Curated by Dr Helen Underhill and Dr Cat Button
GCRF Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
Newcastle University, UK
Featuring Christie Chan, Aidan Doyle, Ellen Harrold, Maura Hawkes, David de la Haye, Hazel Soper, Sue Spence
Water and People is a group exhibition exploring our ways of seeing, experiencing, and relating to water. Through painting, sculpture, poetry, sound, and embroidery, artists explore how we communicate about water, and whose voices are heard in conversations around water security, river health, and climate change.
Alongside artwork flowing from the River Tyne and the Northeast of England, we present creative outputs from community-focused research from the Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub by our partners in Colombia, Ethiopia, India, and Malaysia.
The exhibition is accompanied by ‘Confluences’ – a series of creative workshops, open to all, designed to bring people together to discuss the material, social, cultural, and political aspects of our relationships with water.
Accessing the Digital Exhibition
This virtual exhibition tour was produced by Art Matters Now.
A virtual tour of the exhibition works similarly to Google Maps. Please use the cursor to ‘click and drag’ in order to move around.
For the best viewing experience, we recommend using Google Chrome to view on desktop.
Making the exhibition full screen could be helpful. You can do this by clicking the three dots in the top righthand corner of the screen and selecting ‘full screen’. Mobile users could orientate their screen to landscape.
Click or tap the white arrows to move around the space.
Click or tap the information icons to learn more about each artwork on display. These icons usually look like a white ‘i’ in a circle.
Artworks with video or audio components may be accompanied by icons which look like a white pair of headphones or a play button. Click or tap those icons to access video or audio elements.
You can find information about the exhibition, research output and creative workshop programme by the Water Security Hub by clicking or tapping on the blue Water Hub Avatar icons. These look like a water droplet.
This exhibition aims to be inclusive and accessible. But it can always improve. If you would like to suggest improvements, please contact Art Matters Now at artmattersnowuk@gmail.com.