Amber News

Step by Step back online

21st February 2008 By: Graeme Rigby

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's great exhibition Step by Step is back on the website. We took this 1980s documentation of a North Shields dance school offline, when we found that ...more »

Blues Residency at Side Café

10th December 2007 By: Graeme Rigby

Tyneside's first lady of the blues Mo Scott and acoustic six string and slide guitar virtuoso Rod Sinclair are hosting a Tuesday night residency at Side Café in December and January - from hot blues...more »

Martin Stephenson Gig at Side Café

10th December 2007 By: Graeme Rigby

It's always a joy catching a Martin Stephenson gig, but an acoustic set in the intimacy of Side Café's upstairs lounge is going to be a rare treat. Clear away the excesses of Christmas, prepare...more »

Keith Pattison

‘Easington, August 1984’ was funded as an Artists’ Agency residency. Side Gallery commissioned ‘Every Breath They Take’ in 1989. Keith Pattison is based in Newcastle, still working as a photographer and has no truck with biographies.

Every Breath They Take

from: Photography

Work supporting the campaign by residents of Hebburn, South Tyneside against Monkton Cokeworks and the environmental pollution it brought to the community, late 1980s.

Easington: August 1984

from: Photography

Documentation of a County Durham colliery village under police siege, at the height of the Miners’ Strike. Purchased and toured by Amber, the work was published by Amberside with a text by Huw Beynon.