This online 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.

Thursday 16th July, 6pm – 8pm 

Artist voices (online) is a series of discussions and conversations that aim to support artist development by unpacking and demystifying key topics and issues of the visual arts ecology through discussion with artists and cultural workers.

Join Uma Breakdown and artist, Dudley Dream Walsh for an in-conversation, as they discuss the ideas and themes in Uma’s exhibition at God’s House Tower, House of Revision / House of Repair.

Artist Voices will be hosted on Zoom. Details of how to join will be shared in the days leading up to the event via Eventbrite.

Please note: this talk will be recorded and uploaded to the ‘a space’ Youtube Channel after the event.

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.

About the Speakers

Uma Breakdown is an artist, writer, and game designer whose work engages animals, horror, and play. Across disciplines, her practice explores shifting combinations of love, grief, hallucination, and an excess of joy.

Dudley Dream Walsh is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in the north of England. An alumnus of School of the Damned, their practice explores the somatics of landlessness and survival. They are a co-founder of the DIY residency program The Field. Their solo exhibitions include shows at Screw Gallery (Leeds, 2021) and Two Queens (Leicester, 2024). They have worked with institutions including MayDay Rooms and the Museum of Transology. Their work has been published in Sticky Fingers.

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