COALFACE/25

COALFACE/25 is an exhibition mounted by RIBA North East Small Practice, featuring original works by North East based architectural practitioners past and present.

The exhibition will feature new works from 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 the region’s architectural heritage and character.

Drawn from a 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 (Royal Institute of British Architects), Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Northumbria University and Newcastle University.