Beautifully Crafted
A contemporary craft exhibition at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, will feature items from The Bowes Museum’s collections, contrasting the old and new. Single pieces by contemporary artists will be on show at The Bowes Museum; Bede’s World, Jarrow, and MIMA, Middlesbrough, creating an ‘art trail.’
Free with admission.
Date: 25 Oct 2008 - 22 Feb 2009, 10.00 - 5.00
Venue: The Bowes Museum
Location: The Bowes Museum
More information: http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk
Faith and Love: Picturing the Bible from Raphael to El Greco
This prestigious exhibition explores many of the most popular Bible stories visualised by Western artists and craftsmen. Some of the most familiar stories including the creation of the world, the temptation of Adam and Eve, the Nativity and David and Goliath will be on show.
Two of Raphael's most intriguing works will be displayed side by side, allowing a rare glimpse of the techniques used in Renaissance painting. The Madonna and Child, on loan from The National Gallery, will be shown alongside the cartoon (preliminary drawing), courtesy of The British Museum.
These works will be viewed by textiles and artefacts from the Museum's important collections, each representing a Biblical theme. Highlights include a wooden Noah's Ark and animals, a child's 3D building block puzzle and a beautiful canvas work table carpet.
Date: 11 Oct 2008 - 04 Jan 2009, 10.00 - 5.00
Venue: The Bowes Museum
Location: Exhibition Room
More information: http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk
All 4 Corners (A NECDAF exhibition)
A photographic exhibition documenting the amazing cultural diversity of the North East ranging from images taken at the Newcastle Melafestival to weddings and even restaurants in the region.
This event is part of Black History Month 2008.
Date: 27 Sep - 07 Dec 2008
Venue: South Shields Museum & Art Gallery
Location: Stairwell Gallery
More information: www.twmuseums.org.uk/southshields
The Pitman Painters
Glimpse the everyday life of the mining community in the Northumberland town of Ashington as seen through the eyes ofThe Ashington Group, known affectionately as The Pitman Painters. This unique amateur art group was founded in 1934 by local miners who recorded their thoughts and feelings far more effectively through art than words could ever express. The story of the paintings was the inspiriation for the wonderful play Pitman Painters by Billy Elliot writer, Lee Hall which has taken both Live Theatre and the National Theatre by storm.
Date: 01 Aug 2008 - 31 Mar 2010, Wed - Sun 10am - 5pm Ap - Oct then 10am - 4pm Nov - Mar
Venue: Woodhorn
Location: The East Gallery
More information: www.experiencewoodhorn.com
Faith and Love: Picturing the Bible from Raphael to El Greco
Explore the interpretation of Biblical stories by artists and craftsmen over the centuries. The exhibition will include Raphael’s The Madonna and Child, known as The Mackintosh Madonna, on loan from The National Gallery, along with the original cartoon from The British Museum.
Date: 11 Oct 2008 - 04 Jan 2009
Venue: The Bowes Museum
More information: http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk
INT: Underground: Day/Night - Meloni Poole
Day/Night is film work made in response to the closure of Annesley Bentinck Mine in Nottingham in 2000. The work consists of underground footage travelling to the coal face and back. The resulting work is like being inside a monster, atmospheric, ghostly and out of this world. Meloni Poole is a Sheffield based artist who has written and directed several films for Channel 4 and made a series of installation pieces for galleries. Her work often explores the harsh realities of coal-mining.
Date: 18 Oct - 23 Nov 2008
Venue: DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery
Location: Gallery 3
More information: www.durham.gov.uk/dli
Home Fires and Deepdales - Matt Sewell
Matt Sewell is an illustrator and artist who originally hails from County Durham and is currently based in London. His work draws on his rural heritage, fusing fairytale-like narratives, psychedelic landscapes with a symbolic treatment of animals. Matt's favored media have changed through the years, his natural style finding itself equally at home on people's feet with his own range of Gravis footwear, and also on animated adverts for 3. Matt has produced illustrations for The Guardian, 55 DSL, BBC and K-Swiss and hand-painted murals for organizations such as Puma, Selfridges, Magma and Topman in Oxford Street. For this exhibition Matt has produced a series of new works inspired by his home County of Durham and is part of Design Event 08 the North East's annual design festival. Go to www.design-event.co.uk for
Date: 18 Oct - 23 Nov 2008
Venue: DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery
Location: Gallery 2
More information: www.durham.gov.uk/dli
Tim Brennan - The Great North
This atmospheric series of photographs by Tim Brennan explores how geography, personal memory and social history intersect. In the tradition of the seascape, the images depict the North Sea, where most of the North's unmined coal still resides. The photographs in the exhibition have been created using a low-resolution mobile phone camera which when enlarged beyond clear definition, the images become hazy and impressionistic, suggesting the more abstract works of Turner. Tim Brennan is viewed as one of the most important artists to contribute to the social and political role of contemporary art, particularly around minimalism, performance and land art. He is Programme Leader for MA Curating at the University of Sunderland.
Date: 18 Oct - 23 Nov 2008
Venue: DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery
Location: Gallery 1
More information: www.durham.gov.uk/dli
