My thoughts on local arts and culture in the North East
22nd February - 1st June 2025 | Woodhorn Museum | Annual Ticket Charge Applies Northumberlaand Open Exhibition - Workshop Galleries - Woodhorn. Image: Aisling I popped along to the Northumberland Open Exhibition at Woodhorn early in March 2025, soon after the exhibition opened to the public. Unlike previous years offerings, this iteration of the exhibition … Continue reading Northumberland Open Exhibition 2025
Woodhorn Museum, Ashington - Until May 6 2024. Annual ticket - £9.50 Adult / £8.50 Concession On the night of the 27th – 28th September 2023, during storm Agnes – the first named autumn storm, disaster befell Sycamore Gap. The next morning the iconic sycamore tree was discovered to have gone over in the storm … Continue reading Sycamore Gap – Artist’s Responses to the Destruction of the Sycamore Gap tree in the Northumberland Now! exhibition at Woodhorn
Northumberland Open Exhibition - Woodhorn Museum Annual museum ticket £9.50 adult / £8.50 concession. The Northumberland Open Exhibition is an annual event at the Woodhorn Museum, in Ashington. The exhibition organisers set a different theme each year, this year it is ‘Northumberland Now’, and artists were invited to submit works for inclusion within the exhibition. … Continue reading Northumberland Now!
Kirknewton, Northern Northumberland. Inside the entrance vestibule to the church of St Gregory the Great in Kirknewton is an artwork commissioned and put in place to commemorate the centenary of the passing of Josephine Butler. Butler, niece of the Whig Prime Minister Earl Grey, was a social reformer who championed women’s rights in the latter … Continue reading The interesting artwork inside the church of St Gregory the Great, Kirknewton.
Hexham Abbey - 17 April - 13 June 2023 The exhibition of wedding gowns which are currently being displayed really is stunning. The dresses are positioned all around the Abbey Church, making walking around the exhibition easy and intuitive. The collection included a range of wedding dresses spanning from the early 1900s to the early … Continue reading A Century Of Wedding Gowns
Between 2012 and 2018 there was a project in both Epsom and Morpeth aimed at giving a proper visual memorial to the suffragette Emily Davison, this campaign marked the 100th anniversary of her death in 2013 as well as capitalising on the events of her life and her notoriety to gather in funding from a … Continue reading Emily Davison Sculpture – Morpeth
High up on the hills in upper Redesdale, Northumberland, a curious new sculpture of a goat has appeared. The goat is featured with its front legs down and head up, with its hind legs in the air, as though it has been caught in the middle of jumping down a hill or rock. It is … Continue reading The Cheviot Goat
There is a debate raging about the appropriateness of placing a monumental sculpture called Ascendant: The Elizabeth Landmark on a moorland hilltop in Northumberland. This article engages with that debate and tries to sum it up from both sides.
19 February - 24 April 2023 - Woodhorn Museum Woodhorn currently has an exhibition of art in one of its galleries which are comprised of artwork submitted from an open call to the museum. From the artwork submitted they have selected over 130 pieces from a wide range of styles and mediums. The exhibition this … Continue reading Open exhibition 2022: A Portrait of Northumberland
Hexham Abbey opened an installation of art created from origami angels suspended over the chancel of the Abbey church on 26th June 2021. Even though the installation was put in place almost three months ago now, there is no published end date yet, meaning that there is plenty of time still to pop along and … Continue reading On Angel Wings – Hexham Abbey
Aisling on Art 