In 2019, Tessa Bunney was commissioned for Observe.Experiment.Archive, also supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. The Flower Fields ‘I have been working with artisan British flower growers …
NEPN Commissions
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Liza Dracup, Light Matter
In 2019 ,NEPN commissioned Liza Dracup commissioned for our project Observe.Experiment.Archive, also supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Light Matter is a new photographic project exploring the natural …
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Graham Patterson, Accumulation
During 2018, Graham Patterson was awarded a developmental commission through the Wear Experimenting project. Patterson is an artist based in Northumberland UK, his studio is situated on a farm adjacent …
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Nicola Maxwell and Michael Davidson, Field Studies
Maxwell and Davidson used the opportunity of a developmental commission offered through the Wear Experimenting project to investigate the historical and contemporary social narratives of a city, bringing together sociology, …
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Jo Howell, Wear Experimenting
#WearExperimenting was an ambitious participatory project devised by Jo Howell and commissioned by The Cultural Spring and NEPN in 2018. The project engaged over 1200 people in Sunderland in a …
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Marjolaine Ryley, The Thin Blue Line, The Deep Red Sea
NEPN is proud to have published a new e-book and publication by Marjolaine Ryley, The Thin Blue Line, the Deep Red Sea – Explorations of Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss. Marjolaine …
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Kuba Ryniewicz, Fantasy Photo Studio
In Autumn 2015, Photographic artist Kuba Ryniewicz was commissioned to develop Fantasy Photo-Studio, a city centre pop-up for the Sunderland2021 launch weekend. The vision was to create a humorous and …
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Julian Germain, Newborns
To coincide with the launch of Sunderland’s intention to bid for UK City of Culture 2021, Julian Germain photographed babies born on Wearside in the summer of 2015. As representatives …
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Mark Curran, The Economy of Appearances
Commissioned by Nooderlicht Photofestival 2015 and NEPN. ‘The Economy of Appearances by Mark Curran is an elaboration of his long-term ethnographically informed transnational research project, THE MARKET, focusing on the functioning …
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Aaron Guy, Extraction, Shift
Extraction, Shift. 2013 Building on the research residency and body of work A Shift in Extraction, 2011. Extraction, Shift ponders further on the methods and architecture of new extraction industries. …
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Julian Germain, Mother’s Grief
The Great North Passion Commission Julian Germain’s work often pays homage to what might be termed popular photography, in particular the family pictures and snapshots that we routinely make as …
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Simon Roberts, The Social: Landscapes of Leisure
Extending his exploration of the English social landscape, Simon Roberts worked on a major commission for The Social: Encountering Photography. A series of large-scale colour photographs, made in various locations throughout …
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Stuart Whipps, Recorded Amendments
Stuart Whipps’ video commission Recorded Amendments: The Carboniferous Epoch (2013) examines how Britain’s new towns – built during the optimism of post-war Britain – have become landscapes of either mass consumption or …
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Sarah Pickering, Celestial Objects
‘ Celestial Objects’ Commissioned by Locus+ in partnership with NEPN. Photography is used by astronomers to look back in time. Observed wavelengths reveal the elements that form distant galaxies, whose …
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BlackLab: David Oates and Mishka Henner, Photographers
Mishka Henner and David Oates (known collectively as BlackLab) were recently awarded a funded commission to create a new work for the 8th edition of the Berwick Film & Media …
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Richard Stout
Research Residency in partnership with Belfast Exposed Interesting parallels between the industrial, economic and social histories of Newcastle and Belfast can be drawn and both cities and regions have a …
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Laura Guy
‘I have seen them in performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway that almost killed them; they talk with …
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Dawn Felicia Knox
Nomen Nudum: Naked Name ‘A name given to a specimen that mimics a scientific name but is invalid until it is published with a full scientific description and illustration. Two …
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Sally Lockey
A research residency in partnership with the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineering (NEIMME) Working to the theme ‘The Incidental Archive,’ I have viewed thousands of negatives …
