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Oliver Kilbourn: My Life as a Pitmen

A special collection of paintings made by Ashington Group artist Oliver Kilbourn. The collection forms a comprehensive record of Kilbourn’s 50 year career underground, offering valuable insight into the working environment of a Northumberland coal miner during the mid-20th Century. This collection will be on special display as part of the Ashington Group 90 programme so don’t miss your chance to view these unique artworks.

Venue:
Woodhorn Museum , Queen Elizabeth 2nd Country Park, Ashington, Northumberland, NE63 9YF
Date:
Mar 29th 2024 - Sep 15th 2024
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
£9.50/£8.50/under 18s Free

Lily Senner: Tyneside Dreaming

A new lightbox commission created by Lily Senner who's paintings of otherworldly landscapes are created through memory and imagination. You can find this artwork displayed on the right-hand wall as you enter through our main doors.

Venue:
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
Date:
Mar 17th 2024 - Sep 1st 2024
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00
Price:
Free

Belonging

An industrial past overpowers Sunderland’s culture. Cultural spaces proudly show our past achievements, but communities in these declined areas of the industry still live on and have been forgotten. To celebrate the importance of belonging five creatives (Bridie Jackson, Catherine Forsyth, Ellie Clewlow, Bethany Stead and Mark Parham) have held creative workshops in different communities around Sunderland, asking people who live in Sunderland what Belonging means to them. The works commemorate the history of Sunderland, referencing glass making, shipbuilding and coal mining but with a contemporary twist of modern stories. The output from these workshops has inspired new works shown in this exhibition.

Venue:
Arts Centre Washington, Biddick Lane, Fatfield, Washington, NE38 8AB
Date:
Apr 25th 2024 - May 4th 2024
Opening Times:
Mon 09:30 - 17:00 , Tue-Sat 09:30 - 20:00
Price:
Free

No Last Dance

A group exhibition and a one-day symposium exploring how time is intrinsic to the act of making and viewing painting. The exhibition will showcase exciting approaches to painting that will be a stimulus for discussion about how artists sustain a motivated and ambitious practice with or without public recognition. The curation of the exhibition has been informed by the writing and practice of Isabelle Graw and Charlotte von Heyl. Isabelle Graw is an art writer who is interested in painting as a “formation”, something that continues to maintain itself under new historical conditions. As well as offering a way of discursive communication, painting operates at a non verbal level through bumps, marks, material and colour. Artist Charlotte von Heyl suggests that the moment of beholding a painting is the most important for her. That activation of the space between the viewer and the picture externally by its material presence and internally through shifting thoughts as the mind wanders is crucial. This process with a painting is not one the beholder can take away, but one that needs to be replayed and updated again and again whether positive or defensive.

Venue:
Newcastle Contemporary Art, High Bridge Works, 31-39 High Bridge, Newcastle upon-Tyne, NE1 1EW
Date:
Apr 25th 2024 - May 18th 2024
Opening Times:
Thu-Sat 12:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

The World of Childhood

An exhibition for all ages providing fun and thought provoking childhood experiences. It will provide the visitor with an insight into how experiences have changed over time, by using images, literature, activities and information. The exhibition has been locally curated drawing inspiration from playful histories. Come along and gain a new perspective on childhood through this exciting exhibition, providing visitors with an opportunity to engage in childhood games and a range of activities. Leave your mark on the exhibition, by creating your own artefact that can be added to the visitor display wall.

Venue:
Bailiffgate Museum, 14 Bailiffgate, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 1LX
Date:
Apr 25th 2024 - Sep 8th 2024
Opening Times:
Sun and Tue-Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Adults £5/conc £4/children £1

Wey Aye Lego Man 2024

A ground breaking collection of Lego man themed photography by talented neurodiverse artists from Newcastle and the surrounding region. This exhibition stands as a testament to creativity and diversity, showcasing a mesmerising blend of art and imagination.

Venue:
John Marley Centre, Muscott Grove, Newcastle, NE15 6TT
Date:
Apr 26th 2024 - May 3rd 2024
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 09:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Sonia Strong

Sonia Strong is an artist from the North East of England, she has been painting and sketching for many years. Mainly oil on canvas and pencil drawings. She trained in Las Vegas in 2002 as an airbrush artist and educated for an American art company. She now produces custom made canvases for businesses & individuals. Sonia is excited to showcase her artwork at the Washington Arts Centre, especially her new Northern Lights collection.

