Recording Time

Preview: Thurs 18 April, 5-7:30pm I Exhibition: 19 April – 25 May 2024

Record Store Day: 20 April I The Late Shows: 18 May, 6-10pm

Catherine Bertola, Jane Bown, Anna Chapman Parker, Rachael Clewlow, Alan Hathaway, Nick Kennedy

& Beyond the Goldmine Standard Artists:

Matt Antoniak, Alfons Bytautas, Mark Bletcher, Jennifer Douglas, Ross Frew, Nancy Harper, Kitty L M McKay, Fiona Larkin, Poppy Amber Marsden, Paul Merrick, Rosie Morris, Annie O’Donnell, Helen Pailing, Theresa Poulton, Narbi Price, Paul Raymond, Harriet Sutcliffe, Matilda Sutton, Jade Sweeting & Katie Watson.

Explore music, heritage, duration, and experience through group exhibition ‘Recording Time’, with artworks by Catherine Bertola, Jane Bown, Anna Chapman, Rachael Clewlow, Alan Hathaway, and Nick Kennedy.

In honour of Record Store Day, guest-curator Matthew Hearn presents a second spin of ‘Beyond the Goldmine Standard’, featuring iconic 12” Vinyl Records creatively reimagined by 20 local artists, with proceeds benefiting Maggie’s Cancer Treatment Centre in Newcastle.

How do you enjoy marking time? Listening to music, drawing, walking, reminiscing, staring at a patch of grass? This group exhibition plays on the idea of ‘Recording Time’ in multiple ways:

Catherine Bertola’s work explores unseen traces and lives found in buildings, highlighting their decay whilst also preserving them. Nick Kennedy’s work also explores where chance an intentionality meet, his kinetic sculptures performing their 12 hour sequences recording time throughout the exhibition. Anna Chapman’s work similarly draws us into a state of mindful watching, her drawings ask what happens when we just stop and stare at the same patch of grass for an hour? From stopping to going, Rachael Clewlow’s intricate paintings document journeys creating intricate and kaleidoscopic mappings of space. Alan Hathaway’s work draws us onto the other side of the pun ‘Recording Time’, using archival imagery from Top of The Pops and BBC Scotland news footage of David Bowie’s 1978 Glasgow Apollo concerts and 1977 television performance of the song Heroes. Gallagher & Turner are also delighted to present a rare photograph taken of the Beatles by renowned photographer Jane Bown in 1967 (1925 – 2014).

In conjunction with Record Store Day, curator Matthew Hearn will be resurrecting a second spin of ‘Beyond the Goldmine Standard’, a collection of affordable 12” Vinyl Records reworked by 20 local artists. The project was first curated by Matthew Hearn in 2015, responding to the fan-made album sleeves found in RPM Records in Newcastle, coinciding with BALTIC 39 exhibition ‘The Curves of the Needle’ and Record Store Day. The Goldmine Standard is a widely accepted system for grading the condition of vinyl records and their covers.

This re-instigated project will invite local artists to creatively reimagine classics from the likes of Madonna, Kate Bush, Roxy Music and Fleetwood Mac. The vinyl artworks will be sold for £75, with 50% of the proceeds going to the artists and 50% to Maggie’s Cancer Treatment Centre in Newcastle. On 18th May, DJ Lady Annabella will curate an exhibition soundtrack at Newcastle’s annual event, The Late Shows.

All artworks are for sale, with the exception of Jane Bown’s portrait of The Beatles.