Exhibition: 13th – 29th October
Private view: 15th October, 18.00-20.00

Works of Revelation is the culmination of eighteen months of photographic exploration by artists completing an MA in Photography at Sunderland University.

The course has seen the development of nine unique bodies of work. Each photographer has addressed the act of photographic revelation in their own distinct way using a range of processes and methods; from Naomi Pugh’s poignant collages of family life made up of old family photographs to Tara Stewart’s beautifully executed medium format images exploring the impact of a suicide.

The exhibition includes the work of Newcastle based photographer Damien Wootten who has continued to explore man’s relationship with the land, originally seen in his sensitive exploration of a farming community in ‘Beyond The Angel’. His photographs of rural and coastal locations in this exhibition show the complex and often transient relationship that humans have with the natural world. The images, unspecified in terms of time, place and context, are in stark contrast to the specificity of those made by Sophie Ingleby. Her striking portraits, taken throughout the UK and Ireland, explore the relationship between a painted portrait, their owners and the environments they share.

The acclaimed MA course, led by Professor John Kippin, has drawn artists from across the world, and from Sunderland itself. American Anne Douglass presents the fragile relationship between gas extraction and consumption with bold images of the American commercial and domestic landscape. Whereas New Zealander Sam Henderson focuses on the minute; scanning pieces of found costume jewellery to produce equally evocative images.

Closer to home, three local photographers Susan Jane Jones, Pete Usher and Alan Brown reveal a range of diverse perspectives on lives in Sunderland. Pete presents a unique and fascinating frame of reference to his present domestic environment. Susan looks back to her early childhood in Monkwearmouth living close to where she now works at St Peter's Campus. She explores her experience of this place using treasured family photographs alongside new work reflecting on selectivity of memory and how this contributes to the contemporary experience. And if that is not revealing enough, Alan Brown’s observations of a north east constituency’s labour party campaign for the recent general election will definitely get you thinking!

Opening times:
Tuesday - Friday: 10.00 - 17.00
Saturday 16 and 23 October: 10.00 - 13.00

For more information please call 0191 515 2128 or email Do Holroyd.