Posts in 2017
Artificial Ignorance

Mark Lyons
10 November – 16 December 2017
Working across drawing, printmaking and digital imaging, Mark Lyons is interested in the role of emerging technology in the production of art and its relationship to more traditional modes of making…

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Asparagus

Suzan Pitt
10 November – 16 December 2017
Suzan Pitt’s 1979 animated film, Asparagus, is a candy-coloured nightmare that rocked audiences when it premiered in an installation at the Whitney Museum, New York…

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Man or Mouse?

Tommy Keenan
10 November – 16 December 2017
Tommy Keenan analyses the figural representations of hyper-masculinity experienced in modern culture. Often the work is an examination of macho male stereotypes that seeks to disrupt them…

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Parallel Lives

Morten Schelde, Flora Whiteley
10 November – 16 December 2017
For ‘Parallel Lives’ Morten Schelde and Flora Whiteley have each made a series of drawings. Schelde and Whiteley have made their work separately, in Copenhagen and Berlin respectively, but with a view to bringing it together in this exhibition…

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Common Ground

Mohammad Barrangi, Amer Barzawi, Juan delGado, Ayman Nahle, Basel Shehadi, Syrialism, Wael Toubaji, Sarah Zeryab
19-21 October 2017
For ‘Common Ground’ Juan delGado has curated a programme of moving image works by and about refugees and migrants…

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Dialogus

Emma Bennett, Molly Bythell, Mark Chapman, Callum Costello, Lauren Drummond, Joe Jefford, Steven Lowery, Liam McCabe, Amy Roberts, Matt Wilkinson, Zara Worth
5-21 October 2017
‘Dialogus’ presents works by eleven artists selected from this year’s issue of Lungs magazine contributors…

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Valence

Beth Allsopp, Katerina Antoniou, Jed Buttress, Jasmine Matthews, Callum Todd, Olivia Turner
20-30 September 2017
‘Valence’ is an art/science collaboration and investigation between the Fine Art department and the Welcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research (WCMR) at Newcastle University…

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What If?

20-29 July 2017
Art in Crisis is a national programme of public events presenting artwork by artists experiencing homelessness. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it. ‘What If?’ sees the culmination of a three-month project between Crisis clients in Newcastle and local artist, Rob Haliburton…

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Vicennial

EC Davies, Michael Davies, Kerstin Drechsel, Jorn Ebner, Mark Joshua Epstein, Nick Fox, Simon Le Ruez, Dodda Maggý, Jock Mooney, Michael Mulvihill, Stephen Palmer, Josué Pellot, Narbi Price, Morten Schelde, Matthew Smith, Alison Unsworth, Barbara Walker, Miranda Whall, Flora Whiteley
13 July – 19 August 2017
‘Vicennial’ celebrates twenty years of Vane…

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Press Play and Record

EC Davies
20 May – 1 July 2017
‘Press Play and Record’ brings together a body of work created by EC Davies over the last three years. This includes video, animation, sound works and textiles, developing aspects of her collaborations with choirs in Berlin and North East England…

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This Must Be the Place

Narbi Price
11 May – 1 July 2017
Narbi Price’s work involves journeys to specific places that have witnessed a range of events – variously historical, famous, personal or forgotten…

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Exposing Form

Emma Fleming, Bea Groves, Caitlin Heaney, Mani Kambo, Melanie Kyles, Helen McClafferty, Pelumi Odubanjo, Sherene Scott, Helena Turner
9-11 March 2017
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Vane is proud to be hosting ‘Exposing Form’, curated by Caitlin Heaney and Melanie Kyles…

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Slowing into form

16-25 February 2017
A group of postgraduate artists from the BxNU Master of Fine Art course at Northumbria University are throwing their work in the air and seeing how it lands…

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Hold Tight

Mark Joshua Epstein, Stina Puotinen
13 January – 25 February 2017
In ‘Hold Tight’, Mark Joshua Epstein and Stina Puotinen invite the viewer in for a shared experience in response to recent political events in the US and UK…

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Just below the bang bang

Mark Joshua Epstein
13 January – 25 February 2017
Mark Joshua Epstein explores a sense of the baroque through the lens of exuberant abstraction. Inherent in the paintings is a kind of dandy-aesthetic, as Epstein investigates modes for thinking about sexuality…

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Idea Generating Machines

Sheyda Porter
13 January – 25 February 2017
Sheyda Porter’s ‘Idea Generating Machines’ celebrates the sculptural possibilities of discarded everyday objects as representations of the mundane world. Porter has an intimate, personal way of perceiving abandoned items…

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2017Paul Stone