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Scope Creep
9 October - 14 November 2026

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Scope Creep is now open, and documentation is online. The gallery is open Thursday - Saturday 11am - 5pm, and the show runs until November 14.

Accompanying the show is a commissioned text by artist and writer Jesse Howarth, which can be read in full on our website.

"They tell her it is the sandwich, not her complaint about payment discrepancies, that is why she’s no longer permitted to enter the building. She is to leave the premises immediately and she is not to return tomorrow. She is no longer required to spray and wipe down the desks, desks made of black melamine-coated MDF, a stubborn material which shows every touch or smear. She is no longer to work quickly as she has done every morning for the last two years, to buff away grease marks from fingers and elbows on the employees' desks. Now somebody else will be paid the new living wage (the wage she formally complained about not receiving) to repeat these tasks daily. Somebody else will run a duster over the computer monitors that are somehow always dusty, and polish the door handles. It will be somebody else’s job to scrub the sink in the communal kitchen until the skin on their knuckles dries and splits."

@jsshwrth

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Installation view
Scope Creep

@izziebeirneart
@maewhen
@hammillj
@amirandawebster

#Slugtown #Exhibition #Newcastle #ContemporaryArt #ScopeCreep by @slugtown_

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19 hours ago

We’re thrilled to be presenting this work by Mac Collins as our Annual Artwork Edition available exclusively for Friends of Slugtown on Patreon.

✨Visit the link in bio to support ✨

Join today from as little as £3/month to support the gallery, and to get your hands on beautiful artworks.

Mac Collins
Untitled, 2025 Sand-cast aluminium chalk, hand-stamped and numbered
2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5cm

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In 2025 Collins presented ‘Miscue’, a solo exhibition at Slugtown, that transformed the gallery into an immersive abstraction of a traditional pub. Initially informed by The Limekiln, a Jamaican-run pub in Nottingham, Collins is interested in the point where cultures collide and merge, and the camaraderie and conflict that can occur in civic spaces.

Following this, Collins has created ‘Untitled‘– a limited edition sand-cast aluminium chalk and ubiquitous staple of the traditional pub.

Images: 1,2,6 and 7. 📸: Megan Jepson.

#Slugtown #Patreon #MacCollins #ContemporaryArt #Edition taken in Slugtown by @slugtown_

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4 months ago

Slugtown is delighted to announce an upcoming gallery exchange with Pipeline, London.

This July, Slugtown will present Rachel Adams and Hilda Kortei in a two-person exhibition in London, whilst Pipeline will showcase Sheffield-based Artist Conor Rogers in Newcastle upon Tyne. The gallery swap seeks to develop a collegiate spirit between the two arts ecologies, and foster a more nationally inclusive art community.

Big thanks to @amldawson @mgerlis and @markhayeswestall for the features in the @artnewspaper @financialtimes @worldoffad 🔗 Links in bio

Slugtown at Pipeline 12-27 July, opening 11 July
Pipeline at Slugtown 19 July - 4 August, opening 18 July

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@hildakortei
@radical_atoms
@conor___rogers

#Slugtown #Pipeline #Exhibition#ContemporaryArt #Art by @slugtown_

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2 years ago

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the opening of Scope Creep, a four-person exhibition bringing together painting, sculpture, and installation by Izzie Beirne, C Mae Bloom, Jamie Hammill, and Miranda Webster.

The exhibition continues until 14 November. Open Thursday-Saturday, 11-5pm.

For further information and preview please email info@slugtown.co.uk

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Izzie Beirne
Fly Away Home, 2026
Oil on canvas 40 x 45 cm

#Slugtown #Exhibition #Newcastle #ContemporaryArt #Art taken in Slugtown by @slugtown_

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4 days ago

Opening tomorrow | Scope Creep

Join us tomorrow, Thursday 8 October, 6 - 8pm to celebrate the opening of ‘Scope Creep’, a four-person exhibition bringing together painting, sculpture, and installation by Izzie Beirne, C Mae Bloom, Jamie Hammill, and Miranda Webster, alongside a commissioned exhibition text by Jesse Howarth.

9 October – 14 November 2026

For further information and preview please email info@slugtown.co.uk

#Slugtown #Exhibition #ContemporaryArt #Art taken in Slugtown by @slugtown_

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9 days ago

Slugtown is pleased to present ‘Scope Creep’, a four-person exhibition bringing together painting, sculpture, and installation by Izzie Beirne, C Mae Bloom, Jamie Hammill, and Miranda Webster.

Opening: Thursday 8 October, 6 - 8pm
9 October – 14 November 2026

The exhibition will consider the material and psychological residue left by accumulation: paint layered and excavated, found objects gathered and reassembled, and marks repeated until an image resolves. Ideas of accrual, the passage of time held within an object, and the point at which small, overlooked parts become whole are concerns carried by the artists in the show.

