Newcastle Contemporary Art, High Bridge Works (4th Floor), 31-39 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne (2026)

27/05/2026

Join us for the Newcastle College University Centre (NCUC) Degree Show Exhibition 2026 to see an outstanding showcase of innovation, creativity, and professional excellence. This exhibition features the final major projects of NCUC degree students studying Digital Art and Art & Design.

Experience a dynamic celebration of emerging talent, as the gallery transforms into an immersive space highlighting a wide spectrum of specialist disciplines across the creative industries. Visitors are invited to engage closely with an exciting collection of industry-standard, thoughtfully resolved works — from cutting-edge digital practices to refined contemporary art outcomes.

This is a rare opportunity to discover the next generation of creative practitioners and witness bold, original ideas brought to life with exceptional technical and conceptual clarity.

Newcastle Contemporary Art: Gallery One & Two + Level One

30th May - 1st June 2026
Open: Saturday - Monday 12 - 5pm

07/05/2026

Come along to the Late Shows for the closing event for The Sheer Brass Neck!
The event will include a performance by The Wino Halibut Quartet in the gallery at 9pm.

Free entry, everyone welcome.

Also taking place from 6 - 9pm, High Bridge Works Open Studios.

• Arcadea Disability Arts / Hub Studio
Arcadea is disability arts charity working to develop and represent artists with learning disabled artists via the Hub Studio and our ICEbox youth project.

Arcadea CIO, Ground Floor East,, Grainger Town Car Park, Waterloo Square, Newcastle, NE1 4AU, 07869 713203

https://arcadea.org/

• The Wino Halibut Quartet
The Wino Halibut Quartet involves the fusion of bizarre electronic noise and dark, disturbing reflections about making sense of growing up disabled towards the end of the 20th Century.

‘It Ruined the Holiday for Everyone Else’ is a half-hour soundscape backing a personal and confrontational critique of societal attitudes towards disability, especially the tendency to view it solely as a negative or abnormal state. It challenges conventional assumptions and expresses joy for the unique perspective and insight gained through resistance to the imposition of the non-disabled’s banal expectations. It involves some sweary words.

The Wino Halibut Quartet comes from Whitley Bay and Blyth.

• DJs Not Pjs at the Hub Studio
Hubba hubba! For one night, Arcadea Disability Arts’ Hub Studio flips into a buzzing dancefloor. Live on Nova Radio, studio members take over the decks, dropping their own selections and setting the pace, while the space is transformed with an environment that glows, pulses, and wraps the room in colour. There’s a bar, there’s movement, there’s bass you can feel — and an atmosphere built by the artists themselves.

Come to dance, connect and be part of a night where access, creativity and club culture meet. Everyone’s welcome!

07/05/2026

Check out the amazing prints produced during the Creative Print Making Workshop with

It’s the final week of The Sheer Brass Neck exhibition presented by NCA and in partnership with North East Museums. Marking 30 years since the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, and 35 years since NorDAF (Northern Disability Art Forum) was established.

07/05/2026

Last chance to see The Sheer Brass Neck, a show featuring Acarcadeas Hub artists

Check link in bio for more information

Open Thursday, Friday, Saturday 12-5pm + late opening on Saturday for the Late Shows ✨

29/04/2026

The Sheer Brass Neck

An exhibition bringing together the NorDAF archive and new work by Arcadea’s Hub Studio Artist.

Alan Don | Richard Thomas | Terry Doherty | Luke Scott | Marylin Haddock | Jayne Tate | Alex Taylor | Grace English | Charlotte Frank | Beth Nixon | Jason Thomas | Juary Delgado Lima | Jeremy Chan | Tracey Beaty | Daniel Rae

The Sheer Brass Neck marks 30 years since the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act
1995 and 35 years since the founding of the Northern Disability Arts Forum (NorDAF) in 1991. Presented by Newcastle Contemporary Art and Arcadea CIO in partnership with North East Museums, the exhibition reflects on the fundamental role disabled artists and activists have played in shaping the narrative concerning the struggles for equality, access, and cultural representation in the UK.

