About Vane
Established in 1997, Vane operates a gallery space, as well as a flexible workspace for artists to develop new work. Vane is based within the Orbis Community of creatives in Gateshead town centre.
Vane represents a group of critically engaged artists from the North East of England, across the UK, Europe and the USA through projects at the gallery and elsewhere. The gallery exhibition programme also provides a platform for the work of invited artists at all career stages, often working in partnership with other regional, national, and international galleries, festivals and guest curators, including hosting projects developed by artists themselves.
Beyond the gallery, Vane has presented projects across the UK and internationally, including in Denmark, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA.
Creative Director: Paul Stone
Programme Manager: Jonpaul Kirvan
Directors: Julie Crawshaw, Paul Stone, Christopher Yeats
Contact us
Vane
Orbis Community
65 High Street
Gateshead
NE8 2AP
United Kingdom
Email: info@vane.org.uk
Tel: +44 (0)191 490 1294
Vane Contemporary Art Ltd
Registered in England and Wales
Co. No: 04313545
Plan your visit
The gallery is open Wednesdays to Saturdays, 12-5pm during exhibitions.
Free Entry
We’re 5 minutes walk from Gateshead Metro and Gateshead Interchange bus station and 5 minutes walk from Newcastle over the Tyne Bridge.
Exhibitions
Collettivo Treppenwitz / Camilla Parini
3-5 May 2024
Experience a personal tapestry of memories, family and identity with renowned Swiss artist Camilla Parini. ‘je suisse (or not)’ invites audiences on a one-of-a-kind journey…
Abdullah Qureshi
Preview: Tuesday 21 May 5-8pm
22 May – 15 June 2024
Rooted in traditions of abstraction, Abdullah Qureshi incorporates gestural, poetic, and hybrid methodologies to address autobiography, trauma, and sexuality, through painting, filmmaking, and immersive events…
Jock Mooney, John Mooney
29 February – 23 March 2024
Jock Mooney and John Mooney RSA, son and father, are exhibiting together for the third time. The exhibition features a mixture of drawing and sculpture in response to the creative prompt of ‘Not in Service’…
Thomas Allison, Rolina Blok, Alex Schady, Elizabeth Wright & others
15-17 February 2024
‘You know you want to’ transforms the gallery into a public studio. Visitors to the space are invited to make with us on a series of public artworks displayed for the duration of the exhibition…
Halla Einarsdóttir, Logi Leó Gunnarsson, Eygló Harðardóttir, Brák Jónsdóttir, Joe Keys, Martha Lyons Haywood, Una Björg Magnúsdóttir, Amanda Riffo, Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir
30 November – 16 December 2023
‘Closed Enough’ is an exhibition of nine artists based in or associated with Iceland…
Tessa Boffin, Phyllis Christopher, Sunil Gupta, Stuart Linden Rhodes, Charan Singh
Curated by Abdullah Qureshi
26 October – 18 November 2023
‘Unlimited Intimacy’ is a group exhibition that frames the 1980s and 1990s as a politically charged time for LGBTIQA+ histories and movements…