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| By the early 1990s the Gallery’s international profile was firmly established with a series of major touring exhibitions of Edvard Munch’s work including the curatorship of the Frieze of Life exhibition at the National Gallery, London. The Gallery continues to initiate high profile exhibitions with touring links in America, Japan, Greece, Italy and Germany while maintaining an annual programme of exhibitions by artists of regional and national distinction. The Gallery specialises in contemporary painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography exhibitions, as well as historic and thematic loan exhibitions from national collections. |
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8 January – 19 February 2010
JANE BOWN: Exposures
A Life in Black and White. Sixty years of Jane Bown’s extraordinary portraits for The Observer
A new exhibition by one of Britain’s best-loved photographers, including previously unseen portraits of Lauren Bacall, Cecil Beaton, John Betjeman, Robert de Niro, Holly Hunter, Mick Jagger, Jayne Mansfield, Rudolph Nureyev, and many more... opens at the University Gallery, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne on the 8 January 2010
JANE BOWN’S first photograph for The Observer was published in December 1949, beginning a career with the newspaper that has spanned six decades. Now, for the first time, previously unpublished pictures, the ones that didn’t make it on to the page, are brought together in this definitive collection of her work.
Of the 100 assignments included in the exhibition and the accompanying book, over half the pictures used are alternative or unused images from portrait sessions for which Jane Bown is already well known. After every shoot the ‘definitive’ image used tended to be chosen by the picture editor, sometimes on the basis of... [ Read all ] |
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26 February – 9 April 2010 [CLOSED EASTER BH WEEKEND 2 – 5 APRIL]
ØRNULF OPDAHL: Mood Paintings of the North
It is no mere coincidence that Norway’s most distinguished landscape painters come from the west of Norway, a landscape which is marked by deep contrasts and an evanescent light. Ørnulf Opdahl lives and works on the island of Godøy on the west coast near Ǻlesund where he was born. Like Wordsworth who believed that growing up in the Lake District made him a “favoured being”, Opdahl, after years of living in Oslo returned to his home landscape for similar reasons.
The landscape of the Sunmøre Mountains and nearby fjords continues to move him profoundly. He knows the routes up to the glaciers, and the minor tracks around the fjords and the different kinds of rock on cliff faces. He knows too about the different kinds of snow and the way in which they reflect light. Indeed when Robert Rosenblum, in discussing Edvard Munch, wrote of his sensitivity to the extremes of nature’s forces “first the extinction of light in the long, dark and cold winter, and then the dramatic resurrect... [ Read all ] |
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Location And Getting There |
By Rail
All trains to Newcastle stop at Central Station. National rail enquiries can be contacted on 0345 484950. The City Campus can then be reached by taking the Metro (underground) system to the Haymarket (two stops to the North). The journey takes around two minutes and costs 80p. Trains run every 3 - 4 minutes during the day. The City Campus is a two minute walk from the Metro Station.
By Road
The City of Newcastle is reached by the A1(M) from London in the South and the A1 from Edinburgh in the North; the A19 from York and Teesside; the M6 from the South West to Carlisle and the A69 from Carlisle to Newcastle. The A167(M) Central Motorway runs next to the City Campus and is fed by all roads from the North and South. The City Campus is located in Newcastle City Centre and can be accessed from the Holiday Inn roundabout on the Central Motorway along College Street. |
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| Director: Mara-Helen Wood |
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| Exhibitions are open six days a week from Monday to Thursday 10am to 5pm, Friday and Saturday 10am to 4pm. Admission is free. Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays. |
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