@izziebeirneart
@maewhen
@hammillj
@amirandawebster

For further information and preview please email info@slugtown.co.uk

#Slugtown #Exhibition #ContemporaryArt #Art taken in Slugtown by @slugtown_

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16 days ago

Paper Theatre wrapped up last week with a closing party at the gallery - thank you to everyone who joined us!

Over the summer, children took part in workshops all about print, paper and bookbinding. Artworks made during the sessions went on display, gradually transforming the gallery into a vibrant celebration of all things print.

Thanks to all the kids and to everyone who visited and supported the gallery throughout the project.

Huge thanks to George, Oliver and Erika from @overlaypress for curating such a brilliant programme.

📚 Visit our website via the link in bio to see how it all came together, and to learn more about Overlay Press, the workshops, and Paper Theatre.

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Paper Theatre was supported by Arts Council England, GF Smith and Malings Foundation.

#Slugtown #SlugClub #OverlayPress #Print #Newcastle taken in Slugtown by @slugtown_

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a month ago

Prepping for tomorrow’s Closing Party, and showcasing the works created in some recent workshops, Giant Jacob’s Ladders and Shieldfield Tapestry!

It’s been a pleasure hosting Overlay Press. The workshops - all but a couple sold out - have been a lot of fun, hugely ambitious, and taught a lot of new skills along the way.

All are welcome for the Closing Party, where there’ll be some drinks, some pizzas, all the work made during the project, and opportunity to get your hands on some books, prints and more from the store.

@overlaypress
@georgewstewart_
@oliverhoffmeisterart
@etysongreen

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Closing Party for Paper Theatre Friday 11 September 6 - 8pm

Paper Theatre exhibition continues until 12 September
Open Thursday - Saturday 11am - 5pm.

#Slugtown #OverlayPress #PaperTheatre #Books #ContemporaryArt taken in Slugtown by @slugtown_

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a month ago

New lithographs from Oliver Hoffmeister, and monotypes from Miriam Hancill are live on our store! Link in bio.

Hoffmeister draws influence from the plethora of visual stimuli that we interact with both passively and actively everyday, he allows his subconscious to derive images without a system of hierarchy.

Hancill’s practice teases out the generative sensations of print making through material-led inquiry. Her Powsels series of monotypes are made by taking CMYK-layered impressions from scrim fabric, a process which produces unpredictable and unique moiré interference patterns in the surface of the prints due to the misalignment of the scrim’s printed weave.

@oliverhoffmeisterart
@miriamhancill

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Oliver Hoffmeister
‘Dismount’
Lithograph on South Bank Smooth paper, edition of 10, 15 x 21cm, 2025

Miriam Hancill
‘Powsels I (Double Cyan)’
Monotype on Japanese Tosa Washi paper, unique, 94 x 63cmcm, 2026

Oliver Hoffmeister
‘The Painter’
Lithograph on South Bank Smooth paper, edition of 10, 15 x 21cm, 2025

Miriam Hancill  ‘Powsels IV (Saturated)’
Monotype on Japanese Tosa Washi paper, unique, 94 x 63cmcm, 2026

Oliver Hoffmieister
‘Model Factory’
Lithograph on South Bank Smooth paper, edition of 10, 15 x 21cm, 2025

Miriam Hancill  ‘Powsels VI (Vertical Faults)
Monotype on Japanese Tosa Washi paper, unique, 94 x 63cmcm, 2026 taken in Slugtown by @slugtown_

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Behind the scenes of Paper Theatre at @slugtown_ taken in Slugtown by @slugtown_

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💫🍕 Join us for our closing party for Paper Theatre! 🍕 💫 It’s been wonderful to host Overlay Press and the incredible project workshops they have curated for children. For the past 6 weeks the gallery has become print studio, workshop, exhibition space and screening room.

Come down and have a drink, eat some pizza, see the works made by the children, watch Knust Press - The Pioneers of Riso Print, and there’ll be opportunity to buy prints, merch, editions and more.

Closing Party | Paper Theatre by Overlay Press
Friday 11 September
18:00 - 20:00

@overlaypress
@ivanczyew
@knustpress
@extrapool_artspace

#Slugtown #OverlayPress #Pizzas #GNRCarbLoading #ContemporaryArt taken in Slugtown by @slugtown_

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a month ago

Paper Theatre is open this week at Slugtown. Open Thursday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm. Come down and see some of the work made in workshops!

Or to get your hands on some of the new products we have in store and online. Link in bio!

@overlaypress

#Slugtown #Exhibition #Newcastle #OverlayPress #PaperTheatre by @slugtown_

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