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- Price
- Free - Booking required
- Audience type
- Ages 16+
- Running time
- 1pm - 2pm
- Venue
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- Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
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Event description
Sophie Piper is a photographer and PHD researcher exploring the hidden photographic histories of women’s work in twentieth century Sunderland, in collaboration with Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens.
In this talk, Sophie will describe how her research into the Historic England archive introduced her to the work of photographer Eileen ‘Dusty’ Deste who documented women’s work at the Pyrex factory in Sunderland. Sophie is now collaborating with women who worked at Pyrex to expand and enrich the story of women’s work, using the work of Deste as inspiration.
This project is delivered in partnership with Historic England and the North East Photography Network and supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the Museum redevelopment project.
