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Who Gets to Thrive as an Artist in the Northeast? Challenges, Change, and a Chance to Reimagine the Future
The Launch of Twenty Four North East 24NE - Artists Collective and Gallery - Sunderland If you spend any time around artists in the Northeast, you’ll eventually get onto the subject of selling art to make a living and you’ll hear the same mixture of grit and resignation: “It’s tough… but we keep going.” A new national report, Who Gets to Be an Artist? (Social Purpose Lab x Artquest, 2025) , lays bare just how tough it really is. And yet, in the challenges it presents, as a m
Dec 6, 20254 min read


Heavy Metal Roots - The Weardale Tub
Taking inspiration from on of lead mining tubs, artist and sculptor Dr Ron Lawson created the metal frame of the tub. From there, 500...
Aug 16, 20221 min read


Keeping it in the Family. Public art representing community, place and industrial heritage.
It's not often an artist gets the opportunity to create a very personal legacy work in the context of commissioned public art, so when...
Aug 15, 20222 min read
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