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Challenging, surprising and unusual, the Art Gallery's temporary exhibitions programme includes a variety of different art forms and could feature anything from Picasso to local school children's work. The gallery is dedicated to supporting the work of local artists as well as showing art of national and international significance.

 Exhibitions
Young Achievers
Friday 31 October – Saturday 6 December
Preview Thursday 6 November from 6.30pm
Painting by Alisha Mcknight
The Youth Arts exhibition has been growing for the last seven years with greater success each time. Each entrant will be recognised by the Sunderland Young Achiever's 2008
and five winners have the chance visit Essen, Germany and participate in a top professional art class with a leading German artist.
Peter Zulu
 10 October - 22 November
Thursday October 9th
Peter Zulu - Will In Bath

Pete Zulu
Famous (ish) for
1: Nellie The Elephant (as a Toy Doll).
2: Making 21 cookery programs for Tyne Tees TV (as a chef).
3: Throwing old lady out of The National Glass Centre restaurant (throwingstones) for serving meagre chip ration, i.e. 5 chips (as a bouncer chef).
4: Looking like Paul Young (as a pop chef).

Hopes to be famous for
1: Taking photographs.
2: Selling photographs.
3: Being irritatingly average at several things.
4: Going on Stars In Their Eyes as Paul Young (only joking).

To judge the latest effort, come and see his first exhibition at the Arts Centre, Washington from Thursday October 9th (7pm) until Saturday 22nd November.

Out side in the car park...
Diamond White by James Hutchinson

installation from 16 August 2008


Photographic Alliance
Of Great Britain
 Inter-Federation Print Exhibition
 12 December –  7 February 2009
Preview  13 December, 10.45am - 12pm
Anenome by Vince Rooker
The Northern Counties Photographic Federation serve some fifty clubs and societies across the North of England, covering an area, which includes the whole of the counties of Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Durham, Cleveland and the northern part of Cumbria.

Opening Times
Monday: 9am - 5pm
Tuesday: 9am - 9pm
Wednesday: 9am - 9pm
Thursday: 9am - 10pm
Friday: 9am - 8pm*
Saturday: 9am - Midnight
Sunday: Closed
* dependant on program  

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