Slideshow: Teesside artists talking about art, culture and place

Artists at Middlesbrough’s Dundas House opened their studio doors to the public on Saturday so, ahead of our Talk about art, culture and place event there next weekend, I popped along to see what it’s all about.

It’s the first time an open studio event’s been held there and organisers were delighted to arrive and find a queue had formed with people eager to look inside. By the time I left, more than 110 people had been through the huge art space inside the eight story tower.

I talked to a few of the artists and visitors in an attempt to capture something of the day with this audio slideshow.

It’s a briefest of glimpses of stories from the area such as the odd sleeping habits of ornithologist Thomas Hudson Nelson, the start of a Middlesbrough journey via a blue plaque and the adventures of a robin, all spoken around an assortment of pictures of art works which caught my eye across the exhibition spaces. (In other words, a random selection!) I hope it might whet some appetites for more.

If you’d like to hear fuller versions of the interviews, then the unedited clips are available in a playlist here. Images from the day can also be found here.

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We’ll be back on Teesside next weekend and look forward to getting involved in more stories – come and join us! More details about the free series of events and how to sign up to get involved is available here.

There’s also a noticeboard here where anyone can share links or events likely to be of interest to Teesside bloggers and artists or just those who love talking about the place.