Teesside art teacher Mo Coade is showing off her work on the banks of the Tyne after winning a prestigious prize.
Mo, the head of art at Redcar’s Rye Hills School, has won the annual Baltic Artist Teacher Award for 2015 while doing a Fine Art masters degree at Northumbria University.
As part of her prize, she has been invited to stage an exhibition of her work at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art on South Shore Road, Gateshead.
And fittingly, among the first to see it in place were her own Y11 GSCE students, who travelled from Redcar to a special preview event yesterday.
The exhibition, Fract, features imagery “that reflects and reconstructs fractured memories of the North-East’s industrial heritage.”
It is being shown as part of the annual Artist Teacher Award, delivered by Northumbria University in partnership with the Baltic.
The winner was chosen by Baltic director Godfrey Worsdale - the founder of Middlesbrough’s mima gallery.
A Baltic spokesman said: “This award indicates the value and status we place on artist teachers at every level of education.”
* See Fract at The Baltic Quay Gallery until March 1.
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