NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.- Belsay Hall Castle and Gardens presents Picture House - Film, Art and Design, on view May 5 through September 30, 2007. Continuing the program of dramatic, spectacular exhibitions at Belsay Hall Castle and Gardens, Picture House sees the magnificent empty and austere nineteenth century Hall transformed by film directors, sound and music producers, performers, artists and fashion designers.

Picture House - Film, Art and Design at Belsay has been developed over a period of three years. Invited artists have re-invented the rooms to breathe life its empty interior. From silver plated ball-gowns to eerie contraptions, from enchanted forests to mournful song, this time round Belsay will be full of ghosts, voice and visual magnificence.

The artists are: Hew Locke, Kandis Cook and Nicholas Till (Post Operative Productions), Quay Brothers, Imogen Cloet and Jacob Polley, Victor and Rolf, United Visual Artists (UVA), Opera North Productions/Tim Hopkins, Antony with William Basinski, Sandy Powell, Mike Figgis and Boudicca, Geraldine Pilgrim (corridor productions), Francesca Steele, Golan Levin, Aether architects – Adam Somlai-Fischer and Bengt Sjolen, John, Honor and Xavier Byrne and Tilda Swinton, realised by Neil Murray, in association with Northern Stage. Picture House is curated by Judith King with three artists invited by Juha Huuskonen for DoTT07.