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A Thing of Wonderful Thingness: Malerei Exhibition at Newbridge Space

‘Thingness’. Now, that’s a good word. It’s a real word too, you can use it in Scrabble, and yet a definition of ‘thingness’ is almost impossible to convey. ‘Thingness’ fails spectacularly in its mission to adequately communicate the thought/feeling/experience it’s supposed to express. The Newbridge Project’s latest exhibition Malarei: Painting as Object is an exploration [...]

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Northern City Renaissance by Stephen Hannock

Sting Woz Ere: Northern City Renaissance at the Laing Art Gallery

The latest exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery, Northern City Renaissance, centres on a painting commissioned and unveiled by international rock royalty, famously experimental shagger and secret Geordie, Sting. Described by the curatorial folk at the Laing as a ‘celebration of Newcastle, past and present’, Northern City Renaissance is a fairly epic artwork depicting a [...]

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