MFA Newcastle University

Placed opening soon at Slugtown (NE2 1XU)

Preview: Thursday 20 March, 6-8pm
21 - 29 March 2025

Featuring work of students Nancy Daykin, Mark Duffy, David Loftus, Marlene Rösch, Sumire Sakuma, Lauren Shakespeare, Annie Weatherley and Freddy Williams, ‘Placed’ might constitute a point, a position, a settlement, a community, the feelings and histories that unfold over time. This exhibition highlights emerging intersections between the artists and seeks to question how the exhibition making process is both similar and different to the mechanisms of place making.

Echoes in Between: an exchange exhibition between MFA students at (UK) and (Canada).

Preview: Wednesday 5 February, 5.30pm - 7pm in the XL Gallery. Refreshments will be on sale.

Exhibition runs from Tuesday 4 February - Friday 7 February, open daily 10am - 5pm.

Free and open to all ✨

“FAILURES” was the first group show of the YR1 MFA 2024 Students. The show was open for one day only on Thursday, 31/10/2024 but had a relaxed opening on Wednesday, 30/10/2024. It was wonderful to connect and display our works to the rest of the department with our group show in the long gallery. .shakespeare.art

Recent MFA graduate Alia Gargum is currently installing works for Middlesbrough Art Week! Opening soon on the 26th September.

Install today with @alia_studio_ 😍 Two weeks to go! Alia Gargum is a British-Libyan artist based in Newcastle who composes her work through critical and personal exploration of politics and culture, focusing on her heritage through diasporic means. Sculpture, paintings and installation elements are reorganised and transformed in an organic manner as part of the artistic process. Alia primarily uses hand-treated steel and hand- manipulated paper to depict signifiers of her past through a contemporary lens. Alia’s work explores power dynamics that echo into personal relationships, with a focus on the history of Middle Eastern and North African region power structures. Themes of forced migration, exile and identity also converge her works. 〰️ Food Workshop with Alia Gargum | 3 October. Join us for light refreshments, conversation, and creative practice rooted in North African cultural identity. Joining together to make traditional Libyan food, bourek, participants will be invited to take part in a collaborative workshop that examines cooking as an art as well as a social practice. Using food preparation methods that echo Gargum’s creative practice, where her works simultaneously take up large spaces while also being taken apart so that they are small enough to carry. Book your free tickets through eventbrite, head to the Middlesbrough Art Week website to find out more. 🔗For more information about this year’s programme visit: www.middlesbroughartweek.com/programme 📌 Location: 41 Dundas Street, TS1 1HR 📆MAW Dates: 26 Sep - 5 Oct

Fresh from our graduate show, recent graduate Alia Gargum will next be at Middlesbrough Art Week this month!

Don’t miss your chance to see ‘Pipelines’ MFA degree show at Newcastle Uni and ⏳

Open until Saturday 31st August, everyday 10am - 5pm ✨

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Second year MFA graduate Alia Gargum is hosting a talk to compliment her current graduate show with D6: Culture in Transit. Details and info on booking below!

Thank you for visiting our opening night The Culture Vulture !

OPENING TONIGHT! Join us from 6pm - 9pm across + the King Edward VII building for Pipelines, our MFA degree show. ✨

🍾 come celebrate at our after party at from 9pm - 12am with music from + 🕺


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Sabah al-khair / صباح الخير

Good morning from with my second day of MFA Newcastle University social media takeover and a preview of my works to be exhibited this week as part of the Pipelines: Newcastle University MFA Degree Show .

Islamic motifs and Arabic letters define my memory of 1980s Libya within my work, which is also heavily imbued with the colour green. The colour was adopted by the dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, in power during my childhood there, and is also known as a sacred colour in Islam. Flags, statues, and other signifiers of national identity are a constant subject I find myself wanting to explore.

As-salamu alaykum / السلام عليكم

I’m Alia Gargum, and I’m honoured to be taking over the Newcastle University Master in Fine Art social media to share a little about my new work “this was a mosque / هذا كان مسجد” which will be shown for the first time within the Hatton Gallery as part of the MFA graduate show this August, with our private view at 6pm on the 16th.

My work mainly consists of sculptures, made from hand-treated steel, fabric, and reclaimed wood. These are made to resemble aspects of a culture and personal history that is continually being abstracted due to forced migration. The range of meaning and symbolism within colour, language and motifs across my dual Libyan and British cultures is expressed through the tension and weight that I apply to my works while manipulating forms.

Hello Liz here taking over the instagram ahead of MFA degree show ‘Pipelines’ previewing on 16th August.

Exploring the vitality and agency of rock.

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