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A brightly-coloured painting of two people under a table, their faces obscured by the tablecloth, both spilling red wine onto the carpet from bottles.

The Contemporary British Painting Prize 2024

06.01.2025, by Jessica Piette

Five little ceramic bottles on a white shelf, from left to white yellow with tentacles, a pink nose, a white bottle with a mermaid on, a squishy venus figure and a blue bottle

Local / National / International: Hussain, Proudfoot and So

20.12.2024, by Natalie Russett

A close up of Camara's face while lying down, her hand over her shoulder

Tania Camara: As I Am Naturally

18.12.2024, by mandla

A small bronze sculpture of a girl holding rings in a boat-like form, perched on top of a thick square of cardboard on top of a small, long-legged occasional table.

Sheila Gaffney: Embodied Dreaming

20.11.2024, by Orla Foster

People sit on benches in a light, open interior space filled with plants, listening to someone talking.

Middlesbrough Art Week: In the Now and the Far

11.11.2024, by Danielle Ash

A wide view of the gallery space with Bull's painting to the right and a visitor standing in front of it reading a handout.

The Pearls and the Oyster

07.11.2024, by Francesca Brooks

A close up of the textile head of a creature whose felt skin is peach coloured with pink horns atop their head and long ears that protrude right and left, with facial features of colourful plastic or ceramic - large black eyebrows, red eyes, round open mouth and blue gemstone cheeks.

Lucy Wright: Future Folk Archetypes

05.11.2024, by Susannah Thompson

Painting of a car dashboard and the view from the windscreen.

Zoë Carlon: Where and When You Are

04.11.2024, by Gertrude Gibbons

A monochrome drawing of seed pods and an eagle claw.

Georgia O’Keeffe: Memories of Drawings / Ailish Treanor: Ulterior Motifs

01.11.2024, by Even Allen

People gather in the street around a mobile museum set up on an e-bike.

C&G Artpartment: Harcourt Road Exhibition

25.10.2024, by Chloe Elliott

A frame like sculpture coloured pale mauve with large ovals cut right through its surface, and on the back wall a small piece of three overlapping ovals covered in light green and yellow print

Steph Huang: There is nothing old under the sun

24.10.2024, by Vivien Chan

A contemplative person walks past a larger painting and a smaller painting in a white gallery spacepast a lar

FAT BABY: University of Leeds MA Fine Art Degree Show

22.10.2024, by Charu Vallabhbhai

A grey-walled gallery space containing multiple installations of objects - colourful frames draped with fabrics, ceramic objects on the floor to the left, a pile of grey sand with a chain suspended above in the back right corner

Jerwood Survey III

18.10.2024, by Tom Branfoot

A view of the gallery with a large green and blue painting of a landscape filled with human figures to the laft and in the middle a piece of greys and blues

Strange Gaze: Surrealism at Cross Lane Projects

17.10.2024, by Alison J Carr

A person sitting in a camping chair in a field with their green tent in the distance to the left at dusk

Enter the Equinox

16.10.2024, by Sam Pickett

A close up of four swatches of overlaid printed fabric, clockwise from the top: a grey-blue-green swirly cloud like image; a dappled red-black-brown like a close-up on mince meat; bright yellow with flecks of white; deep and lighter green leaves on brown branches with red berries

Preserving Hole: Bláithín Mac Donnell, Aled Simons and Tom Cardew

26.09.2024, by Hilary White

A bright museum room with wooden floors and the walls and plinths painted a light blue. Three plinths in the foreground carry small colourful sculptures and on the far wall is a line of five bright images in frames, orange, purple, red, yellow and red

SHIFT: Kaleidoscopic Realms

28.08.2024, by Michael Orr

Photograph shows most of the gallery space with works dotted throughout, the works are described in detail in the article but in brief there are a range of shapes and bright colours sat on the floor or tumbling down the walls.

Mark Tanner Sculpture Award: Thinking is Making

20.08.2024, by Amie Kirby

A large gallery space with several garments made out of waste materials like plastic bags and packaging suspended from the ceiling. Each garment is spotlit in the dim space.

