Art is flourishing around the region and not just in our leading galleries but also in rural locations and city pop-ups which we might not normally reach.
Alongside gems such as the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle - which is soon to host the Lindisfarne Gospels - there are venues across the North East hosting new exhibitions this August that deserve a share of the limelight. From photographs to illustrations, and audio to painting, they invite people to dip into nostalgia, take stock of life today and celebrate the North East and its people.
The shows include work inspired by the pandemic - such as one in County Durham that captures the experience of women who had babies during the isolation of lockdown - and images shedding light upon under-valued female farmworkers in Northumberland.
