Nick Fox
24 November 2012 – 2 February 2013
In ‘Nightsong’, Nick Fox’s second solo exhibition for Vane, and the first exhibition to occupy all of our gallery spaces, visual representations of longing are explored through an examination of pictorial and symbolic narratives drawn from a hybrid of artifacts, mythologies and timeframes…
Mark Joshua Epstein
5 October – 17 November 2012
With ‘All of me is asking, all of me is thinking…’ at Vane, and ‘Pardon me for asking, pardon me for thinking…’ at the Customs House Gallery, South Shields, New York based artist Mark Joshua Epstein presents distinct but related bodies of work…
Susan Aldworth, Alessandro Altavilla, Kevin Mitchinson, Camille Ormston
20 September – 20 October 2012
‘Reassembling the Self’ is an exhibition on two sites, the Hatton Gallery and Vane in Newcastle upon Tyne, curated by artist Susan Aldworth. Centred in a study of the condition of schizophrenia, it weaves together art, science, psychiatry and individual histories…
Hannah Campion
16 August – 15 September 2012
‘Shift’ is a solo exhibition at Vane by our first artist in residence, Hannah Campion. Campion began her residency in January, and has recently been developing work for the exhibition within the gallery space itself…
Jock Mooney
10 May – 30 June 2012
Jock Mooney constructs a world populated by grotesque characters, weird animals, lurid flowers and morphed effigies of historical, mythical and religious figures…
23 March – 28 April 2012
‘Apropos the Kissing of a Hand’ forefronts the Festival Robert Walser. The exhibition at Vane consists of the work of eleven national and international artists who share a fascination with one of the major figures of modernist literature…
Sneha Solanki
1-31 March 2012
‘Super-natural’ brings together science, art, history and technology as a starting point to this ongoing project. The work makes a connection between two points in time, the peak in witchcraft from the cusp of the enlightenment period in Western history and the emergent molecular genetic sciences of today…
Marina Zurkow
1-31 March 2012
‘Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK)’ is an algorithmic, animated landscape portrait, representing the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England. One hour of world time elapses in each minute of screen time, so that one year lasts 146 hours…
Kerstin Drechsel
19 January – 17 March 2012
Kerstin Drechsel’s investigation of everyday culture, artistic production and individual taste is orientated towards the rhythms of popular music, film and daily occurrences. From cross-dressers to sex club devotees, office workers to nuclear protestors, Drechsel captures intimate personal moments of individuals or sub-culture groups…
