OPEN EXHIBITION
26th November 2021 - 22nd January 2021
Join us for the preview evening on Thursday the 25th of November from 5.30 - 7.30pm
Featuring work by
Alan Ball
Alan Dunn
Alan McGinn
Alfons Bytautas RSA
Andrew Cheetham
Andrew Watchorn
Anna Goulding
Anna Selway
Anne Scott
Brenda Watson
Charlotte Powell
ChunChao Chiu
David Foggo
Deborah Snell
Donna Cheshire
Errol Theunissen
Fiona Grey
Garth Bayley
Harry Bell
Holly Magdalene Scott
Jacqueline Quinn
Jane Millican
Jane Sanders
Janet E Davis
Jo Liddle
Joanna Bourne
John Grey
Jonathon Marshall
Julia Roxburgh
Katie Watson
Katy Fortune
Lee Turner
Lesley Wood
Louise Bradley
Malcolm Davies
Maria Laffey
Marie-Claude Harriman
Matthew Young
Michael St. Clair
Michal Raz
Narbi Price
Peter McGlynn
Richard Scott
Rory Cannon
Sally Gatie
Sally Parkin-Fitton
Sandra Haney
Sandra Taylor
Shankar Kashyap
Steve Dales
Stuart Jones
Varie Freyne
Wendy Ronaldson
Julia Roxburgh
Ugly Bird, 2021
White earthenware clay, 18cm tall
Charlotte Powell
Action Girl with Pansies 2021,
Watercolour and pencil on paper, 59.4 x 42cm
We are excited to announce the launch of our second Open Exhibition of work by local artists this November. The exhibition will showcase an abundance of artistic talent, featuring 81 works submitted by 54 artists from across the North East, many of whom are new to our gallery. The show brings together a diverse range of practices, from landscapes to abstract paintings; etchings to screen prints; sculpture to textiles; and celebrates the wealth of creativity in our region.
Newcastle and the wider North East is home to a thriving art scene including several artist-led studios, museums and independent gallery spaces. After a difficult year, where the creative industries have been hit hard by the pandemic, we also know they are central to our recovery. The creative industries have the capacity to change behaviour, bring people together, empower communities and transform individual experience.
Steve Dales
Toes in Japan, 2018
Oil on canvas on board, 38 x 30cm
Narbi Price
Untitled Flowers Painting 1, 2019
Acrylic on canvas, 45 x 60cm
The first Open Exhibition we did in 2019 was a really varied show - colourful pop-art prints, delightfully intricate drawings and traditional landscape paintings, contemporary abstract works, geometric pieces, carved natural stone, silver jewellery, cast glass and more. It was a fantastic, lively exhibition and a really well-attended preview. It was a great experience, that we found well worth doing and repeating again now in 2021. We are still working with some of the artists we met through our last Open Exhibition and are excited to see what this next one will look like.
Our last Open Exhibition in 2019
This exhibition will provide a chance to discover new creative voices and give a fresh outlook on creativity in our region. We view the open call process as a great way to start new relationships with artists and look forward to welcoming these new faces to the gallery alongside more established artists, and to giving a new platform to the breadth of creative talent that we live amongst.
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