Students from the region have gone to Hell and back to create their latest exhibition and come up with heavenly results.

Seventeen students studying glass at the University of Sunderland have opened their first exhibition only weeks after completing a professional commission, creating the glass lamps for ITV1's Hell's Kitchen.

Now the students are showing what else they can do at the Dry Run exhibition, at Sunderland's Art Studio.

The exhibition is a chance for second-year glass and ceramics students to show their work, and the public's first opportunity to see and buy designs by a new generation of artists working with glass.

It will also give the students valuable experience of exhibiting.

Sylva Petrova, professor in glass, said: "The work on show reflects the students' own personalities and shows what enormous developments they have made since they have been studying at Sunderland. How the students' work has developed is remarkable.

"These pieces would not look out of place in any art gallery in the world."

The Art Studio is in Hind Street, opposite the Sunderland Empire, and is open from 10am to 5pm from Monday to Friday. The show runs until May 20.