artists '23

The incredible line up of artists for Middlesbrough Art Week 2023, including North East Open Call and VARC Residency artists.

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Emma Bennett

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Dianne Bowell

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Chris Suttie

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Vision 25-C

Working across multiple disciplines including sound art, film, installation and performance vision 25-C creates work that is harsh, confrontational and experimental. Thematically their work often discusses ideas such as authority, communication, hierarchy and existence. The artist seeks to ask questions about contemporary society and push at the boundaries of 'comfortable' art.

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North East Film Archive

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Jo Lathwood

Jo Lathwood makes sculptures and large scale installations which regularly respond to a particular site, event, material or process. Working with recycled timber she has built a meandering staircase that travelled across 3 stories to facilitate the audience to touch the roof of a church. Experimenting with foundry technologies she has developed a way of making homemade lava sculptures and though researching traditional techniques she has made inks from Oak Galls.

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Jason Hynes

Jason is a professional photographer based in the north east of England. His work is informed by the connection between people and their immediate environment but also the disconnection. This work often explores concepts around identity, place memory and time.

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Abbey Corbin

Abbey Corbin is an artist working with sculpture, photography, video and drawing with a focus on materials and processes. Her practice explores the intersection of art and ecology, often depicting ecosystems and fossils from speculative futures.

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David Shrigley

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Bordello

Bordello are a Queer arts collective creating interventions that wrap the witness up in Queer space. They are masters of making work that responds to space, place and people.

Based in and around the Teesside area of North East England, Bordello Collective artists work across a range of diverse mediums and each identify themselves, their work and/or their world view as Queer. Work is cross media, often performative and multidimensional. Collective collaborators produce work in a spectrum of formats including performance, installation, sound, audiovisual, movement, digital media, design, collage and more.