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Live Drawing Event

Carlo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:49:38 +0000

This weekend we will holding a live window drawing event in The Gates Shopping Centre. 9 artists and illustrators will be let loose on a bunch of empty shop windows for two days. Feel free to pop down and have a wander but if you do miss this weekend the work will be left up for a while.

Artists:

The Cloud Commission
Andrew Waugh
Creative Ginger
Brucey
Morning Skyrail
Rat Pasty
Laura Bohill
Graeme Metcalfe
James Adair

Event Info
The live drawing will take place in a public shopping mall at the artist’s own pace.
The following are allocated times for during in which the artists have access, it’s not a strict working timeframe.

Live drawing will take place between these times
Saturday 4th Feb – 10am – 5pm
Sunday 5th Feb – 12pm – 4pm

Poetry: The Old Cinema Launderette

Carlo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:13:22 +0000

An awesome little spot in Gilesgate (yes it is actually a laundrette) and a great venue for spoken word and the like. The 2nd event is coming this Saturday featuring Ira Lightman, Claire Morgan, Tom Kelly, Bob Beagrie, Chris Stewart, Arabella Arnott and Linda Anna-Maria Laura Mace-Michalik.

More details here

Website here

Exhibition: NAGAS

Carlo — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:41:09 +0000

This sounds interesting, we’ll be having a look…

“Newcastle & Gateshead Art Studio are delighted to present an exhibition of selected Studio Members work at Sanctuary Artspace, St.Edmund’s Chapel, Gateshead.

The exhibition comprises of 6 members work consisting of highly representational oil paintings of figures and landscapes, vibrant and expressive abstract and loose and character-filled acrylic paintings and sculptural work.”

Full details here

Gig: This Is The Kit

Carlo — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:04:46 +0000

Promoter A Deer For Your Lamb is back with this little beauty at The Fishtank in Durham on Monday 27th…

“We’re happy to announce the eagerly awaited return of This Is The Kit to Durham will be happening at our first show of 2012. they will be of FULL BAND and also have the mighty Rozi Plain joining them as tour support. “

Nice as a nut. Full details here

Farewell / hello!

Carlo — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:01 +0000

Today we say farewell to the wall piece created for last year’s Open by Matt Sewell and The Cloud Commission (Sad face)… but next week we say hello to a brand new piece by The Cloud Commission (happy face).

This will be the third year running that we have handed the space over to The Cloud Commission. At the 2nd Empty Shop Open he took the space on himself, last year he worked along side Matt Sewell and this year he is going solo again launching his new style – as you can imagine we are canny excited.

If you want to see some images that haven’t been passed through a highly addictive phone app click here

Check out Matt Sewell’s work here

Check out The Cloud Commission’s here

And come to the event on Friday 27th, it’s gonna be a blast! Event info

Exhibition: 4th annual Empty Shop Open

Carlo — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:29:30 +0000

Established in 2009 The Empty Shop Open is a new tradition for the North East art scene and our flagship event.
Opening on Friday 27th January and running until the following weekend the show provides an opportunity for all artists based in the area to present work of any media in a totally independent, high profile exhibition in Durham city.

We’re also presenting a number of other exhibitions across the building:

1) Artist Neil Armstrong has been invited to produce a site specific installation using found and reclaimed materials in The Pink Room.

2) Taking place at the Open we have a second opportunity for people to see Julia Tryon’s “The Scaled House” the latest installation in our Stairwell Gallery.

3) Open Studios over the 2nd Floor of Empty Shop HQ

4) And finally we’re delighted to welcome back firm favourite and Empty Shop stalwart, The Cloud Commission, who is creating an original wall mural. Very, very exciting!

click for full size image

All welcome and it’s free to attend
Preview: Friday 27th January | 6pm – 10pm
Open daily: Saturday 28th – Sunday 5th | 12pm – 4pm