Heritage at Heart: Online Exhibition
Heritage at Heart: Online Exhibition
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens website
Tuesday 25 August 2020 - Wednesday 31 March 2021
Heritage at Heart was an online exhibition which examined the links between Sunderland’s industrial past and artworks from the Arts Council Collection.
Presenting objects, archival documents and photographs from the Museum’s collection, alongside artworks from the Arts Council Collection, the exhibition unearthed Sunderland’s mining, shipbuilding, glass, pottery, automobile, rope and construction industries.
The exhibition also explored how industry continues to inform and influence artists today.
Featuring artworks by Rana Begum, Prunella Clough, Richard Deacon, Jeremy Deller, Larry Herman, L.S. Lowry, Ian Macdonald, Tom McGuinness, Grayson Perry, Carol Rhodes, Gary Webb and Richard Woods.
Heritage at Heart was a National Partners Programme exhibition with the Arts Council Collection.