Eyesore at Cheeseburn

Eyesore

At last, we (marginendeavour) finally get to exhibit our billboard, in the grounds of Cheeseburn, Northumberland.

It took 18 months to complete but it has been worth the wait.

The work comprises of margins from newspapers and embossed foam board lettering.

It will be on display each weekend and bank holiday in August.  

Book your tickets now to visit

http://cheeseburn.com/#visit-2

Cheeseburn Open Weekend

As the Spring and Summer months are upon us, we have the Cheeseburn open weekends to look forward to. The programme changes over the course of the 5 months, so there are plenty of reasons to visit repeatedly over the year.

Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of the Year Prize 2019

For the May open weekends, visitors were invited to explore the proposals in the Stables Gallery by 10 young artists who have been shortlisted to become the 2019 Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of the Year.

Each artist is supported and mentored by Cheeseburn Curator Matthew Jarratt and the winning artist will receive £6500 to realise their idea at Cheeseburn in spring 2020.

The award is in its 4th year and was conceived by Joanna Riddell at Cheeseburn in 2015 and The Gillian Dickinson Trust has recently renewed their funding support for Cheeseburn to deliver this important opportunity for young artists for another 3 years.

Clare Townley, the 2018 winner of the Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of the Year Prize exhibited her new installation and dancer Simona Yovcheva was performing in response to her artwork.

The chapel was the site for an impressive collection of glass ships in glass bottles as part of a project by Dr Ayako Tani. "Vessels of Memory  aims to document the skills and experience of glassworkers."

There were also numerous new sculptures exhibited around the grounds.

Cheeseburn Open Weekend 25, 26, 27th May 2019

I'm looking forward to a busy few days working at Cheeseburn Open Weekend on Saturday, SUnday and Monday.

Cheeseburn Sculpture is a unique destination for contemporary art in the North East of England. Each summer our programme features three curated gallery exhibitions together with new sculptures, installations and performance throughout the gardens.     

In 2019 Cheeseburn will be open from 11am to 4pm on 

 25th/26th/27th  May 2019 

This weekend you'll be able to see the following:

Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of the Year 2019

Visitors are invited to explore the proposals in the Stables Gallery by 10 young artists who have been shortlisted to become the 2019 Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of the Year.

Each artist is supported and mentored by Cheeseburn Curator Matthew Jarratt and the winning artist will receive £6500 to realise their idea at Cheeseburn in spring 2020.

The award is in its 4th year and was conceived by Joanna Riddell at Cheeseburn in 2015 and The Gillian Dickinson Trust has recently renewed their funding support for Cheeseburn to deliver this important opportunity for young artists for another 3 years.

The Gillian Dickinson Trust is North East charity which works to promote creativity in young people. www.gilliandickinsontrust.org.uk

Winner of the 2018  Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of The Year

Clare Townley was selected as the winner of the 2018  Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of The Year. Clare has spent 9 months producing her installation at Newbridge Studios in Newcastle after graduating in 2017 from Newcastle University.

The large scale dystopian installation is called  “Nostalgie de la boue: Plastic Friend”  and  is constructed from recycled plastic and includes a swing where visitors can contemplate the impact of plastic on the rural environment.

The installation will be featured along with our Stables Gallery exhibition of proposals from 10 young artists who are bidding for the 2019 Young Sculptor of the Year Award. Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite proposal at Cheeseburn Sculpture across two open weekends in May 18th/19th and 25th/26th/27th.

Funding from the Gillian Dickinson Trust has enabled Cheeseburn Sculpture to develop this annual award to support new and emerging artists who are from the North East or committed to working in the North East.

Cheeseburn Sculpture Curator Matthew Jarratt said:
“ The funding  from the Gillian Dickinson Trust is providing a fantastic annual opportunity for young artists in the North East to get their professional careers started and to realise ambitious new artworks. We were so impressed by the quality of  proposals from the young artists and really excited to work with Clare to support her to produce an installation which asks questions about our relationship with plastic and its impact on the landscape.”

New Sculpture and installations

This summer Cheeseburn are delighted to site new sculpture and installations in the gardens and project spaces at Cheeseburn by 16 artists including Lucian Anderson, Lisa Delarny, Erin Dickson, Brigitte Jurack, Peter Hanmer, Joseph Hillier, Bennett Hogg, David Mach, Becky MacKenzie, Keith Roberts, Jeff Sarmiento, Ayako Tani, Clare Townley, Olivia Turner, Cate Watkinson and Alice Wilson.

