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2016 / 17 IMPACT REPOrT Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Supporting Information EXHIBITIONS 2 Impact Report 2016/17 Supporting information / Exhibitions Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Supporting information / Exhibitions 3 EXHIBITIONS Shipley Art Gallery South Shields Museum & Art Gallery EXHIBITION DATES EXHIBITION DATES Dry Run 2016 28 – 27 May 2016 South Shields Digital Group: An Explosion 30 April – 20 August 2016 Gateshead Art Society 2016 12 November 2016 – 28 January 2017 of Digital Photography Always Ready for 150 Years 21 May – 17 September 2016 Companion Pieces 18 February – 21 April 2018 The Centenary of the Battle of Jutland 28 May – 1 October 2016 Renoir’s St Tropez 18 June – 28 August 2016 Discovery Museum Battle of the Somme Centenary 29 June – 1 October 2016 Jarrow 1978: A Town through the Lens 27 August 2016 – 21 January 2017 EXHIBITION DATES JMW Turner’s Shields on the River Tyne 8 September – 10 December 2016 Usdaw: 125 Years Strong 30 April – 29 May 2016 The Jarrow Crusade: Marching into History 1 October 2016 – 26 February 2017 Homes & Hopes 4 May – 5 June 2016 International print Biennale: Birgit Skiöld 8 October – 17 December 2016 Stitch Stitch Stitch 6 July 2016 – 29 January 2017 A Greek in Egypt: the Hunter from Naukratis 22 October 2016 – 26 February 2017 Dominion Geordies in World War One 19 August – 13 November 2016 Brushstrokes in Time: Local History Revealed in Art 21 January – 30 April 2017 Newcastle’s Motorcycle Pioneers 28 August – 19 September 2016 South Tyneside Young Artist Award 1 February – 30 April 2017 Armstrong’s to the Arctic: 16 September - 13 November Boldon Book 11 March – 3 June 2017 The 100th Anniversary of the Icebreaker Krasin Project Godie: Revealing a Forgotten 1 October 2016 – 31 January 2017 Chapter of North East History Great North Museum: Hancock Movement 1 October 2016 – 9 January 2017 Enigma & the North East 17 October 2016 – 1 April 2018 EXHIBITION DATES Fabricating Histories: An Alternative 19th Century 12 November 2016 – 21 May 2017 Harvesting the Sun 23 April – 10 July 2016 Newcastle University BA Fine Art Show 4 – 17 June 2016 North East Wildlife Photography Competition 2016 14 July – 12 September 2016 Laing Art Gallery Inside Skin: Conversations between Art and Science 6 - 9 September 2016 International Print Biennale 19 September – 30 October 2016 EXHIBITION DATES Save Our Magnificent Meadows 1 November 2016 – 31 January 2017 The Possibility of … 29 April – 26 June 2016 Bones: Skeleton Secrets of the Animal World 4 February – 14 May 2017 Alice in Wonderland 14 May – 2 October 2016 Wanderlust: the World in Watercolour 16 July 2016 – 17 December 2017 Segedunum Roman Fort Rosie Morris: Circles are Slices of Spheres 1 October 2016 – 8 January 2017 Out of Chaos 15 October 2016 – 26 February 2017 EXHIBITION DATES Richard Hobson: the North East’s 5 November 2016 – 5 February 2017 Hadrian’s Wall on Tyneside 23 April 2016 – 1 March 2017 Changing Industrial Landscape Khyal: Music and Imagination 5 – 16 November 2016 Modern Visionaries: Van Dyck And the Artist’s Eye 28 January – 4 June 2017 Quentin Blake: Inside Stories 11 March – 8 July 2017 2016 / 17 IMPACT REPOrT Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Supporting Information FRIENDS, AssOCIATES & SOCIETIES 5 Impact Report 2016/17 Supporting information / Friends, Associates & Societies Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Supporting information / Friends, Associates & Societies 6 The Arbeia Society Excavations Friends of the Hatton Friends of the Laing Art Gallery A number of members took part in a weekend trial Although the Hatton Gallery has been closed for (FLAG) The Arbeia Society membership now stands at 55. dig in the North Marine Park, South Shields prior refurbishment, the Friends of the Hatton continued While not having monthly lecture meetings, as in In 2016-17, FLAG once again followed its successful to enhancement work due to start in the park later to offer a programme of events and lectures over the the past, the Society makes an important programme linking supper lectures to current gallery this year. The foundations of a former Coastguard course of the year. contribution to the world of local history and exhibitions with talks by the relevant curators on station were unearthed and examined. Many archaeology by taking part in excavations and There were some changes to our core team as Jean the Out of Chaos and Van Dyck exhibitions. We members of the public turned out to try their hand holding the Annual Conference. Taylor and Kelsey Thornton, two long-standing have also had talks on local notables such as the at archaeology; it proved to be a very good public and integral parts of our committee, have retired Dixon Brothers of Rothbury and Mary Eleanor Annual Conference relations event and we hope this can be built upon in to pursue other interests. However, we have Bowes, with others based