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Lesley Guy

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Lesley Guy is an artist and writer based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. She makes work as part of the collective known as TOTALLER. Alongside her art practice she has written for a number of publications including The Metro, a_n and Corridor8 and was the Content Curator for Axisweb for five years, commissioning and editing work from a range of artists, academics and writers. She is currently doing a practice based PhD at Northumbria University, exploring collective fictioning and world building within art practices and ‘scenes’.

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A widescreen still from a video. The scene is a woodland floor. A person in Blue outer jackets and black pants and grey trainers lies on the ground, on their side, hands covering their face. There is a bag or some other rectangular what object under their right leg.

Esther Salamon: Woodland Bird Woman

04.11.2025, by Mridula Sharma

Review
Newcastle Contemporary Art
Newcastle upon Tyne
A flag made of concentric coloured rectangles. Outside to inner: Pink, red, purple and a solid black rectangle in the centre.

Beth J Ross: Her Extraordinary Colours

31.10.2025, by Anna Mud

Review
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Multiple venues
A glossy black curtain with many folds. On it a photograph, large and in colour. It shows a woman with light brown skin standing in a landscape she is wearing a white robe and head scarf, in her left hand a Union Flag hangs, draping on the ground.

In all possible worlds: Middlesbrough Art Week, 2025

24.10.2025, by Kin

Review
Middlesbrough
Multiple Venues
An aerial view of a figure with dark skin, shaven head, arms outstretched, standing on a white sheet that has a drawing in pink dye of a seahorse.

A Pink Seahorse

17.10.2025, by Kate Sweeney

Exploration
North East
A dimly lit interior, a back wall painted orange with a tv monitor showing dappled light through tree leaves. In the foreground two victorian looking chairs.

The Inside and Outside of Belonging – MA Fine Art Degree Show 2025

29.09.2025, by Joanna Jowett

Review
Leeds
University of Leeds
A large space with white walls and painted grey floor. A number of artworks are dotted around the room. In the foreground, on the floor, a squiggle pattern drawn in salt. A table behind that with drawings on the wall. To the left a display of interconnected objects on the wall.

A Gathering: Newcastle University Post-Graduate Degree Show

15.09.2025, by Uma Breakdown

Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
A black and white photo of a smiling woman playing a drum, pasted onto a cream coloured wall.

Resounding Diasporic Sonic Worlds

28.08.2025, by Christie Yung-hei Chan

Review
Newcastle upon Tyne
The NewBridge Project
Two men stand in front of a red banner

Going Back Brockens: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners’ Strike

13.08.2025, by Kate Liston

Review
Bishop Auckland
The Warehouse
The image is filled with a large patchwork textile made from cyanotypes, in indigo blue, images of leaves and other natural forms in white. Other shaped are embroidered into the cloth with coloured thread. A hand wearing rings, with light brown skin is pointing at an embroidered leaf.

Gopshop Bangladeshi Women’s Group in Newcastle

14.07.2025, by Mymona Bibi

Interview
Newcastle Bangladeshi Association
A small patch of sandy ground on a beach. Pebbles and shells as well as plants, that look deliberately arranged. A low wall behind and in the distance the sea and a person walking by.

Fallow Land

17.06.2025, by Maria Howard

Review
Edinburgh
Mote102 ArtSpace
A darkened gallery, a film projected, the image is of a horse and rider in profile silhouetted against a sunset.

Stepney Western: Harry Lawson

13.06.2025, by Kate Liston

Review
Newcastle Contemporary Art
Three performers wearing painted garb traverge a gallery space draped with calico. The floor is white vinyl and has words and fortprinted painted on in black and red. There is an audience watching.

Delaine Le Bas: +Fabricating My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles

05.06.2025, by Kate Sweeney

Interview
Newcastle Contemporary Art
The interior of a wooden structure. The far wall has a large pvideo projected on it, an image of a young person wearing a hat and sunglasses apperas to be walking confidently. The subtitled cation reads 'This is success!' to the right a tv monitor shows a group of adults in an acting class. In the centre of the space a sloping platform about 2x2 metres with an oversized image of Time magazine cover on it.

Alice Theobald: Perfection is a Lie (An Ode to your Potential)

20.05.2025, by Rachel Magdeburg

Review
Birmingham
Eastside Projects
A gallery with terracotta coloured walls stands a large black structure with symbols painted on it.

Mani Kambo: Ax·is Mun·di

28.04.2025, by Rachel Boyd

Review
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead
A large painting in six panels hung on a white gallery wall. On the left and right central panels are a number of painted figures milling around at a party or preview with art works on the wall behind them. The top two panels show a night city scape. The bottom two show a skeleton as if it were buried below the party.

Unravelling: Samantha Cary

17.04.2025, by Caro Giles

Review
Berwick-upon-Tweed
The Granary Gallery
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
Seven black and white photographes displayed on a black wall. they are overlapping like a collage. They are images from the Zero Tolerance Campaign.

Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works

23.07.2024, by Rachel Boyd

Review
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead
Two children and three adults are playing on a mat of coloured tiles. There is a sofa behind them, and on the wall behind that is a photograph of a woman smoking a cigarette with her hand on a pregnent belly.

