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Iris Priest
Iris Priest is an artist and writer based at The NewBridge Project in Newcastle upon Tyne where she is also Editor of the arts magazine CANNED. Iris has written extensively for artists and arts organisations throughout the region including Chance Finds Us - a Turning Point North East supported project exploring the various intellectual, philosophical and art historical connections developing between a group of eight artists. She is also a contributor to a number of national magazines and journals including Corridor8, Artists Newsletter and this is tomorrow.
Iris was recently awarded the AA2A artist in residence at Northumbria University (2011-2012) and her visual art has been featured in both Frieze Magazine and Art Review.
Reviews
Janet Cardiff – The Forty Part Motet [8 July 2012]
10 years since it was originally commissioned by BALTIC as part of their pre-opening events, Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet makes a poignantreturn to the North East. Upon reaching level 3 of the BALTIC the view into the gallery space is Read on…
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, GATESHEAD
16 June 2012 to 14 October 2012
The Future 2, 3, 4 [31 January 2012]
From the industrial revolution to dereliction and the subsequent rebuilding of the community, the remote village of Allenheads (high in the Northumbrian Pennines) has frequently been at the vanguard of social, technological and industrial Read on…
Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Allenheads, Northumberland
28 January - 25 February 2012
International Print Biennale [10 November 2011]
If, for you, the term printmaking conjures associations of the traditional intaglio printing press and the solitary artist-printmaker (the likes of George Stubbs or Rembrandt van Rijn) or of the reproduction of original art works then the survey Read on…
Various, Newcastle upon Tyne
18 September - 20 November 2011
The Human Library - Wunderbar Festival [5 November 2011]
Browsing the catalogue of the Human Library I am greeted with an array of troubling and lovely possibilities from a remarkable 19 year old with a brain tumour Something Wrong With My Head to a free thinking Muslim born in Sunderland Mackem Read on…
Newcastle City Library, Gateshead Library, The Sage Gateshead, Newcastle and Gateshead
31 October - 6 November 2011
This is the Future - The Allenheads Findings [4 November 2011]
The further we drive down the winding road from Hexham to Allenheads the further the colour of landscape seems to deepen from ruddy oranges to moody purples. As the road gets steadily bumpier and we lean into impossibly sharp corners, I feel as Read on…
Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Allenheads, Northumberland
15 October 2011
A School [3 November 2011]
A School Wunderbar Festival, Newcastle, 31st October - 6th November 2011 Lesson One: Utopian Cheer-leading I'm looking at the curriculum, pasted on the notice board just inside the colourfully decorated Wunderbar School. Read on…
Wunderbar HQ, Newcastle upon Tyne
31 October - 6 November 2011
Glorious [1 November 2011]
It started well, with an interesting concept for a musical production i.e. relinquishing control to chance encounters (letters left by passing strangers in Eldon Square shopping centre, Newcastle). The first act began with a solo performance from Read on…
Northumbria University Students Union, Newcastle upon Tyne
1 November 2011
The Profane Myth [23 October 2011]
"Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more." William Blake - There Is No Natural Religion (1788) As a title The Profane Myth couples two seemingly contradictory Read on…
The Lit and Phil & The Mining Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne
20 October - 22 November 2011
Collections [19 October 2011]
To the quiet group of 18 individuals seated in a large circle in ACA Allenheads Trading Post, Ben Jeans Houghton remarks in his ineffably warm and jokey manner: “It's a little like a meeting of Collectors Read on…
Allenheads Contemporary Arts - Trading Post, Allenheads, Northumberland
26 March 2011
The Half Remembered Memoirs of a Wayward Brother [2 August 2010]
On a rainy Sunday, in an inconspicuous nook of Edinburgh, Café Renroc appears through the grey light; a welcome bustle of warm-faced tourists, all jangling tea cups and cordialy dropping crumbs from buttery flapjacks. But enter this Read on…
Neo's Gallery at Café Renroc, Edinburgh
30 July - 27 August 2010
Bilderberg [26 June 2010]
Andrew Maughan As garish as a pantomime dame, and as hapless as road kill, Andrew Maughan's new series of portraits depicting Bilderberg attendees which will be exhibited in the upcoming JAMBON show, confront us at the tenuous border between Read on…
JAMBON group show, Newcastle
1 - 15 July 2010
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