Newcastle upon Tyne
Your guide to art in Newcastle upon Tyne
Artists on Show in Newcastle upon Tyne
Galleries / Art Spaces / Organisations
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead citizens have good reason to be proud of the Baltic with its friendly, airy architecture and excellent exhibition spaces (and ladies: don't omit a trip to the 6th floor loos, surely one of the most glamorous washrooms this side of Beverly Hills). The Baltic's unabashedly crowd pleasing winter 2006 gallery programme comprises four shows, each with its own distinctive sense of humour (see details below).
Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle
The Hatton is the University of Newcastle upon Tyne's art gallery. Primarily given over to temporary exhibitions, it also shows selections from its permanent collection of 3,500 historic and contemporary works of art.
Locus+
Formed by members of 1970s Newcastle artists' collective the Basement Group, Locus+ is the motor behind an impressive list of works by a diversity of artists, from young, relative unknowns to internationally famous names (including that of U.S. maverick Chris Burden and London favourite Richard Wilson). Locus+ develops shows and other artists' projects in the Tyneside area and around the world. An exhibition archiving its activities goes on view at the Hatton Gallery in February-April 2007 and Belfast in June 2007.
Vane, Newcastle, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
These young galleries represent the work of rising artists to local, national and international audiences.
Waygood Gallery and Studios
An artist-run gallery and studios located in Grainger Town, part of Newcastle's cobbled city centre, Waygood is currently undergoing renovation and will reopen in 2008. Temporarily rehoused in premises in Byker, it will maintain a visual presence at its normal site via a shop window turned cinema: from October 20, passers by will be able to view artists film and video works from the street.
