With These Hands: Laing Art Gallery

17 May - 27 September 2025

Laing Art Gallery

6 Higham Place, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8AG

With These Hands explores the representation of craft in paintings, drawings, and prints. The process of making and mending by hand whether a domestic pastime, rural and semi-industrial labour, or essential war effort, is a persistent theme to which artists return. Yet these artworks are rarely straightforward observations of everyday activity. Instead, the act of making is used to symbolise personal and communal identity, leisure and work, tradition and progress.

On loan: Alfred Wolmark (1877-1961) In the carpenter's shop, circa 1907.