A new exhibition will be opening his Friday in Spennymoor. The exhibition see 4 artists’ responses to Teesmouth. Covering a variety of mediums it features work by friends of Empty Shop Chris Webb and Chrisse Morgan. Things kick off this Friday from 6pm – 8pm and the exhibition runs til 29th August. Spennymoor Leisure Centre Arts Resources High Street Spennymoor DL16 6DB

Empty Shop HQ studio holder Susan Mortimer is broadcasting her performance piece Walk The Line live on the World Wide Web and at an exhibition in Cornwall tonight. Susan has previously done a webcast of the piece as part of her MA and has been asked by the organisers of Art Hub, Falmouth at The Poly gallery to produce a repeat performance and webcast it You can see this from 6.30pm – 10.30pm this evening at http://livestre.am/2NII

The FreeBirds is an arts collective with an eclectic and ever rotating line up of members. Consisting of artists of all ages and backgrounds the group is brought together by studio membership at Empty Shop HQ and a shared creative ethic. This inaugural show features work by a number of the current FreeBirds and was curated by Empty Shop’s exhibition coordinator Jonny Atkinson. James Adair Toby Lloyd Susan Mortimer Paul Raymond Carlo Viglianisi Meinir Wyn Jones James Adair - Untitled James Adair - Untitled James Adair - Untitled Meinir Wyn J.

The Chip Sessions: #423 in an occassional series of shameless plugs for events that we believe in and would like to bring to your attention. Empty Shop ambassador, musician extraordinaire and all round good chap Joe Lowdon is putting on Newcastle’s newest and most original electronic music night. A monthly event showcasing the best of digital music and such you should expect dirty beats, filthy dubs and more old video game hardware than you can shake a Wii remote at… August 10th Kings Manor Newcastle 9pm onwards Follow the link belo.

I’ve known Andy for 10 years now, we met at Art College and have been good friends ever since; an illustrator and script writer, he has always been brilliantly creative and to his credit, very very modest. Over the last two years that he has flourished creatively and is making a big impression in the small press scene with a strong portfolio of work for the likes of NARC and Dodgem Logic. He is also a member of Paper Jam Comics Collective who have created a special ‘Art’ edition of their ‘…and that’ antholo.

As many of you may know from past blog posts we’ve been looking for some help for a little while. The search was initially only for one role; a company administrator. However, after a series of eclectic interviews, where we met a whole bunch of interesting individuals, we decided to bring in not one but three people to help Empty Shop. The new faces are Faye Mulligan, Jonny Atkinson and Linda Mutunga. Faye Faye Mulligan is going to be doing our general admin. She will offer vital support making sure everything runs like clockwork. Faye wi.

Ok this is going to be a long one so for those of you who can’t be bothered to read the breakdown here it is in a nutshell – Friday 23rd July Massive night of art Set over two venues 4 exhibitions Paper Jam comic book launch Salford Zine Library in the North East for the fist time Poetry & performance Loads of fun Times Durham Art Gallery: 6pm – 8pm – then onto Empty Shop HQ: 8:30pm – 10:30pm ***We will gather at Empty Shop HQ at 5:45 to lead people up to the Durham Art Gallery, so join us there first and w.

Have you recently thought this?… “I wish there was a sizzling cast of contemporary, pioneering musical and digital motion graphic artists to evoke, provoke and delight in Durham very soon” …well if you have then your in luck! This July ex-FreeBird Ste Walker is bringing exactly that with aBrassive, part of the Brass Festival that is currently going down in Durham. It should be dead good and that – we are going so see you there. What? aBrassive When? Sat 17th July | 7pm – 11pm Where? Durham Live (formerly Wal.

Empty Shop is filled simultaneously with sadness and joy in announcing the availability of a studio space in our fabulous FreeBird towers, Empty Shop HQ. Steven Walker aka 50ftfootlonghorse is flying the nest due to a change in circumstances and direction. We’d like to thank Ste for his contribution to Empty Shop in the last year, starting with Shock of the Used he’s consistently supported both the organisation and us as friends. We wish Steven great luck all future endeavours and look forward to developing collaborati.

We have installed a plugin to make our website work as a mobile site when accessed through a mobile device. It’s apparently touch optomised too soo should work nicely on iphones and other touch phones,  I’ve tested on a few phones but would be keen to hear if it works ok on yours and if you encounter any problems. Feel free to let us know either way by leaving a comment here, preferably using your mobile so we can see if mobile comments work too. The next stage is making the site back compatible with the ancient Internet Explorer .