'Pitmen Painters: Unseen' brings together artworks made by members of the Ashington Group on loan from private collections alongside works held in Woodhorn Museum’s collection which are not on permanent display. A few of these works have been displayed at Woodhorn Museum in recent years, but most have not been displayed for more than a generation and some have never been on public display before. 

For the first time, works made later than those included in the Permanent Collection are shown alongside works made at the very beginning of the project in the 1930s. Len Robinson’s Open Cast and Wansbeck Bridge document the mechanisation of the mining industry and a key moment of infrastructure change in Ashington. William Scott’s iconic The Bedlington Terrier, featured prominently in Lee Hall’s renowned play The Pitmen Painters, is exhibited here for the first time in close to fifty years.

Free admission.