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Artists' talk: Going Back Brockens. Narbi Price & Mark Hudson in conversation
Saturday 1 November
Quick summary
- Price
- Free - Booking requested
- Audience type
- Ages 16+
- Running time
- 11am - 12pm
- Venue
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- Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
Additional information
Event description
We’re delighted to present an in-conversation event with award-winning artist Narbi Price and acclaimed writer Mark Hudson, coinciding with the current exhibition at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Going Back Brockens: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners’ Strike.
This discussion offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from the artist and writer about their collaborative process, the ideas driving the project, and the ambition behind creating forty-three new paintings alongside an immersive sound installation built from archival interviews.
The conversation will reflect on the impact of these voices when first recorded, and how their resonance has shifted over the decades, marking forty years since the end of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike.
Mark and Narbi will also explore the curatorial challenges of presenting Going Back Brockens across varied sites, from unconventional locations in County Durham to the public gallery setting here in Sunderland.
About the Exhibition
Going Back Brockens is a major exhibition from award-winning artist Narbi Price and acclaimed writer Mark Hudson, sharing stories of hope and aspiration in mining communities 40 years after the Miners’ Strike.
The show features 43 new paintings by Narbi depicting locations across County Durham connected to the mining industry as they are now, alongside a sound installation created by Mark using interviews recorded with the people of Horden between 1991 – 92, several years after the Miners’ Strike.
The exhibition also features Where We Belong, a series of short films by Carl Joyce inspired by Mark Hudson’s evocative book Coming Back Brockens.
Find out more about Going Back Brockens
