Exhibition Archive Season 1



Season 1 of WetDovetail’s exhibition output was generously funded by Arts Council England with the support of The Auxiliary Project Space. The programme consisted of a 6 month series of exhibitions, with 5 virtual shows [viewable via links below] and two pop-up in-person exhibitions in a window space provided by Pineapple Black Arts, in their Hill Street Shopping Centre space.

1:1 Virtual Group Show
17/12/20

The first group exhibition selected via open call, this show is spread across 2 main spaces and 2 suplementary spaces of our virtual warehouse, built to house the whole programme. Featuring work by artists such as Tom Oaten, Ellie Towers, and John James Perangie.

1:2 Blankspacecraft Virtual Show
25/01/21

Twinned to launch in tandem with the below 1:A exhibition in Pinapple Black’s window space, this show features the work of Teesside based artist Blankspacecraft, situated in a replication of Pineapple’s window recontextualised into our virtual warehouse.

1:A Blankspacecraft Window Show
25/01/21

Twinned to launch in tandem with the above 1:2 virtual exhibition, this window show was launched to provide an audience to artists IRL when traditional exhibition openings were not possible,  utilizing a shop window in Middlesbrough centre to display works by digital artist Blankspacecraft to shopping centre foot traffic.

1:3 Virtual Group Show
25/02/21

The second group show in our virtual warehouse, feautirng the work of 34 different international artists spanning the mediums of scultpure, video, installation, digital modeling and painting. Including works by the likes of Abbie Cairns, Thomas Lee Griffiths, Diego Orihuela, and Jiang Feng. 

1:4 Virtual Group Show
01/04/21

The third and final group show in our Season 1 virtual warehouse, 1:4 flipped the script with a night time show heavily focussed on 3D works, whether these be physical or digital. Our back room had it’s roof blown off turning the whole space into an industrial midnight sculpture garden overlooked by the work of Antonino Barbaro stretching overhead.

1:5 Em Jackson Virtual Show
06/05/21

Twinned to launch in tandem with the below 1:B exhibition in Pinapple Black’s window space, this show features the work of Teesside based artist/illustrator Em Jackson, situated in a replication of Pineapple’s window recontextualised into our virtual warehouse.

1:B Em Jackson Window Show
06/05/21

Twinned to launch in tandem with the above 1:2 virtual exhibition, this window show was launched to provide an audience to artists IRL when traditional exhibition openings were not possible, utilizinga shop window in Middlesbrough centre to display works by illustrative artist Em Jackson to shopping centre foot traffic.