About this Event
COALFACE/25 is an upcoming exhibition mounted by RIBA North East Small Practice, featuring original works by North East based practitioners past and present, hosted at Vane gallery in Gateshead.
The exhibition will launch on 13th November 2025 6-9pm with a Preview and Opening Talk by Alex Niven – author of ‘Newcastle Endless’ and ‘The North Will Rise Again’.
Preview Opening Talk:
Unit 9, West Street, Gateshead, NE8 1BH
13th November 2025
6-7pm
If you cannot attend the opening talk please join us at the exhibition Space preview which is open from 6pm.
Exhibition Preview:
Vane, 65 High Street, Gateshead, NE8 2AP
13th November 2025
6-9pm
The exhibition will feature new works from over 20 contemporary practices working in the North East, each produced as an interpretive response to an archival drawing or image that is representative of an aspect of our region’s architectural heritage and character. Drawn from a diverse series of archives, original works by Peter Yates, Chris Killip, Derwent Wise, Newcastle Libraries, Napper Architects, Ryder Architects, Terry Farrell, Victor Pasmore and others will be on display as sources of regionally particular provocations. All have been influential in shaping the character and identity of architecture in the North East and will be displayed alongside the new responses in order to reflect on how prominent works of our region’s past might inform (and transform) the way we think and act creatively in the present.
The exhibition is supported by the RIBA, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Northumbria University and Newcastle University.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
West Street, West Street, Gateshead, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
