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C U R AT E D B Y L I A M S L E V I N & K Y P R O S K Y P R I A N O U
FOREWORD In these challenging times, our political, economic, historical and personal autonomy are core concerns. This year’s Middlesbrough Art Weekender presents work from artists responding to autonomy - from large-scale images of the aftermath of the Northern Irish troubles, to an artist working from the once bankrupted Detroit, USA; from the archives of Stasi Germany to an army tank made only for escape. Artists from across the region encompass the theme through a multitude of practices which always provoke and excite. The heartbeat of the festival is ADA, an autonomous drawing machine floating majestically in the Town Hall. This publication is a record of the third edition of the Middlesbrough Art Weekender. Across the following pages you will catch a glimpse of the energy and excitement that erupted onto the streets of Middlesbrough for four days. Nothing exists in a vacuum. This is true of autonomy and it is true of MAW19. We must share in it, we must speak about it, and we must live it.
MIDDLESBROUGH ART WEEKENDER 2019
EXHIBITION POPPY WHATMORE
PROJECT DAWN FELICIA KNOX
image courtesy Matt’s Gallery
EXHIBITION WILLIE DOHERTY
EXHIBITION TROIKA
TALK DARK MATTER ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION
EXHIBITION EMILY HESSE
EXHIBITION CHRIS RIDDELL
EXHIBITION CHRIS DOBROWOLSKI
EXHIBITION ELLIE THOMPSON
EXHIBITION AISTE JURJONAITE
EXHIBITION JOE SHAW
PROJECT BLOC PROJECTS: EDDY DREADNOUGHT
EXHIBITION PETER HANMER
EXHIBITION ROSE BUTLER
EXHIBITION MICHELLE ATHERTON
EXHIBITION / MATERIALS / PLATFORM A ANNIE O’DONNELL / PHIL ILLINGWORTH ALAN HATHAWAY / TONY CHARLES / EMMA BENNETT
EXHIBITION ERIN COLLINS
PROJECT SUZIE DEVEY
EXHIBITION / PINEAPPLE BLACK X HUN MOLLIE MACSWEEN / NINA GIBSON / SACHA ROWE / SUSAN LOUGHLIN ROSIE STRONACH / SAMANTHA DOUGLAS / JOANNA GEORGHADJIS TRACY THOMAS / CHARLOTTE MADISON
EXHIBITION PENELOPE PAYNE
EXHIBITION DAVID REYNOLDS
EXHIBITION KATIE BELL
EXHIBITION / SIDER / PINEAPPLE BLACK KATY COLE / ANNIE O’DONNELL / SARAH TULLOCH / DAVID GRIFFITHS PETER HESELTON / LORRAINE SMITH / HELEN ELDING
EXHIBITION AMY DAVIES
EXHIBITION KIMBERLEY BEACH
EXHIBITION EVELYN CROMWELL
EXHIBITION ALICE HIGHET
EXHIBITION GORDON DALTON
EXHIBITION JENNY MCNAMARA
EXHIBITION DYAD
EXHIBITION RAVINDER SURAH
EXHIBITION YVETTE HAWKINS
PROJECT ALYSON AYGAR & NICK WILLIAMS IN COLLABORATION WITH VLOGBASE
PROJECT LISA LOVEBUCKET
PROJECT CHEW THE CUD
PROJECT WARREN HARRISON
PERFORMANCE / FEED X TOPH AJA / KENOSIST / TERRITORIAL GOBBING / VISION 25C / ODIE JI GHAST
PROJECT SAUD BALOCH
PROJECT TOM DALE
WORKSHOP & TALK THE LABORATORY OF INSURRECTIONARY IMAGINATION
WORKSHOP SACHA ROWE
EXHIBITION CONNOR SHIELDS
EXHIBITION BETHAN TURNER
EXHIBITION KARINA SMIGLA-BOBINSKI
EXHIBITION EMPTY SHOP / CHRIS PLANT
EXHIBITION BLURR COLLECTIVE / SPAGHETTI FACTORY
EXHIBITION WET PRODUCTIONS
PROJECT LADY KITT
THANK YOU Arts Council England Tees Valley Combined Authority Mayor Houchen, Charlie Kemp, Linda Tuttiett Middlesbrough Council Mayor Preston, Charlotte Nicol, Michelle McPhee, Lisa Bean, Leanne Littlewood, Holly Glover, David Tuffnell, Arooj Amjad Middlesbrough Town Hall Lorna Fulton, James Woodhouse, Carli McNaught Artist Organizations Vicky Holbrough & Nicola Golightly at Navigator North , Stephen Wiper at Creative Darlington, Gordon Dalton at Creative Factory, Tim Dixon at Matts Gallery, David McLeavy at Bloc Projects, James Beighton & Peter Neal at Tees Valley Arts, Laura Sillars, Elinor Morgan & Helen Welford at MIMA, Stephen Irving and Bobby Benjamin at Pineapple Black, Tony Charles and Michaela Wetherell at Platform, Peter Heselton at Python Gallery, Carmel and Graham Ramsey at Base Camp, Emma Bennett at Gilkes Street Studios
Local Businesses Peadar Byrne at Leinster Property Services, James Byrne, Richard Wilson at Dodds & Brown. Mark Hill at Jomast, Lynn Stainsby at Captain Cook Square, Lewis Graydon at Holiday Inn Express, Josh Brodie at Off The Ground Heroes Mia Braine, Stuart Langley, Paul Harrington, Cara Pringle, Miki Rogers MAW19 Team Anna Byrne, Liam Slevin, Kypros Kyprianou, Thomas Tyler, Nina White
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