Venue:
Arts Centre Washington, Biddick Lane, Fatfield, Washington, NE38 8AB
Date:
Apr 30th 2024 - Jun 1st 2024
Opening Times:
Mon 09:30 - 17:00 , Tue-Sat 09:30 - 20:00
Price:
Free

Joanna Manousis: Iris Obscura

Joanna Manousis, a British-American artist known for her monumental and intimate-scale sculptures in glass, mirror, and mixed media, is set to captivate audiences with her last exhibition, “Iris Obscura.” Drawing on two decades of studio practice and three years of academic research, Manousis presents an innovative exploration of mirrored glass as a medium for artistic expression. “Iris Obscura” represents the culmination of Manousis’s extensive research of cast glass mirrors, a technique historically overlooked in mirror-making due to its textured, opaque surface. Through meticulous experimentation, Manousis has harnessed the potential of investment cast glass as a canvas for silver nitrate coatings, creating a mesmerising palette of surface effects.

Venue:
Abject Gallery, 47 Fawcett street, Sunderland, SR1 1RE
Date:
May 2nd 2024 - May 24th 2024
Opening Times:
Wed-Sat 11:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

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The Last Cage Down

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85, this exhibition brings together works of art that portray the declining years of the coal mining industry, as mining artists sought to record an industry and way of life before it was lost forever. It offers an insight into the impact of closures on communities and landscapes, and reveals the Miners’ Strike from the perspective of coalfield artists who witnessed it.

Venue:
Mining Art Gallery, Bishop Auckland, County Durham
Date:
May 3rd 2024 - Oct 6th 2024
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
£6/£3 child

Long Exposures Along the North East Coast: A photography exhibition by Bill Simpson

"As an amateur photographer I embarked on a project to photograph various locations along the north east using the particular photographic technique of long exposure. I used this technique because of the interesting visual effects it can produce on moving water. These can range from showing the power and beauty of water flowing back to the sea; to making a moving sea look quite still."

Venue:
Arts Centre Washington, Biddick Lane, Fatfield, Washington, NE38 8AB
Date:
May 7th 2024 - Jun 7th 2024
Opening Times:
Mon 09:30 - 17:00 , Tue-Sat 09:30 - 20:00
Price:
Free

Oceans of Kindness

An exploration of the cumulative power of words, creativity and kindness sparked by children’s imagination. Children from Christchurch Primary, Hotspur Primary and Shieldfield Youth Programme have written their own collection of ‘poems of kindness’ and then delicately adorned these onto majestic large-scale willow fish lanterns. The final gathered shoal of fish will feature in a twilight community parade and exhibition at Shieldfield Art Works, before migrating to Ouseburn Festival to become part of a kindness trail. Come and walk among the ocean of kindness, experience this symphony of benevolence and ‘swim’ among the shoals of fish, as we stand for kindness as a community together. You can also make your own fridge haiku poems and share your own stories of kindness.

Venue:
Shieldfield Art Works, Formerly The Holy Biscuit, Opposite The Biscuit Factory, 1 Clarence Street, Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1YH
Date:
May 4th 2024 - Jun 13th 2024
Opening Times:
Tue-Thu 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

Turner: Art, Industry & Nostalgia

Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire (1839), on loan from the National Gallery, will be the centrepiece of the exhibition, which explores the rise of steam power and industry in Britain. Turner: Art, Industry & Nostalgia will include over 20 works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), one of Britain’s greatest and most prolific painters. The Fighting Temeraire, one of the artist’s best-known works, is a tribute to the ship HMS Temeraire, which played a distinguished role in The Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The painting shows the final journey of the ship as it is towed along the river Thames by a modern paddle-wheel steam tug in 1838, towards its final berth in Rotherhithe to be broken up for scrap.

Venue:
Laing Art Gallery, New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AG
Date:
May 10th 2024 - Sep 7th 2024
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 10:00 - 16:30
Price:
£5/£4/under 21s Free

Joanne Coates: The Vasseur Baltic Artists' Award

Joanne Coates is a working-class visual artist working in the medium of photography who lives and works across the North East of England. Her work explores rurality, hidden histories and inequalities relating to low income through photography, installations, and audio. Coates uses photography to question the concepts of power, identity, wealth, and poverty, by exploring the social histories of land, gender, and class to narrate stories that have long been forgotten – or simply never told.