📍The Sheer Brass Neck is on view at Newcastle Contemporary Art until 9 May 2026.

🔗 Click the link in our bio for more information

10/04/2026

We’re excited to announce The Sheer Brass Neck opening next week!

We’re currently behind the scenes installing… keep an eye out for sneak peaks.

17th April - 9th May 2026
Open: Thursday - Saturday 12 - 5pm
Quiet Hours: 12 - 2pm
Preview: 16th April, 5 - 7pm

04/11/2025

Artist Spotlight: Brus Rubio Churay

Brus Rubio Churay is an artist who belongs to the Bora and Murui peoples of Peru’s northern Amazon. His work focuses on knowledge production and ritual practices, the rubber boom and the politics of memory, and transnational mobility. His art is included in the collection of the Museo de Arte de Lima and has been exhibited across the Americas, the United States, Europe, and Asia. His artistic residencies include Mana Residencies (Miami, 2018) and Matadero Madrid (2019). He is currently presenting at the 2ª Bienal das Amazônias in Belém and in his solo show “Hijo del clan Siuekuduma, Estrella del amanecer” at the Centro Cultural Inca Garcilaso in Lima.

1. The Cultural resistance and the rubber exploitation, 2013
(La resistencia cultural y la explotación del caucho)
Acrylic and natural dyes on llanchama (bark)
200 x 180 cm

2. Travel of the Mythical Entities (El Viaje de los seres míticos), 2020
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 30cm
Giuliana Borea collection

3. Gracious and delicate nature (Naturaleza graciosa y delicada), 2019
Ink on paper
32 x 39 cm
Giuliana Borea collection

03/11/2025

Thank you to artist, educator, and community activist Harry Pinedo and researcher Jorge Catala for an inspiring conversation. Pinedo shared profound insights from his experience of migration and his multifaceted practice within the Shipibo community of Cantagallo in Lima. Through a personal lens, he explored the intersection of art, teaching, ecological engagement, and social justice highlighting how these practices come together to sustain and express Indigenous knowledge and collective visions for a better future.

Harry Pinedo/ Inin Metsa is an artist and intercultural teacher. He belongs to the Shibipo people in Peru’s central Amazon and lives in the Shipibo community of Cantagallo in Lima. His work focuses on issues of the interrelation of worlds and environmental sustainability, internal migration and the various battles to establish an indigenous community in Lima. His first solo exhibition “The Splendor of Yanapuma” (2017) denounced pollution in the Amazon, and during the Covid-19 pandemic, his art practice focused on Shipibo responses to Covid-19. He has exhibited internationally and has recently participated at Pinta Miami art fair in the Special Project “To Paint the Forest Beings”.

Jorge Català, Reader in Spanish and Cultural History at Newcastle University (UK), researches on cultural history and memory in periods of societal crisis in Spain and Latin America. He specialises in graphic narrative, intermediality and periodical publications in the 20th and 21stcenturies. His monograph Vanguardia y humorismo en crisis (Tamesis, 2015) examined graphic art during the Spanish Civil War and the 1959 Cuban Revolution. He is also the co-editor of Comics and Memory in Latin America(Pittsburgh, 2017) and Multimodalidad e intermedialidad: Mestizajes en la narración gráfica contemporánea ibérica y latinoamericana(Universidad de León, 2022). He has written about contemporary Peruvian literature, football and affect, and his last piece focuses on racism and social justice in Peruvian comics (forthcoming).

31/10/2025

A huge thank you to everyone who attended the Preview! We loved seeing so many of you come together to celebrate the evening.

Listening to the Voices of the Rivers is an exhibition and community art program that explores the vital role rivers play in sustaining communities and ecosystems. Drawing on Amazonian Indigenous philosophies and practices, the exhibition connects to initiatives in the North East of England on healthy rivers and rainforest curricula, addressing ecological sustainability, Indigenous knowledge, and community participation.

