Watt Space Gallery

I saw a play here as part of This Is Not Art festival. Tiered seating would have made viewing easier. This is a great venue otherwise. Clean an spacious unisex bathrooms.

Great public space and good for con students

University students art space. Well worth a look.

Great gallery

Are you an aspiring student designer or a part of a design collective? Keen for some hands on industry experience to build your resume?!? CRACK X is seeking a festival hub designer to curate Watt Space over the TiNA long weekend! Full design brief available on our WordPress site here: wattspacegallery.wordpress.com/…/studen t-designer-call-out…/ Hurry, expressions of interest close soon!

Congratulations Tim! Great write up on one of this years prize winners for our current exhibition the Annual Student Art Prize.

Join Us at Watt Space Gallery for this free drop in Sketch Session. Open to all ages and skill level though parental supervision is required for children. materials supplied

Watt Space invites you to the opening launch of
PERIPHERIES: Research in architecture and the Built Environment and Timothy Burke: 'Exquisite Drawing Machine'
... Opening Night Event: Friday, 7th of September 5:30pm- 7:30pm Exhibition Dates: 5 -23 September, 2018 Gallery Hours: Wednesday till Sunday 11-5pm
This exhibition explores the peripheries of creative practice research in Architecture and the Built Environment, and the way that these edges impact on cities, regions, populations, disciplines, universities, environments and futures. It will feature work across a diverse array of domains in the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, and includes projects from postgraduate students, staff and supervisors within the school who are engaged with creative practice research. The work explores new relationships to knowledge, practice, process and method, and seeks to develop new audiences and conversations about architecture and the built environment, both now and in the future. The exhibition coincides with Exquisite Drawing Machines by Timothy Burke, which is a body of work completed as part of the examination of his PhD in Architecture.
Watt Space will also host the bi-annual Creative Practice Research Intensive (14-16th September), which will include PhD examinations, confirmations and in-progress reviews across the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at UON.
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Watt Space Gallery would like to extend a huge congratulations to the winners of this years student art prize, REFRAME!
Recipients are as follows;
PENNY FINNIGAN ART PRIZE - # 5 Jodi Vial. Lives of Girls and Women
... UNIVERSITY GALLERY ART COLLECTION – ACQUISITIVE AWARD - # 7. Rachel Klyve The Last Curlew?
HELEN & CHRIS FORD AWARD - # 16 Tim Buchanan – Dust on Dust
SIGNARAMA AWARD - # 28 Megan McCarthy – The face behind the brick
The first 30 entrants also received a $50 Eckerleys voucher thanks to SSAF.
Congratulations again to all award winners!
Watt Space would also like to extend a huge thank you to our guest judges Lottie Consalvo and Toni Shuker, who gave up their time and had to make some incredibly hard decisions due to the incredibly high standard of work submitted this year! We think they picked well!
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Got something your working on for REFRAME? Don’t forget to email us your entry form by MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to ensure yourself a place in the show. If you haven't quite finished off your work yet don’t stress! You still have all weekend to perfect those finishing touches before handing in your work at the gallery on Monday morning! Good Luck to all participants!!!
Download a fillable entry form here: https://wattspacegallery.wordpress.com/‚Ä ¶/reframe-entry-form/

Don’t forget that REFRAME entries close midnight THIS FRIDAY!!! That’s only 5 days left to get your forms in to wattspacegallery@newcastle.edu.au! Works are to be handed in at Watt Space Gallery on Monday 6 August between 9am and 12noon along with entry fees! Good Luck to all!!!

Watt Space Gallery is currently host to a group exhibition featuring the works of talented high school students from across the region as part of the University's High Performing Students program. For many of these students it is their first time exhibiting in a gallery, and we are proud to have been a part of this wonderful opportunity!!! Congratulations to all exhibiting students!!!

Watt Space Gallery would like to extend a huge congratulations to exhibiting artist Maggie Hall, who’s current show; 'Gateway: White Mushrooms and Painted Gods', has been featured in the Newcastle Herald. The article by Damon Cronshaw dives into this unique exhibition and into Hall’s artistic practice. Read the article on the Herald’s website: https://www.theherald.com.au/…/the-mona -lisa-adapted-disp…/…
This exhibition, along with three others are on display now at Watt Space Gallery, and will stay until 5 August 2018. Gallery open Wednesday to Sunday 11am to 5pm or by appointment.

