July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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Thanks to all who turned up to the opening of...
SPECTRUM:WHITTLEHOGARTHPRATTTREND runs until Sat 11 June, With SPECTRUM Almanac launch and closing event Fri 10 June 6-8PM at NewBridge Space.
Hugh Dichmont visits SPECTRUM
In the 3rd of our guest writers visits, we were pleased to welcome Hugh Dichmont to the studios for what has become a typically relaxed day musing over arty things. Hugh is currently an artist based in Nottingham and also reviews editor for a-n Magazine. His artistic practice covers a number of different forms including drawing, performance and text-based work and he has also worked as part of an...
April 2011
4 posts
Adam Hogarth asks Mike Pratt 20 (shit) Questions
Mike Pratt: Batman
Mike Pratt is an artist currently living and working in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has recently had a number of solo exhibitions including Extraospazio, Rome and Workplace Gallery, Gateshead as well as a number of shows as part of the JAMBON arts collective. In a recent Q&A between Mike Pratt and Adam Hogarth (Spectrum co-founder) we get an insight into Mike’s dreams,...
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Studio visit and interview.
(image taken in Thomas Whittle’s studio, 2011)
Thomas Whittle and Sebastian Trend met in Whittle’s studio to get to grips with his practice. They discussed instant reaction, the arbitrary as an artistic aim, and the inevitable failure in realisation.
Thomas Whittle: I always think that it doesn’t really make much sense to discuss my work verbally.
Sebastian Trend: How would you like to...
Spectrum meets Paulette Terry Brien.
Paulette Terry Brien. Co-director of The International 3, Manchester.
Armed with two portable heaters on a chilly day in March, the Spectrum collective welcomed Paulette Terry Brien, co-director of The International 3 Gallery in Manchester for a day. Her mission: to look around The NewBridge Street Studios and Gallery, meet the gang and then get her teeth into Mike Pratt’s exhibition that was on...
Cathy chews the fat with Spectrum
Cathy Lomax, co-director at Transition Gallery, London.
Recently we were privileged to receive a visit from Cathy Lomax, co-director of Transition Gallery and brains behind Arty and Garageland magazines. Cathy is the first of five writers featured in this year’s almanac to visit Newcastle and meet the Spectrum artists, chew the fat over a pint and get a look around the NewBridge Street Space...
February 2011
8 posts
Spectrum exhibition opening.
It has been decided that the Spectrum exhibition is to be moved from March 18th to May 14th to coincide with the Newcastle Late Shows. Kick-off at 6pm and show runs until June 11th with the 1st Almanac being released at the start of June.
Hope to still see you all there.
Adam x
Follow SPECTRUM on Twitter and Facebook.
The Spectrum group can now be added on both Facebook and Twitter with regular updates and information on the upcoming group show and almanac release.
Click on links to follow…
http://twitter.com/#!/SPECTRUMalmanac
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199121633434713
Adam Hogarth video shown at Barkollo with Moving... →
Follow the link to have a look at one of the video pieces shown at Barkollo (a new Moving Gallery space) by Adam Hogarth on the 7th Jan until Feb 1st 2011. This was part of a larger installation including art work by Sebastian Trend.
Barkollo is a bar/gallery space situated on Leazes Park Rd, NE1 4PG.
http://vimeo.com/17183265
Mike Pratt, current solo show. →
Mike Pratt current solo show at Workplace Gallery, Gateshead. Exhibition runs from 15th Jan-12th Feb 2011. Follow the link for more details and information on how to find Workplace Gallery.
http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/exhibitions/_32/
January 2011
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(Spektrum)
A spectrum (plural spectra or spectrums) is a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but can vary infinitely within a continuum.
One might talk about the spectrum of political opinion, or the spectrum of activity of a drug, or the autism spectrum. In these uses, values within a spectrum may not be associated with precisely quantifiable numbers or definitions. Such uses imply...