Preview 2nd February 2012 6.00pm-8.00pm
Exhibition 3rd February – 4th March 2012

Figure8 collective is North East painters who have been drawn together since 2004 by a passionate belief in paint as an
expressive contemporary medium.

Harry Bell looks to the natural architecture of rocks and trees, finding intriguing forms and colour there. Ian Bennett
interrogates in close up the extraordinary vitality of flower and plant forms Frank Briffa explores complex and beautiful
abstraction in his large scale work and Maureen Stephenson finds fascination with water, from condensation on windows
to harbour reflections, resulting in vibrant and elaborate semi-abstract work.

Our Winter exhibition combines new and familiar artists with the very best of their present bodies of work.
John Brenton takes the Cube gallery and Mike Healey is our guest in the Corner gallery. We showcase work from painters
Bill Bate, Trevor Craggs and Gemma Fripp. Furthermore we present bronzes from Natalia Ferre and glass sculptures
from Sam Taylor. We have new work by painters Malcolm Teasdale, Stephen Heward, Anthony Marshall, Roy Kirton,
Peter Podmore, Clifford Blakey, Walter Holmes and Ian and Claire Mcmean, glass artists Peter Layton and
Stuart Akroyd, printmakers Anja Percival, Colin Bygrave, Susan Dobson and Rebecca Vincent, photographs
from sceNE, Dan Prince, June Hunter and Dr. Martin Dade-Robinson and jewellery by Simone Bremner, Fiona
Hermse, Nicola Turnbull, Anna McDade and Li Chu-Wu.

This exhibition explores, among other things, the inter-related worlds of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the ancient fertility myths associated with Persephone, Queen of the Underworld. It does so through a series of landscapes, collages and three-dimensional dioramas.

We present this stunning seasonal collection of photographs by Roger Clegg, Simon Fraser, Allan Potts and Andrew Whitaker.