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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 very bright, clean gallery space. Groupings of two, three and four framed large format photos are on the walls. In the middle of the space a wooden box-like structure and over to the right, a table or vitrine with a pair of headphones hooked on the edge.

John Beck and Matthew Cornford: The Art Schools of Yorkshire

01.04.2026, by Benjamin Barra

Review
Leeds
Leeds Arts University
A large gallery. A set of screen-sheets suspended from the ceiling with a bright image projected onto them. To the right, a screen showing a face that seems to be covered in fabric.

Saodat Ismailova: As We Fade

31.03.2026, by Jade Foster

Feature
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead
A gallery space with wooden floors and white walls. A large table in the middle surrounded with stools. On the right hand wall three large frames with book covers displayd inside. To the left, large bright windows and a Xerox machine. More images displayed at the back of the gallery.

For Solidarity x Document H.E.T. Alternative Publishing and Community Undercurrents

31.03.2026, by Craig Stewart Johnson

Review
Newcastle upon Tyne
The NewBridge Project
A close up on two vitrines with ceramic objects in them. On the wall behind a large mind map with the words Tees Valley: An Art History in the centre in an orange circle.

Desire Lines: Art, Place & Possibilities

16.02.2026, by Kate Sweeney

Review
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
A large photograph of a black dog standing in tall, bushes, a burned stick in its mouth.

Stephen King: Firehawks

10.02.2026, by Natalie Hughes

Review
Liverpool
Open Eye Gallery
A picture of a monitor showing a split screen image. A long piece of red fabric is woven among trees, in a bright scene. On the left a figure is holding the red fabric.

Listening to the Voices of the Rivers

04.02.2026, by Anna Mud

Review
Newcastle Contemporary Art
A football trophy, on a black plinth. On each side is a man, and behind the cup a poster that reads 'Belief is Black and White - Together we go again'.

Sport, Art and Politics

02.02.2026, by Kel Pereira

Exploration
North East
A warmly lit gallery interior, there are small trees or patches of bamboo, arranged around the sapce. Two people sit in the middle of the space, on beanbags, listening.

Lintukoto and The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing  

15.12.2025, by Silvia Hassouna

Exploration
Newcastle upon Tyne
The NewBridge Project
Six or seven people are lying down on airbeds in a carpeted room. On a box at the back is a man with brown curly hair playing a guitar. There is a drawing on the wall to his left and further left is a garment on a tailor's dummy.

Watery Commons: The Tweed River Festival 2025

28.11.2025, by Maria Howard

Review
Peebles
Scotland
A brightly painted mural of a large face on a wall. A woman poses in front of it kneeling down.

Our Place in the Arts: Creativity, community and quiet resilience in Stockton-on-Tees

28.11.2025, by Harriet Mee

Exploration
Stockton-on-Tees
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
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