Venue:
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
Date:
May 11th 2024 - Nov 17th 2024
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00
Price:
Free

Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works

The first major retrospective exhibition of feminist, activist, social documentary photographer Franki Raffles (1955–1994). Raffles documented the lives of women in the UK, predominantly in Scotland, and during travels with her family in the 1980s across the Soviet Union (Russia, Georgia and Ukraine), China, Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Israel and Palestine. In Edinburgh she worked as a freelance photographer with schools and women’s groups. Her photography focused attention on women’s lives and their work, addressing issues such as inequality, gendered violence, disability, activism and sisterhood.

Venue:
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
Date:
May 11th 2024 - Nov 17th 2024
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00
Price:
Free

As Within So Without

An exhibition of abstract and landscape paintings by Jonny Bainbridge. Jonny’s new collection of paintings examines the recurring mechanisms and forms, between the microcosm and the macrocosm and our place, as humans beings , within it. What we see under the microscope on a cellular level is often mirrored to that which we perceive through telescopes, on an interstellar level.

Venue:
Bottleworks, 8 Riverside Walk, Ouseburn, Newcastle, NE6 1LX
Date:
May 15th 2024 - May 22nd 2024
Opening Times:
15th - 22nd May 2024 TBC
Price:
Free

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North East Emerging Artist Award

A collaboration between curator, Matthew Jarratt and Seaton Delaval Hall, the NE Emerging Artist Award takes inspiration from the hall’s long-standing history of supporting and encouraging emerging creative talent. The award aims to showcase site specific contemporary art in an historic context. See 2022/23 winners Rachel Blackwell’s Flight of the Pipistrelles, inspired by the bats that live in the hall; Jacob Goff’s Many Hands, exploring the contributions made by volunteers and Wambui Hardcastle’s Time Flies in the Blink of an Eye, which encourages you to think about Seaton Delaval Hall in the future.

Venue:
Seaton Delaval Hall, The Avenue, Seaton Sluice, Northumberland, NE26 4QR
Date:
May 15th 2024 - Jun 23rd 2024
Opening Times:
Sun-Wed and Sat 11:00 - 17:00
Price:
£13/£6.50 child

The Late Shows

An award-winning late-night free culture crawl across Newcastle and Gateshead. During The Late Shows, open art studios, music and performance venues, galleries, museums, studio collectives and landmark historical buildings come together to host intriguing interactive events for visitors.

Venue:
Various venues in Newcastle and Gateshead,
Date:
May 17th 2024 - May 18th 2024
Opening Times:
17th - 18th May 2024 18:00 - 22:00
Price:
Free

Laura Pedley

Inspired by big skies and open spaces Laura paints beautiful abstract landscapes. This - her first large scale solo exhibition at the gallery - is an opportunity for visitors to enjoy a broader selection of these ethereal works presented in her signature dreamlike soft pastel colour palette.

Venue:
The Biscuit Factory, 16 Stoddard Street, Newcastle, NE2 1AN
Date:
May 17th 2024 - Jun 23rd 2024
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Mushroom Sculpt By Threads in the Ground

Threads in the Ground is a climate hope organisation. Their latest project is a collaboration with The Biscuit Factory and Forum Books, taking recycled cardboard and adding a mycelium spore to create a new product - one that has the potential to replace polystyrene or be kiln baked to become weatherproof. Using this material they are creating a pop-up bookshop - designed by Architects at Heatherwick Studio - which launches at THE LATE SHOWS on the 17 May. This pop-up structure will become a venue for a month-long programme of talks and curated book selection.

Venue:
The Biscuit Factory, 16 Stoddard Street, Newcastle, NE2 1AN
Date:
May 17th 2024 - Jun 23rd 2024
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

North East Heroes presented by LJ Ross

Curated by internationally bestselling local author LJ Ross, meet some real-life heroes who represent the unique spirit and heart of the North East. A collection of inspirational North Easterners captured by professional portrait photographer Donna-Lisa Healy.

