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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

Dusky skies seen through a silhouetted window frame with text on the panes of glass: 'tool lost the lived body fading altering reflection dvala'

Echo Mapping: Elaine Grainger and Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard

10.04.2025, by Laura Biddle

A photoshop screen with an image of a desert and a group of people in formal dress standing in between a flag that says 'welcome to mars top 1%' and on the right a rocket

In-Situ: Inside Out Pendle

04.04.2025, by Jessica El Mal

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

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

A white woman with short blonde hair, red lipstick and dark black eye make up looks straight at the camera with her mouth open, appearing to scream. Repeated images suggests this is a still from an analogue film.

Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990

26.03.2025, by Jazmine Linklater

A dark gallery space with two prints of Buddha statues in white and two screens, one showing a low lit statue and on the other an image of a human hand

Shadow and Void: Buddha¹⁰

24.03.2025, by Chloe Elliott

The stage set of House of Reeves shop front behind a white picket fence and gravel floor, with concrete pillars and planters with dead trees on either side

Imran Perretta: A Riot in Three Acts

13.03.2025, by Kirsty Jukes

A big gallery space with a wigwam of sticks in the middle and various other works on plinths and the floor

Deluge: Oscar van Heek, Linde Ex and Dana Olărescu

12.03.2025, by Simon Sylvester

A close up of a long wall vitrine with postcards and polaroid's inside and underneath on the wall words written: marking shifting changing learning discussing questioning...

Tina Dempsey and Tracy Hill: Grounding

04.03.2025, by Anne Waggot Knott

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

Painting of an iceberg floating in a calm sea

Keith Grant: Elemental Nature

28.02.2025, by Kirsty Jukes

A large white walled space with pine coloured parquet floors and bright pastel paintings on all the walls

Pippa El-Kadhi Brown: Stranger Skies

14.02.2025, by Laura Biddle

four people sit on stage. Two people are in conversation with one another. The other two people are sign interpreters and translate the conversation facing an audience.

With For About: When Words Fail

28.01.2025, by Alexis Maxwell

A group of women and nonbinary people all in dark clothing of browns and greens stand uprights all facing forward, the person furthest left carries a baby who also faces us

Mikhail Karikis: Songs for the Storm to Come

24.01.2025, by Jack Nicholls

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

Five little ceramic bottles on a white shelf, from left to white yellow with tentacles, a pink nose, a white bottle with a mermaid on, a squishy venus figure and a blue bottle

Local / National / International: Hussain, Proudfoot and So

20.12.2024, by Natalie Russett

A close up of Camara's face while lying down, her hand over her shoulder

Tania Camara: As I Am Naturally

18.12.2024, by mandla

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

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

A wide view of the gallery space with Bull's painting to the right and a visitor standing in front of it reading a handout.

The Pearls and the Oyster

07.11.2024, by Francesca Brooks

A close up of the textile head of a creature whose felt skin is peach coloured with pink horns atop their head and long ears that protrude right and left, with facial features of colourful plastic or ceramic - large black eyebrows, red eyes, round open mouth and blue gemstone cheeks.

Lucy Wright: Future Folk Archetypes

05.11.2024, by Susannah Thompson

Painting of a car dashboard and the view from the windscreen.

Zoë Carlon: Where and When You Are

04.11.2024, by Gertrude Gibbons

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

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

A frame like sculpture coloured pale mauve with large ovals cut right through its surface, and on the back wall a small piece of three overlapping ovals covered in light green and yellow print

Steph Huang: There is nothing old under the sun

24.10.2024, by Vivien Chan

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

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

A view of the gallery with a large green and blue painting of a landscape filled with human figures to the laft and in the middle a piece of greys and blues

Strange Gaze: Surrealism at Cross Lane Projects

17.10.2024, by Alison J Carr

A person sitting in a camping chair in a field with their green tent in the distance to the left at dusk

Enter the Equinox

16.10.2024, by Sam Pickett

A close up of four swatches of overlaid printed fabric, clockwise from the top: a grey-blue-green swirly cloud like image; a dappled red-black-brown like a close-up on mince meat; bright yellow with flecks of white; deep and lighter green leaves on brown branches with red berries

Preserving Hole: Bláithín Mac Donnell, Aled Simons and Tom Cardew

26.09.2024, by Hilary White

A bright museum room with wooden floors and the walls and plinths painted a light blue. Three plinths in the foreground carry small colourful sculptures and on the far wall is a line of five bright images in frames, orange, purple, red, yellow and red

SHIFT: Kaleidoscopic Realms

28.08.2024, by Michael Orr

Photograph shows most of the gallery space with works dotted throughout, the works are described in detail in the article but in brief there are a range of shapes and bright colours sat on the floor or tumbling down the walls.

Mark Tanner Sculpture Award: Thinking is Making

20.08.2024, by Amie Kirby

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

The words Charmaine Watkiss Legacy in large black and red textx on a white wall with an open doorway to the left

Charmaine Watkiss: Legacy

02.08.2024, by Chantal Oakes

Two spinning plates are balanced on think copper rods with a wall painted orange and peach in the background.

Garth Gratrix: FLAMBOYANT FLAMINGOS Feat. Derek Jarman & Felix Gonzalez-Torres

01.08.2024, by Jazmine Linklater