Side Cinema screen Somewhere to Disappear
Richard Hook: Parking Expired
Hatch Arts present an exhibition by Richard Hook at The Gallery, Gateshead Central Library, Prince Consort Road, Gateshead, NE8 4LN from 13 January – 10 March 2012.
Parking Expired is an exhibition of images which capture the demolition of the iconic Trinity Square carpark in Gateshead.
Photographer Talk: Daniel Meadows
Butlin's Filey, Yorkshire, 1972, Daniel Meadows
We are delighted to announce that Daniel Meadows will be visiting us in the new year to deliver the next of NEPN’s photographers talks on Monday 16 January at 18.30 at the Mining Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Daniel Meadows’ career as a documentary photographer, oral historian and teacher spans four decades and he is recognised as a prime-mover in an important group of photographers who spear-headed the 1970s independent photography movement.
The highly-acclaimed exhibition, Daniel Meadows: Early Photographic Works is showing at The National Media Museum Bradford until 19 February 2012. The exhibition features five of his best known projects including: The Shop on Greame Street, 1972; Butlin’s by the Sea, 1972; June Street, Salford, 1973; Nattering in Paradise, 1984 and The Free Photographic Omnibus 1973-74, which saw Meadows on an extraordinary journey, photographing the English as he travelled the country in a double-decker bus.
Meadows is a Lecturer in photography and participatory media at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. From 2001-2006 he was Creative Director of the pioneering digital storytelling project Capture Wales. He was awarded a PhD in 2005.
The talk will be followed by refreshments and informal discussion in the Institute’s Library. Please note the new start time for this programme.
Talks are free and all are welcome. Please email: carol.mckay@sunderland.ac.uk or amanda.ritson@sunderland.ac.uk to confirm you are attending.
The Shop on Greame Street. Angela Loretta Lindsey, aged 8, with her brother Mark Emanuel Lindsey. Moss Side, Manchester, March 1972, Daniel Meadows.
‘Somewhere to Disappear: Alec Soth’ screening at Tyneside Cinema
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Ever wonder what it would be like to escape society and live your life in solitude?
Photographer and Curator Steven Philip Brown is seeking your support to screen acclaimed documentary ‘Somewhere to Disappear’ at the Tyneside Cinema. Film-makers Laure Flammarion & Arnaud Uyttenhove followed internationally respected photographer Alec Soth across America in search of modern day hermits for his most recent photographic project, Broken Manual. These individuals find peace in unaffected places of the country, whether it be a cabin in the mountains, a dark cave or in the expansive desert. Each chose to live in a different way. Did they deliberately make this choice? Do they regret it? What are they really looking for? Did they find it?
Sound interesting? If you would like to see the film on the big screen, then with your help we can make a premiere screening of this film possible in the North East. It would be a rare and unique opportunity to see Somewhere to Disappear on the big screen as it would be only one of two screening in the UK, the other taking place in London. All you need to do is donate £8, the ticket price for a seat at a private premiere screening at the Tyneside Cinema at 1PM on Sunday 22 January 2012.
To view the pitch at Crowdfunder click here and donate. All donations must be recieved by the 8th December 2011. If we do not reach the funding target, all donations will be refunded.
Visit the facebook event page here.
For more information on the film including the synopsis visit www.somewheretodisappearthefilm.com
Photographic responses to The Lit & Phil: reading group session – 29 November
Dawn Felicia Knox, The Silence Room
An NEPN reading group session will take place on Tuesday 29 November 2011 at 17.30 in the Loftus Room of the Lit & Phil, Newcastle upon Tyne. We will hear from artists Dawn Felicia Knox and Laura Guy about their NEPN commissions in progress with the Library and Society, and from Donna-Lisa Healey who is currently creating a series of photographic portraits of society members. We will be joined by Chair of The LIt & Phil board Paul Gailiunas.
All are welcome to join us though places are limited. If you are hoping to attend please email: carol.mckay@sunderland.ac.uk to let us know.
