Kate Liston often works across moving-image, text and installation to surface and echo motifs found in the archives and oral histories of a place. In Spar Box this process is focused through graphic shorthand drawing in an installation of distilled renderings sampled from geological teaching aids, mine surveys, and children’s books about diggers.
This exhibition has been developed through a micro-residency in 2022 at Sunderland University’s Self-Publishing Riso Lab, interviews with local spar box collectors, visits to the spar box collection at Killhope Lead Mining Museum in Weardale and archival research at The Common Room, Newcastle. It builds on Liston’s ongoingengagement with under-recognised forms of creativity that have been historically dismissed due to class, genderor cultural hierarchies.
Please note that the dates of this exhibition changed after the Newcastle & Gateshead Art Map was published. It now takes place from 26 April – 4 May, not 1 – 9 March as printed.
