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The Bubble: Empty Shop Open Review

Nick — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:51:52 +0000

Our friends at The Bubble came along to the opening of the 4th annual Open and produced a really well written piece in response to the show. It’s a bit of a mixed bag in terms of what they thought of the work but their interpretation of the show as a whole and Empty Shop in general are pretty faithful to our intentions, so give it a read and make up your own mind.

http://w ww.thebubble.org.uk/art-photography/reviewed-4th-annual-empty-shop-open#!page=1

*Correction, The Bubble article refers to Neil Armstrong’s piece as “The Wasp Room” whereas it’s actually titled “Today I’d like to lie down and become a wasp’s nest”

Live Drawing Event

Carlo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:49:38 +0000

This weekend we will holding a live window drawing event in The Gates Shopping Centre. 9 artists and illustrators will be let loose on a bunch of empty shop windows for two days. Feel free to pop down and have a wander but if you do miss this weekend the work will be left up for a while.

Artists:

The Cloud Commission
Andrew Waugh
Creative Ginger
Brucey
Morning Skyrail
Rat Pasty
Laura Bohill
Graeme Metcalfe
James Adair

Event Info
The live drawing will take place in a public shopping mall at the artist’s own pace.
The following are allocated times for during in which the artists have access, it’s not a strict working timeframe.

Live drawing will take place between these times
Saturday 4th Feb – 10am – 5pm
Sunday 5th Feb – 12pm – 4pm

Poetry: The Old Cinema Launderette

Carlo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:13:22 +0000

An awesome little spot in Gilesgate (yes it is actually a laundrette) and a great venue for spoken word and the like. The 2nd event is coming this Saturday featuring Ira Lightman, Claire Morgan, Tom Kelly, Bob Beagrie, Chris Stewart, Arabella Arnott and Linda Anna-Maria Laura Mace-Michalik.

More details here

Website here

Exhibition: NAGAS

Carlo — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:41:09 +0000

This sounds interesting, we’ll be having a look…

“Newcastle & Gateshead Art Studio are delighted to present an exhibition of selected Studio Members work at Sanctuary Artspace, St.Edmund’s Chapel, Gateshead.

The exhibition comprises of 6 members work consisting of highly representational oil paintings of figures and landscapes, vibrant and expressive abstract and loose and character-filled acrylic paintings and sculptural work.”

Full details here

Gig: This Is The Kit

Carlo — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:04:46 +0000

Promoter A Deer For Your Lamb is back with this little beauty at The Fishtank in Durham on Monday 27th…

“We’re happy to announce the eagerly awaited return of This Is The Kit to Durham will be happening at our first show of 2012. they will be of FULL BAND and also have the mighty Rozi Plain joining them as tour support. “

Nice as a nut. Full details here

Farewell / hello!

Carlo — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:01 +0000

Today we say farewell to the wall piece created for last year’s Open by Matt Sewell and The Cloud Commission (Sad face)… but next week we say hello to a brand new piece by The Cloud Commission (happy face).

This will be the third year running that we have handed the space over to The Cloud Commission. At the 2nd Empty Shop Open he took the space on himself, last year he worked along side Matt Sewell and this year he is going solo again launching his new style – as you can imagine we are canny excited.

If you want to see some images that haven’t been passed through a highly addictive phone app click here

Check out Matt Sewell’s work here

Check out The Cloud Commission’s here

And come to the event on Friday 27th, it’s gonna be a blast! Event info