Helen Schell
10 September – 3 October 2015
In ‘Yellow Giant’ Helen Schell has worked with leading solar physicists to present a series of large and dramatic artworks exploring features of the Sun and of solar science…
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
25 July – 5 September 2015
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the opening of the gallery, ‘Ten’ showcases the work of nineteen international artists…
Paul Jex
20 June – 25 July 2015
To launch Vane’s new Project Space, Paul Jex is exhibiting work from his Institute of Monochrome Art (IOMA). Each piece consists of the pairing of two artists who have worked, or continue to work in a single colour and explores, documents and questions the monochrome and the artists’ interest in it…
Dawn Felicia Knox
20 June – 25 July 2015
‘Working the Stasis’, by artist Dawn Felicia Knox, is an exploration of the tension between objects and the biological processes that work to degrade them. The point of investigation is Hadrian’s Wall, stretching across Northern England…
Simon Le Ruez
1 May – 20 June 2015
Simon Le Ruez’s third solo exhibition at Vane presents works carefully and seductively choreographed within the space in response to the artist’s growing desire to construct in situ work…
George Chakravarthi
21 February – 21 March 2015
A Globe Gallery presentation hosted by Vane, ‘Thirteen’ is a photographic installation by London based artist George Chakravarthi. Commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, to mark the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth…
Alison Unsworth
29 October – 13 December 2014
For her first solo exhibition with Vane, Alison Unsworth presents new work created during the last six months – developed from found objects, such as souvenirs, street furniture, and photographs…
Matthew Smith
29 October – 13 December 2014
For his second solo exhibition at Vane, Matthew Smith has conceived a multi-layered landscape of works, a hybrid of the manmade and natural environment that examines the intersections between these two polarities…
Zanne Andrea, Blue Curry, Ian Goncharov, Kate Hawkins, Sam Potts, Jacob Sheader
1-4 October 2014
The bleu Project aims to blur the dividing line between undergraduate and postgraduate artists in a collaborative exhibition. ‘Trans-it’ embraces the role of the contemporary, travelling artist…
Kraig Wilson
10 July – 9 August 2014
In the centenary of World War One, Kraig Wilson presents an exhibition of photographic portraits of serving gay army personnel. Vane is proud to have ‘Utopia’ included in the official events programme of this year’s Newcastle Pride…
Michael Davies, Kerstin Drechsel, Jorn Ebner, Nick Fox, Jock Mooney, Michael Mulvihill, Morten Schelde, Alison Unsworth
27 June – 9 August 2014
‘In and out of windows’ is an exhibition bringing together a diversity of international artists’ approaches to printmaking…
Maria Chevska
29 May – 5 July 2014
Maria Chevska’s solo exhibition consists of a large series of recent paintings, From the Diary of a Fly, and collage sculptures on plinths entitled Muniments. In her paintings and three-dimensional collages, Chevska explores both media’s capacities to shift and evolve ideas…
Stu Herring
25 April – 17 May 2014
In ‘Existence Experiments’, Stu Herring exhibits the preparatory drawings of his recent performances as well as drawings of unrealised or imaginary projects. Herring creates work to expand his personal understanding of existence and society…
LUME Projects
25 April – 17 May 2014
LUME Projects (Craig Mayhew, David Meadows, Andrew Potts) in collaboration with Zara Worth present ‘Eulogy’ an exhibition of work by a number of established and emerging artists practising in the North East, unpicking the enduring love affair between artist and nature…
Jorn Ebner
20 February – 29 March 2014
In his new series of works on paper, German artist Jorn Ebner is working towards the dissolution of the figurative image. His starting point is the Death Dwarf, a character from William S Burroughs’ Nova Express, who re-emerges in these works as variations of Hans Holbein’s Danse Macabre…
Kerstin Drechsel, Nick Fox, Simon Le Ruez, Dodda Maggý, Jock Mooney, Michael Mulvihill, Stephen Palmer, Narbi Price, Morten Schelde
30 January – 1 March 2014
‘Between fact and fiction’ juxtaposes artists who make work that documents real-life situations with those that construct their own imaginary or fantasy worlds…
Sista Pratesi
9 November – 14 December 2013
In her solo exhibition, ‘The Shining of Our Design’, Sista Pratesi creates an installation of paintings that explore the power of belief systems and the structures that are created to enforce them…
Lisa Watts, David Kefford
31 October – 14 December 2013
To initiate ‘Skittish’, live artist Lisa Watts wrote a provocation, or description, concerning her ideas, to certain curators, that then inspired the selection of sculptors with whom she would work…
Lady Lucy, Jacqueline Utley, Flora Whiteley
19 September – 26 October 2013
An international touring exhibition that takes its title from American poet, novelist and art collector Gertrude Stein’s modernist, abstract text, Tender Buttons (1914), a group reading of which provided the catalyst for the project…
Narbi Price
19 September – 26 October 2013
For his solo exhibition, ‘Shan’t Quit’, Narbi Price presents a series of paintings and lithographic prints of the locations of the Whitechapel, London, ‘Jack The Ripper’ murders of 1888, based on photographs of the sites as they are today…