Venue:
The Biscuit Factory, 16 Stoddard Street, Newcastle, NE2 1AN
Date:
May 17th 2024 - Jun 16th 2024
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Drawing attention: emerging artists in dialogue

Experience some of the most compelling artists in the field of contemporary drawing, displayed alongside highlights from the British Museum collection. Works using make-up on face wipes by Sin Wai Kin, to a drawing made with chalk collected from the White Cliffs of Dover by Josephine Baker are paired with artists such as Andy Warhol and Barbara Hepworth. Newly created artistic responses from Northern School of Art students, along with a range of pieces from Hartlepool’s own fine art collection chosen and reinterpreted by the Hartlepool Young Producers, complete the line-up.

Venue:
Hartlepool Art Gallery, The Tourist Information Centre, Church Square, Hartlepool, TS24 7EQ
Date:
May 18th 2024 - Aug 24th 2024
Opening Times:
Tue-Sat 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

BA Fine Art Graduate Exhibition

This exhibition is the culmination of three years of student-artist learning on Northumbria's BA (Hons) Fine Art degree. Alongside Northumbria University, Baltic are jointly presenting the 2024 BA Graduate's work on Level 1 at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and across Northumbria University's city campus in Newcastle. The exhibition will platform an upcoming generation of artists and spans painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video work.

Venue:
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
Date:
May 22nd 2024 - May 26th 2024
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00
Price:
Free

Abdullah Qureshi: We were never meant to survive

Abdullah Qureshi is a Pakistan-born artist, curator, and educator. Rooted in traditions of abstraction, he incorporates gestural, poetic, and hybrid methodologies to address autobiography, trauma, and sexuality, through painting, filmmaking, and immersive events. Drawing from childhood memories, everyday surroundings, and intimate encounters, recurring motifs in his two-dimensional work are interior objects, abstract landscapes, and faceless portraits. In moving image and durational projects, Qureshi situates artistic concerns from the personal into more expansive conversations on critical histories, visual culture, and social justice. His films take a camp performance-based approach to portray scenes, symbols, and non-linear narratives that extend his visual language, questions on identity, and queer genealogies outside the Western canon.

Venue:
Vane, 65 High St, Gateshead, NE8 2AP
Date:
May 22nd 2024 - Jun 15th 2024
Opening Times:
Wed-Sat 12:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Felting Connections: An exhibition by Lena Archbold

An exhibition by Ukrainian-born textile artist Len Archbold, based in the North East of England. It is inspired by her artistic journey to address her personal traumas and process of recovery and well-being through her creative practice. Lena uses felt as a canvas to intertwine textures and colours and tell stories of her passion and resilience. The exhibition will showcase her works, a vessel through which she teaches and shares felting techniques and skills. These works symbolise the boundless possibilities that unfold fostering a worldwide community of feltmakers. The exhibition showcases the boundless possibilities that unfold through participatory creativity, fostering a global community of feltmakers.

Venue:
Arts Centre Washington, Biddick Lane, Fatfield, Washington, NE38 8AB
Date:
May 23rd 2024 - Jun 29th 2024
Opening Times:
Tue-Sat 09:30 - 20:00 , Mon 09:30 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Sonia Burn: Solo Exhibition

An exhibition of new work by County Durham-based artist and art group leader Sonia Burn.

Venue:
Ushaw: Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, Woodland Road, Durham, DH7 9RH
Date:
May 25th 2024 - Aug 26th 2024
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
Adults £10 / Children £6 / under 5s free

Rome Transformed

Immerse yourself in a series of epic 3D visualisations and embark on a time-travelling journey alongside experts at Newcastle University. Follow the journey as archaeologists delved deep into the Ancient City of Rome, uncovering the grand tapestry of history, marked by seismic shifts in politics, armies, and religion using cutting edge technology. Their quest posed critical questions about investigating ancient cities, exploring suburban mysteries, and discerning the ripple effects of Rome's transformations on a broader scale from 1st to 8th centuries CE. This is the story of Rome Transformed, where history comes to life through the lens of innovation and exploration.

