NEPN Commissions

NEPN commissioned photographic artist Helen McGhie to produce two new pieces of work for the Observe Experiment Archive programme and exhibition at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens in 2019. Helen investigates the …

In 2019, Singaporean visual artist Robert Zhao Renhui was commissioned by NEPN to make new work for Observe, Experiment, Archive, in response to the collections of Sunderland Museum & Winter …

In 2019, Tessa Bunney was commissioned for NEPN’s enquiry project ‘Observe Experiment Archive’, also supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. An excerpt from The Flower Fields was …

In 2019, NEPN commissioned Liza Dracup commissioned for the project Observe Experiment Archive, also supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Light Matter is a new photographic project exploring …

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 …

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, …

Sophie is a photographic artist based in the North East. Her recent work SEED explores fertility treatment using a mix of portraiture, documentary and conceptual photography. SEED has been facilitated by the Fertility Centre at …

#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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

‘ 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 …

Mishka Henner and David Oates (known collectively as BlackLab) were awarded a funded commission to create a new work for the 8th edition of the Berwick Film & Media Arts …

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

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 …