Exhibition at Tyneside, England Railway Station
- Artist/Author/Producer: Still Gallery, Zone Gallery and The Centre for Contemporary Art
- Confronting Bodies: New Castle Central Station
- Dates of action: June 1993
- Location: Tyneside, England
- Description of the Art Work
- The exhibition, "Public & Private," which highlights the discrepancies
between people's private lives and their public face, displays the work
of 12 artists.
- Description of incident
- The exhibition was abruptly shut down after it was found that some of the
photographs could be construed as pornographic or offensive. The station
manager at Newcastle Central Station called in the Transport Police after
he spotted the two nude photographs at a preview. They jointly decided
to close the "Public & Private" exhibition immediately.
- Results of incident
- An attempt was made to swap photographs from the other galleries to install at the
train station.
Source: Evening Chronicle, 6/9/93