Performance and Dance Interventions

Cheeseburn is planning a series of special pop-up dance performances and interventions in the gardens which build on our work in autumn 2018 with dancers Simona Yovcheva,Maria Vincentelli and Lizzie Klotz.

Look out for press and follow us on social media for more news:

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I hope to see you there!

Cheeseburn Open Weekend

This Bank Holiday weekend I will be working at Cheeseburn for their open weekend. 

Visiting times are 11am-4pm on 25th, 26th and 27th August

For more information visit http://cheeseburn.com/

Here is a quick overview of what is to be seen in addition to the many permanent sculptures that are situated within the grounds of Cheeseburn Grange.

Joseph Hillier

PAUSE/PLAY

Stables Gallery

The Gillain Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of the Year 2017
Peter Hanmer
‘Plato’s Lair’
Potting shed in the Walled Garden at Cheeseburn

Qi Yafeng

Video and Sound work in the chapel

Sculptures in the grounds of Cheeseburn Grange

Lost Voices by Bennett Hogg at Cheeseburn Sculpture

Lost Voices; A Sound Installation by Bennett Hogg, using reconstructions by Magnus Williamson, of missing voice parts from sixteenth Century Church Music



It may be nothing more than a coincidence that some of the greatest English religious
music from a period when thousands of voices were silenced – through imprisonment, enforced hiding, or burning at the stake – has come down to us with one or more of its original voices missing. A coincidence, perhaps, a highly suggestive, poetic one.

Musical practice in the sixteenth century was for each voice to have their own copy of
the music containing only their particular part. The music for Robert White’s Lamentations of Jeremiah, one of the pieces used in Lost Voices, would have originally consisted of six separate “part books” but only five survive; the book containing the music for the tenor voice has been lost.

Magnus Williamson has recomposed many of these missing voices, and it is these
recovered voices that form the basic materials of Bennett Hogg’s installation Lost 
Voices. The piece recombines the music into a new polyphony, using digital sound
processing to extend and transform the sounds. Voices emerge from different places, always hidden, always on the move, and as the listener walks around different
combinations can be found.



As a counterpoint to this texts by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard meditate on
how intimate spaces – our homes, isolated cabins in the forest, priestholes perhaps -
connect in the imagination with sound, memory, and voice.

Cheeseburn, as a recusant house, may well have hidden persecuted Catholics. As we
enjoy our rights and freedoms in the present, we might reflect on these different lost voices, and on the renewed appetite in some places to persecute one another based on our religious affiliations, or, indeed, our lack of them.

Credits:
Soprano – Daisy Gibb
Tenor – Magnus Williamson
Bass – Patrick Owston
Reader – Martin Eccles
Recording engineer – David de la Haye

The spoken texts are from Gaston Bachelard’s book The Poetics of Space, first published in French in 1958.

http://cheeseburn.com/events/lost-voices-bennett-hogg-and-magnus-williamson/

Fred Watson in the Stables Gallery at Cheeseburn Sculpture

Fred Watson has 5 stone carvings in the gardens at Cheeseburn and his exhibition at Cheeseburn’s Stables Gallery in July 2017 aims to showcase his fine still life carvings in wood.



Fred has worked for many years from a large studio in rural Northumberland where he has built a strong reputation for thoughtful carvings, producing gallery pieces in wood and in stone for public commissions.

“I find a complicity between Still Life and the practice of carving. Time is the essence of them both. The long, patient, solitary practice of carving reflects the long, silent indifference of the objects. Stone and Wood belong to time. Many of my tools have been used by generations of craftsmen. Carving is a rewarding solitude, which is what impels my work. I carve the most ordinary of objects because the ordinary is rich enough. Familiar objects that can be moved at will become fixed in a timeless matrix.



Still Life is common in painting but not in sculpture. Carving creates a dialogue between form and function and when ordinary objects are rendered in wood or stone they assume a different reality. The sculpture becomes distanced from the objects it represents, which become more remote, secluded and potentially meaningful.”
Fred Watson

http://cheeseburn.com/events/fred-watson/

Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor Award 2017 - winner announced for installation at Cheeseburn Sculpture

I recently exhibited at Cheeseburn Sculpture at the same time that the shortlist of artists for the Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor Award 2017 were exhibiting their submissions. Visitors were invited to vote on their favourite, and the winner has just been announced as Northumberland-born artist Peter Hanmer. He receives £6,500 to develop develop his proposal, The Cave, into an installation which will be unveiled in spring 2018.

