Michelle Allen : Public & Private

16 Apr-11 May 2016

Overview

Michele Allen explores the unwritten histories of the North-East of England, and the processes by which we imagine the third person plural: how the collective category of ‘we’ is formed, or deformed. Public and Private explores the roles of education in our lives, and our society. This body of work has been created during a four-month residency at Durham Castle, a UNESCO world heritage site, and the home of Durham University’s ‘University College’. The work responds to the Castle’s history as a site of government, its current use as a home to students of University College, and its relationship to the wider region: Sunderland is a historical province of County Durham.