Posts by venue: Laing Art Gallery

FLAG A Momentous year ahead!!

Happy New Year! Now that the festive season is behind us we can look forward to an exciting 2015! As January always seems to be a long, cold and dark month why not try something new and join us at… Read more

Ralph’s Cat and Other Animals

Affectionately known as Ralph’s Cat, this picture is actually titled Blinking in the Sun. It was painted in 1881 by Ralph Hedley, who specialised in scenes of North East life. It’s on show at the children’s area at the Laing… Read more

Nothing But Blue Skies From Now ON! (removal of some very Yellow varnish)

This year as a way of coping with a sharp reduction in Museum funding we are all being asked to find new ways of raising funds. This means that for the first time (in my memory at least) our Conservation… Read more

Laing Art Gallery’s Companion Guide Book marks 110 years of history

  I only found that I had snapped this pigeon on the wing when I was looking through my photos recently – a scrap of flying energy that rather nicely complements the stone of the Laing’s distinctive tower. The tower itself is a great use of… Read more

FLAG at 50

  As this is our first blog – we thought we’d tell you why we’ve decided to do this and also to tell you a little bit about us. We are Friends of the Laing Art Gallery (FLAG) and next… Read more