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cold weather catch-up!

Crazy weather we’ve been having, eh? The semi-arctic conditions in Sunderland and Newcastle mean that things have been a little bit slow around the gallery these days, giving me time to finally follow-up on the Re-make/Re-model install! Installation was completed just in time for the exhibition preview (whew!), thanks to the combined efforts and…

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Installation wrap-up, and more

Well, between Jenny's last post and now, a lot has happened - this is the second month of the exhibition (my how time flies!) and we've been busy giving talks, tours, and answering the questions of visitors as they walk around the gallery.  Because the painted walls (Lothar Goetz's  House of Rainer Werner Fassbinder ) are actually a part of…

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Installing Waste Not, Want Not

  Hey everyone. I’m Jenny, one of the gallery invigilators. I’ve been helping install the new exhibitions for two days now -- it’s definitely a nice change of pace to be working on lots of different hands-on tasks, instead of doing my regular, much quieter job of monitoring the gallery.    So far, we’ve been doing lots of prep…

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Testing, testing...

Hello, my name is Elizabeth.  I'm one of the gallery staff who will be helping to install the Re-make/Re-model exhibition over the next two weeks.  However, since I will not be working on that until Saturday, at the moment I am most looking forward to Jacob Dahlgren's Tin Can Dinner on Friday night. Dahlgren, the artist for whom the dinner has…

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Re-make/Re-model exhibition changeover

The Glass Delusion ends this weekend and next week the Programme team will be busy taking the show down and preparing the gallery for our next exhibition, Re-make/Re-model. Our invigilators are an important part of the team and they will be doing alot of the practical work, as well as assisting the artists who are coming to install their work. Read all…

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