Jorn Ebner
21 October – 27 November 2010
Jorn Ebner makes internet-based, photographic, print and sculptural works that reveal ordinary spaces and locations to be punctured through by tensions and contradictions. Taking the exhibition title from a phrase in Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road, for ‘Uncertainty underneath immense skies’ Ebner creates imaginary realms…
Matthew Smith
2-25 September 2010
‘The making of the landscape’ is Smith’s first solo exhibition at Vane, consisting of drawn, photographic and painted works produced over the last decade. Smith’s projects in sculpture, drawing, photography and video share a concern with fictionalised and idealised representations of nature and of place…
Nick Fox
22 April – 5 June 2010
‘Phantasieblume’ reveals Nick Fox’s aesthetic exploration of material and image, through which a nostalgic desire for a Wilde-like encoding of oppressed sexuality unfolds and is made potent…
The Gluts
5-14 March 2010
‘Café Carbon’, by The Gluts was performed (with varying degrees of success) on the streets of Copenhagen during the climate summit. In Copenhagen, people were asked to choose a dish from a menu of songs, which The Gluts then performed…
Goh Ideta
6-28 November 2009
Step into an interactive light installation and be surrounded by a glittering shower of reflections. In this new work by Japanese artist Goh Ideta, a cushioned floor is covered with thousands of mirrored tiles…
Barbara Walker
8-31 October 2009
Barbara Walker’s work addresses the personal, social and political implications of the controversial powers of the police ‘stop and search’ act. Living in Birmingham, she has witnessed at first hand a curious and potent collision of several different factors…
6-22 August 2009
Vane’s second presentation as part of the Northern Print Biennale, ‘The Kiss of a Lifetime (Part 2)’ is curated by Manchester-based artist and curator, Mike Chavez-Dawson. The exhibition features the work of over 100 artists, both internationally renowned and emerging…
Paul Becker, EC Davies, Kerstin Drechsel, Jorn Ebner, Nadia Hebson, Andrew McDonald, Jock Mooney, Stephen Palmer, Josué Pellot, Morten Schelde, Alison Unsworth
2 July – 1 August 2009
Presented as part of the first Northern Print Biennale, ‘A room inside them’ is an exhibition bringing together a diversity of approaches to printmaking…
Host Artists Group
16 May 2009
As part of The Late Shows Vane is pleased to present the latest project from Sheffield-based Host Artists Group (HAG). HAG have invited 18 artists to create sound works that are imagined, otherly and utterly alien to the gallery setting…
Zoë Anderson, Luke Dixon, Scott Hall, Adam Hogarth, Irena Krizman, Padraig Lynch, Becky Rhodes, Sebastian Trend
30 April – 9 May 2009
‘Score’ consists of work by students, graduate fellows, Graduate Studio Northumbria artists and staff from the Fine Art department at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne…
Morten Schelde
20 February – 28 March 2009
Morten Schelde’s work depicts the intersection of physical and imaginary spaces. His drawings, paintings and photographic works sample images from different media, collecting and combining them in the construction of new narratives…
Paul Becker, Jorn Ebner, Mark Joshua Epstein, Nadia Hebson, Matthew Smith, Alison Unsworth, Flora Whiteley
4 February – 14 March 2009
‘Uncommon ground’ comprises the work of seven artists exploring the ways in which our environmental conditions, both natural and man-made, affect and reflect our lives and are in turn affected by our selves and our actions…
Stephen Palmer
4-13 December 2008
Stephen Palmer’s recent paintings have catalogued his collection of free, found and received objects as a means of auditing and archiving his life through everyday mementos. For his latest project, Palmer has turned his attention to his own record collection…
Flora Whiteley
6-26 November 2008
Flora Whiteley’s paintings seem to sidestep attempts to apply narrative structures. Different links and associations appear to be made between the individual paintings but these are often superficial and lead the viewer nowhere. For her, the act of painting seems to come first…
10-25 October 2008
Unlock a code, take time to decipher, discover a secret. Hidden in Plain View is a project about what characterises people – and designers – from Northern Europe, about what connects us, differentiates us and makes us who we are…
Jock Mooney
24 July – 2 August 2008
To mark the launch of Jock Mooney’s self-titled book Vane is hosting an exhibition of the artist’s recent work. Since 2004 Mooney has exhibited internationally in a string of critically acclaimed solo and group exhibitions. Mooney’s work is also familiar to many music fans, having recently graced the covers of a number of releases…
Paul Becker
17 May – 14 June 2008
Paul Becker’s images are hard to define. What makes them so initially difficult is their apparent lack of continuity. Their themes are as multiform as the progression of a daydream…
Kerstin Drechsel
10 January – 2 February 2008
Kerstin Drechsel’s usual subjects are the capturing of intimate personal moments, of how an individual or group expresses or identifies themselves through their rituals or the environments they create around them…
Paul Becker, Nadia Hebson, Sara MacKillop, Morten Schelde, Flora Whiteley
14 December 2007
‘Vane Shorts 4’ presents the work of five artists, each of whom references or plunders found and/or historical images and artistic styles, filtering and re-working them in the process…
EC Davies, Jorn Ebner, Michael Mulvihill, Matthew Smith, Alison Unsworth
7 December 2007
‘Vane Shorts 3’ presents the work of five artists, each of whom shares an interest in landscape and the natural world, mapping and site, their approaches to which vary from the literal, to the psychological, scientific, and the satirical…