BA Fine Art Degree Show: Newcastle University

05.08.2024, by Kin

The words Charmaine Watkiss Legacy in large black and red textx on a white wall with an open doorway to the left

Charmaine Watkiss: Legacy

02.08.2024, by Chantal Oakes

Two spinning plates are balanced on think copper rods with a wall painted orange and peach in the background.

Garth Gratrix: FLAMBOYANT FLAMINGOS Feat. Derek Jarman & Felix Gonzalez-Torres

01.08.2024, by Jazmine Linklater

A bright multicoloured painting with, from left to right, a green figure bending over a little character in purple with their hands raised, a red devil with pitchfork and big wings and a nearly naked black person in blue gloves wearing a yellow mask over their head

John Lyons: Carnivalesque

24.07.2024, by SuAndi

Seven black and white photographes displayed on a black wall. they are overlapping like a collage. They are images from the Zero Tolerance Campaign.

Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works

23.07.2024, by Rachel Boyd

Two children and three adults are playing on a mat of coloured tiles. There is a sofa behind them, and on the wall behind that is a photograph of a woman smoking a cigarette with her hand on a pregnent belly.

MOTHEROTHER: The NewBridge Project

15.07.2024, by Rosie Morris

A woman lies on a soft-looking, red blanket on the floor in the middle of a railway concourse; a commuter carrying a rolling suitcase steps over her.

Helen Stratford: Public S/Pacing

10.07.2024, by Debbie Rolls

A black woman wearing a long pale pink turtle neck dress bends over a table to write on paper with a pen

Ayo Akingbade: Show Me the World Mister

08.07.2024, by Tennae Maki

A room lit with a pink-purple hue. A film is projected on the far wall. On the floor is an indistinct sculptural form.

Michelle Williams Gamaker: Our Mountains Are Painted on Glass & Dahong Hongxuan Wang: Role Model

25.06.2024, by Chantal Oakes

A white wall gallery space with three paintings, ones on left and right across four split canvases and the one in the middle smaller, all showing people in groups, at sea, in boats, obscured by lines and other marks on the surface of the images

Rebecca Scott: Small Boats & Family Matters

22.06.2024, by Anthony Ellis

A gallery view with introductory wall text on the left and straight ahead one of Cahun's mirror portraits displayed on a deep purple wall

Claude Cahun: Beneath this Mask

14.06.2024, by Kirsty Jukes

A close up of mylar with a lit up object behind it making everything orange

Brass Art: rock, quiver, and bend

13.06.2024, by Jazmine Linklater

Detail of a graffiti-style collage work of art

Some Assembly Required

06.06.2024, by Lesley Guy

Two people watch a film on the large screen; the footage is of the canopy of trees seen from a forest floor

Oliver Ressler: Hothouse Planet Breakout

04.06.2024, by Sarah Pennington

A gallery space with a hanging screen in the centre showing footage of a broad river flowing past. Flanking the screens are two large puppet-like forms also suspended from the ceiling. Along the wall in the background are lined brightly-coloured model bridges, under-lit with coloured LEDs.

Jack Pell: Byland’s Super Saga

01.06.2024, by Megan Jones

A white woman with brown hair wearing black in a dark space filed with triangular shapes holds two glowing drum sticks as though mid stroke. She is looking down to the drums out of frame.

Mishka Henner: The Conductor

29.05.2024, by Jack Nicholls

A view of a wall with large strips of photographs hanging from a rail at the top down to the wooden floors. There are some smaller 10 by 15 cm sized black and white photos arranged around between the larger strips. In the foreground, to the bottom right, is a trestle table, the top a large sheet of board. There are a number of A4 sized paper documents under perspex displayed on it.

No Going Back

24.05.2024, by Benjamin Barra

A group of smiling attendees look at a table containing stacks of colourful brochures for the Berwick film and Media Arts Festival.

19th Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival

20.05.2024, by Kate Liston