Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Reviews

The Baltic is an old flour mill which was converted a few years back into a contemporary art gallery. When this happened it was quite a big thing, which meant that the gallery received a large amount of funding which has allowed them to offer free entry since it opened. Their exhibitions are all temporary and generally last around about three ...  Read the complete review

*****The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art***** On Saturday last week, my boyfriend and I went down to the Baltic Art Gallery on the south banks of the river Tyne for a bit of a cultural visit. I had been before, as I live locally, but it was a first for my vaguely sceptical bloke. For anyone who doesn’t know already, ...  Read the complete review

Once majestic, the proudly-functional Baltic flour Mill, –hammered into the barren Gateshead quays- gave, in its bold singularity, an exclamatory testament to the fatal optimism of an industrial past. The deeply black and eponymously-borne font reinforced this sense of a confidence ebbing slowly away. Yet for all this it had a sense of beauty. The ...  Read the complete review

Gateshead lies on the south bank of the Tyne and until recently was probably considered the poor relation of Newcastle. However, the town has suddenly been thrust on the map by projects such as the stunning Gateshead Millennium Bridge - fondly referred to as 'the blinking eye'- a pedestrian and cyclist bridge that links Gateshead Quays ...  Read the complete review