March 2012
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Exhibition
Watercolour Gems
Some of the biggest names in British watercolours of the 18th and 19th centuries are included in the Laing’s new display from the collection. Watercolours by Thomas Girtin, JMW Turner, John Sell Cotman and David Cox demonstrate the atmospheric effects of light and weather which made British watercolours famous.
16 Jul 11 - 30 Jun 12.
Exhibition
Barnaby Barford, the Big Win: A Modern Morality Tale
Barnaby Barford, the artist who creates unique ceramic narrative pieces reflecting today’s society, has been commissioned to produce a series of sculptures at the Laing Art Gallery.
Producing six out of the seven sculptures, Barford left the completion of the seventh for the Laing’s visitors to contribute their own ideas of how the story should end. Using some of the ideas provided by the public, Barford has made the last sculpture, which forms the final piece of the story.
The Big Win: A Modern Morality Tale tells the story of a ‘layabout’ striving to live a celebrity lifestyle who wins the lottery. Charting his rise and fall as his money runs out, the sculptures will explore our insatiable appetite for celebrity culture and living beyond our means. Loosely based on the narrative of ‘A Rake’s Progress’ by 18th century artist William Hogarth as well as the themes inherent within the Laing’s 18th and 19th Century Permanent Collection, Barnaby Barford’s The Big Win also depicts contemporary society’s problems and experiences such as gambling and luxurious living.
To see some ideas, please visit our Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/laingartgallery/
10 Sep 11 - 2 Sep 12.
Exhibition
The Station Gardens and wildflower meadow
The Museum now has its very own Station Gardens, and next to the old railway track there is a new wildflower meadow which is a haven for local wildlife. Take a stroll around the grounds of the Museum to enjoy the Victorian cottage gardens and the flora surrounding the new Wagon Shed.
19 Oct 11 - 19 Dec 12.
Exhibition
Cullercoats: An artists’ colony by the sea
The small fishing village of Cullercoats was once the centre of a thriving artistic community. Its story is told through a selection of artworks from the North Tyneside Council and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collections.
A number of the paintings from this exhibition are available to buy as prints from our online Artprints service - click on the painting titles below to find out more:
North Shields by Stephen Brownlow
Cullercoats from Tynemouth by JW Carmichael
Launching the Cullercoats Lifeboat by Robert Jobling
Anxious Times by Robert Jobling
Hermaphrodite Brig by George Balmer
Early Morning off Coast by Henry H Emmerson
22 Oct 11 - 15 Apr 12.
Exhibition
The Wagon Shed
The new Wagon Shed at the Sidings holds two railway wagons which originate from the early 20th century and which have been carefully restored.
One is a Covered Carriage Truck built at Darlington in 1939 and the earliest surviving example of its kind. This wagon was used to transport cars, and now houses a gleaming 1963 Rover P4 car, on loan from the National Motor Museum Beaulieu.
The other wagon is a 10-ton Goods Brake Van built at Shildon Wagon Works, County Durham in 1916.
The Wagon Shed has interactive displays and films of what life was like when these important vehicles were in use.
22 Oct 11 - 31 Dec 12.
Exhibition
Athletes and Olympians
To coincide with the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012, this exhibition will bring together a selection of portraits of great British sportsmen and women of recent years.
Drawn from the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection, Athletes and Olympians will feature portraits of well-known sporting stars, many of whom have won medals at previous Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Highlights of the exhibition will include photographic portraits of Olympic gold medallists Dame Kelly Holmes and Sebastian Coe, and boxing world champion Amir Khan. Also included in the exhibition will be a digital portrait of award-winning swimmer Duncan Goodhew, a series of 24 drawings of Sir Steve Redgrave by renowned artist Dryden Goodwin and Sam Taylor-Wood’s video portrait of David Beckham sleeping.
Unique vintage prints of Kitty Godfree, a world top ten tennis player in the 1920s and Cecilia Colledge, a 1930s Olympic figure skater, will also be on display.
A National Portrait Gallery exhibition.
21 Jan - 8 Apr 12.
Exhibition
Northern City Renaissance
Centred on Sting’s commissioned painting 'Northern City Renaissance, Newcastle, England' (2004-2008) by leading contemporary American artist Stephen Hannock, this exhibition will show scenes from the Laing Art Gallery’s collection depicting the Tyne’s sites of industrial shipbuilding and coalmining history.
Northern City Renaissance is a celebration of Newcastle past and present. Like many modern cityscapes, old and new architecture combine to form a mix of monuments to particular moments in time. At the heart of the painting is the contemporary, marked by the Sage music centre and Gateshead Millennium Bridge, signifying the region’s recent regeneration through culture. Embedded in this modern-day cityscape are, also importantly, references to Newcastle’s industrial past. Closed shipyards line the river and former coalmines located towards the horizon are mapped with areas of light. Burning brightly, the lights signify the boom in industry on the Tyne, as well as anticipating its eventual decline during the 1970s-80s.
Stephen Hannock works within a tradition of 19th century American painters such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church, known collectively as the Hudson River School. These in turn took inspiration from British masters such as J M W Turner and John Constable. The artist is represented by Marlborough Gallery in New York and London. For more infomation about Stephen Hannock, please visit his website: http://www.stephenhannock-northerncityrenaissance.com/pages/details.html
21 Jan - 6 May 12.
Exhibition
Art for Sunderland
This exhibition tells the story of how the paintings collection at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens was formed, and has developed over the past 150 years.
Highlighting influential figures including Thomas Dixon, a Sunderland born cork-cutter who persuaded Dante Gabriel Rossetti to donate two drawings for the opening of the art Gallery; John Dickinson, who gave the largest single bequest of paintings in 1908; through to L.S. Lowry, who was a frequent visitor to Sunderland in the 1960s and 1970s.
Prints of some of the artworks in this exhibition are available to buy from our online shop - click on each painting title to find out more:
Sunny Climes, Tahiti, by Nicholas Chevalier
Fruit by William Duffield
Old Sunderland by Thomas Marie Madawaska Hemy
Esther Denouncing Haman to King Ahasuerus by Ernest Normand
Snow on Tunstall Hills, Sunderland by David Thomas Robertson
Egyptian Musician by Knighton C. Warren
28 Jan - 5 Jun 12.
Exhibition
Shakespeare in Art
To celebrate the 175th birthday of Newcastle’s Theatre Royal in 2012, the Laing is hosting an exhibition which explores how Shakespeare has inspired artists for centuries.
Displaying paintings, prints and objects from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' collections, visitors young and old will recognise characters from Shakespeare’s best-known plays such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice and much more.
28 Jan - 29 Apr 12.
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