CHROMA
Lawrie Hutcheon, Lothar Götz, Mike Collier, C-Dyer and Miria Miria
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.
About Lawrie Hutcheon
I am a self-taught artist delving into semi-abstract interpretations of the metaphysical, with a particular emphasis on exploring concepts like time, space, and scale. My curiosity extends to cognitive neuroscience, providing insights into how the eye and brain process visual information to comprehend the surrounding world. Drawing from these insights, I aspire to craft my own techniques that evoke emotion and stimulate thought.
After years of sculpting three-dimensionally with hand-built and wheel-thrown/altered ceramic forms, I've recently shifted my focus primarily to two-dimensional work. This transition presented a notable challenge, moving from the subdued colour palettes inherent in stoneware glazes to embracing a more expansive range of colours. The impact of colour on my work has been profound, akin to the way David Hockney described the transformative effect of Californian light and colour after relocating from the often overcast West Yorkshire. Currently, my artistic exploration centres on colours and their dynamic relationships.
In addition to my present pursuits, I incorporate elements from my past experimentation with asymmetric ceramic forms. This influence is evident in both the imagery I create and occasionally in the design and crafting of unique polygonal, asymmetric frames. More developments in this direction are on the horizon.
My time is shared between my wonderful North Yorkshire Coast studio which overlooks the forever changing sea and sands and my London studio.
About Mike Collier
Mike Collier is an artist, writer and curator. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London before being appointed Gallery Manager at the ICA in London. He subsequently became a freelance curator and arts organiser, working extensively in the UK and abroad.
In 1985 he moved to Newcastle to run the Arts Development Strategy at the Laing Art Gallery, where he initiated the Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art.
He was Professor of Fine Art at the University of Sunderland for twenty years and is currently Emeritus Professor of Art and Ecology, University of Sunderland.
An exhibition of six LED pieces based on birdsong
‘How is the translation of their languages
arranged with the birds?’ Pablo Neruda
For the Chroma exhibition, Mike is showing six LED pieces based on birdsong. In this set of six circular LED birdsong pieces, the form of each piece has been loosely drawn from sound recordist Geoff Sample's sonograms of each bird. It is inspired by Dawn Choruses Mike has heard over many years in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland and celebrates the beauty and richness of birdsong.
Mike’s LED pieces are here accompanied by six commissioned poems (called airs) by Scottish contemporary poet, Gerry Loose.
About Lothar Götz
As an artist with a specific interest in space, colour, and form, I have developed a practice which spans from drawing and painting to full size wall paintings and site specific installations.
I am very much interested in how colour interferes with our perception of space and have realised wall paintings in places of diverse characters from museums to underground stations and hospitals. Site specific installations include projects for Piccadilly Underground Station, London, Haymarket Metro Station, Newcastle, The Ministry of Justice, London, Pallant House, Chichester and most recently Leeds Art Gallery.
I have exhibited nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions at Chisenhale, London, The Collection Lincoln, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven and Kunstverein/ Künstlerhaus Hanover.
About C-Dyer
STEEL SERIES I-V, Steel, Perspex and Painted MDF, 440x330mm each, 2014-2015
A series of man made artefacts, stripped from their redundant holdings within the public domain.
Re-appropriated and archivally re-presented within the white walls of 'the gallery' in order to preserve their appearance and provoke the viewer into appreciating the frequently overlooked painterly qualities of their surroundings and ultimately highlight the beauty within 21st century urban decay.
Alongside this work I also created a 1/1 book collating and preserving the sun bleached, scribbled on, ephemera of telephone boxes, acquired whilst locating the Steel pieces.
About Miria Miria
I am a cross-media artist exploring how we relate to the world around us—particularly the shifting boundaries between human and non-human realms. Though my practice includes assemblage, installation, and performance, painting remains a core part of how I think and make. I hold a First Class Honours BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MFA with Distinction from BALTIC x Northumbria University. My work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally, including solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Redcar.
For the Chroma exhibition, I present a pair of geometric abstract paintings using only black, white, green, and pink. While both works use the same palette, one draws from the deep, organic tones of Goya’s portraiture, the other from the heightened saturation of the digital cityscape. By contrasting shifts in hue, saturation, and value, I explore how colour alone can reflect the passage of time and alter our perception of reality. These paintings—like much of my work—aim to question how we read and respond to our environments, both natural and artificial, through poetic and perceptual means.