MOTHEROTHER: The NewBridge Project

15.07.2024, by Rosie Morris

Review
Newcastle upon Tyne
The NewBridge Project
An image of a garden at night. In the foreground plants and flowers, close up and blured. In the middle, offset to the left, a smooth white orb or ball. Behind it the rest of the garden, or landscape in silhouette against a blue night sky

Emotional weather and climates of change – the work of Aidan Moesby

29.05.2024, by Dave Pritchard

Exploration
North East
A view of a wall with large strips of photographs hanging from a rail at the top down to the wooden floors. There are some smaller 10 by 15 cm sized black and white photos arranged around between the larger strips. In the foreground, to the bottom right, is a trestle table, the top a large sheet of board. There are a number of A4 sized paper documents under perspex displayed on it.

No Going Back

24.05.2024, by Benjamin Barra

Review
East Street Arts
Leeds
A group of smiling attendees look at a table containing stacks of colourful brochures for the Berwick film and Media Arts Festival.

19th Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival

20.05.2024, by Kate Liston

Review
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Multiple venues
A large well lit gallery space. The wall in the background is covered in a repeat pattern wallpaper. There is an abstract picture on this wall. To the right are a series of unframed prints of repeating patterns, in different colours. In the foreground are a number of plinths with ceramics displayed.

Jacqueline Poncelet: In the Making

15.04.2024, by Michele Allen

Review
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
A close up of a champagne coloured cushion with a small pin, the head of the pin is a red plastic love heart.

Closed Enough

22.03.2024, by Kate Liston

Exploration
Gateshead
Vane
The view of a gallery space. the floors are wooden, laid on the floor is a quilt, aproximately two meters squared, laid flat in a white frame. the wall behind is paints white with black letters written on. The text is indistinguishable. To the left of this the wall has been painted pink.

Bordered Belonging: An Interview with Izzy Finch

18.03.2024, by Mymona Bibi

Interview
Newcastle upon Tyne
The NewBridge Project
A light skinned person with greying hair has their hands on a round pine table, they are wearing headphones, they are looking at the table in contemplation. Behind them is a drawing of a coastal landscape attached to a pine board with bulldog clips. There are blue and black bean bags near the table.

Blue Futures: In conversation with Suzy O’Hara

12.12.2023, by Christie Yung-hei Chan

Interview
South Shields
The Word
A large hangar like space with white walls and a light grey floor. In the foreground a box-like sculpture with plastic flames. Behind that a partially built circular wall and in the background a large inflatable pig laying on its side. On the wall to the right hundreds of small images displayed in a block.

Middlesbrough Art Week

06.12.2023, by Uma Breakdown

Review
Middlesbrough
Multiple Venues
A disc about a meter in diameter, cut from what looks like a dark grey carpet tile is set a few inches from the ground. The disc has brightly coloured squiggles and shapes painted on to it. there is a broken glass and a pink high heeled shoe laying on the top.

Brass Tacks: In the Round

15.11.2023, by Kin

Review
Newcastle Arts Centre
Newcastle upon Tyne
A woman with pale skin and red hair, photographed from just below the shoulders, is holding a piece of coal between fingers and thumb of each hand over where her eyes would be. Her arms and shoulders are naked. behind her, out of focus, is a rural landscape.

Alexandra Clod and Karolina Uskakovych: (Re)Grounding

02.11.2023, by Tom Jeffreys

Exploration
Newcastle upon Tyne
The NewBridge Project
A large space with white walls and wooden floor, the ceiling is rigged with lights. There are a number of large beanbags on the floor, some have people sat in them. There is a large table at the back of the room with ten or so chairs around it. People mill around the space. Hanging on the back wall is a large patchwork hanging, large diamonds of coloured fabric stitched together. Another more simple square designed hanging is on the wall to our right.

Nominally Sovereign

02.10.2023, by Kate Liston

Exploration
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead
A white walled gallery space with a polished concrete floor. The view of the space encompasses three walls, there are three paintings on the left and right walls and one large painting on the wall facing. There are three benches in the centre of gallery space.

Kejie Lin: The Mind’s Garden

25.09.2023, by Christie Yung-hei Chan

Interview
Newcastle Contemporary Art
Newcastle upon Tyne
A white gloved hand holds a viewfinder, made to resemble a brick wall, up against a majestic landscape.

Fiona Crisp: Weighting Time

25.07.2023, by Dave Pritchard

Review
NGCA
Sunderland
Sunderland Museum
A photograph of two large screens displayed like an open book, in a darkened room, lit with soft red light. On the screens are black and white, grainy images of waves, curled and crashing. on either side of the screens are potted plants, the foliage is highlighted in the red light.

Zinzi Minott: Black on Black

22.08.2022, by Mymona Bibi

Review
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead
A large, high ceilinged gallery space with a polished pine floor. Large colourful abstract paintings cover most of the wall space. In one section of the gallery are hung small framed photographs.

Glaucus and Scylla: A Collaborative Painting Project

23.06.2022, by Christie Yung-hei Chan

Review
South Shields
The Customs House
Two people lying toe to toe in a field with their knees bent, a blue sky above them.

Freestylers: Everybody with Me, Always

20.12.2021, by Kate Liston

Review
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead
A computer generated or enhanced microscopic image of human tissue. light pink and purple strands, knotty and with fine tendrils seem to float in a dark blue space. the microbial strands glow with a mysterious light and stand out against the murky backdrop. Similar material is floating in the background, out of focus. The image is etherial and fantastical.

One Cell At A Time

10.12.2021, by Christie Yung-hei Chan

Review
Review
Newcastle upon Tyne
Online
Satelliser - a dance for the gallery, at Baltic

J Neve Harrington: Satelliser – a dance for the gallery

08.11.2021, by Kate Liston

Review
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead
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