A new exhibition at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens explores the changing landscape of post-industrial areas of the north-east.

Award-winning artist Narbi Price and acclaimed writer Mark Hudson have combined to create

‘Going Back Brockens: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners’ Strike’ with Narbi creating three Wearside-specific paintings for the exhibition’s first showing in a museum gallery setting. Narbi’s paintings depict former colliery sites as they are today, whether they have been reclaimed, repurposed or forgotten. The paintings are paired with Mark’s immersive sound installation that revisits interviews from his 1994 book ‘Coming Back Brockens’. For the book, Mark spent a year in Horden, listening to tales of the hardships and traditions of miners’ lives, and the struggles and triumphs of trade unionism. Hartlepool-born Narbri explained: “The combination of paintings and sound explores not only what was lost, but what remains and what has changed.”

Going Back Brockens: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners’ Strike, until 3 January, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, sunderlandculture.org.uk