Projects

A Bathymetric Atlas of The English Lake District, 2014 Christian Barnes

A Bathymetric Atlas of The English Lake District, is a unique hand-made book measuring 120 x 120 cm. Conceived and devised by Christian Barnes and commissioned by Locus+, it reveals the hidden contours of the principal lakes in the English Lake District at a scale of 1:41250

A copy of Richard Hamilton, Whitley Bay, 1965, 2015 Jonathan Monk

A year-long project involving the reproduction of Richard Hamilton's famous Whitley Bay, 1965 postcard, mailed each month from the postbox in Whitley Bay.

A Critical Fine Art Practice, 2017 Monica Ross

An extensive exhibition from the archives of British artist Monica Ross (1950-2013)

Action at a Distance, 1980 Bruce McLean

A performance at the Basement, Newcastle upon Tyne.

A Deliberate Case of Particulars, 1983 Silvia Ziranek

A performance in the Pizzaland restaurant Newcastle upon Tyne

Alive and Well, 1990 Mona Hatoum

An installation at the very end of the Victoria Tunnel, behind the barred gate. The piece was created from the heating elements of an electric fire which glowed in the dark.

All about the Benjamins, 2006 Ant Macari

A commission for the Locus+ Christmas card 2006

An Indian Shooting the Indian Act, 1997 Lawrence Paul Yuxwelupton

A performance ritual enacted at the National Rifle Association Range, Bisley and on a private estate, Healey, Northumberland in which First-Nation-Canadian Yuxwelupton shot copies of the Indian Act.

A Real Work of Art, 1994 Mark Wallinger

An edition of 50 die-cast equestrian statuettes, sold to fund the purchase, stabling and training of a race horse named A Real Work of Art, which ran in the 1994 flat season.

A Small Glass Christmas Tree Ornament Placed Inside a Padded Envelope & Stamped on by Jonathan Monk, 2014 Jonathan Monk

A Small Glass Christmas Tree Ornament Placed Inside a Padded Envelope & Stamped on by Jonathan Monk was a commissioned work for the Locus+ 2014 Christmas card.

Asymmetric Snowflake, 2007 Toby Paterson

Asymmetric Snowflake was a commissioned work for the Locus+ 2007 Christmas card.

Babel's Folly, 2001 Tanya Axford

Babel's Folly crams a former department store space with thousands of rolls of domestic wallpaper pulled into teetering pillars.

Blackbird Quadralogue, 2014 Ron Geesin

Drawing together the calls of four Blackbirds as they move through one year, Blackbird Quadralogue, is a beautiful musical composition that interrogates notions of territories and belonging, and those of the individual vs the collective.

Blind Landings, 2013 Jane and Louise Wilson

Blind Landings (H-bomb Test Site, Orford Ness) #3
2013, Photo collage, 360 x 360mm, Variation of 4

Bob and Jill (pt. 2), 1982 John Adams

In Bob and Jill (Pt. 2), the relation between fact and fiction in the personal and popular narratives of everyday life is rendered in an assemblage of soap opera conventions, performance and documentary

Breaks on the Bridge, 1983 Bruce McLean

A performance featuring the Whickam Synchronettes - a local group of synchronised swimmers in the Elswick Swimming pool.

Buoy, 1996 Stefan Gec

A fully operational ocean-going buoy fabricated by recasting the steel from the artist's previous project Trace Elements (1990)

Celestial Objects, 2013 Sarah Pickering

Celestial Objects, by Sarah Pickering, has been made by photographing a revolver fired in total darkness.

Christmas Carol, 1991 Ian Breakwell

A performance in which four synchronised figures dressed in Santa Claus costumes performed in Newcastle's Northumberland Street.

Coil To Met, 2009 Alastair MacLennan

A two-day durational performance in an old disused warehouse as part of Wunderba Live Art Festival.

Crash Subjectivity, 1993 Lloyd Gibson

Installation of a marmoreal hermaphrodite figure.

Creative Biotechnology: a user's manual, 2004 Natalie Jeremijenko & Eugene Thacker

Publication and on-line work, documenting and discussing research and issues surrounding Biotech Hobbyism funded by the Wellcome Trust. Launched: 15.09.04 Artists Space, New York and 22.09.04 Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Deadstar, 2007 Janice Kerbel

Deadstar is the plan for a "new" ghost town. Taking the form of a town plan, it uses the conventions of urban planning and the history of abandoned settlements, the orientation of extinct celestial formations and the habits of the supernatural to envisage a timeless settlement for ghosts.

