Archive 2010-11

Katrina Palmer & Claire Makhlouf Carter

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:00:00 BST

Katrina Palmer is a sculptor who writes fictions and tells stories as a way of engaging with the problematics of contemporary objecthood. Claire Makhlouf Carter is an event-based artist, who creates scripts as part of her practice.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:13:58 BST

Neville Gabie

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:00:00 BST

With a background in sculpture, Neville Gabie's practice has always been driven by working in response to specific, usually urban, contexts beyond the studio.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:18:11 BST

Hannah Rickards

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:00:00 BST

Hannah Rickards explores the relationship between natural phenomena and our experience of them, often through a process of translation in which acts of nature are rendered in to sounds, texts, spoken word, gestures and installations.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:20:27 BST

Daniel Sinsel

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:00:00 BST

“My work consists primarily of sculptures and paintings. They inform each other and their boundaries often blur. I am interested in a refined finish and aspire to a distilled and reduced beauty."

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:23:32 BST

Hannah Robinson

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Gallerist Hannah Robinson established, Mary Mary, Glasgow in April 2006. The gallery opened with a solo show by Karla Black and has since organised a programme of exhibitions and events.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:27:06 BST

Lise Autogena

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Lise Autogena is an artist, living in London, and a lecturer in Fine Art at University of Newcastle. She came to England from Denmark in 1987 to pursue a career as a glassmaker for which she gained an international reputation.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:29:32 BST

Jon Wood

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Dr Jon Wood studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and works at the Henry Moore Institute where he coordinates the research programme and curates exhibitions and collections displays.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:32:12 BST

Mark Leckey

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Mark Leckey was born 1964 and is based in London. He graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic, now Nothumbria University in 1990 and is currently Professor of Film Studies, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:34:29 BST

Paul Becker

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Paul Becker is an artist and art writer who has recently moved from Berlin to Newcastle upon Tyne. Becker uses art, historical and storybook references as source material for his painting.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:36:35 BST

Hannah Maybank & David Wightman

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Hannah Maybank and David Wightman have recently commenced their fellowship at the Gymnasium Gallery and will be discussing their work following an introduction by the residency coordinator Matthew Walmsley.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:40:48 BST

Vanalyne Green

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Vanalyne Green is an American artist who primarily works in video and film, though recent years have seen her experimenting with conceptual works that include sculptural objects.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:42:47 BST

Sacha Craddock

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Sacha Craddock is a London-based writer, curator, teacher and critic. She is currently the curator for Sadlers Wells Arts Centre and co-curator for the Bloomberg Space as well as advisor for various galleries on their exhibition programs.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:45:02 BST

Melissa Gordon

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Melissa Gordon is interested in how historic images and narratives are used and represented, and in the assumptions about them that exist and continue to evolve.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:47:17 BST

Michael Corris

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Michael Corris is an artist and writer on art and is currently Professor of Art and Chair of the Division of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, Dallas.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:49:20 BST

Uta Kogelsberger

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Uta Kogelsberger is an artist based in London and lectures at the University of Newcastle. Originally German from Belgium she moved over to London to study first at St Martin’s.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:52:00 BST

Mark Leckey

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Mark Leckey was born 1964 and is based in London. He graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic, now Nothumbria University in 1990 and is currently Professor of Film Studies, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:54:28 BST

Eric Bainbridge

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Eric Bainbridge graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic in 1977 and later from the Royal College of Art in 1981 with a MA in Sculpture.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:56:44 BST

James Hugonin

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:00:00 BST

Hugonin’s paintings are composed of marks of close toned colour with an underlying grid, each mark shifting slightly from its neighbour and building to a rhythmic whole.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:59:18 BST

Lisa Le Feuvre

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 11:00:00 BST

Lisa Le Feuvre is an independent curator and writer and the Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:02:21 BST

Sarah Pickering

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:00:00 BST

Sarah Pickering researches truth versus verisimilitude through the medium of photography. Her unmanipulated images preserve actions whose causality and construction seems to be part of an alternate, but no lesser, reality.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:05:05 BST

Paul Johnson

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 11:00:00 BST

Through variously sourced images, Paul Johnson creates portraits and symbols that stimulate imaginary associations.

Last modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:06:56 BST