Durham University Centre for Visual Arts and Culture

27/09/2025

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The pain is invisible, but it’s there. Here are the stories of what it’s like to live with trigeminal neuralgia.

17/09/2025

Fascinating!

Published 2018, 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗸, 𝗦𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗽𝗮𝘀: 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗸 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱 by Susan Whitfield is a vivid reimagining of the world’s most storied trade routes —told not through kings or conquerors, but through the lives of things.

From the shimmer of Byzantine silk wrapping holy relics in France, to a Hellenistic glass bowl buried in a Chinese tomb, to coins minted by Kushan rulers and hidden in an Ethiopian monastery, Whitfield follows ten extraordinary objects across Afro-Eurasia. Along the way, she reveals the hands that made them, the caravans that carried them, the rituals that enshrined them, and the collectors and curators who later preserved them.

Details:
https://substack.com//note/p-173866310

17/09/2025

15-21 September 2025

21/08/2025

About the ResidencyThe Baltic|States Residency Exchange Programme supports emerging artists and curators from the UK, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia and enables artists and curators to research and professionally develop through a series of supported resid

14/05/2025

08/01/2025

🥁Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

After the hundreds (thousands?) of hours trawling through online image collections since the PDR’s inception, we’ve decided it was time to create one of our own! We are really excited to share with you the launch of our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse.

Visit the new site here: https://pdimagearchive.org/

Read blog post on PDR about it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/01/announcing-the-public-domain-image-archive/

Follow PDIA on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571535394821

11/07/2024

My solo art exhibition at Republic Gallery, Blyth will open on the 11th of July 2024 and will be on display until the 10th of August 2024

02/06/2024

Join CIfA’s Graphics Archaeology Special Interest Group for a free online evening talk by highly experienced architectural illustrator and digital reconstruction artist, Simon Edwards, from 7 – 8.30pm on Wednesday 5 June.

Simon will be discussing some of his recent work for a permanent exhibition within Perth Museum, Scotland. He will also talk about two individual case studies which will examine the methods and differing workflows involved in producing stunning visual reconstructions for such a huge project.

To register for this talk, visit: www.archaeologists.net/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=502 For further information on Simon’s work: https://s-edwards.com

09/05/2024

We still have some spaces left for our next Twilight Talk tomorrow night at Palace Green Library, 5:30 - 6:30 pm, exploring the recent Art Collection audit of Durham University.

Join the art team as they take you on a journey through the audit project highlights. The team will share successes, the not-so-great, and explore future collecting for the Art Collection, which includes work by some of the most significant artists of the 20th and 21st centuries and specialises in print-based media. This talk will open a discussion on legacy and how you can be involved in the art collections future.

Please book via Eventbrite. Spaces are free but limited.

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08/05/2024

Our friends at Durham County Council are advertising a rare opportunity for an arts or crafts business to join the independent community of makers at Fowlers Yard in .

Get all the info at https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147616172?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=commercial-lettings&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard #/&channel=COM_LET.

28/04/2024

Available for those aged between 12 - 18 years old with an interest in the arts, the Durham Art Collective starts this June, meeting once a month at 7 Owengate near Palace Green. The workshops are free, but please book your place by emailing Emily Dowler: e.v.dowler@durham.ac.uk.

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