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- Price
- Free - Booking requested
- Running time
- 6pm - 8pm
- Venue
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- Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
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Event description
Join us for the preview of Smoke and Mirrors: Landscapes from the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection and Dean Raymond Gooch: Bottoms.
Everyone welcome. Drinks on arrival. On-site parking available.
Smoke and Mirrors: Landscapes from the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
Smoke and Mirrors draws on artworks from Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art’s collection in a group show exploring contemporary landscapes through photography, painting, sculpture, film, digitally generated artwork and drawing.
The exhibition features artwork by 15 contemporary artists and photographers who challenge our understanding of landscape through digitally rendered and manipulated imagery, artificial immersive environments and imaginative fictional worlds.
Dean Raymond Gooch: Bottoms
Bottoms is the first UK solo exhibition by Sunderland born and based artist-photographer, printmaker and researcher Dean Raymond Gooch. Gooch graduated from University of Sunderland BA Fine Art in 2025, where he was nominated for the New Blood Art – Emerging Art Prize 2025, which recognises outstanding graduate artists from UK Fine Art programmes and awarded The Lizzie Rowe Award.
Also available to view on Friday 30 January
The Graduates – First Viewing
After 28 wonderfully creative years, National Glass Centre takes its final bow on Friday 31 July 2026. The Graduates is a celebration of the incredible achievements and successes of the University of Sunderland’s Glass and Ceramics Department over the past three decades. Be first to see the final National Glass Centre exhibition before it opens to the public on Saturday 31 January.
Monumental
The exhibition features artworks from the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art collection, selected by 2nd and 3rd Year Fine Art students from University of Sunderland exhibited alongside their own artwork.
Over the last six months artists studying Fine Art at University of Sunderland have explored the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art collection in relation to their own art practices and the thematic and stylistic trends which presented themselves within the collection.
Each student selected an artwork from the collection which encapsulated the monumental. Together the seven artworks examine monumental structures, be it public sculptural monuments, giant vapor trails, melting Icelandic glaciers, crystallised desert landscapes, state systems, or the miner’s cage near Easington Colliery.
Image: Katja Mayer and Peter Chadwick, Days Lost, 2013, Inkjet Print. Courtesy of the artist.
