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Commentary
Present : Past – Commentary by Dominic White
5th May 2017 By Dominic White

Can we believe what we see? What we read? Is everything ultimately a “truthie”, just one among many alternative facts? What immediately speaks truth to me in Dave Tweedy’s work is its distinctiveness. This is not a rip-off, a take-off, an ironic commentary on X or Y, or propaganda. It is original, not derivative. And […]

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Reflection
Exploring New Painting Territory with Dave Tweedy
27th April 2017 By Sarah Davies

For three Friday mornings in March HB2, our workshop, social and project space at the Holy Biscuit was a hive of activity and filled with enthusiastic artists clad in aprons or boiler suits. Seven people (including myself) who have been involved in the Painting for Fun group that takes place here on Tuesdays had signed […]

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Commentary
Revelation in Disguise*
26th April 2017 By Matthew Hearn

In Present : Past Dave Tweedy has developed an increasingly pictorial language within his paintings. Drawing — literally painting — from personal and common memory, Tweedy interweaves and overlays historical and contemporary signifiers to create new-found (dis-)orderings of reality. At these intersections of people and paint, abstract and figurative languages conflate; familiar imagery is altered, […]

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Mixing Bowl
Mixing Bowl 14th March 2017
26th March 2017 By Andii Bowsher

It was great to see some new faces at the meeting and a good challenge that we felt it would be better to do some discussion in two different groups which worked well. After some lovely food, Alison Merritt-Smith opened up a topic for us to discuss. It really centred around a quote saying “Artists […]

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Commentary
Present : Past – New Paintings by Dave Tweedy
23rd March 2017 By Alison Merritt Smith

Holy Biscuit is pleased to host Present : Past, the first major solo exhibition of new paintings by Newcastle-based artist Dave Tweedy since he graduated from Newcastle University, and a major exhibition in The Holy Biscuit 2017 gallery programme. Tweedy’s large-scale oil paintings combine autobiographical references with responses to historic and current events from which […]

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Mixing Bowl
Mixing Bowl: ‘Come Closer’ by Anis Mojgani
14th February 2017 By Becky Allon Smith

Come closer. Come into this. You are quite the beauty. If no one has ever told you that before, know that right now: you are quite the beauty. There is joy in how your mouth dances with your teeth Your smiles are simply signs of how sacred your life actually is. He made you and […]

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Commentary
Hiatus and G*D talk
18th January 2017 By Alison Merritt Smith

by Alison Merritt Smith, Director of Programme and Development Holy Biscuit is delighted to host Newcastle-based artists Maria Abbott, Juliet Fleming, Alice Jones and Rene McBrearty as they present Hiatus. The group’s collective work profoundly grapples not just with navigating life after art school and establishing themselves in the often complex and confusing world of the […]

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