Venue:
Great North Museum: Hancock, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4PT
Date:
May 25th 2024 - Sep 1st 2024
Opening Times:
Mon-Fri 10:00 - 17:00 , Sun 11:00 - 16:00 , Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

Lowry and the Sea

Lowry and the Sea explores the artist’s connection to Berwick and his lifelong fascination with the sea. The exhibition includes works on loan from The Lowry, Salford, The Arts Council Collection and several private collections, and is the first curated exhibition of his works in the town for 10 years. Lowry is one of Britain’s most recognisable artists, best known for his industrial landscapes. However, the sea was a constant presence in Lowry’s life. During his childhood he enjoyed regular family holidays on the Lancashire coast. Later he travelled extensively throughout the British Isles and regularly visiting the North-East and its coast. He first visited Berwick upon Tweed in the mid-1930s and continued to visit the town until his death in 1976, perhaps drawn by its clear air and views out to the North Sea.

Venue:
Granary Gallery, Dewar’s Lane, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1HJ
Date:
May 25th 2024 - Oct 13th 2024
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
£5/concessions Free

a picture of space with the stars cut out, pasted over a window, in full daylight | C.Mae Bloom

A picture of space… is a show about loss bringing change, and the changes can be surprising. Made from nothing normally considered significant, small lost and found objects, and photographs taken by accident.

Venue:
36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle, NE1 2PQ
Date:
May 31st 2024 - Jun 9th 2024
Opening Times:
Sat-Sun 12:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Carboniferous Monsters: 100 million years before the Dinosaurs

Step back to the Carboniferous period, 100 million years before the dinosaurs. Visit tropical forests and swamps teeming with bizarre and ferocious ancient monsters, some of which had larger teeth than T. rex. Meet the dinosaurs’ distant ancestors, the very first reptiles, the largest creepy-crawlies ever to live, and prehistoric animals unlike anything you’ve ever seen before! Come face-to-face with scorpions the size of dogs, millipedes the length of crocodiles, and giant meat-eating dragonflies the size of seagulls. This blockbuster national touring exhibition features stunning 350 million year-old original fossils, reconstructed giant prehistoric animals, and skeleton casts from museums around the world, many of which have never been displayed in the UK before.

Venue:
Bishop Auckland Town Hall, Market Place, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7NP
Date:
Jun 10th 2024 - Aug 31st 2024
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

University of Sunderland Art and Design Degree Shows 2024

Each year, the University of Sunderland’s School of Art and Design holds degree shows for graduating BA (Hons) students. The degree show is a culmination of the hard work and dedication the students put into the final year of their course, where they build their professional practice, skills and experience. It is also a celebration of their creativity and the beginning of their exciting new journey as creative professionals. Once again, visitors can the see wonderful work from Animation and Games Art, Graphic Design, Illustration and Design and Fashion Design and Promotion.

Venue:
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Mowbray Gardens, Burdon Road, Sunderland, SR1 1PP
Date:
Jun 15th 2024 - Jul 6th 2024
Opening Times:
Sat 10:00 - 16:00 , Mon-Fri 09:30 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Jeremy Deller: The Battle of Orgreave (An Injury to One is an Injury to All)

To mark the 40th anniversary of the 1984 Miners’ Strike, which had and still has a profound impact on Sunderland and the North East of England, NGCA Collection Space is screening ‘The Battle of Orgreave’ Mike Figgis’ film of Jeremy Deller’s re-enactment, originally shown on Channel 4. The violent confrontation between police and miners outside the coking plant at Orgreave in South Yorkshire was one of the crucial episodes in the 1984 Miners’ Strike. Made 17 years later in the same village, ‘The Battle of Orgreave’ centres on a re-enactment of the brutal confrontation made with the participation of many relatives of former miners as well as re-enactment specialists. Mike Figgis’s film combines footage of the day’s event with interviews with several key protagonists.

Venue:
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, c/o National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL
Date:
Jun 18th 2024 - Nov 3rd 2024
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Nothing but the blurb | Eleanor Boehringer & Craig Stewart Johnson

This new iterative collaborations preoccupied with transcription and mistranslation, meaning and misunderstanding. Audio and text become entangles with intuitive performance, rooted in site-specific feedback and non-linear narratives.

