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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

Five long tables laid with afternoon tea with balloons and bunting, it looks like a real party!

MET (Mobile Event Tent)

28.10.2023, by Steve Slack

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

A group of people, some wearing facemasks, sitting and standing, assembled around a table speaking, drawing and taking notes.

UNIDEE 2020-2022: Reflections on Embedded Arts Practice in (post)pandemic times

20.07.2023, by Alessandra Saviotti

Photograph of a field of daisies taken from a low angle.

The Farmer’s Arms: Corridor8 behind the scenes & away from the screen

14.07.2023, by Lauren Velvick

In a dark room two huge black sculptures of a semicircular shape with a triangular gap at the bottom.

Reversed Cartography: on Liverpool Biennial 2023

29.06.2023, by Marjorie H. Morgan

A charcoal drawing of a large shaded circle next to a small one

Heather Peak: Out of step

23.06.2023, by Katy Morrison

In the centre of the space is a long black carpet with multicoloured patterns, and three clothed dressmaker's mannequins.

Late and Soon: A Conversation About Margaret Harrison and Conrad Atkinson

15.06.2023, by Lauren Velvick & Bernie Velvick

A photograph of a grassy clearing in a park with someone lying on the ground.

With For About: Care and the Commons

14.06.2023, by Grace Edwards

Several pairs of hands reach for plants and gloves during a gardening session.

Around you the landscape lies transfigured: Arts Catalyst’s home and garden in Sheffield

24.05.2023, by Linda Pittwood

A person sits on a bence in a park lit up by purple and orange light, watching a video of a row of people holding flowers, inside a pitched-roof house structure.

Lou Chapelle: Voicing Silence

14.03.2023, by Jay Drinkall

The image shows an installation view of the exhibition 'Two Plus Two Makes Four' at The Auxiliary project space in Middlesborough. A large wall-mounted work in bright orange neon strip lighting reads 'GONE TO GET HELP' and sits just above a bench supporting 6 cacti arranged in ascending order. In the foreground two small monitor screens sit atop welded steel mounts.

Two Plus Two Makes Four

02.03.2023, by Uma Breakdown

A discarded fridge freezer against a brick wall with a painted woman beside it and man's legs sticking out

Banksy and Freezing Out the Victim

18.02.2023, by Hayley Flynn

Photograph of a stone carving from Warrington School of Art which says 'School of Art' in sandstone with carvings of fruit and plants above.

Arguments About Art Schools

04.02.2023, by Bob Dickinson

A wall hung sculpture made of terracotta tiles in the shape of a skirt.

Emma Gregory: dynamics of care

23.01.2023, by Julia Johnson

A woman stands sewing a white sheer dress on a mannequin stand in a darkened gallery space under a spotlight.

Curating Home

09.01.2023, by Uthra Rajgopal

A row of seated people listen to a woman in a green summer dress speaking

In-Situ is Ten!

15.12.2022, by Natalie Hughes

Illustration by Millie Chesters showing a figure completing a series of different tasks in six panels

Juggle and Keep Receipts: on current conditions for working artists and arts workers

03.11.2022, by Tom Taylor

An ariel photograph of a group of people in colourful clothes having a picnic on fabric squares in a rectangular formation, in the middle of a moorland path.

Artist A & Artist B: In the Pockets of a Parachute

28.09.2022, by Danielle Ash

Photo of a group of people in an artspace around a table.

Tactics For Togetherness: An Obituary

20.09.2022, by Ian Nesbitt

A black and grey mottled glazed ceramic sculpture resembling a small broken shelter

The texture of the moon is silence

30.06.2022, by Emii Alrai

A photo of a hand held lighly against the front of a tshirt.

A reflection on CHASM: Live Art in isolation

16.06.2022, by Samra Mayanja

photo of a man and child talking beside windows looking out over a town

Lookout

16.06.2022, by Josh Coates

A concrete block of flats with rainbow cladding, against a grey sky and across from a smoke stack.

The revival of the city

05.05.2022, by Leila Kozma

A multi generational family sits in a waiting area of an airport with their luggage.

Late Home

17.03.2022, by JJ Chan

A small white plaque with a black border and caps letters spelling THIS IS A MIRROR YOU ARE A WRITTEN SENTENCE

The Ideal Work of Art is a Hyperrealist Linear Narrative

10.03.2022, by Jazmine Linklater

2 performers stand on a slanted board structure holding on with ropes in a white walled gallery space.

The trick is, don’t explain

20.01.2022, by Nicola Singh

An illustration of a hand reaching out toward a shiny CD disc, against a warm orange background.

The body feeling

10.12.2021, by Callan Waldron-Hall

A free-embroidered quilt of hexegons with text written in some of them and cell like structures across them.

Between Houses

22.11.2021, by Sheena Hussain

A Black man looks directly at the camera, his hand blurred at the bottom of the frame. He wears red over ear headphones and sits in front of an electric piano.

Liverpool Biennial: The Liquid Club

23.05.2021, by Anthony Ellis

James Thompson and Samra Mayanja performing 'Recording Performance II — Memorial to Queen Victoria statue' in Leeds, 2019.

Commemorative Space: Artist reflections on monumentality in Leeds

01.04.2021, by Emii Alrai, Simeon Barclay, Samra Mayanja, Jill McKnight and James Thompson; ed. Rebecca Senior

A photograph taken in an artist's studio, showing a long trestle table covered in overlapping drawings and studies.

Coincidence and Constellations

14.01.2021, by Cathy Garner

small child grasps large red block in art exhibition

The Indoor Park

10.12.2020, by Tom Whyman

An image of an art installation in a shopping centre. There are a series of projected images and lights in the darkened space.

The front line of creativity: contested art in non-art spaces

08.12.2020, by Paul Drury-Bradey