October round-up
Our second newsletter for DUAS Loop is here! Each month we will be posting a newsletter updating you on:
What's been on - where you can find out about art-related activities that have been going on within the society and further afield!
What's going on - events and activities that are happening that you can get involved with!
What's "in" - recommendations of podcasts, books and exhibitions we think you might enjoy!
2 weeks ago we released our first interview with local creative Eleanor Matthews, who is based in Seaham. Read her interview here.
What's been on?
Thursday Sessions
Thursdays have started off this term amazingly, covering Self-Portraits, Views from your Windows and a spooky Halloween-themed session! Some amazing artwork has been produced which you can check out on the @duthursdaysessions Instagram page. To get involved with these, look out for the notices on Instagram and Facebook, and the link for the Zoom will always be on the Facebook event! These sessions are free for members and cost £2 for non-members.
Our lovely Thursday session leaders
This is what you can expect coming up in November:
5/11/20 – Charcoal
7/11/20 – Gallery/Out and About! (COVID-19 dependent)
12/11/20 – Skulls
19/11/20 – Origami
26/11/20 – Embroidery
Isolation Art Bundle
Thursday Sessions have also launched the Isolation Art Bundle - your arty fix to get you through the next few months! Our first batch was very successful (everyone who ordered one can expect one in the next 2 weeks), so it's looking likely we'll run this again. Keep your eyes peeled for announcements about this!
Art History Focus
Your weekly fix of art history has launched on our Instagram! Every Friday we'll be looking at a different artist or movement with the aim of diversifying the art history narrative. So far the features have included Frida Kahlo, Impressionism and Kehinde Wiley. The next few weeks will look at George Shaw, Hannah Hoch, the Bauhaus School of Art, J. M. W. Turner and Faith Ringgold.
Student Art
Heidi Januszewski @hyjanski
Heidi creates dramatic and highly contrasted artworks. She uses gouache (like watercolour but using pigments rather than a palette) to create these amazing scenes, like this beautiful skyline of Durham and the Cathedral for Cuth's Art Exhibition last year. Heidi's work has been featured many times in the Palatinate, but she has also decorated other publications.
Jessica Rushton @jrushty
These are beautiful drawings from Jessica of our very own Palace
Green and Durham Cathedral!
Naomi Bianchini Wimsett @naomi.wimsett
Naomi’s works combine illustration and prints with calligraphy. These are two examples of her work that use simplicity to emphasise the illustrations.
We do up to three student features a week. If you would like your art to feature, please send us a message on our Instagram page (@duartsoc) or our Facebook page! We can share one of your posts, or create a feature using a story or a post. For our QuarARTine galleries, head over to our Instagram page and find it in the ‘Story Highlights’ section.
What's going on?
...in DUAS
Life Drawing: in-person sessions to restart soon
For those of you missing your dose of Life Drawing - panic not! Life Drawing Sessions on Tuesday have been a lot harder to coordinate this year because of issues with nudity and broadcasting it over Zoom, but finally we can bring you some good news! There is hope that we will be putting on some in-person sessions in the next few weeks, and to be compliant with government and university policy there will be an educational element at the beginning. We'll be posting all info on our social media channels when plans become concrete so keep a look out for that.
Christmas exhibition - in person!
We are so excited to be putting on an in-person(!) exhibition of student art work in December (date tbc). Our theme this year - decided by you guys - is Home. In a year of intense upheaval, a lot of us have been looking to anchor ourselves to a 'home'. Home doesn't have to mean a physical house, of course. All interpretations of the theme 'Home' are welcome and more details about how to do this will be posted in due course.
Further afield...
Student Art Prize
The Student Art Prize, launched in October 2019, aims to expand opportunities around creativity and to develop a new permanent art collection, housed within the university's wider art collection, but available as a resource for the whole community.
The theme for 2021 is HEROISM. All shortlisted artwork will be displayed in the Art Prize exhibition, part of the SITC arts festival.
The prize fund this year has again been generously supported by alumnus Richard Roberts and offers £1500 for first place, £1000 for second and £500 for third, he hopes, providing a huge incentive to apply.
Join us for the launch event on 9th November, 6-7:30pm, Zoom. For the link RSVP to artcollection@durham.ac.uk
Photograph for the University Newspaper, Palatinate
Would you like to have your photographs featured in Durham University's official student newspaper?
Palatinate are looking for photographers to contribute to our print and online editions. No experience needed and photos can be taken with any camera.
For more info please email photography@palatinate.org.uk. Join the Facebook group for more information about specific opportunities and comissions.
Exhibitions to see in the North East
See below for some of the art spaces in the North East that are now open to visitors, in keeping with social distancing rules.
Art Stops is an exciting new project, opening on 2nd November, involving Artist’s works displayed on Bus Shelter panels throughout the Durham County Area, featuring an eclectic group of Artists and Writers who have been creative during the lockdown period. Visit the website to view the map and follow the trail!
email peter@artstops.org for more information.
Art Deco by the Sea - open until February 2021
100 Years of Collecting - Long term collection
Getting there: Train from Durham to Newcastle, and then a 12 minute minute to the gallery from the station.
Imran Perretta - open until 8 Nov 2020
Abel Rodriguez - open until 8 Nov 2020
Huma Bhabha - open until 21 Feb 2021
Getting there: Train to Newcastle and then Q2 towards Gateshead (get off at Baltic Square)
You can also listen to Podcasts about the exhibitions!
Chad McCail - extended until April 2021
Getting there: Train to Newcastle and then GRN metro from there towards Sunderland (get off at St Peters)
Catch the current temporary exhibitions (Other Worlds: The Art of Atomhawk and Ancient Iraq: new discoveries) before they close on 1 November 2020! Or why not check out the permanent collections?
Getting there: Train to Newcastle and then GRN metro from there towards Airport (get off at Haymarket)
Museum of Art, Fashion and Design
Pre-Raphaelite Knights Reinventing the Medieval World - open until 8th Nov 2020
Norman Cornish: The Definitive Collection - open until 17th Jan 2021
Blimey! Lucretia - open until 11th October 2020
Getting there: Train from Durham to Darlington, bus from Darlington to Barnard Castle.
What's "in"?
This month's recommendation is an art critic duo, The White Pube. In their words, they are "the collaborative identity of Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad under which we write about art, video games and food. Back in 2015, during our final year of art school, we had a chat about exhibition reviews and how they were BORING, said nothing, just bad chat by middle class white men. We decided to start writing ourselves and actually state how art made us feel (happy, bored, angry, in love)."
They take an unconventional approach to art criticism, keeping it fresh, honest and accessible. If you want to tap into the art world but don't know where to start, the White Pube is a great place to begin.
...And that's a wrap!
Thank you for browsing the DUAS Loop, keep up to date with our facebook and instagram for more updates, and be sure to check out our second interview, with Jess Hunt from East Durham Creates.
Don't forget also to check out our last interview with Eleanor Matthews!
Contributions from Helena De Gorrequer Griffith and Amana Moore
Edited by Amana Moore
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