Gallagher & Turner Announce New Group Exhibition 'Recording Time'
Explore music, heritage, duration, and experience through group exhibition ‘Recording Time’, with artists Catherine Bertola, Jane Bown, Anna Chapman Parker, Rachael Clewlow, Alan Hathaway, and Nick Kennedy.
Coinciding with Record Store Day, guest-curator Matthew Hearn presents a second spin of ‘Beyond the Goldmine Standard’: 12” Vinyl Records creatively reimagined by over 20 local artists, with proceeds benefiting Maggie’s Cancer Care, Newcastle.
How do you enjoy marking time? Listening to music, drawing, walking, reminiscing, staring at a patch of grass? This group exhibition plays on the idea of ‘Recording Time’ in multiple ways:
Catherine Bertola’s work explores unseen traces and lives found in buildings, highlighting their decay whilst also preserving them. As part of this exhibition, she presents a new series of drawings that use collected dust to recreate wallpaper patterns found in a current house renovation, alongside work from her series ‘Fixed Transience’, exploring the preserving qualities of salt on historic postcards from Temple Newsam House, Leeds.
Nick Kennedy’s work also explores where chance an intentionality meet. Two kinetic sculptures from his series ‘Endless Dance’ will perform their 12 hour sequences recording time throughout the exhibition. As the sculptures ‘hands’ quiver and turn they inscribe their own interconnecting rhythms, referencing both the turning hands of a clock, and a spinning vinyl record player. Alongside the sculptures you can see study drawings made in this hypnotic way.
Anna Chapman Parker’s work similarly draws us in to a state of mindful watching, and a sensitivity to detail. Her drawings ask what happens when we are bored? What happens when we just stop and stare at the same patch of grass for an hour? Chapman’s work also explores how we document and relay this first-hand experience. What gets lost and what is gained?
From stopping to going, Rachael Clewlow’s intricate paintings document journeys. Her annotated notebooks and photographs create personal codes for her individualised mapping of space. Clewlow works in incredible detail and her images vibrate with vivid colour, evoking the likes of Bridget Riley and the Op Art movement at the same time as capturing a kaleidoscopic memory of a place.
Alan Hathaway’s work draws us onto the other side of the pun ‘Recording Time’. His screen-prints and risographs draw on archival BBC film footage documenting David Bowie’s 1977 performance of the song Heroes on the television chart show Top of The Pops, and a series of three concerts given by Bowie in June 1978 at Glasgow’s Apollo Theatre, which at the time was under threat of closure. As well as referencing the performing of music, these works explore what it is to record these events and how images and memories change as they are passed from one media to another.
Gallagher & Turner are also delighted to present a rare set of colour photographs taken of the Beatles by renowned photographer Jane Bown in 1967 (1925 – 2014).
Lastly, in conjunction with Record Store Day, curator Matthew Hearn will be resurrecting a second spin of ‘Beyond the Goldmine Standard’, a collection of affordable 12” Vinyl Records reworked by 20 local artists, raising money for Maggie’s Cancer Care.
Beyond the Goldmine Standard was first curated by Matthew Hearn in 2015, responding to the fan-made album sleeves found in RPM Records in Newcastle, it was exhibited there to coincide with BALTIC 39 exhibition ‘The Curves of the Needle’ and Record Store Day. The Goldmine Standard is a widely accepted system for grading the condition of vinyl records and their covers. Matthew’s project invited local artists to explore the implications and creative possibilities in stamping a personal signature onto a Vinyl Sleeve.
Matthew says: “I was really excited to be asked to revisit this project as part of Recording Time. Newspaper headlines tell us the record market has continued to grow year on year, some of this is new releases and much is the booming second-hand market. There are still a great many records out there that cost little to no money and exist in abundance, here we are giving them new lives and new focus.”
This re-instigated project will invite established names such as Narbi Price, to current Northumbria University undergraduate Poppy Marsden, to work on classics from the likes of Madonna, Kate Bush, Roxy Music and Fleetwood Mac. The vinyl artworks will be sold for affordable amounts, with 50% of the proceeds going to the artists and 50% to Maggie’s Newcastle.
There is already an exciting buzz about working with so many fantastic local artists as they choose their vinyl to work on, weighing up nostalgia and aesthetics. On 18th May, DJ Lady Annabella will curate an exhibition soundtrack at Newcastle’s annual event, The Late Shows.
Beyond the Goldmine Standards include:
Matt Antoniak, Alfons Baytautas, Mark Bletcher, Jen Douglas, Ross Frew, Daniel Goodman, Nancy Harper, Kitty L M McKay, Fiona Larkin, Poppy Amber Marsden, Paul Merrick, Rosie Morris, Annie O’Donnell, Helen Pailing, Narbi Price, Paul Raymond, Harriet Sutcliffe, Matilda Sutton, Jade Sweeting & Katie Watson.
All artworks are for sale, except for Jane Bown’s portraits of The Beatles.
Image: Rachael Clewlow, Colour Register #1, 2021, Acrylic and Silver point on board,120cm Diameter