Venue:
36 Lime Street, 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Date:
Jun 21st 2024 - Jun 30th 2024
Opening Times:
Sat-Sun 10:30 - 19:30 , Mon-Fri 12:00 - 14:00 , Mon-Fri 17:00 - 20:00
Price:
Free

Hannah Perry

A major body of new work that considers labour, motherhood and class. British artist Hannah Perry works across installation, sculpture, film and printmaking. Perry continuously generates and manipulates materials to develop a sprawling network of references. The result is an often candid, and personal exploration of mental and emotional health in our contemporary, hyper-networked society.

Venue:
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
Date:
Jun 22nd 2024 - Jan 14th 2025
Opening Times:
Sun and Wed-Sat 10:00 - 18:00
Price:
Free

Humanimals: An Exhibition of Interactive Sculptures

An exhibition of interactive sculptures by Amanda Wray and Johnny White, contemporary artists based in Derbyshire. The family-friendly display will include a number of large-scale pieces and will be supported by a range of fun activities and workshops.

Venue:
Ushaw: Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, Woodland Road, Durham, DH7 9RH
Date:
Jun 29th 2024 - Sep 1st 2024
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 11:00 - 16:00
Price:
Adult £10/child £6/under 5s Free

Kith and Kinship: Cornish and Lowry

Experience rarely seen and often overlooked works by Northern artists, Norman Cornish and L S Lowry, in this powerful exhibition celebrating the region’s distinctive industry, emotive landscapes and playful recreation activities. Over 50 of the artists’ paintings, drawings and sketchbooks spotlight their friends, neighbours, passers-by and relatives in familiar scenes from across the region. Working with people from the communities they depicted, the Museum will build new and varied interpretations of the works; bringing to life the relevance of these pieces today and how they resonate with a sense of place, hope and aspiration.

Venue:
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, DL12 8NP
Date:
Jul 20th 2024 - Jan 19th 2025
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
£17.50/under 18s Free

Steam to Green: A North East Energy Revolution

Discovery Museum’s major new exhibition will tell the story of energy and the climate crisis in the North East by looking back to the industrial revolution, and forward to the pioneering contributions in green technologies happening now across the region. With exciting new displays, science and engineering objects from the museums’ historical collections, and new interactives, Steam to Green will demystify new technologies and showcase how the North East is leading the way once more.

Venue:
Discovery Museum, (Closed on all Bank Holidays) Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA
Date:
Jul 20th 2024 - Jul 20th 2026
Opening Times:
Sat-Sun 11:00 - 16:00 , Mon-Fri 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

Ian Macdonald: Shooting Time

A retrospective exhibition across two venues – Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art – exploring 40 years of work by renowned British photographer Ian Macdonald. Ian Macdonald has spent four decades recording life, working class communities, industry (and its decline) and the landscape of the North East of England since the late 1960’s. A master printmaker, Macdonald has sensitively documented the overwhelming pace of change faced by the North East during a sustained period of deindustrialisation and social upheaval which accelerated through the late 1970s and 1980s.

Venue:
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Mowbray Gardens, Burdon Road, Sunderland, SR1 1PP
Date:
Jul 20th 2024 - Feb 1st 2025
Opening Times:
Mon-Fri 09:30 - 17:00 , Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free

Ian Macdonald: Fixing Time

A retrospective exhibition across two venues – Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art – exploring 50 years of work by renowned British artist and photographer Ian Macdonald. Macdonald, boasts a rich and prolific career spanning five decades behind the lens. His photographic journey has been dedicated to documenting life, the evolution of working-class communities, and the rise and fall of industry in Teesside and Cleveland, located in the North-East of England. Macdonald’s extensive body of work aligns with the tradition of British documentary photography that emerged during the mid 1970s and into the 1980s, a period marked by political shifts and social upheaval.

Venue:
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, c/o National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL
Date:
Jul 20th 2024 - Nov 3rd 2024
Opening Times:
Daily 10:00 - 17:00
Price:
Free

Illuminated Sheep

Illuminated Sheep by artist Deepa Mann-Kler was inspired by the Gospels’ themes of light and pilgrimage. The flock of life-sized sheep lit up in bright colours with a mesmerising soundscape have already visited some of the region’s most iconic locations including Alnwick Garden, Bamburgh Castle, Vindolanda and Woodhorn Museum.

Venue:
Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Beaumont Street, Hexham, NE46 3LS
Date:
Jul 22nd 2024 - Aug 31st 2024
Opening Times:
Mon-Sat 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Free