MFA Newcastle University

Studio Tour, Preparing for Strata, the Postgraduate Fine Art Summer Exhibition!

Today's studio is Amy Coyne's.

"For the MA I am working on a new short film named “Crowbait”. It is my biggest project yet as it has taken the whole course to make. As always it features a felted creature (now more detailed and articulated from improving my skills) in a dark, expansive world created by myself. I created the script upon being inspired by magazines which document people dying horribly. It made me think about the psychological effect that must have on family members, discovering their loved one has been killed so brutally, shown off as a spectacle. And so, this is essentially the catalyst of the Crowbait story."

Preview: Fri 14th August, 6-9pm.
Exhibition Dates: 15-29 August, Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.
Location: Newcastle University Fine Art Department & Hatton Gallery, King's Road NE1 7RU.

Studio Tour, Preparing for Strata, the Postgraduate Fine Art Summer Exhibition!

Today's studio is Nzanthung Odyuo's.

Nzanthung Odyuo works across painting, projection and installation, rooted in questions around cultural memory, oral tradition and inheritance through the lens of his Naga heritage. Rather than reconstructing what has been lost, his practice reflects on how stories, memories and identities are reshaped through retelling, absence and time. His work embraces fragmentation as a way of understanding what we inherit.

Preview: Fri 14th August, 6-9pm.
Exhibition Dates: 15-29 August, Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.
Location: Newcastle University Fine Art Department & Hatton Gallery, King's Road NE1 7RU.

Studio Tour, Preparing for Strata, the Postgraduate Fine Art Summer Exhibition!

Today's studio is Ellen Cherriman's.

Ellen Cherriman’s practice centres on the human figure, exploring the psychological and emotional dimensions of trauma, intimacy, and the ways female sexuality and identity are internalised, negotiated, and performed. Through conceptual self-portraiture, she uses her body as both subject and site of inquiry, fragmenting and obscuring it to investigate perception, agency, and selfhood.

Preview: Fri 14th August, 6-9pm.
Exhibition Dates: 15-29 August, Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.
Location: Newcastle University Fine Art Department & Hatton Gallery, King's Road NE1 7RU.

See you there ☆

Studio Tour, Preparing for Strata, the Postgraduate Fine Art Summer Exhibition!

Today's studio is Camilla Yung Ng's

"I’ve been creating a small imagined world that feels somewhere between childhood memories and dreams.

A girl with cat ears, cats, and a red thread appear throughout my work, becoming symbols of companionship, longing, and connection. Across painting, sculpture, ceramics, and installation, each piece is part of the same evolving story—one that exists between reality and imagination."

Preview: Fri 14th August, 6-9pm.
Exhibition Dates: 15-29 August, Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.
Location: Newcastle University Fine Art Department & Hatton Gallery, King's Road NE1 7RU.

See you there ☆

Studio Tour, Preparing for Strata, the Postgraduate Fine Art Summer Exhibition!

Today's studio is Liz Oughton's.

Liz works within a small, abandoned sandstone quarry in Northumberland to explore the entanglements of living and non-living materials. She uses photography, print, clay and sound to investigate these relations.

Preview: Fri 14th August, 6-9pm.
Exhibition Dates: 15-29 August, Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.
Location: Newcastle University Fine Art Department & Hatton Gallery, King's Road NE1 7RU.

See you there ☆

Studio Tour, Preparing for Strata, the Postgraduate Fine Art Summer Exhibition!

Today's studio is Marlene Rosch.

In „Alle müssen was tun“, presented as part of STRATA, industrial materials and natural objects collected from the streets of Newcastle and its surroundings come together in a series of temporary, creatore-like sculptures. Within this three-dimensional drawing, leaves, twigs, and discarded everyday hardware are arranged and related to each other, in the same sense and nonsense, significance and insignificance, next to one another.

Preview: Fri 14th August, 6-9pm.
Exhibition Dates: 15-29 August, Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.
Location: Newcastle University Fine Art Department & Hatton Gallery, King's Road NE1 7RU.

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Preview: Fri 14th August, 6-9pm.
Exhibition Dates: 15-29 August, Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.
Location: Newcastle University Fine Art Department & Hatton Gallery, King's Road NE1 7RU.

See you there ☆

Studio Tour, Preparing for Strata, the Postgraduate Fine Art Summer Exhibition!

Today's studio is David Loftus'.

David Loftus is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates the relationship between memory, nostalgia, and digital culture through painting and digitally mediated processes. Drawing on personal archives and fragmented imagery, his work embraces glitches and material transformation to explore how the past persists and is continually reconstructed in the post-digital age.

Preview: Fri 14th August, 6-9pm.
Exhibition Dates: 15-29 August, Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.
Location: Newcastle University Fine Art Department & Hatton Gallery, King's Road NE1 7RU.

See you there ☆

Studio Tour, Preparing for Strata, the Postgraduate Fine Art Summer Exhibition!

Today's studio is Annie Weatherley's.

Annie Weatherley is an artist working with papermaking, poetry, and sound. Drawing on autobiographical materials, including old diaries and poetry, her work explores what qualities papermaking and poetry share. Through themes of memory, cycles and transformation it considers how meaning is carried through process and material change.

Preview: Fri 14th August, 6-9pm.
Exhibition Dates: 15-29 August, Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.
Location: Newcastle University Fine Art Department & Hatton Gallery, King's Road NE1 7RU.

See you there ☆