Curated by Dr Giuliana Borea, Dr Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Dr Harriet Sutcliffe, the exhibition brings together the powerful work of artists from Peru and Brazil — Rember Yahuarcani (Uitoto), Harry Pinedo / Inin Metsa, Cordelia Sánchez / Pesin Kate (Shipibo), Brus Rubio Churay (Murui and Bora), Danna Gaviota with Kimber Fercat + Pedro Alca (Kukama), Denilson Baniwa, Lilly Baniwa (Baniwa), Gustavo Caboco (Wapichana), Tayná Sateré (Sateré-Mawe) — whose paintings, videos, drawings, and photographs show the entanglements between humans, animals, plants, rivers, and ancestral beings, confront extractivism, and foreground water as a source of life, continuity, and care. Alongside them, UK-based artist duo Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich will work with school groups on a participatory project that explores the ghost rivers hidden beneath the streets of Newcastle.

Denilson Baniwa
Lilly Baniwa
Gustavo Caboco
Danna Gaviota with Kimber Fercat + Pedro Alca
Harry Pinedo / Inin Metsa
Brus Rubio Churay
Cordelia Sánchez / Pesin Kate
Tayná Sateré
Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich
Rember Yahuarcani

16/10/2025

We are pleased to announce our free and public exhibition: 𝙇𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨 at NCA

Open: Thursday - Saturday, 12 - 5pm
Preview: 29th October, 6 - 8 pm

𝙇𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨 is an exhibition and community art program that explores the vital role rivers play in sustaining communities and ecosystems. Drawing on Amazonian Indigenous philosophies and practices, the exhibition connects to initiatives in the North East of England on healthy rivers and rainforest curricula, addressing ecological sustainability, Indigenous knowledge, and community participation.

Curated by Dr Giuliana Borea, Dr Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Dr Harriet Sutcliffe, the exhibition brings together the powerful work of artists from Peru and Brazil — Rember Yahuarcani (Uitoto), Harry Pinedo / Inin Metsa, Cordelia Sánchez / Pesin Kate (Shipibo), Brus Rubio Churay (Murui and Bora), Danna Gaviota with Kimber Fercat + Pedro Alca (Kukama), Denilson Baniwa, Lilly Baniwa (Baniwa), Gustavo Caboco (Wapichana), Tayná Sateré (Sateré-Mawe) — whose paintings, videos, drawings, and photographs show the entanglements between humans, animals, plants, rivers, and ancestral beings, confront extractivism, and foreground water as a source of life, continuity, and care. Alongside them, UK-based artist duo Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich will work with school groups on a participatory project that explores the ghost rivers hidden beneath the streets of Newcastle.

The exhibition fosters a deeper understanding of the global climate crisis and will coincide with COP30 in the Brazilian Amazon as it advocates for collective responsibility by encouraging people of all ages to reflect on their role in shaping a sustainable future. The Amazon, the Ouseburn, and the Tyne are presented as starting points for action and understanding. Emphasis is placed on contributing to school curricula on rainforests, highlighting Indigenous ecological knowledge and challenging stereotypes.

Full details can be found here: https://www.visitnca.com/exhibitions/listening-to-the-voices-of-the-rivers

The project is a collaboration between Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle University, School of Advanced Study - University of London, and the Amazonart Project. It has received support from Community Foundation North East, Embassy of Peru in the United Kingdom, Newcastle University - NUCORE Water, HaSS Global, School of Modern Languages - Newcastle University - and University of London’s School of Advanced Study. It includes partnerships with Newcastle University Centre for Water and Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean, University of London, SAS’s Environmental Humanities Research Hub, Tyne Rivers Trust and UK Environment Agency.

Image: Harry Pinedo - Utopia in Our World (Utopia en nuestro mundo)

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