The Screaming Steel Exhibition: Hatton Gallery

Two new artworks created in response to the WW1 exhibition Screaming Steel: Art, War and Trauma 1914-1918 have gone on show at Newcastle Universitys Hatton Gallery. Stanza, a sculpture by Sarah Dunn and Field Service Card, an audio/visual installation by Tara Bergin and Alan Turnbull, were commissioned by Newcastle Universitys Institute for Creative Art Practice. The Screaming Steel exhibition, which opened in September, explores creative responses to the horror of warfare through writings and artworks by eminent figures such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Paul Nash. Now it has inspired its own creative responses in these two commissions which sit in the gallery alongside historical works. The new works inspire audiences to re-examine their understanding of the impact of psychological trauma a phenomenon that came to be known as shellshock - on those involved in the First World War. This exhibition will be on 28th November, 5th December, 12th December and 13th December.