Gallery

Delve into D6's digital gallery where you can view digital commissions by the artists we have worked with throughout the years. The artworks come in a range digital forms - some are hosted on our multimedia platform, Mural, and others are videos and podcasts.

Featured projecTS

DEEDS LIVE AFTER MEN UPON THE EARTH BY NISHA DUGGAL

CORE MARKS BY KATE SWEENEY

Nisha Duggal's research centred on Cragside House and the life and influence of its owner William Armstrong. She presents a new series of drawings alongside excerpts of research and childhood memories that bring to light the complex legacy of Armstrong - engineer, inventor-genius of the North East and arms dealer.

Kate Sweeney's research is the foundation for work seeking ways to articulate ways queer and adoptive heritages occupy and explore marginal and shifting space in order to traverse traditional, patriarchal notions of inheritance and legacy.

Past projects

2023

(RE)Grounding: an artistic response to the climate crisis

Watch this video that introduces (Re)Grounding - with contributions from the artists and partners in Ukraine and the UK, exploring the shared industrial past of the UK and Ukraine and its impact today.

(Re)Grounding: Alexandra Clod

In this interview, Alexandra discusses how the story of coal and its extraction is at the heart of film and photographic work she produced during the (Re)Grounding residency.

(RE)GROUNDING: Karolina Uskakovych

Karolina discusses Common Ground, her multimedia project which evolved from research into traditional ecological knowledge and the historical role of gardening in Ukraine and the UK.

(RE)GROUNDING: Empty Spaces

Empty Spaces is a site-specific photo project by Karolina and Alexandra, developed for the Edwardian Lecture Theatre in the Common Room in Newcastle, shining a light on the untold stories of coal.

Dreams by Amak Mahmoodian

Amak uses photography, video, texts and drawings to create ‘a bridge to visualise dreams in order to define loss and the voids in a relatable way.’ The result is a series of insights into the deeply personal space of dreams. This digital commission is part of Artists Connecting in Transition.

Perempuan Macam Dia by Zariq Rosita-Hanif

Through interweaving Malaysian and British cultural narratives and using a range of techniques - paper-cut puppetry, animation and poetry - Zariq shines a light on untold stories of transgender asylum seekers and refugees. This digital commission is part of Artists Connecting in Transition.

FUTURE PASTS by henna asikainen (2023)

To mark International Migrants Day we shared photos and the story from Future Pasts - our commission with artist Henna Asikainen, exploring belonging, community and local landscapes.

2022

The Smoke that Thunders by Marcio Carvalho

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, The Smoke that Thunders - Which Heritage is at Risk? focuses on the South African War Memorial (erected in 1908, Newcastle upon Tyne), and the current conversations about its future re-contextualisation.

Untitled by dimitris chimonas

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, In Untitled the plays with the presentation of information and one phrase can only be read once one flicks through the pages, setting the object in motion. Even then, the phrase never appears as a whole as it exceeds the boundaries of its vessel.

Buried Treasures by Kia Redman

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, Buried Treasures explores the journey of an immigrant woman moving to Barcelona through the tale of an island that leaves home and ventures across the seas in search of new opportunities.

Bird Song by Sara Baga

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, Bird Song is a storytelling art piece crafted by Sara’s exploration of the stories and struggles of migrant women. It is composed through a narrative of small photos, video pieces and a song that she composed and sang to give voice to the invisible emotional realms of those brave women.

Our Future Heritage by Mónica Rikić

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, Mónica has been immersed in research and art projects around technology. Mónica uses imaginative processes to explore techno-scientific challenges presented in today’s societies.

Eon Om Circle Song by Nicola Singh

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, as part of her residency with La Bonne Women and Girls Centre (Barcelona), Nicola presented a performance work ‘eon om circle song’. The piece revolves around the mantra ‘om’. A sacred sound of Vedic origin which can be translated from Sanskrit as ‘divine consciousness’.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE INTERVIEW: JANE BIZIMANA

In this video interview Stockton-based artist Jane Bizimana discusses how her desire to paint led her to explore colour and language, as well as how her residency at D6, those around her and the chance to explain her work to different people cemented ideas and gave a new sense of purpose.

2021

August sorrow by Stelios Kallinikou

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, Kallinikou presents works from his ongoing exploration of the area around Akrotiri, a British overseas territory with a military base in Cyprus, which coincides with a unique biosphere landscape of supra-regional importance as it is the military base for observing developments in the Middle East.

(Dearly) Beloved by Akeelah Bertram

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, (Dearly) Beloved is a memorial to the enslaved Africans discarded without ceremony in the Portuguese town Lagos and its capital, Lisbon. In Lagos town square, a larger than life statue of Henry the Navigator celebrates the figure, famed for the fortune he generated for Portugal through the enslavement of African people.

