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MIKE QUILLE recommends an exhibition of Chris Killip’s stunning images of shipbuilding on the Tyne and its ultimate demise
End of Shift. Given by the artist in honour of all the shipyard workers of Tyneside, 2017© Chris Killip

The Last Ships
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

 

THE LAST Ships exhibition of photographs taken by Chris Killip over just three years captures the awe-inspiring scale and beauty of the shipbuilding industry on Tyneside in the 1970s.

 

Liberation webinar, 30 November2024, 6pm (UK)
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