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I Carry It With Me Event: Anna-Marie Gallares In Conversation
Saturday 11 July
Quick summary
- Price
- Free - booking essential
- Running time
- 2pm - 3pm
- Venue
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- Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
Additional information
Event description
Join us for an in-conversation with Filipina born and Newcastle upon Tyne based artist Anna-Marie Gallares and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Curator Jon Weston.
The event coincides with I Carry It With Me, Anna-Marie’s Gallares’ first UK institutional solo exhibition and will touch on Gallares’ painting practice, her career development, the exhibition I Carry It With Me and her Artist Futures Fund residency at University of Sunderland.
About the exhibition
The exhibition features two bodies of work, the monumental painted tapestry A Year In My Life in the central space and four recent large-scale paintings displayed on the exterior walls.
About the artist
Anna-Marie Gallares graduated from University of Sunderland BA Fine Art in 2023 with First Class Honours. In 2023, Gallares received the New Graduate Award Residency at Middlesbrough Art Weekender and is currently a Breakthrough Artist Fellow with the Artist Futures Fund, developing new work through a studio residency at University of Sunderland.
She has been shortlisted for the North East Emerging Artist Award 26/27 culminating in a group exhibition at Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland.
Image: Anna-Marie Gallares Portrait, 2026.Image: Colin Davison
