- 18th July 2026
- Saturday, 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
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Workshop: GHT Creative Writing Group with Liz Amos
Saturday, 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
18th July 2026
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This event is part of the exhibition House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown. The exhibition will be on display from 5th June 2026 – 27th July 2026.
Free admission to Main Gallery Exhibitions. GHT Opening Days: Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday 18th July, 2:30pm – 4pm
Led by Liz Amos, the GHT Creative Writing Group offers a series of free writing workshops using our contemporary art programme as the stimulus for creativity. This workshop will focus on Uma Breakdown’s commission, House of Revision / House of Repair. Beginners welcome!
About the Facilitator
Liz Amos is a Hampshire-based author and poet. Her poetry has featured in event collaborations with John Hansard Gallery, ArtfulScribe, Music in the City and Placeholder Poetry, and is published by Writing Our Legacy (Covert Issue 5) and Nine Arches Press (upcoming). Her debut novel, ‘All the Truths Between Us’, was longlisted for the 2022 SI Leeds Literary Prize. A lifelong art-lover, her work often responds to thought-provoking exhibitions.
Liz sees creative writing as a space for us to rest, reflect and imagine new ways of being in the world. She aims to facilitate hospitable workshops where each person comes away feeling refreshed.
About the Exhibition
House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown is a project about love, restraint, liberty, pain, growth and collapse. Commissioned by ‘a space’ arts for God’s House Tower, the exhibition explores alternative routes through time, drawing on fact and fiction to reimagine the past and speculate about the future.
Working across drawing, fiction, animation, code and sculpture, the artist revisits the building’s past as a Bridewell, an institution established in the 18th Century to house ‘idlers, vagrants and prostitutes’. The project asks what a place of spiritual and physical repair for people seen as ‘other’ might be, if freed from the authority of state and church that underpinned these ‘Houses of Correction’ and the subsequent systems they have evolved into since?
Using the unique history and architecture of God’s House Tower, as well as the artist’s home of the North East, House of Revision / House of Repair imagines a sacred grove for fringe cultures and unconventional communities with alternative belief systems, such as ancient outlawed religions and pre-modern travelling performance groups, centering communal care at the edges of legality.
Access and Quiet Spaces
The ground-floor bar and café at GHT have step-free access from Town Quay Road. For information on parking and travel, please visit our plan your visit page.The artwork for this exhibition is located in the Main Gallery and the Barker-Mill Project Space, both of which are accessible via lift.Quiet Hours: Every Thursday morning from 10am – 12pm, lights will be dimmed and sound levels lowered.
For the duration of this exhibition, the library will also be available as a quiet space. This space includes dimmed lighting, seating, quiet music, and water. You are welcome to use it at any time if you would like a break.
If you’d like to familiarise yourself with the venue before your visit, you can take a virtual tour of our spaces on our website. You’ll also find a visual story introducing members of the GHT team.
Associated Events – House of Revision / House of Repair
We’re hosting a series of free workshops, talks and events alongside the run of House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown. Click here to get involved
Launch Event: House of Revision / House of Repair
Friday 5th June, 6pm – 9pm
FLARB (Free, Lazy, Arty, Radical Bookclub) with ZEST
Saturday 7th June, 11:30am – 1pm
Artist Voices: In Conversation with Uma Breakdown and Dudley Dream Walsh (Online) Thursday 16th July, 6pm – 8pm
GHT Creative Writing Group with Liz Amos
Saturday 18th July, 2:30pm – 4pm