Helen Schell
7-12 September 2013
In her solo exhibition ‘Moon-shot: First Woman on the Moon’ Helen Schell examines the myths, quasi facts and bizarre theories that exist around space exploration. Schell presents us with a space myth of her own: has a woman been to the Moon?…
Holly Antrum, Nadia Hebson, Winifred Knights, Titania Seidl
25 May – 29 June 2013
Titania Seidl, Nadia Hebson and Holly Antrum (with Rose O’Gallivan) respond to the legacy of little-known British artist Winifred Knights (1899-1947)…
EC Davies
13 April – 18 May 2013
In ‘A stitch in time’, EC Davies shows a selection of new works including video, animation, print, photographs and sewn objects. Davies works with images of herself and found objects that reflect and communicate aspects of her thought processes through the act of making…
Stephen Palmer
7 February – 23 March 2013
For his third solo exhibition at Vane Stephen Palmer has produced a series of drawings based on clippings from daily newspapers. The depicted stories are not strictly speaking ‘news’ but rather they look to update or reanalyse historic events…
Michael Mulvihill
7 February – 23 March 2013
‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ stands as an ironic title for Michael Mulvihill’s first solo exhibition for Vane, comprising a series of drawings that reveal the artist’s dark, apocalyptic vision. The tiny scale of the drawings refers to the online thumbnails from where the images have been appropriated…
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…
Ellie Harrison
1 November – 17 December 2011
Ellie Harrison is an artist who looks at the numbers. As artist in residence at Wunderbar, her solo exhibition at Vane and collaborative projects during the festival tread the line between the sublime and the ridiculous, between creation and activism…
Simon Le Ruez
20 October – 17 December 2011
For Simon Le Ruez’s second solo exhibition at Vane, the artist presents a new body of work including painting, sculpture, installation, and drawing. The show’s title suggests something definitive, a collision of ideas perhaps…
Adam Burns
20 October – 17 December 2011
For his first solo exhibition at Vane, Adam Burns presents a series of complex and elusive abstract paintings, exploring both the psychology and the emotional impact of colour…
Adam Burns, Simon Le Ruez
20 October – 17 December 2011
As part of the International Print Biennale, newly commissioned print editions have been produced by Adam Burns and Simon Le Ruez…
20-22 January 2011
‘Yummikraut’ brings together twenty-two artists studying under painter Kerstin Drechsel, guest professor in fine arts at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and curator of this exhibition of new work, whose first UK solo exhibition, ‘Jan-Holger’, was at Vane in 2008…
George Hladik, Martin Holland, Richard Loskot, Ales Loziak, Frantisek Janys Novotny, Libor Svoboda
1-18 December 2010
‘Distance zkreslena’ is about being in a strange new place far from home and the manipulative power of global media…
