Globe

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Introduction

Over the last sixteen years Globe Gallery has been exploring new ways of bringing cutting edge contemporary art to audience of all kinds in the North of England. It has recently launched the successful Globe Gallery OFFSITE, a new programme of exhibitions, events and participatory projects to breathe creativity into disused shops and empty spaces.

For the next OFFSITE project Globe Gallery is requesting submissions by contemporary visual artists to participate in an exhibition at Think Tank, an ex pottery unit at the Hoults Yard, Newcastle, in October 2010. All artworks should be available for sale.

The exhibition aims to provide an important platform for cutting edge contemporary art and to support the organisation’s programme of exhibitions and participatory projects.

The Brief

The exhibition is open to contemporary artists working in all mediums, including: painting, sculpture, photography, print, drawing, textiles, installation, digital and video.

Submissions

• Five to ten artworks in standard quality images. (Please ensure that all electronic images have clear titles of the works, including your name.)

• Submissions must be sent only electronically. (Please do not send original/unique artworks, CD’s, DVD’s or photographs as Globe Gallery cannot be responsible for any loss or damage at this stage.)

• Please include your CV and an artist’s statement as well as any links to websites, articles or other relevant information. This information will be useful during the selection process.

Deadline

The deadline for receipt of submissions is Monday 6^th September 2010.

Selection Process

All applicants will be informed of the selection panel’s decision electronically within 3 working days after the deadline.

Application Form and Enquiries

Application Form can be downloaded from here.

All enquiries to the exhibition organizers:

Gintare Cepinskaite or Maria Vafiadi

Globe Hub

97 Howard Street, North Shields,

Tyne and Wear, NE30 1NA

Tel: 0191 259 2614

Email: info@globegallery.org

Unit 14, Keel Row Shopping Centre, Blyth, Northumberland
Wednesday 10th March to Saturday 4th April 2010
EXHIBITION VISIBLE DURING SHOPPING CENTRE OPENING HOURS

Following the hugely successful Their Silence, A Language show at Globe City gallery, we are proud to present Yvette Hawkins new installation Nothing to Read Here.  The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of open workshops for local residents who will get the chance to work with Yvette and devise their own book sculpture.

Reopening a retail premises as a temporary art installation redefines the rules, creating a different type of ‘public’ space focusing on engagement and interaction rather than consumption.

As the title alludes, Nothing to Read Here plays with concepts of viewing and reading inherent in Hawkins’ work.  Whilst her beautiful book sculptures cannot be read, they are presented as objects to be viewed, interacted with and experienced.

Nothing to Read Here takes place in the empty Adams store in the middle of Keel Row shopping centre in the Northumbrian coastal port of Blyth.  Building upon the CRUNCH! Show at Monument Mall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the project is the next stage of Globe’s ongoing series of creating temporary contemporary art venues in empty shops and derelict spaces around the region.  We believe that truly accessible and engaging contemporary art can be taken out of the gallery into more familiar locations.  More shows and locations will be announced soon.

Yvette Hawkins is an artist and writer from Newcastle upon Tyne.  She makes tactile, engaging and textural sculptures and installations that transform everyday useable and familiar materials into objects that explore suggestion and secrecy.  Her socially engaging practice concerns physical acts, encouraging viewers to become conscious of their surroundings by subtly controlling and manipulating their senses.

There will be a series of community workshops to accompany the exhibition.

Check our volunteering opportunities page for a range of ways you can help out and get involved!

In partnership with Globe Gallery, The Sponsors Club for Arts and Business and NE1

Crunch! is the culmination of an exciting shop window participatory arts project that began in June 2009. Over 100 participants worked with Viz co-creator Simon Donald and playwright Lee Mattinson to produce their own responses to the credit crunch. Participants ranged from local school children aged 13 to a retired pensioner aged 67, proving that art can be accessible to everyone. The results are amazingly varied, with cartoons from several of the participants as well as from Simon and Chris Donald, and script produced by the volunteers and edited by Lee Mattinson.

The works will be installed in all available shop windows at the old Boots store in Monument Mall. CRUNCH comes in the 30^th anniversary year of Viz Comic and what better way to celebrate local talent which has been such a phenomenal success and an inspiration to many budding illustrators and cartoonists..

