Abject Gallery

Abject Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Newcastle city centre that focuses on showing work from national and international contemporary artists.

Current Exhibitions

Georg Óskar

I felt bad but I feel little bit better now

Date: 9 February - 23 March 2019
Location: Abject Gallery, 8th Floor, Bamburgh House

Georg Óskar is an Icelandic artist based in Berlin. Figurative, often minimalistic and free from rigid structure, is an obvious and direct description of Georg's paintings. From early on, Georg has been loyal to his original style and imagery.

Upcoming Exhibitions
more to be announced soon

Erin Dickson

More Gnarly Illusions

Preview: Friday, 1 March, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Date: 2 March - 6 April 2019
Location: Abject 2 Gallery, 2nd Floor, Bamburgh House

More Gnarly Illusions is a multi-channel video documenting the mistranslated lyrics of the traditional North East folk song When the Boat Comes In.

Stuart Herring

Divine Nothingness

Preview: Friday, 5 April, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Date: 6 April - 18 May 2019
Location: Abject Gallery, 8th Floor, Bamburgh House

Divine Nothingness is a collection of video performances and artifacts by Stuart Herring. This solo exhibition is a meditative reflection of Herrings own rituals, which have been designed to try to make sense of being in this world in this moment. Herring believes his rituals create experiences which separate him from regular modes of understanding.

Past Exhibitions

Art Ball

The return of Newcastle Art Ball

Date: 19 December - 20 December 2015
Location: ¡VAMOS! Social

This year Breeze Creatives and ¡VAMOS! have decided to bring back the Art Ball and we would love for you, your colleagues and organisation to be part of this… so we are asking that instead of celebrating Christmas amongst yourselves that the whole of the arts community join together for shared celebration and an opportunity to raise money for a great cause.

NEW! Performance Salon

November

NEW! Performance Salon - November. Curated by Jade Currie and featuring Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Luke Mullen and Victoria Sharples.

The Arts Emergency Response Centre

North East Launch

On the 1st of May, Breeze Creatives will be hosting an event at the BALTIC to introduce and showcase London based charity Arts Emergency. Co-founded and ran by Josie Long and Nick Griffiths the charity is dedicated to helping disadvantaged people gain access to arts education through a mentorship program. They believe that each person who has been fortunate to have been helped along their artistic career should give back. Whether it is through the mentor system, or by donation to the charity.

Jaisen Yates

Nibbled to death by an Okapi... “by accident”

Date: 17 October - 14 November 2015

Jaisen Yates' first solo exhibition, described by Yates as "a psycho visualistic qualia for the curious throng".

Babble

Performative exploration

An evening of performative exploration into the interconnected worlds of sound and the written word inspired by artist Tony Swain’s disruptive use of text in his BALTIC show. Using a mix of digital technology, improvisation and play, publishing house, UnStapled Press, The Occasion Festival and musician and artist, Shaun Blezard will explore the transition of text into sound and how to translate it back again.

Exhibition proposals are accepted using this form.