemporary poet-artists, like Heather Phillipson and Ahren Warner.
We’ll discuss an excerpt from Susan Howe’s essay on the ‘telepathy’ of archival research and the strange energy that physical manuscripts, notebooks and letters emit in the reverential setting of a library. Through exercises we’ll explore the ways we might ‘activate’ some of the historical material of the archive through our own writing.
Material has been selected from the holdings of individual poets as well as Bloodaxe itself, including Rosemary Tonks and Selima Hill, and archivist Rachel Hawkes will generously be on hand to answer questions.
Places for workshop limited – please add you name to the spreadsheet here. Any issues accessing this, email me: sam.buchan-watts@newcastle.ac.uk
About the Writing Practice Forum
The day is finally upon us, the annual NCL Fine Art Postcard auction !
First, thank you so much to everyone who donated art works and contributed to the amazing collection of work up for auction this evening! All work is now on display in the long and xl gallery, with the live auction work in the atrium.
We can’t wait to see you all later on! As planned, the silent auction will take place at 5- this is an opportunity to bid for your favourite postcards in the long gallery and XL.
At 6, everyone will be invited to go to the Lindisfarne room to attend our infamous live auction. Don’t forget to purchase your paddles in the department if you wish to bid!
LASTLY, if you wish to join us for the after party at the lubberfiend please buy tickets in advance using the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postcard-auction-afterparty-tickets-472110644647
It should be, as always, a spectacular night! If you have any requirements or questions please contact me b8026314@newcastle.ac.uk.
Thank you !
Postcard auction team
Hi everyone,
This weekend I am running two more performance workshops in Whitely Bay with ArtHouses Home Actions. We will look at links between performance-making and domestic rituals. Starting with everyday objects and table-tops, the workshop will guide participants though the process of writing their own performance score (a term borrowed from music to refer to a predetermined series of actions conceived by an artist and meant to be reinterpreted). Together we will find new ways to activate the home with our own significant yet small-scale actions.
To find out more and join in with the workshops on either Friday 2nd December 6 -9pm, or Saturday 3rd December 2 -5pm, please go to:
http://arthouses.net/ah22/teauniverse/index.html
Best wishes,
Giles.
Hello everyone in our amazing Fine Art Community
Its almost that time of year again ….
OPEN STUDIOS takes place on Tuesday 13 December 2022 (6-8pm) in the Fine Art studios!
If you have not been involved in OPEN STUDIOS before this is when we tidy up ALL of the studios and you present work in progress in your studio space. Everyone is involved. Open Studios coincides with the BA Year 4 Interim shows that take place in the bookable spaces – so lots of exciting stuff happening everywhere in the main building. This year, In addition to the BA studios & MFA & PhD’s will also open up studios in Windsor terrace so this is a great opportunity for our whole Fine Art community to come together, to share what’s going on in ALL the Fine Art Studios & locations (King Edward & Windsor terrace), and celebrate some of the incredible work taking place in our department.
We then have a wonderful night of going around the department, looking at everyone’s work and talking to one another. You can even invite people from outside of the department to come in and join us if you want to. There will be a bar, and as Open Studios this year is the last Tuesday before Christmas break we can also combine the evening with a bit of a Winter celebration. So..hang up some twinkly lights in the FA café and bring a bit of tinsel too! (Contact 4th years if you can help with the bar).
Open studios is a social event – not an assessment event – it is entirely up to you what you present in your space. This might include sketchbooks, documentation, work in progress or completed pieces . As we have BA assessments taking place in the 1st week back after Christmas break it will also mean we have lovely tidy spaces to return to ready to present work for assessment.
Health & Safety and Security: You need to have your space ready by 3.30pm on Tues 13th for a Health and Safety walk around by Joe – so think carefully about any equipment you may need and any health & safety checks and risk assessments you may need to organise. If you are not sure then speak to your tutor or module leader. Be especially careful of running electric cables across walkways and blocking fire corridors and exits.
You are responsible individually for your own work, so you need to consider ethics, & check any electrical equipment you are using and – very importantly – turn it off at the end of the event. You may want to discuss Open Studios (health & safety, signage, security etc) with other members of your studio and work collaboratively. If you want a refresher on the practicalities of exhibiting artwork you can sign up for a Workshop with Joe on installing artwork/drilling holes, using ladders etc. (see sign-up” noticeboard in the foyer)
STUDIOS HAVE TO BE VACATED AND EVERYTHING SWITCHED OFF BY 8PM!
If you have any questions, please contact nick.fox@ncl.ac.uk