Watt Space invites you to its next round of Exhibition for 2018. Opening Night Event: Thursday, 19th of July 6:30pm- 8:30pm Exhibition Dates: 18 July-5 August, 2018 Gallery Hours: Wednesday till Sunday 11-5pm Come along to openings with
... HIGH PERFORMING STUDENTS PROGRAM Curated by Melissa Bull
The University of Newcastle supports the High Performing Students Program (HPS). The program provides an excellent opportunity for exceptional students (years 9 to 11) from local high schools to undertake first year university courses. It is an opportunity for students to accelerate their career opportunities as it can lead to credit toward university studies. The program is run in conjunction with Merewether High School ho provide facilities for the program. The aim for the 2018 HPS program in Fine Arts was to integrate Science and Art into 2D artworks. Once the foundational skills and techniques in art processes were introduced and demonstrated, the students were required to provide a self-directed proposal to investigate a chosen scientific area through visual interpretation.
KAREN BOLDEN 'The Language of Paint'
Can a painting exist beyond its basic constituents of surface and support? Is it still a painting... or does it become something else?
MAGGIE HALL 'Gateway: White mushrooms and painted Gods'
Maggie Hall is a Newcastle based artist, she has contributed photographs to four publications and regularly has her writing and images in Studio La Primitive Arts Zine. Maggie’s creations are largely derived through elemental properties, using mediums such as photography, painting, printmaking and automatic writing. Her main interest and continuing study is in the connection between art & science and establishing a link between the two. This exhibition is a mixed media illustration of the iconography and imagery that has guided the artist through her life experiences and continuing studies of religion, iconography and animal behaviour. This exhibition is a taste of the nature, justice and beliefs that have carried Maggie through into the creative and energising realm of High Art.
STUDENTS OF NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATION 'Naturalist' Curated by Emma Heath
The practice of natural history illustration highlights the importance of the relationship between the arts and sciences. Prior to photography, drawings and paintings were the primary visual sources of information for scientists, botanists and anatomists alike. Considering this, artists today continue to play a vital role in the communication and documentation of the world around us. Through traditional and digital mediums, ‘Naturalist’ presents a showcase of the natural wonders that abound, and the artists that recreate them.
Congratulations to all the exhibiting artists.
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UON Student Central
REFRAME Exciting news for all our UoN students! Watt Space Gallery will be exhibiting a student art prize exhibition with over $3000 up for grabs. Entry is available to any student studying at the university of Newcastle. No matter what degree we want to celebrate the diversity of creative practices at UoN, from fine art to design to architecture, writing, engineering, research and sciences. ... Art is more than an image, art is an idea, process, catharsis, change, art is interdisciplinary. It is a manifestation of a constant back and forth between the artist and the world.
Best part of all, first 30 entries will receive a $50 voucher at Eckersley’s! Entry forms can be found on our Word Press site: https://wattspacegallery.wordpress.com/ When completed email to: WattSpaceGallery@newcastle.edu.au
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REFRAME Exciting news for all our UoN students! Watt Space Gallery will be exhibiting a student art prize exhibition with over $3000 up for grabs. Entry is available to any student studying at the university of Newcastle. No matter what degree we want to celebrate the diversity of creative practices at UoN, from fine art to design to architecture, writing, engineering, research and sciences. Art is more than an image, art is an idea, process, catharsis, change, art is inter...disciplinary. It is a manifestation of a constant back and forth between the artist and the world.
Best part of all, first 30 entries will receive a $50 voucher at Eckersley’s! Entry forms can be found on our Word Press site https://wattspacegallery.wordpress.com/ When completed email to: WattSpaceGallery@newcastle.edu.au
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Tonight 6:30! Don’t miss it

Last day to check out our current exhibitions "Hidden Remains. Human Stains." by Donna Jorna, "Patterns of Nature" by Natalee Katarina and Phoebe Teal-Spicer and "Celebration" a powerful exhibition by Interrelate, curated by Leanne Schubert Open until 5pm today!

LAST WEEKEND to check out our 3 current exhibitions,
- "Hidden Remains. Human Stains." by Donna Jorna -... "Patterns of Nature" by Natalee Katarina and Phoebe Teal-Spicer - and "Celebration" a powerful exhibition by Interrelate, curated by Leanne Schubert
Open Saturday and Sunday,
Gallery hours- 11am - 5pm See you there!
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Be sure to check in at WattSpace today to see works like this by Natalee Katarina in her and Phoebe Teal-Spicer's exhibition, "Patterns of Nature".
Gallery hours: 11am - 5pm. - See you there!

Watt Space invites you to the opening launch for it's next round of exhibitions for 2018. This Show features three solo exhibitions from Honours students Ann Snell, Emily Sinclair and Sharon Ridsdale, as well as a group show from the fibres-textiles and ceramics students at UoN, curated by Faye Neilson. Watt Space would like to congratulate all exhibiting artists.
The opening launch for this event will take place Thursday 28 June from 6:30pm.... The exhibition will be open 27 June to 15 July. Gallery open hours Weds to Sun 11am-5pm.
Images (Left to Right): Ann Snell, By Her Grace152 x 122cm. Oil on canvas Emily Sinclair, Untitled #1 (detail)Nylon stockings, Twine, cotton string human hair, rope, polyfil, earthenware clay, ink, wax Jessica Lumley, Words Never Said (detail)Ceramic and cotton thread [photograph: Sharon Taylor] Sharon Risdale, A Moment in Time - The Great Barrier Reef (detail)Stoneware clay, single fired to Cone 9 - 10, unglazed.
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Looking for something to do? Come see our 3 current engaging exhibitions at WattSpace Gallery open all weekend- 11 am - 5 pm

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