Exhibitions - Berwick Visual Arts

ARTIST ROOMS: Douglas Gordon

2nd June - 2nd September

Berwick Visual Arts presents the work of Scottish artist Douglas Gordon, winner of the Turner Prize in 1996 and the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997. Much of Gordon’s work is about memory and uses repetition and material from the public realm to overturn traditional uses of video by playing with time elements and employing multiple monitors.

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Douglas Gordon, 10ms-1, 1994. Video installation, Dimensions variable. Installation view Zacheta, Warsaw, 2017. © Studio lost but found, Berlin / DACS 2018 / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018. Photo Studio lost but found / Frederik Pedersen

Spirited - Women Artists from The Ingram Collection of Modern Art

26th May - 13th October

With 2018 marking the centenary of the Representation of the People Act that gave the first British women the right to vote, the exhibition draws on works from The Ingram Collection, one of this country’s most significant and publicly accessible collections of Modern British Art, to celebrates a number of key British women artists from the past one hundred years. Spirited includes works by Dame Barbara Hepworth, Dod Proctor R.A, Laura Knight R.A, Bridget Riley R.A and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE.

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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE. Untitled I (View of St Ives), 1943. - Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust

GÂST: 'in the best of spirits . . .'

31st March - 20th May

GÂST are visual artist Laura Mahony and Dale Fearnley. Working with archival and time-based media, sculpture and performance, their practice initiates tangible states of play while unearthing narratives that associate people and place.

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Conga Eileen. Spittal Amusement Arcade, Dec 2017. Image by Sarah Jamieson, courtesy GAST

The Archive of Smith, Berwick: From Photo-News Service to Photo Centre

27th January - 13th May

When David Smith began his photo news agency in Berwick in 1951, demand for his work came thick and fast at a local and national level. An experienced journalist with a keen eye for a story, he captured a wide range of subjects, from a visiting celebrity to a runaway circus elephant, not to mention a host of wedding and portrait commissions. As the business expanded, Smith opened the Photo Centre on Bridge Street and was joined by his son Ian and a team of staff photographers. On Ian Smith’s retirement in 2012, the company archive represented a remarkable record of the town and its people and was acquired by the Berwick Record Office.

Drawing on this unique collection The Archive of Smith, Berwick tells the story of this family run press agency and photo studio, and place it in the context of broader developments in photography.

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Image: Opening of Berwick May Fair, 1951. Courtesy of Berwick Record Office