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Spotlight: Washington Open Exhibition 2025
13 Nov - 20 Dec 2025
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Spotlight is Arts Centre Washington’s annual open exhibition. Every year, we invite submissions from artists based in North East England working in a range of mediums, including two-dimensional media, sculpture, textile, ceramics, glass and moving image.
This year, we asked artists to respond to the theme of ‘Freedom – Then & Now‘. The theme was inspired by Arts Centre Washington’s involvement with Our Freedom: Then & Now – a national project reflecting what freedom means to local people and their communities, following the 80th anniversary of VE/VJ Day.
We were incredibly impressed by the range and quality of work and received submissions from artists of all different backgrounds and levels of experience. We ultimately selected work from 41 artists to be included in the exhibition.
*Many of the works are for sale. Please contact acw@sunderland.gov.uk for more information
Selected Artists:
Peter Armstrong
Lorna Atkinson
Sarah-Lee Bailey
Geoffrey Paul Barker
Keith Bell
Jack Berry
Dale Binney
Kay Bond
Darren Cairney
Mike Clay
Ellie Conlon
Jessica Courtnell
Merlin Cross
Clive Davis
Hannah Day
Wei Ding
Susan Edwards
Neddra Antoinette Freeman-Danby
Alison Gargett
Vicky Graham
Callum Hayden
Dawn Johnson
Cassie Kaszefko
Jo Lamoureux
Pui Lee
Katie Lodge
Bob Marshall
Poppy Middlemas
Conrad Milne
Lauren Muir
Isobel Oliver
Jim Rafferty
Kerry Roffe
Oluwafunke Saka
Mac Stephenson
Paul Thompson
Michael Treasure
Mikki Tullin
Glenda Turnbull
Brenda Watson
Katie Watson
The programme is delivered in partnership with Libraries Connected and Open Eye Gallery, supported using public funding by UK Government through Arts Council England.
