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Hands On: Pedagogy,
Practice, Research

Anna-Marie Gallares: I Carry 
It With Me

NGCA Collection University
of Sunderland Executive Boardroom 

Dean Raymond Gooch: Bottoms

Smoke and Mirrors: 
Landscapes from the NGCA
Collection

Paint the Town in Sound 2
curated with Field Music
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art x University of Sunderland Fine Art = Monumental
Jill McKnight: Past and 
Future Pact
Ro Robertson: The Ribs
Begin to Rise

NHS Darkroom Project with
Johannah Churchill: Come
As You Really Are
The Caravan Gallery: 
Sunderland Pride of Pride 
Project - Ten Years On
Hetain Patel: Come As You
Really Are
Harry Griffin: My name is 
Harry, these are my pictures
and they are nice
The Skin We Live In: 
Portraits from the NGCA
Collection
John Kippin: Based on a 
True Story
Dan Holdsworth: Spatial
Objects
Ian Macdonald: Fixing
Time

Jeremy Deller: The Battle
of Orgreave
Laura Lancaster: My Echo,
My Shadow

Seb Trend: XTRALIFE

Northern Gallery for
Contemporary Art Collection Display

Jade Sweeting: 900 miles (from
Home)

Mike Nelson: Hybrid 
Scripts

Chad McCail: Hopes and
Fears

Cory Arcangel: 🤗

Fiona Crisp: Weighting
Time
Mark Pinder: Macromancy
Britain and the North East
of England 1986-2022
Jhanee Wilkins: Black
Britain
Janina Sabaliauskaitė: 
SENDING LOVE
Rhea Storr: The Image 
that Spits, the Eye that 
Accumulates
Graham Dolphin:
Gnossiennes (Durham)
Island: Island Life in Britain
Since 1945
John Kippin & Nicola 
Neate: IN this DAY and
AGE - The Outer Hebrides
NGCA x University of 
Sunderland, School of Art
and Design Exhibition Takeovers
Graham Dolphin: 
Gnossiennes
Grayson Perry: The
Vanity of Small
Differences

Vinca Petersen: Make
Social Honey - A 
Collective Search for
JOY
Graham Dolphin: Come 
Together
Anthony Amoako-Attah:
Transition IV
Patrick Hough: The
Black River of Herself

Stuart Whipps: The
Carboniferous Epoch

Where We Are Now

Antony Gormley: Earth
Drawings

Paint the Town in Sound
Virtual Exhibition 
Susan Philipsz
The Internationale
Art Crush

Heritage at Heart:
Online Exhibition
Arts Council Collection
Print Displays
Arts Council Collection x
University of Sunderland,
School of Art and Design 
Takeovers
In Focus: Artist Film
Programme & Discussion
A Protest, A Celebration,
A Mixed Message: Artists’
Films
This Image is No Longer
Available
Artist Selected Film
Programme: Penny
Woolcock
You and Whose Army?
Artist Performance
Evening
Simon Faithfull: Going
Nowhere series
Spotify Artist Selected
Playlists

Francis Alÿs: When Faith
Moves Mountains
Art/Action: Artists’ Films 

Martin Creed: Words and
Music
Young Knives:
Barbarians
Experiments
Residency 

Digital Voices 

Unit 6 Displays 

(im)material Labour


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Hands On: Pedagogy, Practice, Research

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
Saturday 6th June - Friday 31st July 2026


Hands On: Pedagogy, Practice, Research celebrates University of Sunderland’s bold approach to world leading contemporary Fine Art education and cultivating the connections between pedagogy, art making and creative practice research.

The exhibition showcases University of Sunderland Fine Art’s internationally recognised teaching, artistic and creative practice research, including academics, creative technicians and practice-based PhD and research community.

Exhibited artists: Ralf Broeg, Victoria Doyle, Natalie Gale, Hannah Gawne, Lothar Goetz, Will Hughes, James Hutchinson, Craig Knowles, Dr Fiona Larkin, Graham Mitchinson, Paul Raymond, Speaking in Tongues, and Strange Quark Creative (James Stephen Wright and Polina Chizhova) – James Stephen Wright is a AHRC funded PhD student in Fine Art at University of Sunderland.

Hands On: Pedagogy, Practice, Research is curated by Dr Suzy O’Hara, produced by the Fine Art academic, technical and PhD team and reconfigured for this exhibition with Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art.







Photos: Colin Davison
Contact: ︎ Jonathan.weston@sunderlandculture.org.uk