The work will feature sculpture and sound, filling the Potting Shed at Cheeseburn Sculpture Gardens in Stamfordham, Northumberland with over 50 miniature figures. Hanmer’s previous work has involved the creation of figurative models inhabited by miniature animal bone characters.

Hanmer, who is currently studying for his Masters in Fine Art at Newcastle University, said: “I am delighted to have been chosen as winner of this prestigious award out of some really stiff competition. I can’t wait to get to work building my piece.”

Matthew Jarratt, curator at Cheeseburn Sculpture, added: “We are really excited to commission Peter’s installation within the Walled Garden Potting Shed at Cheeseburn. His ideas of creating a ‘sculptural world’ of miniature figures amongst the flowerpots and lawnmowers fascinated the judges.”

In addition to financial support in creating the work, Hanmer will also receive mentoring and support in the run up to his exhibition next year.

The selection panel for the award were Joseph Hillier, artist; Joanna Riddell, founder and owner of Cheeseburn Sculpture; Matthew Jarratt, curator at Cheeseburn Sculpture; and Alexander Dickinson, trustee for The Gillian Dickinson Trust and Partner at Bond Dickinson LLP.

Over 30 artists aged 18-25 applied from across the north east region. The final shortlist of 12 included a number of representatives from the area’s universities, including Newcastle University, Sunderland University and Northumbria University.

The judges also took into account votes from visitors to the gallery and online votes through Facebook.

Started by Riddell in 2015, the first recipient of the award was Sunderland University graduate Dan Gough last summer. His installation Scurry is currently on view at Cheeseburn Sculpture on designated opening weekends. The work features 2,000 red and grey ceramic squirrels sited within the Victorian Walled Garden at Cheeseburn.

For more information visit www.cheeseburn.com

https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/gillian-dickinson-north-east-young-sculptor-award-2017-installation-miniature-figures-takes-top-prize

At Cheeseburn with the squirrels

I spent the weekend at Cheeseburn Sculpture, near Stamfordham, in the company of 2000 squirrels courtesy of artist Dan Gough. Last year Dan won the Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of the Year competition, and so was supported to realise his proposal and install it in the Cheeseburn Grange grounds. 

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/sculptors-2000-squirrels-unveiled-cheeseburn-13062081

This year there are 11 more artists shortlisted for the prize, and once again, the public have been asked to cast their votes to decide the winner. 

Anthony Hensman

Anthony Hensman

Anthony Hensman

Lucien Anderson

Their proposals are exhibited at Cheeseburn in the Gallery and there are numerous other artworks exhibited around the grounds in the gardens and outhouses. 

My sound installation Everything Will Be Alright is situated in the Stables gallery.

Alexander Devereux

Alexander Devereux

Alexander Devereux

Alexander Devereux

There were a record-breaking 530 visitors on Sunday, and the feedback was excellent.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/gallery/see-work-young-sculptor-years-13062393

Why not do something different this Bank Holiday weekend and take a trip to Cheeseburn for a cultural adventure. Opening hours are 11am-4pm. There is a cafe on-site. For more information visit the website:

www.cheeseburn.com

Everything Will Be Alright at Cheeseburn on May 20th/21st, 27th/28th/29th, 11am-4pm

I am delighted to be exhibiting 'Everything Will Be Alright' in the Stables at Cheeseburn Sculpture during the May 2017 open weekends (20th/21st, 27th/28th/29th).

http://cheeseburn.com/events/everything-will-be-alright/

Cheeseburn  supports artists projects and provides a showcase for sculpture, sound and educational projects with a unique atmosphere where people can encounter the work of new and established artists in the setting of the historic architecture and gardens of Cheeseburn Grange, Northumberland.         

Cheeseburn Sculpture is a fantastic new destination for contemporary art in the North East of England. Our sculpture and exhibition programme for 2017 will feature three curated gallery exhibitions and new artworks and installations throughout the gardens.  

   Joanna Riddell and Matthew Jarratt  

In addition to my installation and the permanent sculptures situated within the Cheeseburn grounds, the May open weekends will be an opportunity to see Cheeseburn's largest commission to date; 'Scurry', an installation in the Walled Garden of 2000 red and grey ceramic squirrels by Dan Gough, winner of the Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of the Year Award 2016. 

Having viewed the exhibition of proposals from the 12 young North East artists nominated for the Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of the Year Award 2018, visitors will get the chance to register their vote.

Visitors are very welcome to visit the May 2017 open weekends, 11am - 4pm on May 20th/21st, 27th/28th/29th

Cheeseburn is on the B6324 (Stamfordham Road) 10miles West of Newcastle. 

I hope to see you there!