One of my earliest memories is sitting on a train (I think it was heading towards Leeds) and listening to my mum reading 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' out loud to me. The carriage was full, the night was drawing in and at one point in the story (I suspect it was when the naughty tiger had “drunk all Daddy's beer”) I looked up to see that we had been surrounded by … [Read more...]

On the opening night of the Turner Prize 2011, BALTIC reached capacity at around 7pm. From then on it was strictly a one-in-one-out policy as art fans snaked all the way back to the Millennium bridge to see what has been dubbed ‘Arguably the world’s most prestigious and best known award for contemporary art.’ This is the first year that the Turner Prize … [Read more...]

Where would you find a trundling long-eared hedgehog, an Australian orbicular granodiorite and a vomiting fulmar? The answer lies a few minutes walk from The Royal Mile in Edinburgh, in the newly refurbished National Museum of Scotland. From 17th Century Japanese Noh theatre masks to the beautiful Nubian sandstone Statue of Arensnuphis, The National Museum of … [Read more...]

John Fred Horseman is a local artist who “likes art and likes steam”. These two very diverse elements have combined throughout his lifetime to form a collection that has been shown in the Laing Art Gallery, exhibited outside The Baltic and featured in national magazines. Mr Horseman’s sculptural work ranges from two beautiful wooden seahorses, carved out of … [Read more...]