- Venue
- The Mining Institute
- Starts
- Monday, May 21, 2012
- Ends
- Thursday, June 21, 2012
- Address
- Neville Hall Westgate Road Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 1SE
- Location
- North East England
‘Geological Etiquette’ is an exhibition of specially tailored artworks by Mair Hughes and Bridget Kennedy, created in response to the extraordinary library and lecture theatre at the Mining Institute in Newcastle. Hughes has chosen to re-imagine the ornate Victorian lamps that were originally in the library as a series of suspended sculptures. The work by Kennedy takes the form of text as sculpture, integrating biographical references with the history of Geology in the Mining Institute. The artists have been investigating rural Utopias, Victorian ideology and industrial heritage in the North East of England and Mid Wales. The artworks presented here, as part of the 2012 Late Shows, are the creative manifestations of their journey.Preview is Saturday 19th May, 7 – 11pm as part of The Late Shows. www.utopianrealismproject.blogspot.com
