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Temporary Exhibitions and Events
This page contains information about our temporary exhibitions and events. To find out more about our permanent exhibitions and displays, please visit the what is there to see? section.
Showing exhibitions, events and activities for July 2008.
Temporary Exhibitions:
Land & Sea
Saturday 16 February to Sunday 27 JulyMarine and landscape views, including local scenes, by Charles Napier Hemy, Bernard Hemy and Thomas Hemy.
Love
Saturday 19 April to Sunday 13 JulyFor full exhibition details, please go to: www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing/love
Ships, Sailors & Steam Trains: Carmichael & Parker's North East
Saturday 14 June 2008 to Sunday 31 May 2009Henry Perlee Parker's portraits of working people and characters from the North East coast and Newcastle are contrasted with land and seascapes by John Wilson Carmichael.
Painting in the Open Air: Ashley Jackson
Saturday 26 July to Sunday 5 OctoberYorkshire artist Ashley Jackson's haunting moorlands landscapes have made him one of the country's most successful watercolourists.
Country Delights: Life and Landscape in watercolours
Saturday 26 July to Sunday 5 OctoberViews of Northumbria and Tyneside by artists including JMW Turner, John Singer Sargent and local painter John Dobson are on show in this exhibition, which focuses on Britain’s unique historical tradition of watercolour landscape scenes ...
Untold Stories: Experimental Chinese Ink Painting
Saturday 26 July to Sunday 19 OctoberTraditional Chinese ink painting will be given a new lease of life in this new exhibition.
Water Memory
Saturday 26 July to Sunday 19 OctoberAn installation by renowned Chinese artist Song Dong. Water Memory explores the notions of memory and transience, as Song Dong writes his diary in water onto flat stones, which then dry and the characters disappear.
Events and Activities:
Saturday 12 July
Free guided tours of Love exhibition
Free guided tours of the National Gallery touring exhibition, Love, take place every Saturday at 11am.
Wednesday 23 July and Wednesday 30 July
Scrunch - World Cultures Past and Present
Make a colourful paper sculptural form based on the work of Chinese artist Do Yuan.
Wednesday 23 July and Wednesday 30 July
Scrunch
Make a colourful paper sculptural form based on the work of Chinese artist Do Yuan.
Thursday 24 July and Thursday 31 July
Paint!
Create your own watercolour painting with artist Simon Terry.
Saturday 26 July
Watercolour painting demonstrations
Artist Simon Terry will be giving demonstrations in watercolour painting in the Marble Hall.