Densen-Disperse, 2016

DIY Drone / Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV): 'ArduCopter 3DR Hexa', 2012 Suzanne Treister

Watercolour on paper, 210 x 150 mm, 2012

dreamed about the flowers that hide from the light, 2018 Anya Gallaccio

A new commission for Lindisfarne Castle delivered in partnership with the National Trust through Trust New Art supported using funding from Arts Council England and the Henry Moore Foundation.

Echo, 2000 Wendy Kirkup

Using advanced Siemens Panoramic Ultrasound equipment a journey through the artist's body was broadcast simultaneously via satellite at two locations.

Escape Routine, 2002 Simon Patterson

Simon Patterson, Escape Routine. 2002
A commissioned film that focuses on the in-flight safety demonstrations enacted by flight attendants.

Fairy Tales and Factories, 1999 Laura Vickerson

Fairy Tales and Factories involved the construction and installation of a 3.5 metre wide hooded cape, with a 21-metre long train made from hundreds of thousands of red rose petals.

Feng Shui, 1993 Paul Wong

A performance installation in which artists installed objects and carried out rituals associated with the ancient Chinese practice of Feng Shui.

For You Only You, 2008 Sonia Boyce

Fragmens sur les Institutions Republicaines IV, 1996 Shane Cullen

The work consists of ninety-six large tablet like panels onto which the artist has transcribed meticulously in paint the contents of numerous 'Comms'; the written communications smuggled in and out of H-Blocks during the hunger strikes.

Fruitbody, 2001 Jo Coupe

For the work Fruitbody, Coupe turned a warehouse into an incubating environment to reproduce graffiti tags (signatures) found in the city, from mould.

Ghost Ship, 2005 Chris Burden

Ghost Ship involved the construction and development of a crewless, self-navigating sailing boat, which undertook its maiden voyage between Fair Isle, Scotland and Newcastle upon Tyne. Audiences were able to track the boats progress via a live, daily updated website.

Good Violence and Physical Manners Pt.I and Pt.II, 1986 Bruce McLean

A two-day performance at the Laing Art Gallery employing telephones, radios and CB radios dealing with notions of interference and interruption.

Gregnik (Proto 1), 1996 Gregory Green

A fully functional communications satellite created to broadcast stories and anecdotes from the community in the Meadow Well estateTyne & Wear

Heat Signature, 2003 Gary Perkins

An interactive installation using heat and thermal imaging technology to recreate Winter Landscape (1811) by Caspar David Freidrich.

Hidden Cities, 1995 Ian Breakwell

Hotel Monument, 2008 Tatzu Nishi

How To Con A Capitalist, 1995 Daniel J. Martinez

Street performance, interrogating assumptions of public space and cultural hierarchy.

Illumination Rig, 2006 Graham Gussin

A site-specific installation using film-lights to illuminate urban non-spaces, in particular the locations where architectural styles clash

Intellectual Properties, 1986 John Adams

This six-part fiction is an ironic, stylized discourse on representation, reproduction, production and reality. Formally structured on the concept that sound qualifies image, each segment uses a different anecdotal soundtrack to recontextualize recurring visual material, until the narratives converge in the final sequence.

Jazz Slave Ships, Witness, I Burn, 1996 Jan Wade & Vanessa Richards

A site-specific performance installation in Whitehaven, Cumbria, the last English slaving port and Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, the birthplace of anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce

Landskip, 2000 Simon Patterson

Simon Patterson, Landskip. 2000
Commissioned as part of the pre-opening season at Compton Verney.

Lie To Lay, 1986 Alastair MacLennan

A performance for part of New Work Newcastle '86

Look No Body!, 1981 Mona Hatoum

Love Your Depot_LDN, 2020 Jewyo Rhii

Part of an ongoing project which awarded Rhii the 2019 Korea Artist Prize for her show at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, the exhibition at KCCUK has been reconstituted into a multi-purpose, multi-dimensional presentation that is particularly poignant in this current climate. Showcasing a combination of a physical storage space for artworks and a workspace for creative activities, Rhii also brings the show to the digital realm by creating an accompanying online platform.