Rugas da História; Fendas na Paisagem by Anna Carreras

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, Rugas da História Fendas na Paisagem is an interactive visual installation that creates a skin image, with its wrinkles and some rifts. It explores the colors and textures we are made of. It merges our past and our present; our heritage, surroundings, nature, culture and the visitors' contribution.

Ishtar by Mia Georgis

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, Ishtar is an experimental short film based on the gender fluid Mesopotamian deity. The film looks at the coloniality of gender and re-addresses the way in which the UK has imposed the gender binary on PoC. It is an affirmation of our historical and present existence.

Roots by Hussina Raja

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, Roots depicts a couple hopefully looking to future. They soon discover the obstacles they must overcome to be accepted. As generations evolve their position alters in what was once a foreign land. A reflection on migrant assimilation and the shedding of identity.

A Line Was Drawn by Mairéad McClean

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, A Line Was Drawn weaves together a number of sources of material including archive film and digital video. The work questions how our world is structured and how borders and boundaries are created to limit our movement.

Laatash (Thirst) by Elena Molina

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, The Saharawi women face the thirst of the hamada, the curse of the desert, every day. They’ve built their refuge in a land where no one could survive before. For more than fourty years they’ve been holding out and taking care of their people there.

Fin (The End) by Lara Sousa

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, Lara –a young filmmaker– finds herself in a no place between Cuba and Mozambique. Over an imagined balcony towards the Indian Ocean, Lara is searching for answers to the long silence of her father. She does feel the loneliness preceding the imminent demise of her father, Camilo.

Biographies of Objects by Natalia Skobeeva

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES , Biographies of objects explores the possible futures of nationality within the transnational discourse through the prism of quantum physics and technology, while addressing pressing universal and existential questions of humanity in crisis.

AFRO-DESCENDANTS IN THE CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN IMAGINARY

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, Historian Karo Moret Miranda and documentary film producer, Aída Esther Bueno Sarduy reflect on the role and imaginings of Black Europeans in culture and its impact on communities and indviduals today.

HISTORY AND CONTEXTUALIZATION: ARCHIVES FROM A DECOLONIAL AND FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, Activist, Karina Fulladosa-Leal and historian, Isabel Segura Soriano challenge official Spanish narratives and archives, rethinking how we present stories from the marginalised and disenfranchised.

IDENTITY POLICIES FROM A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE

Part of CONTESTED DESIRES, Spanish sociologist and trans activist Miquel Missé, and researcher and psychologist Marisela Montenegro discussed how some identities remain on the margins of a hegemonic society and how we can recognise differences and build alliances.

2020

MERAKI BY SADIA SIKANDAR

Part of the D6's residency programme, Sadia created 'Meraki', a digital presentation of work in progress, informed by her experience of navigating the UK's hostile and complex asylum system .

Crafting Nations: the need for radical understanding

Crafting Nations is a series of online conversations as part of the CONTESTED DESIRES programme taking place across Summer 2020. In conversation with artists, producers and curators we explore the role of arts, cultures and heritage across Europe and part of the Caribbean.

Crafting nations: the need for radical common sense

Crafting Nations: The Need for Radical Change Podcast

2019

Missing histories by Radikal Queen

Poet, musician and activist Radikal Queen helped us celebrate with her unique mix of beat poetry meets blues, funk and soul. Radikal Queen was created to fill a need for outrageous and unlicensed self expression.

Paris by Kay Greyson

Kay Greyson is a Hip-Hop artist based in the North East of England. Since releasing her debut mixtape 'Morning After Music' in 2016 she has performed across the UK including opening for Akala, KRS One, Pharoahe Monch, Lil Eazy E and DJ Yella.

Penguin by Hamzeh Al Hussein and curious monkey

An autobiographical account of Hamzeh’s life from his village in Syria, to his flat in Gateshead, and the moments in between. Hamzeh’s humour and positivity shines through his experiences, some of which he shares in this work in progress.

the earth is turning by dani watson

Through her own observations and participation, Dani produced The Earth Is Turning, a new collection of poetry which stands as a continued reflection informed by her own conversations with participants, who themselves embody a wealth of first-hand migration experiences.

Stickyweeds by Nicola Singh

Throughout her research residency with D6 Nicola explored her own lived experiences of race and migration and how this intersects with contemporary arts practice.

Changing Practice by Cat Auburn

While taking part in a D6 residency, Cat developed her investigation into how objects in collections reference a colonial past, and how this reinforces our ideas of cultural heritage and belonging.

2018

Forage by Henna Asikainen

Forage attempted to understand what it means to leave and to arrive, to lose and to find, to be uprooted and to make a home. It directly referenced Henna’s own experience of arriving in the North East from Finland and the rootedness she first began to feel when she had access to the countryside.

delicate shuffle by Henna Asikainen

Using the white poplar leaf, which holds many meanings across different cultures, Delicate Shuttle embodied the collective experience of migratory movement and reflects on our relationship with place, landscape, the world and each other.