Student artists have become the first to exhibit their work at a new gallery in the centre of a city’s redevelopment.<\/p>\n
The Maker Meanwhile Gallery has opened in the new Riverside Maker Building, within Sunderland’s Riverside regeneration area.<\/p>\n
Its inaugural exhibition, Emerging, showcases work from University of Sunderland’s recent Fine Art graduates and postgraduates, who have described it as a “fantastic opportunity”.<\/p>\n
The building on Plater Way is part of the new Maker & Faber development in the city, which was completed in March.<\/p>\n
James Silver, managing director of Landid, the development manager behind Maker & Faber, said Sunderland had a heritage as a city of makers, and the buildings had been named to honour that.<\/p>\n
Among the 16 artists showcasing their work is postgraduate student Dean Gooch, who said: “Taking part in the Emerging exhibition in the Maker building has been a fantastic opportunity to engage with a public audience right in the heart of Sunderland’s riverside development.”<\/p>\n
Fine Art academic and lecturer in Digital Arts and Enterprise at the university, Suzy O’Hara, said the gallery “enriches the development site with the city’s emerging creative talent”.<\/p>\n