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Going Back Brockens: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners' Strike
24 Oct 2025 – 3 Jan 2026
Quick summary
- Price
- Free
- Running time
- 10am - 5pm
- 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 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.
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.
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.
Artists’ talk: Going Back Brockens. Narbi Price & Mark Hudson in conversation
Join us on Saturday 1 November for an in-conversation event with award-winning artist Narbi Price and acclaimed writer Mark Hudson, coinciding with our Going Back Brockens: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners’ Strike exhibition.
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 43 new paintings alongside an immersive sound installation built from archival interviews.
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.
