Between Summer 2023 and Spring 2025 Navigator North, working in partnership with Middlesbrough Council and station operators TransPennine Express, led on the delivery of the Most Creative Station programme at Middlesbrough Railway Station.
This included a series of artist commissions and residencies which aimed to animate the station with site specific artworks, creative interventions and opportunities for people to be creative. The Most Creative Station programme encourages people to see the station and Middlesbrough in a new light.
The programme forms part of a large-scale project to transform several of Middlesbrough’s cultural anchors including the Central Library, MIMA, The Auxiliary and Platform A with support from The Cultural Development Fund, a Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) fund administered by Arts Council England.
Navigator North, TransPennine Express and Middlesbrough Council won Best Arts & Business Partnership for Most Creative Station in the 2025 North East Culture Awards.
Click on the artists below to find out more about each commission…
Rachael Clewlow Tees Colour Register
Emma Bennett Middlesbrough Moquette
Helen Pailing Connection
Ed Carter Transient
Adam Shaw KIOSK
Beth Johnson Journey
KEINO Comic Connections
Gareth Hudson & Toby Thirling
Peace Amongst Thorns
Catherine Bertola And ever again…
Nell Catchpole Transported
Through a co-commission with artist Adam Shaw for ‘Kiosk’, Most Creative Station aligns to FORGED – a public art programme developed in partnership with Tees Valley Combined Authority and its five boroughs and delivered by Navigator North and Middlesbrough Art Week.