Practitioner Talks: Melanie Manchot
Melanie Manchot, Dance (All Night, Paris)
Melanie Manchot will be delivering in next of NEPN’s photographers talks on Tuesday 22 November 2011 at 6.30pm at the Mining Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne. The talk will be followed by refreshments and informal discussion in the Institute’s Library.
Please note the earlier start time.
Talks are free and all are welcome.
Melanie will be speaking about her recent work, her approach to portraiture and the role of her subjects as active collaborators.
http://www.melaniemanchot.net/
Brenda Burrell, Twenty Years Later at Decisive Moment Gallery
‘Brenda Burrell inhabits and documents the uneasy survival of a coastal pit village from the inside, its uniquely English architecture and vibrant, indefatigable people.
After a spirited struggle, the mine, one of the most productive in Europe, was finally closed in 1991, putting a whole community out of work, its buildings, and all surrounding supply industries shattered and then bulldozed.
The twenty intervening years has seen photographers Simon Norfolk, John Davies, Sirkka Liisa Konttinen and the Billy Elliot filmmaker Lee Hall walk the streets, comb the now beautiful deserted beaches, making art where the pit waste once was dumped.
This latest, ongoing series of works shows the younger inhabitants of the village twenty years after the pit was forcibly closed, those whose fathers were barely toddlers themselves during the days of coal, the neatly dressed windows and weather-washed streets embarking on a new century.’
The exhibition is at the Decisive Moment Gallery at Darlington Arts Centre until 17 December 2011. Open Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 12-6pm and Saturdays 10-4pm.
or more information visit:
http://www.brendaburrell.co.uk
http://www.mediaworkshop.org.uk/
Community without Propinquity at MK Gallery
7 October – 27 November 2011
Commissioned artist Laura Guy has recently been involved in the curation of an exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery which explores the roles of contemporary art and communities in New Towns across the globe. The project opens with an an exhibition and a video programme and will present during the exhibition period, six new artist’s commissions, a research laboratory, publication and symposium on the 26 November.
Artists in the exhibition include: Paulo Catrica, Nathan Coley, Cao Fei, Jesal Kapadia, Wayne Lloyd, Vincent Meessen, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Pia Rönicke and Stuart Whipps.
http://www.mkgallery.org/education/projectspace/
Fields of Vision at Side Gallery
Paul Alexander Knox, from The Space Between
NE-based photographers Paul Alexander Knox and Aaron Guy are included in a major exhibition exploring the northern landscape at Side Gallery until 8 October 2011.
‘The centre of power so long situated in the South East, there is a rich complexity to the ways in which the northern landscape has been used to project oppositional ideas – untamed wilderness to industrial blight, heroic monumentalism to abandonment and social cost. There’s a sense of ‘the other’ in the North: an honesty of experience somehow defined against southern sophistication, the dishonesty of power more plainly revealed. It is no accident that there is such a resonant relationship between documentary photography and the North. Side Gallery playing its own part in that, Fields of Vision explores the ideas of northern landscapes revealed in its photographic collection.
Aaron Guy
Between C19th Northumberland photographer John Pattison Gibson and new practitioners Paul Alexander Knox and Aaron Guy, the exhibition opens up on work by Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, John Davies, Marketa Luskacova, Chris Killip, Ian Macdonald, Paul Caponigro, Martin Parr, Isabella Jedrzejczyk, John Kippin, Sally-Ann Norman, Simon Norfolk and many more.’
Common Ground: MA Photography Exhibition
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Exhibition open: Monday 3 October 2011- Friday 14 October 2011, 10AM-4PM.
Reception: Friday 7 October 2011, 6-8pm
The ten photographers exhibiting have come together from across the world, and represent countries as diverse as Thailand, Pakistan, Estonia, New Zealand and Italy and the counties of Britain including Cumbria, Northumberland, Yorkshire and Durham. They met at Sunderland to create a collection of photographs and personal testimonies which document and celebrate their journey during the MA Photography.
The work created comes from each individuals experience and looks at issues of memory and loss, social and community environments, faith and symbols. The work provides a common ground of criss-crossing threads concerning issues that enquire into the heart and soul of contemporary living.
Vardy Gallery
University of Sunderland
Ashburne House, Ryhope Road
Sunderland SR2 7EF
