PAST EXHIBITIONS

Miria Miria

Using found plastics as the main material, Miria creates numerous assemblages that feel at once artificial and organic. These works form immersive installations—constellations of altered ecologies—where viewers navigate between stillness and transformation.

Chroma is a group exhibiton featuring five artists, each presenting their work in a dedicated space. Through distinct practices and immersive enviroments, the exhibition explores how colour, emotion, and encounter five unique worlds, each reflecting a different sensory and emotional register, yet collectively forming a chormatic constellation of shifting perspectives.

Michael Sreenan

In 2021, Michael suffered a traumatic brain injury which resulted in various aspects of his life being affected. Some of these effects included trouble with abstract thinking, a flat emotional response, fatigue, and communication problems. ‘You Look Like You’ is an ongoing project that explores thoughts and experiences of the recovery process. Continued reflection informs the project; as life changes, the project will also change.

Samba

Samba, three old women in Japanese, was formed by three of us who all went University in our 50s and studied Fine Art amongst young UG students. We met through the TESTT studio space in Durham and worked together through group exhibitions focusing on Sustainability and Climate Change.

David Venables was born in Haltwhistle, Northumberland to a family of miners and grew up within tight-knit mining communities in the North East at a time when opportunities above ground were extremely limited for young working class men.

During the 2024 summer open call over we received over 400 submissions for the theme, which this year was ‘Environment’. To curate the exhibition we had the pleasure of inviting a guest curator, Professor Michael Archer, art critic and former head of Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and of The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

This exciting exhibition was co-created with 500 people in Redcar and the surrounding area. We invited individuals to choose and submit a photo from their phone that held personal significance. These cherished photos were then printed, mounted, and displayed in the gallery, creating an exhibition that tells a captivating slice of our lives.

Kirill “Later Works”, show a man completely immersed in art, inspired by the landscapes and townscapes of the United Kingdom, particularly the North York Moors the Scottish Highlands and of Europe, especially Greece.

This was an exciting inaugural summer exhibition in Redcar. It presented and celebrated a wide range of works from across the country and beyond. 

Exhibition was opened from 7 July - 26 August 2023   

What warm and incredible support the gallery has received from many Redcar born artists. They have helped with all the pre-refurb work and shaping the place to be an intersection point for artists and for raising and listening to our voices about changes or simply expressing our appreciation.