Curated by the Memory Studies Association local organising committee, with support from Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute, this exhibition brings together installations by local and international artists exploring the role of memory in communities navigating change. 

Newcastle is a city radically grounded in its local and regional context, shaped by the ebbs and flows of conquest, migration and industry. This has always been a place of change, resonating with a sense of loss faced by those who lived through local workers’ struggles as well as those who have arrived here from afar seeking sanctuary.

Themes of migration and governmentality flow through to explorations of the meaning of place and the navigation of difficult pasts, offering an opportunity to consider how such experiences are both highly individual and globally shared.

Exhibiting Artists

Amber Collective

Henna Asikainen

Verónica Troncoso

Pablo Martínez Capdevila & Tara Hipwood

I-Wei Wu

Kate Sweeney with Anne Whitehead & Judith Rankin

Nergis Canefe

James Craig

Various authors responding to Primo Levi