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Benjamin Barra

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Benjamin Barra is a curator, writer and editor based in Leeds.

He has been Regional Editor for Yorkshire and the Humber at Corridor8 since July 2023.

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Two hands hold a record, two index fingers almost meeting through the hole in the centre.

Rhea Storr: Subjects of State, Labours of Love

02.04.2025, by Ghada Habib

Review
Sheffield
Site Gallery
Posters, photographs of bands playing at gigs, album shoots, handwritten tabs and notes, all arranged on a noticeboard.

Mixed Up: Music and the Art School

26.03.2025, by Aidan Winterburn

Review
Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University
Leeds
The interior of a shipping container made from cardboard. A yellow-orange light picks out an oil lamp hanging from the centre of the roof, a framed image lying flat of the floor beneath it, and the ridged interior walls of the shipping container.

Motunrayo Akinola: Knees Kiss Ground

03.03.2025, by Jade Foster

Review
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham
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

Review
Sheffield
Yorkshire Artspace
A person in a black shirt handles a life-size pomegranate cast in iron.

Furnace Fruit: An Interview with Karanjit Panesar

13.12.2024, by Harpreet Kaur

Interview
Leeds
Leeds Art Gallery
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

Review
Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University
Leeds
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

Review
Middlesbrough
Multiple Venues
Painting of a car dashboard and the view from the windscreen.

Zoë Carlon: Where and When You Are

04.11.2024, by Gertrude Gibbons

Review
London
South Parade
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

Review
Barnsley
Barnsley Civic
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

Review
Bloc Projects
Sheffield
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

Review
Leeds
University of Leeds
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

Review
Sheffield
Site Gallery
Hands in purple nitrile gloves handle delicate papers

Memorial Gestures 2024: Writer and Translator Residencies

19.07.2024, by Alice Bradshaw

Interview
Holocaust Centre North
Huddersfield
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

Review
Bloc Projects
Sheffield
Looking out of the front windows of a trolley-bus, you see a path leading through a mausoleum

Digital Vapour Trails: Ronnie Danaher in profile

27.06.2024, by Abi Mitchell

Exploration
Interview
Detail of a graffiti-style collage work of art

Some Assembly Required

06.06.2024, by Lesley Guy

Review
Newcastle upon Tyne
Slugtown
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

Review
Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University
Leeds
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

Review
Hull
Humber Street Gallery
Silhouettes of model cooling towers, dark against projected white image on wall behind.

CA Ryan Interview

09.05.2024, by Jessica Piette

Interview
A gallery space. In the foreground, a circular floor piece - a welldressing - with patterns formed from dried flowers etc. Two sofas and a table display in the midground. Five black and white images of wells on the back wall.

Mouthpieces: Three Exhibitions in Sheffield

17.04.2024, by Pamela Crowe

Review
Arts Catalyst
Millennium Gallery
Sheffield
Site Gallery
Two people dance in an industrial space lit red

Diasporas Now

09.04.2024, by Michael Barnes-Wynters

Review
Hull
Humber Street Gallery
Two hands touch a document amongst several laid out on a table.

Memorial Gestures 2024

02.04.2024, by Alice Bradshaw

Review
Holocaust Centre North
Huddersfield
In the foreground, silhouettes made from laser cutting and engraving on X-ray hang from the ceiling; a person looks through them towards the camera. Behind the person, four brightly coloured framed photographs on the wall.

Aesthetica Art Prize 2024

22.03.2024, by Alyson Lai

Review
York
York Art Gallery
A textile work with text reading 'I'M TENDING TO MY GRIEF'

Grief Must Be Love with Nowhere to Go: In Conversation with Emily Simpson and Chris Alton

11.03.2024, by Amelia Crouch

Interview
Bloc Projects
Sheffield
Two painted school chairs, lips of seats touching. Beads hang from the backrest of one, the other has the words 'thE Next tIME FIRE' painted on the back.

The School of Mutants: All Fragments of the Word Will Come Back Here to Mend Each Other

05.03.2024, by Derek Horton

Review
Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University
Leeds
Four screens in a dark room show characters in brightly coloured costumes against a starry sky

Eelyn Lee & Collaborators: Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸

08.01.2024, by Emma Bolland

Review
Bloc Projects
Sheffield
Three sculptural forms against a grey wall - a ceramic face, a knitted woollen torsa, a figure made from draped pink fabric on an aluminium frame.

Contested Bodies

06.12.2023, by Eliza Goodpasture

Review
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
Orange and white striped wall with towel hanging on rail to the left, broom propped up against the wall to the right

Garth Gratrix: Cheeky Felicia

28.11.2023, by Even Allen

Review
Crescent Arts
Scarborough
Two stacks of publications on a grey plinth. The jackets read 'SOFT''

Fiona Larkin and Ian Giles: Soft Structures

26.11.2023, by Lesley Guy

Review
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Screen in a dark room showing the edge of a symbol in close focus.

Before, During & After: Here Now (How To Keep The Balance), Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom

24.11.2023, by Chloe Elliott

Review
Sheffield
Site Gallery
A roll of perforated orange plastic in front of a tent-like structure made from aluminium tubing

Katrina Cowling: Near to the Wild Heart

06.11.2023, by Saffron Ward

Review
Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University
Leeds
Dark room with red neon text 'I'm Sorry' hanging from the ceiling, reflecting off the floor

Annabel McCourt: I’m Sorry

30.10.2023, by Orla Foster

Review
Barnsley
Barnsley Civic
A blue transporter bridge over a stretch of river in an industrial area.

People Powered: Stories from the River Tees

27.09.2023, by Steve Spithray

Review
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Greyscale image of a mountainside in Mexico.

For Whom the Mountains Pray: Helen Blejerman in conversation with Ghada Habib

22.09.2023, by Ghada Habib

Interview
Post Hall Gallery
Sheffield