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Workplace is pleased to present This Liberty, Matt Stokes’ fourth solo show with the gallery. The exhibition
will feature two recent films by the artist originally commissioned by Museums Northumberland for Hexham
Old Gaol, England’s oldest purpose-built prison, and will be the first time that they have been shown
outside of this context.

Coinciding with a particular time in history during which all of us have experienced restrictions to our
personal liberties as a consequence of the current global pandemic, this exhibition explores incarceration as
a contemporary and historical experience. …