NewBridge Gallery is now closed until Friday 16 October.
You can join us on 5 September and 3 October for Saturday Social. You can still shop NewBridge Books throughout the weekdays!
Join Kerry Morrison to talk about her experiences working on socially engaged art projects and her parallel attempts to pin down codes of ethics and considerations for working with people, environment and art.
Kerry will be joining us in-person at NewBridge for this special Kaleidoscope Network x Co-Act event. She will draw her own practice, taking in commissioned projects; establishing and developing a code of ethics for the inspirational arts organisation In-Situ; and her current work bringing art more explicitly into the Crichton Carbon Centre’s activities.
The event will help attendees to think about their own frames of reference for ethics within their social practices and culminate with some time for conversation, questions and answers.
Kerry‘s work explores human and more-than-human connections with the environment: how we move through it, manage it, take from it, and add to it. Her art approach is durational and transitory, in which art is a verb: a process of action, dialogue, and performative patterns that result in new, shared experiences, unfolding narratives, and environmental actions. Collaboration, co-creation and transdisciplinarity play a fundamental role when examining social and environmental challenges within a given locale.
In 2011, Kerry co-founded In-Situ, a non-profit arts organisation with a vision for art to be part of everyday life and to make a positive difference to society and the environment. Within In-Situ, Kerry performed several critical roles: as a social and environmental artist; as a creative producer; in visioning and fundraising; and in day-to-day tasks. Kerry wrote In-Situ’s ethics policy, a code of ethics she abides by.
Book your ticket below!
This is a ticketed hybrid event and will take place both online and in real life. If you book for the online option we’ll email you a Zoom link the day before the event.
Both the online and real-life doors will open at 12:15pm so you can get settled and we’ll commence at 12:30pm sharp. We’ll finish by 2:30pm and there will be a comfort break mid-way through.
This event is presented as part of Co-Act, our artist development programme for socially engaged artists, supported by Jerwood Foundation.
Co-Act creates space to explore the process-led and relational work of organising with groups of people and working within communities.
Our building has lifts to the gallery, accessible and gender-neutral toilets, baby changing and breastfeeding facilities and two accessible parking bays. You can watch a walkthrough of our building and learn more about accessibility here.
Contact admin@thenewbridgeproject.com if you have any questions or need support to take part in this event.
NewBridge has a Safer, Braver Spaces policy. Everyone here treats each other with respect and consideration. Transphobia, misogyny, racism or harassment of any kind is not welcome.
This event has been organised by The NewBridge Project for the Kaleidoscope Network, a collaboration between Spike Island (Bristol), Primary Nottingham), The NewBridge Project (Newcastle), Bloc Projects (Sheffield) and Eastside Projects (Birmingham). Membership of any of the above organisations automatically makes you part of the Kaleidoscope Network.
Friday 27 March 2026
12.30–2.30pm
Free for members of NewBridge and the Kaleidoscope Network / £3 for non-members
The NewBridge Project
Shieldfield Centre
4-8 Clarence Walk (off Stoddart Street)
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1AL
The NewBridge Project is accessible. You can find out more here, or feel free to contact us prior to visiting if you require additional information regarding access and facilities.
The NewBridge Project is a charity, registered charity no. 1173849.
We are grateful to our funders, including Arts Council England, Newcastle City Council, Garfield Weston Foundation, Jerwood Foundation, Community Foundation North East, Newcastle University and the The North East Mayoral Strategic Authority.
We are proud to be a Gallery of Sanctuary.
