Copyrigt Tate, London 2008

19 Nov 2008 - 06 Mar 2009

Visual Dialogues is a partnership programme managed by Tate Britain working with Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, Museums Sheffield and Tyne and Wear Museums. The programme is jointly funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Children, Schools and Families as part of the Strategic Commissioning Programme for Museum and Gallery Education.

An installation of eleven plaster seagulls by Tracey Emin is on show at the Laing, as part of a partnership project with Tate.

The artwork will provide inspiration for students from two schools in Newcastle, who will work with staff and freelance artists at the Laing to create alternative forms of interpretation for pieces in the Tyne & Wear Museums collection at the Laing Art Gallery.

Emin's piece is titled In My Family When Someone Dies They Are Cremated And Their Ashes Are Thrown Across The Sea, and consists of 11 plaster seagulls with the words “I COULD REALLY HAVE LOVED YOU” on their backs and wings.