Three Reflective Forms (MFA Degree Show)

Michael Brick – The Size of What I See 7 & 8, 2006, Screenprint, 50 x 50cm
Hatton Gallery Collection

Michael Brick (1946 – 2014) was a student in the Fine Art Department in Newcastle in the 1960s, where Richard Hamilton was his tutor. On finishing his degree, Brick stayed on for another year as a Hatton Teaching Fellow and worked as Hamilton’s assistant. Later he worked as a lecturer at Newcastle, where he was positive and encouraging about student’s work – ‘it’s really rather good’ became his catch phrase.

Brick’s work belongs to the tradition of European Constructivism. He believed that wallpaper and patterns of all kinds were ‘the source of criminality’ and kept all the walls in his house white.

(right) Dean Michael Hardman – Abstract Design (Black/White), 1968, Screenprint (right)
Hatton Gallery Collection

Dean Michael Hardman was a student in the Fine Art Department at Newcastle and is a recipient of The Hatton Scholarship. He was tutored by Richard Hamilton. This piece is from his 1968 degree show and was used on the exhibition poster.

(left) William Tucker – Angel, 1973 – 1975 and House, 1975
Photographic print by John Webb – Installation shot from his solo show at the Hatton Gallery in 1977

William Tucker’s work was included in Bryan Robertson’s New Generation exhibition in The Whitechapel Gallery in 1965, sponsored by Peter Stuyvesant Cigarettes. The group of St Martins sculptors featured in the show were taught by Anthony Caro (David Annesley, Michael Bolus, Philip King, Tim Scott, Isaac Witkin and William Tucker) and became known as The New Generation Sculptors.

William Tucker was commissioned for a public sculpture in Newcastle in 1972 by The Peter Stuyvesant Foundation City Sculpture Project but his work (titled Beulah IV) was rejected by the council and never shown.

Lloyd Gibson – Papago, 1968 – Aluminum, wood and perspex in two sections
Purchased from the artist for The Hatton Gallery Collection in 1968

Lloyd Gibson (b. 1945) was a student in the Fine Art Department at Newcastle and a recipient of The Hatton Scholarship. Papago is from his 1968 degree show.

Eduardo Paolozzi – As Is When, 1964, Screenprint
Hatton Gallery Collection

Born in Edinburgh to Italian immigrant parents who ran a sweet shop, Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) is known as a founder of the Pop Art movement. He used the £75 he raised from his first solo exhibition in London in 1947 to visit Paris where was exposed to Surrealist & Dada art, as well as Readymade sculpture.

He was a founding member of The Independent Group, which included Richard Hamilton and William Turnbull, and in 1965 was a visiting tutor in the Fine Art Department at Newcastle. He had a solo exhibition in the Hatton Gallery the same year.