Artist residency, exhibition and commission

Mainbeam, 1983 Charlie Hooker

Mainbeam - a ballet for vehicles - was a performance carried out at night in the Trinity Square Multi-storey car park in Gateshead.

Memorial to Thomas Bewick, 2007 Mark Dion

A semi-permanent sculptural memorial to Thomas Bewick sited in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Minumental, 1998 Paul St. George

Minumental scale version of Anthony Gormley's Angel of the North, launched to coincide with the opening of the actual Angel of the North.

Move In, 1981 Charlie Hooker

Photoluminescent installation for choreographed percussion.

n, 2000 Lloyd Gibson

Gruinard Island was used by the Ministry of Defence in World War II to experiment in biological warfare. Project n, a figurative sculpture constructed from Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) designed to distort and change at predetermined temperatures was installed on Gruinard.

Nach Chernobyl, 1996 Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

In 1986 Hesse-Honegger began to document the effects of the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, making studies of insects affected by the radiation plume that spread across Europe.

Nail It, 2010 Oliver Beck

A commission for the 2010 Locus+ Christmas card.

Natural History, 1995 Stefan Gec

Six large black and white photographic portraits of the first six firemen who died trying to contain the fire within the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl.

NewcastleGateshead, 2005 Layla Curtis

NewcastleGateshead is a collaged map compiled from regional namesakes taken from city maps worldwide. In the form of a generic folded map, the collage mimics the existing, familiar structure of NewcastleGateshead.

One Piece at a Time, 1987 Richard Wilson

Twelve hundred second-hand car parts were suspended by wires from a platform mounted in the South Tower of the Tyne Bridge. Over a period of five weeks a motorised cutting device cut approximately 40 wires a day, causing the car components to fall to the floor.

Ordinary Living, 2005 Stepanka Stein & Salim Issa

Artist residency and collaboration with IPRN University of Sunderland

Over My Dead Body, 1988 Mona Hatoum

A series of commissioned poster works for advertising hoardings on the Tyne & Wear Metro and in Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Derry, London, Glasgow and Middlesbrough.

Percussion Walk, 1979 Charlie Hooker

Choreographed percussion performance and installation.

Permit yourself..., 2011 Cerith Wyn Evans

Polar Wandering, 2005 Layla Curtis

A web-based project that recorded the three-month journey the artist made to and from Antarctica.

Position: Suspended, 1986 Mona Hatoum

A performance lasting the duration of a day in which Hatoum occupied a rudimentary wedge-shaped cage or shack

Print Portfolio, 2012 Chris Burden

A Limited Edition print portfolio available in 2013

Print Portfolio, 2012 Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

A Limited Edition print portfolio available in 2013

Print Portfolio, 2012 Fiona Banner

A Limited Edition print portfolio available in 2013

Print Portfolio, 2012 Richard Wright

A Limited Edition print portfolio available in 2013

Print Portfolio, 2012 Mark Dion

A Limited Edition print portfolio available in 2013

Repens, 2000 Anya Gallaccio

Repens was a temporary land-work using a decorative motif designed by Robert Adam for the ceiling of the Great Hall at Compton Verney

Sacred Selections, 2006 Matt Stokes

Scratching the Surface, 2001 Catherine Bertola

For the work Scratching the Surface Bertola engraved a traditional decorative pattern into the exterior wall of a once-domestic, now-commercial building.

Search, 1993 Pat Naldi & Wendy Kirkup

A project that highlighted the capabilities of the new CCTV systems and their impact on our personal freedom.

Second Moon, 2013 Katie Paterson

A fragment of the Moon, couriered around the earth for one year.

Sensible Shoes, 1983 John Adams

Sensible Shoes is a witty collision of fiction and reality, ironically rendered as a multi-textual pastiche of mass media and personal narratives.

Show Home, 2003 Nathan Coley

Show Home is a temporary public art work that addresses the aspirations of home buying and associated lifestyle packages.

Skeleton, 1994 John Newling

A temporary installation in which the residue of approximately 80,000 template sheets of communion bread (after the wafer had been punched out) were stacked at intervals on the church pews.

Slow Motion Car Crash, 2012 Jonathan Schipper

Sovereign, 1995 Philip Napier

A videotape and video installation produced during a residency by Belfast artist Philip Napier in Vancouver, Canada.

