A brief look back over the month just gone, and what’s on the horizon…

For the latter half of August, a collection of new works by JMARC Studio were on display in the High Bridge Works reception.

The works seek to pose a range of questions through the medium of sculpture, examining subject matter from the complexity of human sexuality, the travesty of loss and war, the omnipresent concept of binary and human existence, providing a tactile interpretation of the artists feeling on the human condition.

The exhibition was supported by Newcastle Contemporary Art.
You can find more information on the NCA website.

Recordings are now available online symposium which took place back in May as part of the No Last Dance painting exhibition at Newcastle Contemporary Art. 

The symposium consisted of two panels, which were chaired by the exhibition curators Helen Baker and Sue Spark. 
Panel 1: The Material of Making examined challenges artist face when making work
Panel 2: Alternative Futures reflected on the professional and educational landscape that artists need to navigate and how this could be reimagined by creatives.

You can find the two-part symposium on the NCA website, along with photographs and information about No Last Dance.

In exciting recent news, studio holder Giedre Kazlauskaite had one of her paintings, Cafe in Riga accepted into this years Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Giedre was honoured to have been selected amongst so many talented and well known names, and tells us what stuck out the most was how much the artists were celebrated, with a designated day for the artists, and being warmly welcomed by the RA staff whenever visiting the exhibition.  

In her work Giedre explores everyday social environment and tries to capture the moment before it’s gone. The selected piece, Cafe in Riga, reflects a calmness and familiarity; capturing a sense of people's presence in a fleeting moment.

You can see this work and many others on Giedre's website. 

In July we hosted Funeral Poems, an exhibition of paintings by Mark Dawson in the High Bridge Works reception. This was Dawson's first solo exhibition. 

Although he has had a life-long involvement in the creative industries as a musician, photographer and writer, Mark only began painting in 2018, following the death of his father. Mark uses the medium of painting to explore notions of grief; in particular, the role that memory plays in recounting and making sense of traumatic experiences.

The works presented in Funeral Poems aim to obscure and subvert the viewer’s gaze to encourage them to attribute their own interpretations on which hazy, distant memory or emotion the artist is attempting to recall or represent.

The show ran for several weeks and was well received by the public. 
You can see more of Mark's work on Instagram. 

We have a new artist in the building! Painter Keith Murdoch joined the High Bridge Works community back in July, and it's been great having him. In Keith's words:

"Intellectually my paintings are about Painting: the medium, the weight of history, its struggle for currentness; a medium on life-support? Yet I am inexorably attracted to things: objects, places, shapes, shadows… and have a need to paint them, or more accurately to paint my reaction to them. The works are pluralistic in that they offer a philosophical commentary on Painting and the representation of a thing." 

The work below is entitled Ser østover. 
You can see more of Keith's work on his website.

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