Please note: Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art will close on 31 July and reopen in its new home at Culture House Sunderland soon. Find out more

Opening Times: Monday 27 July – Wednesday 29 July : 10am – 5pm, Thursday 30 July: 10am – 3pm, Friday 31 July: 10am – 12pm.

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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Bringing some of the world’s leading contemporary visual artists to Sunderland

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Hands On: Pedagogy, Practice, Research
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An abstract modernist art piece featuring coloured triangle sections behind circular sections.

Exhibitions

Hands On: Pedagogy, Practice, Research

Showing in Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Main Gallery

28 – 31 Jul 2026
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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

Anna-Marie Gallares: I Carry It With Me
Free
A blue bus passes through a caribbean town scene

Exhibitions

Anna-Marie Gallares: I Carry It With Me

Showing in Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Collection Space

28 – 31 Jul 2026
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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

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Learn & Create

Schools & Education
A group of school children stand in a workshop that has by tables with art supplies on them and various pieces of equipment. An adult at the head of the circle talks to the group looking down at something in front of them.

Schools & Education

Educational workshops for various ages and subjects as well as guidance for self-led visits.

Schools & Education
Children & Families
A group of children and adults stand behind a barrier and watch as molten glass is poured out of a metal ladle and into a dish of sand.

Children & Families

Enjoy your family trip with fun activities and trails to inspire little ones.

Children & Families
SEND
A child wearing an orange backpack looks through a pink piece of plastic they are holding in their hand. Another child behind them is wearing a pink backpack and looking down at a booklet they're holding.

SEND

Make the most of your visit with fun activities and safe spaces for SEND children and young people.

SEND
Plan your visit
A large, angular glass building with metal facade.

Find us in the National Glass Centre

Based inside National Glass Centre, the gallery focusses on new work made in photography, 
film & video, and twenty-first century media.

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Two groups of people gather around photographs in black frames hanging on a wall in a grey exhibition space. Behind the people is a long black cushioned bench.

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