Exhibitions

Andrew Wiard has spent a lifetime chronicling radical campaigns in photography. For his first exhibition 70 iconic images have been selected from five decades of protests.

From the first Asian women-led strike at Grunwick in 1976, through the fight against Murdoch at Wapping, the poll tax riot, trade union struggles and environmental campaigns, right up to the student protests of today.

This is Andrew's first retrospective exhibition. It is held at the Karamel Gallery at the Chocolate Factory, where Andrew's studio is based. More →

Jo Spence (1934 – 1992) emerged as a key figure in the mid 1970s from the British photographic left, crucial in debates on photography and the critique of representation.

Her work engaged with a range of photographic genres, from documentary to photo therapy, and responded to the prioritisation from the late 1970s onwards of lens-based media in art-critical discourse. More →

Teenage girls growing up in the ex-mining villages of East Durham: an exploration of their everyday lives and of their rites of passage, friendship, responsibility, graduation, love and motherhood. More →

Veasey creates the art works by using x-ray technology to expose the inners of a variety of objects.

The subjects can be small everyday items such as shoes, phones and dolls or large items such as buses and planes which require industrial x-ray facilities. Whilst the images at first glance look simple, many are in fact complex collages made up of many x-rays that are painstakingly put together. This allows the viewer to see things from a new perspective, from the inside out, an aspect not seen before. More →