Jane and Louise Wilson (b.1967) began working together in 1989, and use film, photography and sculpture, to create arresting, highly theatrical and atmospheric installations that grapple with often challenging subject matter.

For the Great Exhibition of the North, the artists will expand upon the idea of a ‘Suspended Island’, one which hints at the current political flux and the perception of the North East: closer to Scotland but still remaining part of England. This video installation is their first outdoor public commission. In the context of Brexit, the image of the island becomes all the more resonant as the artists consider not only what it means to be British, but significantly, what it means to be Northern.

Low Yard, accessed through Live Garden, Live Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne.