Watt Space Gallery
Watt Space Gallery continues to engage audiences through its diverse and dynamic calendar. It is located in the heart of Newcastle in the award winning re-purposed Northumberland House, with beautiful interiors designed by esteemed University Alumnus, Andrew Donaldson.
Since its establishment in 1989 by dedicated student advocates, Watt Space has been a community leader in innovation and creative experimentation. Through engagement with contemporary issues, ideas and artistic practices, the Gallery has a proud legacy featuring a host of emerging and established cross-disciplinary artists and curators. For over thirty years, Watt Space has continued to challenge, inspire and inform through its programs and exhibitions.
Committed to its long history of professional development for our students, it has continued to evolve to serve our community and since its inception, Watt Space has had an extended student internship program across a diverse range of disciplines. Our student placements challenge and inspire new ways of thinking, while acquiring practical, transferable workplace skills in a supportive, real world environment.
To learn more about our WIL opportunities click here.
Banner image: Kylie Moore, Foundations, 2018.
WH!P COLLECTIVE
Stories of Light
8 March - 18 May
Please join the artists to celebrate International Women’s Day 5:30pm on Friday 8 March
Stories of Light presents WH!P’s anthology of lens-based stories devised around a sense of place, the personal, the familial and the inspirational. These tales from visual artists are told through the medium of photography, akin to the written words of authors.
WH!P (Women from the Hunter in Photography) is a collective of photographers. They come together to share stories, ideas, knowledge and inspiration, creating opportunities for collaboration and to promote photography as a multi-faceted artform.
25 Participating Photo Artists: Kelly Barlin, Hilda Bezuidenhout, Karen Brown, Janice Cameron, Justine Cogan, Shana Dennis, Louise Faulkner, Penelope Green, Lotte Hilder, Lee Illfield, Tara Jones, Kate Kennedy, Melanie Muddle, Catharine Neilson, Brydie Piaf, Edwina Richards, Hannah Robinson, Dominique Ryan, Malvika Satelkar, Renae Saxby, Wednesday Sutherland, Emma Warren, Clare Weeks, Katherine Williams and Liz O’Brien 1995-2022.
Stories of Light will launch in celebration of International Women’s Day and will connect its visual stories with written stories during Newcastle Writers Festival on 5-7 April.
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Finding My Story: A creative workshop to inspire storytelling about people and place - free event
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Useful Objects
29 May - 31 August
Launching 31 May
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