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11/03/11 Seven days to go!
Elizabeth and Jenny are busy helping with the installation of Facade at the moment, so I'm going to fill you in on how things are going. Rob, the curator, is up from London, all the artworks have arrived and are being stored in our Art Store, and the main jobs at the moment are preparing the gallery. There's a lot of painting going on! The walls…
Read postNot-so-buried treasures
Last week marked the beginning of Janet Lambert's exhibition Small Finds , which is a display of more than 2,000 small objects collected by Lambert in the North Pennines over the last 10 years. The objects are displayed hanging from nails, each enclosed in a little plastic bag on which is written the date and location where it was found. The…
What's in a name?
Often (and especially in contemporary art) the title of a work of art can give the viewer some insight into the artist's intended message, or a clue as to what they were thinking of when they created the piece. The lack of a title can also mean something - perhaps that the artist prefers for the work to speak for itself, rather than dictating how the…
good mornings
Before the Glass Centre opens to the public at 10am, I usually get into work at 9:30 to switch on all the video screens and computers in the Waste Not, Want Not and Kaleidoscope galleries, and start up all of Darren Banks’ TV monitors and DVD players. For the rest of the day, the gallery is filled with sounds of the Rolling Stones playing “Not…
Something old, something new
One little-known fact about the Glass Centre is that we do not have our own permanent collection of objects. Our building is large, yes, but not large enough to share its studio area with the kind of specialised spaces required to properly store historical objects and works of art. This means that every exhibition, large or small, must be entirely…
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