Exhibition Opening: House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown
Posted: 29/05/2026
House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown on the evening of Friday 5th June at God’s House Tower. Commissioned by a space arts, the exhibition will run from Friday 5th June – Monday 27th July 2026, with free admission.
God’s House Tower is open Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Opening Weekend
We look forward to welcoming visitors for the opening weekend:
- Launch Event: Friday 5 June, 6pm – 9pm
- Saturday 6 June: 10am – 5pm
- Sunday 7 June: 10am – 4pm
- Monday 8 June: 9am – 4pm
Launch Event: Friday 5 June
Doors will open at 6pm and guests will be invited to grab a drink and explore the galleries. At 7pm, ‘a space’ arts curator & programme manager, Mia Delve will introduce the exhibition and the artist, Uma Breakdown will perform a reading and unpack some of the themes and ideas in the work. Click here to book your ticket
About the Exhibition
House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown is a project about love, restraint, liberty, pain, growth and collapse. Commissioned by ‘a space’ arts for God’s House Tower, the exhibition explores alternative routes through time, drawing on fact and fiction to reimagine the past and speculate about the future.
Working across drawing, fiction, animation, code and sculpture, the artist revisits the building’s past as a Bridewell, an institution established in the 18th Century to house ‘idlers, vagrants and prostitutes’. The project asks what a place of spiritual and physical repair for people seen as ‘other’ might be, if freed from the authority of state and church that underpinned these ‘Houses of Correction’ and the subsequent systems they have evolved into since?
Using the unique history and architecture of God’s House Tower, as well as the artist’s home of the North East, House of Revision / House of Repair imagines a sacred grove for fringe cultures and unconventional communities with alternative belief systems, such as ancient outlawed religions and pre-modern travelling performance groups, centering communal care at the edges of legality.
About Uma Breakdown
Uma is an artist, writer, and game designer whose work engages animals, horror, and play. Across disciplines, her practice explores shifting combinations of love, grief, hallucination, and an excess of joy.
She is currently drawing on Assemblage Theory and the history of religious art to develop a “dismembered Écriture Féminine,” in which a strategy of bricolage becomes a reflection of transition-as-becoming and a capacity for repair.
Uma has performed and exhibited at institutions including Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Embassy Edinburgh, Etc Prague, FACT Liverpool, KIM? Riga, Raven Row, Whitechapel Gallery, and Wysing Art Centre.
Forthcoming exhibitions include Troublemakers & Prophets; Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artists at Compton Verney.
Recent publications include “Two Dolls & An Egg” (with Belladonna Paloma) for Almanac: Journal of Trans Poetics (Helsinki, 2024); “The Graveyard of Extension” in Deleuzine, Vol. 2 (London, 2023); “Trans Death Magic” for SlugTown (Newcastle, 2023); and “Love as Vector and Void in Luce Irigaray’s ‘The Natal Lacuna’ and Tai Shani’s ‘Phantasmagoregasm’” in JAWs (2025).
She was shortlisted for the Adam Reynolds Award (2020) and The Arts Foundation Award (2023), and is a 2025 Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute.
Access and Quiet Spaces
The ground-floor bar and café at GHT have step-free access from Town Quay Road. For information on parking and travel, please visit our Plan your Visit page. The artwork for this exhibition is located in the Main Gallery and the Barker-Mill Project Space, both of which are accessible via lift.
For the duration of this exhibition, the library will also be available as a quiet space. This space includes dimmed lighting, seating, quiet music, and water. You are welcome to use it at any time if you would like a break.
If you’d like to familiarise yourself with the venue before your visit, you can take a virtual tour of our spaces on our website. You’ll also find a visual story introducing members of the GHT team. Click here to Plan Your Visit or take a Virtual Tour
Do you have any access requirements? We are happy to discuss individual access needs wherever possible. Please email [email protected]
Associated Events – House of Revision / House of Repair
We’re hosting a series of free workshops, talks and events alongside the run of House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown. Click here to get involved
Launch Event: House of Revision / House of Repair
Friday 5th June, 6pm – 9pm
FLARB (Free, Lazy, Arty, Radical Bookclub) with ZEST
Saturday 7th June, 11:30am – 1pm
Artist Voices: In Conversation with Uma Breakdown and Dudley Dream Walsh (Online)
Thursday 16th July, 6pm – 8pm
GHT Creative Writing Group with Liz Amos
Saturday 18th July, 2:30pm – 4pm
