PRESENT TENSE 17April - 2 May
Equivalents by Dr. Carol Sommer (downstairs)
We are pleased to host Carol Sommer’s Equivalents exhibition. Carol’s video work Monoliths won the 2025 Redcar Summer Exhibition Prize, selected by Professor Susan Collins. Carol is an artist and art educator based in Darlington. Her practice engages with the natural landscape, particularly monoliths, as spaces to critically explore art history and philosophical ideas around Eros. Equivalents brings together responses to selected works by minimalist and modernist artists.
Present Tense by Female artists based in Tees Valley and surrounding area (upstairs)
This exhibition was inspired by Václav Havel’s essay Power of the Powerless, which suggests that small actions grounded in truth can collectively become a powerful form of dissent. Each artwork is modest in scale, resonating with individual voices. Together, through our collective presence and multiplicity, the works ask whether such voices, can act as a catalyst for change.