The Crunch! launch will begin at 2pm on the 17^th December 2009 at Monument.  Simon and Chris Donald, Lee Mattinson, and representatives from NE1, the Arts Council, and The Sponsors Club for Arts and Business will open the windows along with our volunteers.

The project is supported by:

Plan Chest

Exhibition at Globe Hub, Preview Evening Friday 4 December 6-8pm featuring new artists and works to our Plan Chest Collection now based at North Shields.

A big thank you to everyone who came down to the preview evening for our final three exhibitions at Globe City, over 380 people made it down.

Antonio Riello was thrilled with the response to his work, as was Yvette Hawkins.

Check out some pics below (courtesy of Colin Davison).  See our Facebook page for more images.

The largest commercial Art Fair in North East England returns to The Sage Gateshead, 1st to 4th October 2009, why not come along and view a selection of work from our Plan Chest. We have new pieces of work on display from Elaine Wilson, Richard Phipps and Roxy Walsh.

www.ngartfair.com

Thanks to all of the volunteers who helped with the installation of Johnston’s Falls.

We want to know how the credit crunch is effecting you.

Globe is is calling for creative responses to the credit crunch. All forms of artwork will be considered for an opportunity  to appear in the CRUNCH! exhibition and online gallery.

Submissions should be sent in digital format to: globegallery.org@googlemail.com

We are currently seeking donations of books to coincide with book folding workshops to be held by Yvette Hawkins this September. Work produced will be featured in a forthcoming exhibition.

If you would like to donate a book (or books) then please drop them off at Globe City Gallery
Wednesday – Saturday 11.30am – 4pm

• Minimum 400 pages
• No broken spines
• Paper to be reasonable thickness 

Book Folding Workshop
Thursday and Fridays at 11-1pm and 2-4pm 

Yvette will be holding a series of book folding workshop sessions from Thursday 10th September, if you would like to take part or volunteer then please contact Stephen Pritchard for further information on 0191 222 1666

Art Sale 09 ends on Saturday 8th August, for the final week of the show many works have been reduced in price so don’t miss out on the chance to view this unique collection of work one last time or to purchase an original artwork at a great price.

Join us for refreshments
and fine art on Thursday 30th July 4pm – 7pm

If you missed the opening of Art Sale (or just fancy another look) then this is the perfect opportunity to join us for refreshments and view the wide range of work on offer.

Thank you to all the artists who contributed to the successful launch of Art Sale 09, a big thank you also to all of the volunteers who helped install the show.

CRUNCH! Art and humour hits the high street
Your chance to work with Simon Donald and Lee Mattinson to express your experiences of life in Credit Crunch-hit Britain…

Globe Gallery invites you to take part in a community-based art project that will reawaken your local high street during this credit crunch stand still.

With the collaboration of Viz co-creator Simon Donald, playwright Lee Mattinson and anyone who wants to get involved, we are planning to produce a series of new works that will provide a typically northern, humourous take on global economic issues and show the resilience of the north to withstand these tough times.

Participants will be challenged to create a storyline and develop characters through a series of workshops. The scenes created will be presented in empty shop windows in Newcastle City Centre by August and there will be an exhibition of all the participant’

s work at Globe Hub in North Shields.

All workshops take place in Globe Hub Gallery, 97 Howard Street, North Shields, NE30 1NA. All workshops start at 11am to 4pm.

This Saturday 16th May, Globe City will be opening its doors from 7pm until 11pm for an exclusive late night showing of it’s current exhibition ‘Love in times of pain’ and ‘Black Paintings’. Why not do something unique with your weekend and join us for a drink or two, a spot of after hours culture, and a host of special offers.

Some photos from the recent artist talk by Franko B…

Thanks to everyone who made the opening of Love in Times of Pain such a great success. A big thank you also to all the staff and volunteers who helped out with the install x

Take a sneak peak at behind the scenes as we install our latest exhibition, Love in Times of Pain…

Congratulations to all the winners of the third Journal Culture Awards held this week at Northern Stage.

Click here to view photos of the night.