Posts in 2016
Triangular surface areas

Anna Gatjal
17 November – 17 December 2016
In ‘Triangular surface areas’ Berlin based sculptor, Anna Gatjal, presents a new installation that explores the complex relationship between the material world with its physical limitations and the seemingly unlimited possibilities of the mathematical and virtual realm…

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2016Paul Stone
Half-light

Nick Fox
17 November – 17 December 2016
‘Half-light’ brings together a body of work created by Nick Fox over the last three years, including new paintings, sculptures and cyanotype prints. The works function as a mirror to the artist’s emotional life, charting Fox’s enduring motivations of longing, desire, seduction, love and loss…

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2016Paul Stone
Mutations

Andrius Erminas
17 November – 17 December 2016
Vane is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in the UK by Lithuanian artist Andrius Erminas. In ‘Mutations’ Erminas creates multi-layered sculptural compositions that transform the everyday, using easily recognised objects, both natural and man-made, to create new and personal stories…

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2016Paul Stone
Contactless

Nick Christie
17 September – 29 October 2016
Nick Christie records the subtle, liminal marks and gestures made during the processes of drawing and printmaking. In his recent series of Solarplate and mono prints, the whirls and tracks of the artist’s smeared fingerprints form images that explore the constantly changing nature of everyday communications…

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2016Paul Stone
Vox Pop

Christopher Rollen
13 August – 3 September 2016
In ‘Vox Pop’, Christopher Rollen explores various ways of presenting both personal and collective histories. Doegen Revisited (2012-15) is an audio-visual archive of sixty-six etchings and recordings of Germany-based British expatriates’ voices made in response to the sixty-six British and Irish voices in Wilhelm Doegen’s Lautarchiv (sound archive), recorded between 1916 and 1918…

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2016Paul Stone
Integrated Systems

Gilbert Brohl, Oliver Dehn, Fabian Freese, Christina Gay, Thomas Jüptner, Jens Kloppmann, Heike Mardo, Ulrike Pisch, Marcia Raquel Székely, Gerard Waskievitz
13 August – 3 September 2016
‘Integrated Systems’ presents the work of ten artists represented by Michaela Helfrich Gallery in Berlin…

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2016Paul Stone
Second Glances

Michael Davies, Nick Fox, Stephen Palmer, Narbi Price, Flora Whiteley
23 July – 30 August 2016
The five artists in ‘Second Glances’ each approach the figurative in art with a unique vision…

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2016Paul Stone
Barbaric Comedies

Bigas Luna
8-12 June 2016
‘Barbaric Comedies’, curated by Betty Bigas and Santiago Fouz Hernández, showcases some of Bigas Luna’s controversial video artwork, including the famous short Necklace of Flies and the five-piece video installation ‘Barbaric Comedies’…

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2016Paul Stone
Transparent Things

Deb Covell, Leo Fitzmaurice, Lee Machell, Jo McGonigal
18 May – 12 June 2016
‘Transparent Things’ presents works by four artists whose work is united by a deep interest in exploring materials. Each artist displays a reductive yet playful approach, which they use to create, works that question their chosen materials’ inherent properties and limitations…

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2016Paul Stone
Seeing a Who

Michael Mulvihill, Elizabeth Saveri
18 May – 12 June 2016
‘Seeing a Who’ brings together Gateshead based Michael Mulvihill and Pasadena, USA based Elizabeth Saveri, artists who both explore big themes through the medium of miniature paintings and drawings. After Vane, the exhibition will travel to ArtHelix in Brooklyn, USA…

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2016Paul Stone
Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia

Afsoon, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Hushidar Mortezaie, Malekeh Nayiny, Taravat Talepasand
23 April – 4 June 2016
‘Vinyl Icons: Persian Pop and Turkish Psychedelia’ is a unique presentation of art inspired by the popular music of pre-revolutionary Iran and Anatolia. Curated by Sara Makari-Aghdam, a young North East England based curator of Azeri-Turk, Persian and English descent…

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2016Paul Stone
AV Festival 2016: Meanwhile, what about Socialism?: Crusade

Tim Brennan
27 February – 27 March 2016
In summer 1996, artist Tim Brennan spent 25 days walking 298 miles along the route of the Jarrow Crusade. Fragments of material were prepared by the artist and collected en route. Now eighty years since the Jarrow Crusade, this archive is re-presented, to bear witness to the 21st century…

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2016Paul Stone
Present Continuous

Flora Whiteley
14 January – 19 February 2016
In ‘Present Continuous’, Flora Whiteley presents new paintings that continue her investigation into filmic and stage-like spaces, combining layers of source material to create enigmatic, suggestive scenes…

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2016Paul Stone
Who Are You and What Do You Want?

Jock Mooney
14 January – 19 February 2016
In ‘Who Are You and What Do You Want?’, Jock Mooney presents an elaborate tableau of sculptural objects, drawings and sound, that functions as a personal reflection on the artist’s life…

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2016Paul Stone
The Nude Ignity

Oliver Braid
14 January – 19 February 2016
Oliver Braid’s work has been led by attempts to answer a question first posed by writer, raconteur and gay icon, Quentin Crisp in 1981: how, if at all, may an object express its maker?…

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2016Paul Stone