Redcar Palace is delighted to present ‘In The Studio’ an approach to rethinking the presentation of solo exhibitions, through displaying works in progress, testing out new ideas, interchangeable installations and opportunities to observe the artist working.
In the front spaces Kirsty O’Brien delves deep into the relationship between the industrial landscape of the Tees Valley and the natural landscape surrounding her hometown of Redcar, capturing the detritus from industrial sites that wash upon the shoreline, and the looming and decaying grey towers on the horizon through abstracted oil and mixed media paintings.
In our back gallery space we will be presenting a two person exhibition by Numi Solomons and Charles O’Connor which is a testament to 40 years of creative collaboration where their own distinct work intermingles with objects made together and where conversations have sparked ideas in one another’s work. This has been re-energised recently by building a new studio in their garden in Sleights, near Whitby, where they are able to work together. Numi gained international recognition during the 1980s and 90s for her cutting edge knitwear designs. More recently she has combined her background in textiles with an exploration of the ceramic medium and has created a new modular wall piece for the exhibition which will grow and change over the life of the show.
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Redcar Palace is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-4pm. There will be activities running throughout the exhibition, so check out Redcar Palace instagram and facebook @redcarpalace for more details.
Redcar Palace is an arts venue on the Redcar seafront which emerged during the pandemic and as a space to rethink how an arts organisation can build relations with the people around it through our exhibitions, workshops and our honesty shop featuring work by over 60 locally based creatives. Tees Valley Arts joined the Arts Council National Portfolio programme in April 2023.
Our regular programme of events are also still running throughout this time:
- Blooming Youth Collective- Tuesday Evenings 5pm-7pm
- Which Craft? Ladies- Wednesdays 11am-2pm
- Redcar Life Drawing- Thursdays 6pm-8pm £10pp