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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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

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

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

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

Millennium Gallery

Sheffield

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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