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Jul 14, 2021 · Liz Hingley adds: "In drawing together a spectrum of stories from across the UK, this extensive exhibition seeks to question, imagine and value what it means to be a young person in today’s...
Aug 20, 2021 · Traversing stories of love, loss, ritual and race – migration, home, belonging, and learning – the exhibition charts the bewildering journey between childhood and adulthood: “one that resonates across generations,” says Hingley, “but is at once unique to each”.
- Konttinen and Killip
- Winship, Tomlinson and Sussex
- Catt, Wahid, Nunn and Knox
- Student Experiences of Covid-19
- Youth Rising in The UK 1981-2021
The starting point for the exhibition is a series of photographs from the AmberSide Collection taken in the 1980s. Finnish photographer Konttinen’s Writing in the Sandseries captures life on the beaches of the North East. Focusing in particular on Whitley Bay, the images document the exuberance and introspection of youth on the vast expanse of sand...
Recent work by Winship and Tomlinson captures two key stages of graduation – from child to teen and teen to adult. Winship’s photographs, taken in Cumbria this year, depict Year 5 children progressing to their final year at primary school. Winship invited the children to write their visions for the future and these texts sit alongside the portraits...
Longer-term projects on show include Of Quiet Birdsby Catt. On display for the first time, the project spans a period of 20 years. It captures the maturing of a child’s grief at the death of her mother and sister. Catt observed and photographed the rise to fame of her close friend, Alice, as the lead singer of the PussyLiquor punk rock group, the r...
Images displayed in the ground floor gallery were created between 2019 and 2021 by photographers from the University of Sunderland and the University of the West of England, Bristol. The photographs portray the complexities of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students used their cameras to share their experiences and emotions. “In drawing togethe...
Youth Rising in the UK 1981-2021is on at Side Gallery, Newcastle, until October 3. Side Gallery is currently open Wednesday to Sunday 11am-5pm. Entry is free but to ensure social distancing visitors will need to book a ticket. Click here for more information. Spectrum Photographicworked with Liz Hingley on part of the production.
Jul 17, 2021 · This exhibition brings together the work of nine photographers who have documented the young people in the UK over a period of 40 years. Rarely seen works by Chris Killip and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen are shown alongside recent work by Alys Tomlinson, Maryam Wahid, Sadie Catt, Tom Sussex, Christopher Nunn, Paul Alexander Knox and Vanessa Winship.
Jul 26, 2021 · “It is nothing new to say that photographs are a critical platform through which young people can be seen, heard and remembered,” says Liz Hingley, the curator of a new photography exhibition at Side Gallery in Newcastle.
- Zoe Whitfield
MMB Honorary Artist Liz Hingley has created an installation at the V&A museum of over a thousand SIM-scale prints made and worn by people with experience of displacement over seven countries. Read more about it and sign up for the MMB interactive tour on 5th October here .
Sep 30, 2024 · ONE SMALL STEP is an original play by Takuya Kato, a prolific young Japanese playwright and director, developed in Japan and the UK through workshops and readings with UK artists. Takashi and Narumi are a married couple, working for a major contractor on a project to migrate humans to the Moon where a city is being established where humanity ...
