For Tish: A Screening And Flash Residency-In-Response

Tish (2023, d. Paul Sng, 90 minutes) is a tender portrait of Tish Murtha (1956–2013), a woman photographer from South Shields, whose work has been marginalised by dominant histories. Challenging the socio-economic inequalities of 1970s-80s Thatcher’s Britain, Tish’s political and intimate images chronicled the precarious and beautiful lives of the working class Tyneside communities she knew.

For this two-part event, Tish will be screened in the bar followed by a discussion with the curators, a local collective of visual practitioners (Hatty Frances Bell, Alice Butler, Anna Gormley, and Kelly O’Brien). 

Afterwards, the collective invites you to join them in the gallery, where a collection of works (and works-in-progress) made in response to the film and Tish’s life and practice will be shown.

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This ticket is non refundable.