Space Travel, 2005 Elizabeth Wright

A sequence of 115 images of the interior of car parks reproduced on large light-reflective panels viewable through the Metro carriage as it passes through the tunnel.

Temple of My Familiar, 1994 Nhan Duc Nguyen

Temple of My Familiar was a installation of a large (32 metres) mural using Vietnamese and Buddhist iconography depicting details of the artist's life. This included the incident in which he temporarily lost his sight as a result of a racist attack.

Testing; One, Two, 1976 John Adams

John Adams's first performance

The Birth Caul, 1995 Alan Moore

A performance monologue by comic book writer Alan Moore, in collaboration with composer David J (of pop group Bauhaus) and musician Tim Perkins.

The Cinema of Machines, 1996 Steve Farrer

The Cinema of Machines, explored both the history of cinema and the artist's own history

The Day Before You Looked Through Me, 1998 Cathy de Monchaux

The Day Before You Looked Through Me is de Monchaux's first permanent public artwork, incorporating the use of photography on a monumental scale.

The Elsdon Mystery, 1983 John Kippin

A "thriller" movie which asks questions about the communicative possibilities of visual information.

The End of Civilisation, 2012 Douglas Gordon

A grand piano burns in this epic film by Turner prize-winning Scottish artist Douglas Gordon.

The Joint's Jumping, 1996 Richard Wilson

A proposal for the Baltic Flour Mill in Gateshead prior to the opening of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

The Locus+ office, 1999 Andrew Grassie

Three paintings commissioned for a series of Locus+ Christmas cards. Tempera on paper, 14.2 x 19.7cm

The Magpie Index, 2010 Richard Grayson

The Magpie Index is a single-screen high-definition video art-work by artist Richard Grayson, focusing on legendary singer-songwriter Roy Harper.

The Museum of Accidents, 1993 Louise K. Wilson

A performance installation which recreated a 1920's tea dance in the Great Hall of the Museum of Science and Engineering. As an Orchestra played, ballroom dancers swept past a screen which showed a continuous projection of the virtual flight and accident of a simulated plane.

The Sailing Destroyer, 1990 Chris Burden

The Sailing Destroyer was an attempt by the artist to radically modify an existing, but obsolete warship into a sailing vessel.

The Strawberry Portraits, 1986 John Kippin

A series of portraits of artists photographed by John Kippin upstairs at The Strawberry pub in Newcastle upon Tyne.

The Touring Exhibitionists, 1984 Alastair MacLennan

The Touring Exhibitionists was the first project travelling solely under the Projects UK banner. A select group of performance artists toured the country in a coach playing a various venues.

The Underworld, 2004 Mark Wallinger

Three Real Things, 1982 Richard Grayson

Three Real Things, a film by Richard Grayson was originally part of The Basement Group Showreel produced in 1983.

Three Thousand Famous Men, 1980 Richard Grayson

Three Thousand Famous Men, by Richard Grayson was a work that was part of The Basement Group Showreel produced in 1983.

Tornado, 2010 Fiona Banner

Tornado by Fiona Banner was a co-commission by Locus+ and Great North Run Culture forming part of the Cultural Olympiad's Open Weekend.

Trace Elements, 1990 Stefan Gec

Trace Elements was part of TSWA Four Cities. It comprised eight large bells cast from decommissioned Soviet submarines installed at the base of the High Level Bridge.

Transfer Laban, 2016 Wolfgang Weileder

Twenty Four Hours, 1981 Alastair MacLennan

A performance in which the artist walked from midnight to midnight continuously in a circle through a square divided in two halves, one half black paint, the other white flour.

Two Sisters, 1998 Anya Gallaccio

Two Sisters was a 6-metre high, 2.5-metre diameter and 70-ton column of chalk bonded by plaster installed on the silt bed of the Minerva Basin, Hull. The work was continually modified by the tidal flow of the River Humber until it finally eroded and collapsed.

Underwood (Christmas letter), 2004 Janice Kerbel

A letter composed by Janice Kerbel using a typeface based on that of a typewriter manipulated by the artist.

Window '97, 1997 Paul Wong

Shown from 29 to 31 May 1997 to coincide with the hand-over of Hong Kong from the UK to China, Windows '97 was an installation consisting of large backlit colour photographs of Quenn Elizabeth II and Chairman Mao bordered by flashing neon symbols; the Union Jack, red star, AK47, Money signs, a crown and the new Hong Kong logo.