--- title: "Coalface 25 Exhibition" date: "2025-10-08" tags: [exhibition, peter-yates] categories: [exhibition, peter-yates] author: Jolyon Yates publisher: Jolyon Yates image: src: blog/ryder-and-yates-norgas-house.jpg alt: Coalface 25 Exhibition at the Vane Gallery, Gateshead title: "Ryder and Yates Norgas House, 1965" --- [**VANE Art Gallery, Gateshead**](https://www.vane.org.uk/exhibitions/coalface/25) **14-29 November 2025** **Preview:** Thursday 13 November 6-9pm [**COALFACE/25**](https://www.vane.org.uk/exhibitions/coalface/25) is an exhibition mounted by **RIBA North East Small Practice**, featuring original works by North East based architectural practitioners past and present. The exhibition will feature new works from **20 contemporary practices working in the North East**, each produced as an interpretive response to an archival drawing or image that is representative of an aspect of the region's architectural heritage and character. Drawn from a series of archives, original works by **Peter Yates, Chris Killip, Derwent Wise, Newcastle Libraries, Napper Architects, Ryder Architects, Terry Farrell, Victor Pasmore and others** will be on display as sources of regionally particular provocations. All have been influential in shaping the character and identity of **architecture in the North East** and will be displayed alongside the new responses in order to reflect on how prominent works of our region's past might inform (and transform) the way we think and act creatively in the present. Site of the new town of Peterlee by Peter Yates, c1952 *Site of the new town of Peterlee by Peter Yates, c1952* Print available for purchase from the [**Print Shop**](/print-shop) The exhibition is supported by the **RIBA** (Royal Institute of British Architects), **Joseph Rowntree Foundation**, **Northumbria University** and **Newcastle University**.