Exhibitions
Recording Britain
Friday 29 March to Sunday 30 June 2013
Recording Britain was a unique documentary project which commissioned more than 90 artists including John Piper, Michael Rothenstein and Kenneth Rowntree to make inspiring pictures of vulnerable buildings, landscapes and lifestyles at the beginning of the Second World War.
Compiled as the country faced not only the potentially devastating impact of bombardment and invasion, but also the effects of 'progress' and development, the Recording Britain collection of drawings and watercolours is a remarkable record of lives and landscapes under threat. This exhibition also includes more contemporary responses to the British landscape by artists such as Conrad Atkinson, David Nash and Richard Long.
This exhibition will be accompanied by a display from the collections of the DLI Museum showing contrasting images of World War II battlefronts.
There will a number of events taking place to complement this exhibition, please visit our events page for more information.
This exhibition has been supported by the Golsoncott Foundation.
Exhibition organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Viewpoint
Saturday 1 June to Sunday 30 June 2013
“Viewpoint” is a video art installation created by artists from Kids for Kids UK working in collaboration with young people from County Durham. "Viewpoint" tells a 24 hour story of a tower block in an imaginary city landscape in the North East of England compacted into 24 minutes.
In the name of
Sigune Hamann
Saturday 13 July to Sunday 6 October 2013
For her exhibition at Durham Art Gallery Sigune Hamann has responded to the concurrent showing of the Lindisfarne Gospels at Durham Cathedral and the process of the manuscript’s creation.
In the name of will encompass work that relates to journeys and transitions and the way we experience and interpret them. The exhibition of photographs and videos will include a 56 metre panoramic photograph taken at a street demonstration and a new series of portraits of pedestrians with the inscription In the name of as posters and billboards installed in Durham City.
Sigune Hamann is an artist who deals with still and moving images. In photographs, videos, installations and online environments she explores the effects time and perception have on the construction of mental images. Her projects operate in the space between the still and the moving image: she experiments with images created through movement and explores narrative structures through panoramic film-strips.
Visitors with a ticket to the Lindisfarne Gospels Exhibition will receive free entry to this exhibition.
www.lindisfarnegospels.com.
Brass Suite
Fintan Dawson
Saturday 13 July to Sunday 6 October 2013
Commissioned to coincide with Brass: Durham International Festival, Fintan Dawson's film installation explores how cultural traditions enable us to negotiate both our sense of identity and our sense of place in the face of changing social and economic conditions and the transformation of the physical environment that often accompanies this change.