Important Visitor Notice

From Sunday 16 March 2025, National Glass Centre will close on Sundays.

This will bring it in line with the opening hours of other galleries and museums across the city. National Glass Centre remains open with our usual programme of exhibitions and activities Monday-Saturday.

Additionally, in line with the new opening hours, Glass Yard Café will also close on Sundays and offer a revised menu on Mondays.

Read the full statement from University of Sunderland about the planned changes:  University of Sunderland Statement

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Exhibitions

Re-imag(in)ing WORK: Photographs from the IPRN Changing Faces Collection

22 Feb – 27 Apr 2025

Showing in Sunderland Creatives Gallery

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Free
Running time
10:00 - 17:00 Daily
Venue
  • National Glass Centre

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Event description

Photography by Andrej Balco, Vincent Debanne, Ulrich Gebert, Rob Hornstra, Eija Keskinen, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Xavier Ribas, André Vieira and Tomoko Yoneda.

Re-imag(in)ing WORK explores the changing face of work in Europe, Africa and South America.  Themes addressed include productivity, the decline of traditional and manual industries and rise of service industries, the impact of new technologies upon labour, constructed sites of commerce and controlled natural environments, migrant workers and migration and identity and opportunity in a newly expanded EU.

The Changing Faces Collection comprises works by eighteen photographers created between 2004-2007, commissioned by IPRN (International Photography Research Network), coordinated by the University of Sunderland with key partners Museum Folkwang, Essen, Paradox/Leiden University, the Netherlands, Dom Fotografie, Slovakia and University of Jyväskylä, Finland. A selection of these photographers are presented in this exhibition.

 

Image credit:

Edgar Peixoto, from Domésticas, 2007. © Andrej Balco. Courtesy of the Artist.

Courtesy of the Artist