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Globe Hub, North Shields
Yvette Hawkins
No Land In Particular
Exhibition: Friday 25th June to Saturday 14th August 2010
No Land In Particular is an exploration of fictional landscapes using fictional texts as both object and line. Hawkins’ cartographic intervention creates a three dimensional map where recycled book sculptures draw lines that sometimes seem to follow the gallery’s contours but also have a tendency to meander.
The geography of No Land In Particular is both real and imagined; the physical act of ’seeing’ disrupted. The result: a world interwoven with literary and physical illusion. Yvette Hawkins is an artist and writer from Newcastle upon Tyne. She makes tactile, engaging and textural sculptures and installations that transform everyday usable and familiar materials into objects that explore suggestion and secrecy.
Paul Grimmer
Changeling
Exhibition: Friday 25th June to Saturday 14th August 2010
A portal to an unspecific place opens to reveal glimpses of a seductive yet repulsive body form that constantly mutates. Changeling explores themes of control, ambiguity and the constructed self, challenging and transforming perceptions of beauty and perfection.
Grimmer’s new video installation is a trip into an unseen world where the familiar struggles with the strange and ends in the unknown. It is part of a larger body of work entitled Mutations. Grimmer’s practice encompasses video, installation, performance and mixed media works; the body his primary source material. His work is often collaborative and influenced by research from predominantly scientific contexts.
Globe Gallery @ Monument Mall
Globe @ Monument Mall sees the uncanny take to the high street in the form of Franko B’s ‘Love in times of pain: sequence two’ and Jock Mooney’s ‘Discontinued’. The installations will fill the outside windows (facing Blackett Street) of the old Boots store at Monument Mall in Newcastle City Centre.
Franko B
Love in times of pain: sequence two
Franko B’s installations are exclusively black. They evoke life, vanity, death, eroticism and pain.
The viewer encounters a taxidermist’s menagerie where long-dead animals perch for eternity on an array of found objects. Thick black acrylic covers both animal and object, binding them together in a beautifully haunting harmony. They become monumental, gloriously facing the viewer, their old selves hidden in impenetrable black cloaks.
Jock Mooney
Discontinued
A multitude of uniquely original hand produced brightly coloured sculptures are thrust together en masse creating a subversive shrine of sorts; a contradictory vision that recalls votive offerings and video nasties, schoolboy humour and schoolboy error.
Evoking deeply dark feelings reminiscent of the carnivalesque, Mooney’s “products” invite the viewer to seek out the familiar, to question the unfamiliar.
Globe Gallery offsite is a new programme of exhibitions, events and participatory projects that will breathe creativity into disused shops and empty spaces.
We would like to thank Neil Smith of Ward Hadaway for his support.
Exhibition: Saturday 15th May onwards
(visible 24 hours a day)
Monument Mall
Old Boots Chemist
Ground Floor
10-12 Monument Mall
Newcastle upon Tyne
Monday, December 14th, 2009
CRUNCH!
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 30th 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 17th 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:
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Plan Chest – Exhibition – Globe Hub
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.
NewcastleGateshead Art fair
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.
Johnston’s Falls installation
Thanks to all of the volunteers who helped with the installation of Johnston’s Falls.
End of exhibition sale
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.
Refreshments and Fine Art
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.
A big thank-you
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.
