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A group of postgraduate artists from the Master of Fine Art course at Northumbria University are taking over one of the spaces at Vane. They're throwing their work in the air and seeing how it lands.
The title ‘Slowing into Form’ comes from an article by Eyal Weizman, Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, entitled ‘The Political Plastic’, in which Weizman describes architecture and infrastructure as having an elasticity: that they are fundamentally responsive in nature. This is also reflected in the way that many visual artists respond to each other’s work: ideas and processes bouncing off each other, gradually evolving, growing, taking cohesive shape. This exhibition marks a point in that ongoing conversation between this group of artists, with work ranging across video, sculpture, photography, performance, sound and installation.
Vanessa Anthony, Hannah Barker, Allen Barret, Julie Louise Bemment, Kat Bevan, Elizabeth Black, Rob Bowman, Francesca Casimir, Grace Denton, Simone Gandhi, Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton, Samuel Curtis Johnson, Sophie Keith, Ricardo Lopes, Mark Lyons, Melissa MacPherson, Dan McGee, Kitty McMurray, Alexander Nicholas, Murray Thompson, James Watts
Vane is open Wednesday-Saturday 12-5pm, admission free.
Vane was founded in 1997 in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. Vane opened a permanent gallery space in Newcastle city centre in 2005. In October 2011 Vane launched a gallery space on the first floor of Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim Street in the centre of Newcastle. Vane represents the work of a number of artists, both from across the UK and internationally, as well as showing the work of invited artists in collaboration with other galleries. The gallery directors are Paul Stone and Christopher Yeats. Vane is supported by Arts Council England.
