Project Launch Party
Please join us to celebrate the launch of a major new AHRC funded art-based research project – Jetty. Led by Newcastle University and in collaboration with the University of Manchester, Jetty will investigate how a practice-led fine art project can meaningfully contribute to the multi-faceted debate around sustainability.
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Funding Award Success September 2013
Newcastle and Manchester Universities have secured funding from the AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) for new collaborative research ustilising the iconic structure of Dunston Staiths on the river Tyne as its context. As an interdisciplinary project that connects the debates of fine art and urban design, Jetty Project investigates how a contemporary public artwork…
Second artwork from the Jetty Project
Using reclaimed timber, Wolfgang Weileder has replicated Dunston Staiths’ missing frames. The structure was partially destroyed by fire in 2003, leaving one end isolated from the other. The artwork, Gap, is a scale model of this section. The Great North Museum Hancock will host the work in March in order for it to be photographed again before…
Cone – Launch Event
The launch event for Cone will take place on Thursday 3rd July 6 – 8 pm at Dunston Staiths… cone_invite_mb
Art project plan for historic Dunston staithes
A major arts project is to focus on the urgent need to save a monument to Tyneside’s industrial past. The venture will seek to act as a catalyst for action over the listed Dunston Staithes on Gateshead’s riverfront, which is a scheduled monument but is on English Heritage’s At Risk register. The Staiths, thought to…