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The Enchanted Interior
Exhibition
The Enchanted Interior
12 Oct 2019 – 22 Feb 2020
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:30
- Monday
- 10:00 – 16:30
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 16:30
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:30
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:30
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:30
Address
- New Bridge Street
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- NE1 8AG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Nearest Metro station: Monument
Event map
The Enchanted Interior will explore the sinister implications of a popular theme in nineteenth-century painting: the depiction of the interior as a ‘gilded cage’ in which women are pictured as ornamental objects.
About
Iconic Pre-Raphaelite paintings by artists such as Edward Burne-Jones and William Holman Hunt will be shown alongside works by their female peers such as Emma Sandys and Evelyn De Morgan, who challenge and subvert the idealisation of women as captive damsels or passive beauties. Meanwhile, installation and moving image work by contemporary artists such as Mona Hatoum and Fiona Tan highlight the duality inherent in the interior, as a site that can be a sanctuary or a threat.
