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Going Back Brockens: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners' Strike
12 Sep 2025 – 3 Jan 2026
Quick summary
- Price
- Free
- Running time
- 10am - 4pm
- Venue
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- Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
Additional information
Event description
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 40 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.
Following the initial display of the exhibition in locations throughout County Durham, including Bishop Auckland, the Durham Miners’ Gala and Horden, this will be the first museum gallery showing of Going Back Brockens
Image credit: Narbi Price, But at the End of the Day, Nobody Went Away Without, Acrylic on Canvas, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist.
Going Back Brockens was commissioned by No More Nowt, the Creative People and Places programme for County Durham supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and produced by Building Culture CIC.
