Looking North: Visual Culture from Post-War to Present Day

Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead  
Exhibition
Saturday 15 September to Sunday 4 November
Free entry

Looking North is a major retrospective exhibition, exploring the impact of design, art, architecture and visual media on Tyneside from 1945 right up to the present day.

Exploring themes of design, art, fashion, photography, film and architecture the exhibition will feature contemporary designers such as ipod designer Jonathan Ive.

The exhibition features work by key designers from a wide range of disciplines, including well known fashion designer, Bruce Montgomery.

The exhibition also explores the impact that the region’s Universities have had on the development of visual culture in the area.

This includes works of art from the Laing Art Gallery and the Hatton Gallery at Newcastle University, by Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore.

There are photographs capturing the excitement of life in the art studios at Newcastle University in the 1960s. This was a time of immense change and this is reflected in the visual culture of the time.

The exhibition captures the changing influences and trends of the past 60 years and gives them a local connection which visitors are able to relate to. A range of fun family activities will also run to complement the exhibition.

A partnership exhibition with Northumbria University

Part of the North East's Year of Design

2nd October 2007

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