on artists whose works The 2016 conference was held as usual in the future years. Customs House Theatre in South Shields. The welcomed two new volunteers that joined us in July: appear in the Gallery such as Henry Perlee Parker Cohors Quinta Gallorum participants enjoyed a whole day of presentations on Tomke Kossen-Veenhuis as our Events Coordinator and Edward Lear. This is the re-enactment wing of the society and, the ‘Building of Hadrian’s Wall’; David Breeze, and Rebecca Whitcombe as our Talks/Lectures As well as financial support for the Out of Chaos although small in numbers, continues to take part in Nick Hodgson, Paul Bidwell, Peter Hill and Jon Coordinator. We look forward to their programme exhibition and the Quentin Blake: Inside Stories, we events across the country. Allison spoke of the many aspects of this huge over the forthcoming year. give our time in many capacities. Our volunteer construction project. Our events and lectures were varied this year. guides continue to offer free Saturday morning J Frazer, Chair Our 2017 conference to be held on 18 November We started with a joint event with the Natural talks on our chosen Picture of the Month, as well from 10am-5pm, will again be at the Customs House History Society of Northumbria involving a as weekday pre-booked tours for organised groups, and a number of leading figures in the world of fascinating tour of their collections and continued such as U3A across the region. There is a Friends with a still life workshop with Jenny Purrett, desk operated by Friends to enhance the visitor archaeology will discuss ‘Peace and War on the Roman Northern Frontiers’. bookmaking with Caroline Coode, printmaking with experience of the Gallery. Vhairi Cardinal and Caroline Coode, and a mixed For the Van Dyck exhibition, many have been acting media workshop delivered by Clare Money. Simon as guides and invigilators within the exhibition Court held a lecture on artist Hassan Musa. galleries to support the Gallery staff; this will Friends of Discovery Museum We are currently assisting the museum with the Hatton Staff were invited to present an update on continue with the upcoming Paul Nash exhibition. acquisition and removal of the 1960s heating, the gallery in February that included presentations This has been another successful year for our group Our day trips, which are very popular with our ventilation and air conditioning control panel from from Julie Milne, Lindy Gilliland, Zoe Allen, and of retired professional engineers. We are currently members, took us to Threave Castle near Carlisle, Newcastle Civic Centre. This control panel will be Rachel McDermott. Finally, the Friends held a working with the TWAM Volunteer Coordinator, to Edinburgh to visit the Splendour of the Celts displayed in the Discovery boiler house as part of Members Only small works show in the Long Gallery Anita Moffitt, to attract more members to whom we exhibition, and to Harrogate Christmas Market with the behind-the-scenes building tour and features in in the Fine Art Department for the month of July will offer engineering and electronics skills training. the successful FODMs led monthly “Arcs & Sparks” a welcome sprinkling of snow. Further Christmas with a total of 23 members presenting 50 works. celebrations included a wine tasting and lunch at the We have now completed the Reece Foundation tours of the basement electrical collections store, Assembly Rooms. Summer visits to Aydon Castle, funded “Energising Exhibits” project, motorising the which we are seeking to expand. Bywell House, Ripley Castle and Newby Hall were 19th century Sturtevant ventilating fan in Science FODMs were again involved in staging the annual bathed in sunlight, increasing our enjoyment of the Maze. Our members assisted Discovery Museum Northumbria Young Engineer Designer and day. Our spring holiday this year was to Suffolk and with the grant application, technical specification Technologist Competition, organised in conjunction was, as usual, a packed itinerary of country houses, and installation work. We look forward to further with the Rotary Club of Hexham, Northumbria quaint towns, art galleries and cathedrals with a work and grants in this area. University and Discovery Museum. This brings comfortable hotel providing respite at the end The Conservation team has provided training to GCSE and A-Level students to Discovery Museum to of each day. All of this work goes to support the allow us to tackle a wide range of cleaning tasks. partake in a day long competition. FODMs provide Laing Art Gallery. The interactive exhibits, which are much used by the prizes and help with the organisation and judging. visitors, need regular work. Social visits have been made to the Swaledale Pat Devenport, Chairman We also maintain the “Penny Presses” at Discovery Museum, Locomotion Railway Museum at Shildon, Museum and across TWAM. The machines are Killhope and Nenthead lead mining museums, and now operating more often and generating income.