MICK WELBOURN

Vernon Street

10 - 28 January

For the last fifteen years Mick Welbourn has mostly made collaborative work.

When not collaborating his output of artwork has often been about swimming pools.

The new works in this exhibition are not about swimming pools.

JOAN BROSSA / ANTONI TAPIES - Poems from the Catalan

Blenheim Walk


7 January - 31 January







Poems from the Catalan is an exhibition of avant-garde poetry and art inspired by 30 years of political oppression in the Catalan region of Spain, focusing on the collaborative work of Barcelona-born poet Joan Brossa (1919-1998) and artists Antoni Tapies (b.1923), which they produced in the early 1970s as a response to General Franco's Nationalist regime in Spain. This exhibition reflects their artistic and political concerns and they remain important figures in 20th century art, each now represented by their own Foundation in Barcelona.

Shown with the assistance of the Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle.

ARTISTS' BOOKS AND PERFORMANCE

Vernon Street

3 December - 4 February



This exhibition, held in the College library at Vernon Street, includes performance, music and sound interpreted through artists' books from the College collection. The display features work by Bob Cobbing, Elisabeth S. Clark, Sam Belinfante and Jayne Wilton (pictured).

TOM PALIN

Blenheim Walk


13 December - 28 January







"We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things." (Marcel Proust)

To me, a painting is a document of undecidedness and possiblity. Its objecthood (material) and otherness (representation) allow for a perpetual to-ing and fro-ing between what is and what might be/what has been.

IAN DICKSON - Punk!

Blenheim Walk

26 November - 28 January



Ian Dickson has been photographing the music scene since 1972 and his work has appeared in countless publications including NME, Mojo, Q and Rolling Stone. He has exhibited in the UK, Europe and the USA as well as at the MTV Awards, the Brit Awards and the World Music Awards.

All the work being exhibited here is from just two incredible years, 1976 and 1977, and features images of the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, the Jam, the Police, the Adverts, Siouxie and the Banshees, the Stranglers, Blondie, the Slits and many others.

AGENTS OF ANARCHY

Blenheim Walk


21 November - 2 January






Agents of Anarchy is a small display of prints and posters by artists directly involved, influenced by or loosely associated with the Punk movement. It includes work by Bonnie and Clyde (above), Richard Prince, James Cauty, Todd Slater, Rob Jones, Jamie Reid and others

MICHAEL CRAIG-MARTIN - Alphabet

Blenheim Walk


21 - November - 2 January







Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin in 1941 and educated in the United States, where he studied at Yale University under Josef Albers. As a tutir at Goldsmith's College he had a significant influence on two generations of young British artists.

Alphabet consists of 26 screen-prints, published by the Alan Cristea Gallery in 2007 in which the letters of the alphabet are overlaid with everyday objects and set against a background of vivid monochrome colours.

A Haywood Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London on behalf of Arts Council England.