Hatton History looks at a defining two decade period in the long 100+ year history of the Hatton Gallery and Newcastle University’s Fine Art Department (then King’s College, Durham University), through items held in the institutional archives and records.
1948-68 saw dramatic shifts occur across all aspects of the Gallery and Department; changes in how the students on the Fine Art course were taught and by whom, the establishment of a permanent collection of art and the development of an important and sometimes radical exhibition programme.
These changes were orchestrated by artists working in the Department, particularly the Professors Lawrence Gowing and Kenneth Rowntree and others such as Roger de Grey, Victor Pasmore, Richard Hamilton, Ian Stephenson, Eric Dobson, Derwent Wise, Rita Donagh and Matt Rugg.
