The BALTIC, BALTIC 39 and The Vane

I visited The BALTIC, BALTIC 39 and The Vane with a group of fellow art students. The BALTIC had two group exhibitions currently on, The Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017 and Starless Midnight. The New Contemporaries has ran since 1949 as a touring exhibition, it has played a significant role in supporting emerging UK based artists through accessible visibility to their work. The first four pictures below are all pieces from the New Contemporaries exhibition from various artists representing the variety of works depicted.

Starless Midnight is influenced by and commemorates Dr Martin Luther King Jr 50 years on from him receiving an honorary degree from Newcastle University. In his acceptance speech, he spoke of three urgent problems: racism, poverty and war. These three issues are what the group of artists partaking in Starless Midnight choose to confront in personal and political ways, commentating on our society today.

We also visited the Vane the very same day, I enjoyed the works of Mark Lyons for their printmaking style and scale, as his pieces were from floor to ceiling, he uses technology in art production so these images were made through a software that emulated gestural mark making without the need of any traditional print making or drawing.