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Animal Sandcasting
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Glass fused cat in green and yellow

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Animal Sandcasting

13 – 27 Aug 2025

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National Glass Centre

Bright Lights: Youth Arts Exhibition 2025
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Bright Lights: Youth Arts Exhibition 2025

Part of Bright Lights: Youth Arts Festival 2025

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Arts Centre Washington

Autonomy
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Four framed colour portraits of teenagers and young adults. The pictures framed. The frame is black. They hang on a wall in a gallery. behind the portraits is a large blue block colour.

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Autonomy

Showing in the Learning Gallery

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National Glass Centre

Winter Sparks: Get Animated
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A close-up of a tablet on a stand, showing a stop-motion animation in progress. The tablet screen displays a colourful drawing of a rocket ship surrounded by stars and planets, with an orange flame coming from the bottom of the rocket. A person's hand is visible, placing or adjusting a paper cutout of the flame on the drawing. The physical drawings lay beneath the tablet, and small additional cutouts are scattered around the scene.

Children and Young People's Activities

Winter Sparks: Get Animated

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Wildlife Glass Engraving
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A piece of square glass is being engraved. The left hand of the engraver is holding the square steady. The right hand is using an electric engraving tool.

Children and Young People's Activities

Wildlife Glass Engraving

Part of Bright Lights Youth Arts Festival 2025

11+

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National Glass Centre

Playing on the Screen: Kasia Parker - The Land of Oak and Iron
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A forest scene with lots of green foliage. A stone wall is covered in moss.

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Playing on the Screen: Kasia Parker - The Land of Oak and Iron

Showing on National Glass Centre Ground Floor Screen.

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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

The Skin We Live In: Portraits from the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection
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A barrel of a cannon points from left to right. The whole cannon has been covered in a shiny pink cloth. A female, also dressed completely in pink, bends at a right angle and sticks her head into the cannon. The cannon and the female are standing on very dry grass.

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The Skin We Live In: Portraits from the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection

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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Inga Hamilton: The Things That Nonhuman Animals Make
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A ring made of brown glass

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Inga Hamilton: The Things That Nonhuman Animals Make

Showing in the Research Gallery

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National Glass Centre

Re-imag(in)ing WORK: Photographs from the IPRN Changing Faces Collection
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A tropical garden scene. There is a very green lawn, lot's of very green shrubbery. In the background is a salmon pink house. A man in a white jacket stands in front of the building. On the lawn are a flamboyance of flamingos.

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Re-imag(in)ing WORK: Photographs from the IPRN Changing Faces Collection

Showing in Sunderland Creatives Gallery

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National Glass Centre

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Where Were You Last Summer?
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Where Were You Last Summer?

13 – 30 Aug 2025
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Arts Centre Washington

Ro Robertson: The Ribs Begin To Rise
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An abstract painting featuring violent different sized brush strokes and blue, green, cream, and grey paint with thinner black strokes.

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Ro Robertson: The Ribs Begin To Rise

Showing in Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Main Gallery

13 Aug – 06 Dec 2025
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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Reflections Through the Looking Glass - Melissa Duncan
Free

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Reflections Through the Looking Glass - Melissa Duncan

13 – 30 Aug 2025
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Arts Centre Washington

Jill McKnight: Past and Future Pact
Free
Intricate drawings of 1950s women working at machines making rope. The pencil drawings are coloured blue for the women and shades of brown for the machinery.

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Jill McKnight: Past and Future Pact

Showing in Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection Space

13 Aug – 09 Dec 2025
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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Three Artists: Zac Weinberg, Joanna Manousis, and Anthony Amoako-Attah
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Three images split across a rectangle. Image one (left side) shows four glass tubes with african inspired patterns. At the top of each tube is a circular shape which is also patterned. The centre image show a green tinted glass object with a large light bulb fixed to the top, the right hand image shows rows of industrial glass and metal bulbs.

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Three Artists: Zac Weinberg, Joanna Manousis, and Anthony Amoako-Attah

Showing in the National Glass Centre Gallery, Balcony Gallery & Research Gallery.

13 Aug 2025 – 10 Jan 2026
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National Glass Centre

Nature’s Tangled Web
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A square split into 49 smaller coloured squares. Each has a white letter. the rows spell out birds names.

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Nature’s Tangled Web

Showing in Sunderland Creatives Gallery

13 Aug – 13 Sep 2025
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National Glass Centre

Peter Roman: My Testosterone Journey
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Peter Roman wears a sleeveless black t-shirt. He has tattoos. HIs hair is waving and quite floppy. He has two lower lip piercings. He is holding a small bottle of testosterone

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Peter Roman: My Testosterone Journey

Showing on National Glass Centre Ground Floor Screen.

13 Aug – 04 Oct 2025
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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Change Grow Live - Wear Recovery
Free

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Change Grow Live - Wear Recovery

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04 – 27 Sep 2025
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Arts Centre Washington

WITCH
Free

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WITCH

12 Sep – 01 Nov 2025
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Arts Centre Washington

Going Back Brockens: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners' Strike
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A painting of the back yard windows of a council house. There are six watering cans hanging below the two window sills.

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Going Back Brockens: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners' Strike

12 Sep 2025 – 03 Jan 2026
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Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens