Corridor8 — Contemporary art and writing in the North of England

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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

Review

Division of Labour

Salford

a cream coloured glazed plate is stamped with the words 'my mum told me not to ask for seconds' in a pale sage green, to the right hand side an embroidered napkin is folded around a set of cutlery, the embroidered word say 'you don't want to get food on your best clothes', they are all laid on a white tablecloth and lit from the side which creates shadows

Horace Lindezey: We Are Gathered Here Together

29.08.2024, by Jazmine Linklater

Interview

Art in Manufacturing

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

Review

Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery

a composite image showing various security staff at Lnacaster University using their torches to creater a geometric drawing on a wall

José Garcia Oliva in conversation with Lauren Velvick

08.09.2024, by Lauren Velvick

Interview

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

Review

Cross Lane Projects

Kendal

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

Review

Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Review

Blackpool

Grundy Art Gallery

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

Review

Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Kendal

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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.

blue writing, scribbles and sketches on a piece of white paper

New Experimental Art Writing Group

17.06.2024

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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.

A photograph of an office chair engulfed in smoke.

Open Table no 1: Bryony Dawson & Elysia Lukoszevieze

The first in a series of short publications in collaboration with Castlefield Gallery, in response to PIVOT: Editions.

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