The Great Exhibition of the North is the country's biggest cultural event this year, celebrating "the North of England's pioneering spirit", and showcasing art, design and innovation.
Spread right across Newcastle and Gateshead and many galleries and places, it has everything in there, from Helen Sharman's spacesuit, to Vivienne Westwood's 'pirate suit', to John Lennon's piano and the Dan Walker-designed sonic screwdriver for Dr Who.
At the Great North Museum is an exhibition titled Which Way North, which showcases "pioneering innovators, designers and artists" who created the "revolutionary north".
This show features around one hundred artists and innovators, and on display is Damien Hirst's famous Heaven shark in formaldehyde, David Hockney's Le Parc des Sources, Vichy and George Stubbs' Whistlejacket horse, amongst works by Chris Ofili, Barbara Hepworth, Richard Hamilton and Henry Moore.
Alongside them is also a piece by Salford artists Maria and Matt Carroll, titled Ali Into The Infinity And Beyond, showing a wazzed up take on boxer Muhammad Ali which was first exhibited at Salford Museum and Art Gallery as part of the pair's Ups and Downs show last year (see here).
Matt Carroll, alongside brother Pat, re-defined graphics and brought 'Madchester' to vibrant life via their Central Station design team that did club flyers, artworks and album covers for the likes of Happy Mondays, Black Grape and James.
Matt is currently also exhibiting his Trump artwork at the Salford Museum and Art Gallery's Salford Summer Show which runs until November (see here), together with another painting created in collaboration with his sister Maria, titled The Isolation of a Pencil Sharpener in a Desert of Discontent.
The Ali artwork is on display at the Great North Museum's Which Way North as part of the Great Exhibition of the North, running until 9th September in Newcastle.
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