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Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom, 2025, Installation view at Nottingham Contemporary. Photo: Michael Pollard. Courtesy of Nottingham Contemporary.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom

10.12.2025, by Amrit Doll

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Nottingham Contemporary

In a large gallery space, a hexagonal bench sits in the centre of a ring of tall, asymmetric lightboxes with images of plants. They glow yellow, filling the whole room with yellow light.

Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The British East India Company on Trial

08.12.2025, by Tessa Norton

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Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University

Leeds

lots of multicoloured paper artworks on white walls and 2d sculptures of lego like figures in the middle of the room

Bankley Studios’ Threat of Eviction

07.12.2025, by Ciara Leeming

Bankley Studios and Gallery

Woman in colourful clothing (pink, lilac, dark orange, blue, green) stand at a family gathering with a camcorder date denoting this is a scene from old footage, now hand embroidered

Obsessions, Possessions: Coventry Biennial

01.12.2025, by Daniel Sean Kelly

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Various venues around Coventry

A brightly painted mural of a large face on a wall. A woman poses in front of it kneeling down.

Our Place in the Arts: Creativity, community and quiet resilience in Stockton-on-Tees

28.11.2025, by Harriet Mee

Stockton-on-Tees

Six or seven people are lying down on airbeds in a carpeted room. On a box at the back is a man with brown curly hair playing a guitar. There is a drawing on the wall to his left and further left is a garment on a tailor's dummy.

Watery Commons: The Tweed River Festival 2025

28.11.2025, by Maria Howard

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Peebles

Scotland

A cupped hand holds enough salt to fill its palm. The hand is held above a glistening body of water.

Angela Davies: (To the) Heart of the Matter

24.11.2025, by James Harper

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Plas Glyn Y Weddw

Wales

A dark blue wall with framed photographs of damaged books opened at pages

Stephen Emmerson: How to Read a Book

19.11.2025, by Richard Barrett

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The Portico Library

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Photograph of the front and spine of 'Barkle and Tranklements' showing the title.

Barkle and Tranklements

Through case studies and interviews, rituals and fictions, diagrammatic explorations and art-historical essays, Barkle and Tranklements …

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29.11.2024, by Corridor8

Midlands

A brown-grey book cover with geometric lines and title 'NORTHERN FORMATIONS' in blue.

Northern Formations

Now available to purchase. A collection of responses to the unusual proliferation of sculpture across the North of England, through history and in the present day.

Low brick walls are build to different heights in a state of unfinishedness. There are two piles of bricks: one one an old black singer sewing machine, on the other an old tape player and stack of tapes. On the ground fluffy dandelion seeds like a carpet, and to the right an Iranian rug.

Open Table no 3: Katy Shahandeh & Omid Asadi

Omid Asadi, Resonance and Remnants (2023). Photo by JOmid Asadi, Resonance and Remnants (2023). Photo by …

An abstract-figurative sculpture perches on a deep yellow circular plinth in a yellow painted gallery corner.

Open Table no 2: Enya Koster, Grace Collins & George Gibson

The second in a series of short publications in collaboration with Castlefield Gallery, in response to Archives at Play 2.

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