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Green Spaces, Shared Places
Green Spaces, Shared Places: Past, Present & Future is the first exhibition co-created by young people and the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens team.
Over the past 10 months, young people from our Celebrate Different Collective and Durham Wildlife Trust’s Conservation Rangers group have been working with artists, curators and environmental experts to create this exhibition. With a whole programme of training, collection exploration and more, the young people have been shaping an exhibition by their own voices, reflecting their connections, ideas and concerns.
The final exhibition launched at National Memorial Arboretum in July 2026 and will travel across the UK to different venues. It will travel to Sunderland in March 2027 where it will be based at Rainton Meadows and Houghton Library.
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Meet The Team
Jennie Lambert
Jennie Lambert is the Project Manager for the Going Places project in Sunderland, managing relationships with Art Fund, the Green Spaces, Shared Places partnership network and exhibition partners Durham Wildlife Trust and Houghton Creative Smart City Hub.
She supports young people from Sunderland to work with freelancers and artists to co-create the touring exhibition. Jennie also builds links and relationships with community partners to gather exhibition research and oral history recordings.
Emma Tominey
Emma Tominey is a creative producer and participatory artist whose work explores storytelling, heritage, and collective memory through co-creation. Her projects, often rooted in place and community, span analogue and digital practices.
She has worked with institutions such as The National Centre for Children’s Books, Seven Stories, The Bowes Museum, and Future Arts Centres to deliver inclusive, high-impact arts programmes that centre access, representation, and public engagement.
Gemma Ashby
Gemma Ashby is the Exhibitions Manager at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens and has helped plan for and create the touring exhibition. Gemma is part of the cross-partner team that has helped shape the exhibition design and make sure our young people’s ideas are represented.
She also works on the practicalities of loaning objects from the museum and getting them ready to tour, as well as what will happen when the exhibition tours to Sunderland.
Stephanie Archer
Stephanie Archer is a Creative Practitioner, Co-Curator, Writer, Artist and Illustrator. Her original and playful participatory practice stems from work with diverse audiences in schools and cultural organisations of local, national and international significance.
She believes in the transformational power of objects to change lives and is a proud member of the LGBTQI+ and neurodivergent communities. She uses a multi-disciplinary approach to deliver bespoke activities, events and discussions.
Celebrate Different Collective
The Celebrate Different Collective are a group of young people who meet weekly to plan projects and run their own cultural events. The group are helping steer the Going Places project, alongside other regional groups of young people across the Going Places network.
The group have trained in eco-lens methodology and oral history, explored co-curation and taken part in store tours at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens to develop their own curated exhibition at Rainton Meadows.
Conservation Rangers
The Conservation Rangers are a group of young people who meet monthly at Rainton Meadows Nature Reserve to work with staff on practical conservation projects.
The group have taken part in site walks and creative activities to develop ideas for the Green Spaces, Shared Places mural artist commission. The mural will be displayed in Rainton Meadows, located on the exterior walls of the Den.
Sunderland Museum & Winter Garden’s contribution to Going Places is lead by Sunderland Culture.
Going Places is an Art Fund programme made possible with major support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Julia Rausing Trust, with additional support from a generous group of trusts, foundations and individuals.
