Benjamin Barra, Author at Corridor8

Two people in dark clothes with dark, long hair stand chatting and smiling in an artist's studio, surrounded by colourful objects and shelves of artist materials

Exchange Place Studios: Inside Sheffield’s art laboratory

29.10.2025, by Orla Foster

Exploration

Sheffield

Yorkshire Artspace

A white wall gallery space with a grey floor. On the floor to the right and in the foreground, a curved piece of steel with two tentacular twists of metal leading from each end up into the air, towards a skylight above. On each of the two back walls, strips of metal at around head height - one light grey in colour, the other with darker markings.

Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton: From skin to land, from walls to worlds

06.10.2025, by Simal Rafique

Review

GLOAM

Sheffield

A poster; lime green background; text between two outstretched hands reads: BOUND ART BOOK FAIR

Corridor8 at Bound Art Book Fair 2025

01.10.2025

Event

News

A large typographic print taped to a table, reflecting blue light that shines on it from above.

Acting in the Middle: A Glossary of Encounter — David Eckersley

26.09.2025, by Joanna Jowett

Review

Sovereign Design House

University of Huddersfield

A large painting stretched over a number of walls, curved around bends, of a skeletal figure lying beneath a drystone wall whilst a scruffy dog running around in the field beyond.

Dale Holmes: Beenderman & Gytrash

08.09.2025, by Hanna Dhaimish

Review

South Square Gallery

Thornton

The artist sits on a giant beanbag in a brightly coloured room, flanked by two other giant beanbags shaped like a cat and a dog.

Pippa Hale: Pet Project

18.08.2025, by Lesley Guy

Interview

County Durham

The Bowes Museum

A group of adults and children reaching towards bubbles in the sky.

Uncanny Carnival

08.08.2025, by Lesley Guy

Review

Newcastle upon Tyne

The NewBridge Project

An orange banner advertising an emerging writer call out in collaboration with OUR TURN Festival

OUR TURN × Corridor8: Emerging Writer Bursary

07.08.2025

News

Opportunity

An upturned vase embedded in a cube of concrete on a white plinth. In the background, a small bunch of flowers cast in bronze hand upside down on a wall and light slants in through a large window.

Mia Mai Symonds: A Life of its Own

01.08.2025, by Kerry Harker

Review

BLANK_

Leeds

A sculptural text work set up in leafy parkland. Scaffolding supports lighting rigs, bulbs spelling out the phrase; "YOU CREATE WHAT YOU WILL".

An Interview with Nathan Coley at The Bowes Museum

21.07.2025, by Lesley Guy

Interview

County Durham

The Bowes Museum

A large white wall gallery space with assemblages of objects spread around the space, chiffon prints of the doors to public bathrooms hung from the ceiling.

Paula Chambers: Still. Stray. Stowaway.

18.07.2025, by Stella Baraklianou

Review

Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University

Leeds

Three large drawings on dark paper, with text and images in many colours but with an overall blue tone, part of a larger series, hang in an airy mill building.

Memorial Gestures

09.07.2025, by Alice Bradshaw

Review

Farsley

Sunny Bank Mills

An empty rowboat in the middle of a river. Several sprouts of water spring from the boat's interior, falling into the river on all sides

fæthm

11.06.2025, by Jay Drinkall

Review

Kelham Island Museum

Sheffield

A film still designed to look like analogue home video footage, with a red dot in the upper left corner etc. The image is of several people at a party, taking group selfies.

Emily Oetegenn: Special

23.05.2025, by Amy Kitchingman

Review

87 Gallery

Hull

Two people with brightly-coloured hair, clothing and accessories sit side-by-side on two chairs playing a game of 'paper fortune teller' or 'chatterbox'

On Crip Wisdom: Surviving the erosion of the welfare state

21.05.2025, by Abi Palmer

Feature

Across the North and Midlands of England

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