David Almond
A CONVERSATION CELEBRATING LITERATURE IN PORTRAITS & WORDS
Bede's World, Jarrow: 9 March 2013 to 31 May 2013
Preview: Friday 8 March
Donna-Lisa Healy's 'Creative Passions' exhibition comprises 44 portraits of authors, poets and playwrights who have a connection with the Literary and Philosophical Society in Newcastle. Donna-Lisa's photographic exhibition captures the diversity of these individuals who engage with this independent space for thinking, conversation and creativity.
For Donna-Lisa, the process is about much more than taking a photograph:
‘This project, more than a year in the making, has been a series of conversations between photographer and sitter. Being engaged with the life of these individuals, if only for a short time, has been a privilege and has had a profound effect upon me. I hope that these portraits reflect the diversity of the life of the Lit & Phil, and go some way to convey the moment, the here and now for the sitters at the time.
The conversations continue to live in this unique institution. It must survive and it must strive to touch everyone in the community.’
Donna-Lisa Healy received her degree in Photography, Video & Digital Imaging at the University of Sunderland in 2006. Her work since then has explored her love of literature, the writers who create it and the relationship between photography and literature. After completing her MA in 2012 Donna-Lisa has gone on to work with a greater number of storytellers, authors and poets and still continues to do so.
During the three month exhibition Hive Radio will record 24 poems by all 24 participating poets which will then be added to the exhibition throughout the three months until Friday 31st May, giving yet more insight into the inspiration behind the portraits.
Donna-Lisa Healy's 'Creative Passions' exhibition comprises 44 portraits of authors, poets and playwrights who have a connection with the Literary and Philosophical Society in Newcastle. Donna-Lisa's photographic exhibition captures the diversity of these individuals who engage with this independent space for thinking, conversation and creativity.
For Donna-Lisa, the process is about much more than taking a photograph:
‘This project, more than a year in the making, has been a series of conversations between photographer and sitter. Being engaged with the life of these individuals, if only for a short time, has been a privilege and has had a profound effect upon me. I hope that these portraits reflect the diversity of the life of the Lit & Phil, and go some way to convey the moment, the here and now for the sitters at the time.
The conversations continue to live in this unique institution. It must survive and it must strive to touch everyone in the community.’
Donna-Lisa Healy received her degree in Photography, Video & Digital Imaging at the University of Sunderland in 2006. Her work since then has explored her love of literature, the writers who create it and the relationship between photography and literature. After completing her MA in 2012 Donna-Lisa has gone on to work with a greater number of storytellers, authors and poets and still continues to do so.
The exhibition features photographs of KATE ADIE DAVID ALMOND LINDSAY BALDERSON MAUREEN ALMOND BOB BEAGRIE MELVYN BRAGG CHAZ BRENCHLEY KEVIN CADWALLENDER STEVE CHAMBERS ANN CLEEVES ANDY CROFT MICHAEL CHAPLIN SIMON DONALD ZDENKA FANTLOVA ANNE FINE KATE FOX LINDA FRANCE CATHERINE GRAHAM DESMOND GRAHAM ALASDAIR GRAY ADAM HANSEN CYNTHIA FULLER TOM KELLY KATHLEEN KENNY VALERIE LAWS BILL HERBERT JOAN JOHNSTON LIZ LOCHHEAD MARILYN LONGSTAFF SHEREE MACK JANET MACLEOD TROTTER COLIN MCNAUGHTON VAL MCDERMID MICHAEL GREEN PETER MORTIMER LESLEY MOUNTAIN ALLAN MASSIE LISA MATTHEWS CHRIS MULLIN ELLEN PHETHEAN SUSANNAH PICKERING PAULINE PLUMMER SHEILA QUIGLEY STEVIE RONNIE
Tom Kelly
Preview: Friday 8 March 2013
7.05- 7.15 Lisa Matthews is a poet and tutor who has worked at Northumbria and Newcastle universities and has two collections Postcards from a waterless lake from Diamond Twig Press and more recently The deadhunting diaries from the Dogeater Ptress.
7.15-7.25 Joan Johnston has appeared in many magazines and has been a creative writing tutor throughout the north-east and has had pamphlets from Diamond twig and the collection Orange for the Sun from Dogeater Press and most recently The Dare Devil from Red Squirrel Press.
7.25-7.35 Kathleen Kenny is a Newcastle based with an Irish lineage. She (like Joan) has been a tutor throughout the area and has collections and pamphlets from publishers including Koo, Flarestack and the collection Hole from Smokestack and more recently from Red Squirrel Keening & Spittal Tongues and Travelling with Eggs. She is at present working on a novel.
7.35-7.45 Tom Kelly is a Jarrow-born poet & writer, who has recently finished a project with Andrew Hagan documenting and dramatising the lives of workers in the area who worked in the shipyards, Men Of The Tyne, which has just finished a mini-tour to the Gala, Durham, Phoenix at Blyth and Washington Arts Centre. Heis currently working on a project with Andrew Hagan on Consett Made Of Steel, which you can read about here http://www.madeofsteel.co.uk/
7.45- 7.55 Bob Beagrie. A proud of son of Teesside. Bob’s a senior lecturer on the MA at Teesside University and has a number of collections from Mudfog, Biscuit, Cinnamon, Seer Sung Husband from Smokestack Books, Glass Characters from Red Squirrel and his most recent collaboration Kids with his fellow Teesside writer Andy Willoughby.
During the three month exhibition Hive Radio will record 24 poems by all 24 participating poets which will then be added to the exhibition throughout the three months until Friday 31st May, giving yet more insight into the inspiration behind the portraits.
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