AN exhibition celebrating creative writing and visual arts has opened at Preston Hall Museum, near Stockton.

The Museum of My Life project is being held at six venues across the region.

At Preston Hall, writer Carina Rodney, artist Effie Burns and museum specialists John Beeley and Angela Whitecross, have been working to deliver the project with two groups of people of all ages from Ingleby Barwick and the Newtown area of Stockton.

The exhibition runs until Thursday, July 12.

Museum of My Life is led by New Writing North, funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Foyle Foundation, MLA North-East and the North-East Regional Museums Hub.