Exhibition: Sail Life by Mark Talyor-Gregg (1st July to 29th July).
The Old Low Light is happy to welcome back local artist Mark Taylor-Gregg, and to host an exhibition featuring his work and artistic impressions of the area.
Exhibition: North Atlantic Drift: Pursuing Whales. (3rd July to 26th October)
Artist in Residence Marina Rees lives in Iceland. As a leader of whale spotting tours, a mounter of whale skeletons and as a visual and sonic artist her life and work are inextricably linked to the life of whales....
Exhibition: North Shields Embroidery Guild (7th June to 30th June 2018).
On the 20th anniversary of the formation of the North Shields branch of the embroidery guild the vast community of local artisans present innovate and original work. Based in the heart of the community, at Christ Church, this friendly...
Exhibition: ‘The Floating World: An Exhibition By Aidan Doyle’. (Friday 4th May to Sunday 3rd June).
4th May to 3rd June. The exhibition in the main gallery draws from a selection of his work from over the last five years taking water as its main theme. We will be displaying examples of his portraits on...
Exhibition: Shields v The Toon (27th March to 4th June).
The Shields v The Toon exhibition will tell the history of an almost 600 year battle between North Shields and Newcastle over rights on the River Tyne. Centre stage will be 17th century local hero Ralph Gardner who played...
North Atlantic Drift: Curious Objects (1st March to 31st June).
1st of March to the 31st of June. An installation for the Boat installation by artist Alice Fox. This collection of altered found items and constructed forms are based on objects gathered from northern coastal locations of the British...
Heritage Gallery Exhibition: The Human Cost of Fishing.
The UK’s fishing fleet employs around 12,000 at the start of 2018. That is 12,000 son’s, daughters, mothers and fathers braving the treacherous conditions of life at sea to bring the catch and boat in. By focusing on 12...
Exhibition: ‘Sub-marine; The Great Leviathan’ by Stephen Livingstone
Exploring the River Tyne’s whaling and submarine heritage “Sub-marine – the Great Leviathan” is a poetic mash up between submarines and whales! Stephen’s exhibition was inspired by the fact that around the time that we stopped hunting the whale for...
It Started With A Fish And Ended In A Pla(i)ce
A fabulous exhibition full of amazing stories and images! This exhibition tells the stories of commercial fishing from the port of North Shields in the distant waters off Iceland and Greenland. Over 800 years of incredible innovation, economic and...
Exhibition: Views From The Happy Hunting Ground: – 04 August – 15 October
Dramatic scenes and figures through the eyes of the artist. Images of North Shields’ commercial fishing industry before the early Victorian period are quite rare. It was probably not until Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’ together with Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man...