Page from a 1969 copy of Honey magazine. Courtesy Shipley Art Gallery

A new exhibition at Shipley Art Gallery is capturing changing influences and trends in the north east over the past 60 years.

Looking North: Visual Culture from Post War to Present Day runs until November 4 2007 at the Gateshead venue and showcases the region’s leading fashion designers, artists, photographers, filmmakers and architects since 1945.

It includes a gallery dedicated to shopping and music in the north east of the 1960s, including images of stores Blacketts in Sunderland, Shephards in Gateshead and Bainbridge, Fenwick and Marcus Price in Newcastle, the first shop in the region to stock Levis jeans.

Artist and architect Victor Pasmore photographed by Richard Hamilton. Courtesy Shipley Art Gallery

The show also features Newcastle’s Club a Go Go, scene of some of the 60s rock band The Animals’ early performances, fashion designer Bruce Montgomery, architects Faulkner Browns and artists Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton.

Other exhibits include architects’ models of Newcastle Quayside and Gateshead’s BALTIC arts centre and an early version of the iMac computer designed by Jonathan Ive, a graduate of Northumbria University.

The exhibition has been developed in partnership with Northumbria University, and recognises the impact that Tyneside’s universities have had on the region’s visual culture.

"The north east has had a very important role to play in the development of higher education in the areas of art, design, architecture, film and photography over the past 60 years,” explained Amy Barker, curator of Shipley Art Gallery.

Bainbridges department store in Newcastle. Courtesy Shipley Art Gallery

“Looking North features work from well known graduates from both Newcastle University and Northumbria University, and we are delighted to be working in partnership with Northumbria University on this exhibition,” said Amy.

Examples of work from the universities’ graduates include a replica of the dress designed by Scott Henshall for Samantha Mumba to wear at the premiere of Spiderman II, which was rumoured to be the most expensive in the world at £5m.