Reviews — Corridor8

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

Review

Division of Labour

Salford

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

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Nottingham

Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery

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

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Cross Lane Projects

Kendal

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

Charmaine Watkiss: Legacy

02.08.2024, by Chantal Oakes

Review

Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Kendal

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

Review

Blackpool

Grundy Art Gallery

A bright multicoloured painting with, from left to right, a green figure bending over a little character in purple with their hands raised, a red devil with pitchfork and big wings and a nearly naked black person in blue gloves wearing a yellow mask over their head

John Lyons: Carnivalesque

24.07.2024, by SuAndi

Review

Manchester

Whitworth Art Gallery

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

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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

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Newcastle upon Tyne

The NewBridge Project

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

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Bloc Projects

Sheffield

A black woman wearing a long pale pink turtle neck dress bends over a table to write on paper with a pen

Ayo Akingbade: Show Me the World Mister

08.07.2024, by Tennae Maki

Review

Manchester

Whitworth Art Gallery

A room lit with a pink-purple hue. A film is projected on the far wall. On the floor is an indistinct sculptural form.

Michelle Williams Gamaker: Our Mountains Are Painted on Glass & Dahong Hongxuan Wang: Role Model

25.06.2024, by Chantal Oakes

Review

Liverpool

North West

The Bluecoat

A white wall gallery space with three paintings, ones on left and right across four split canvases and the one in the middle smaller, all showing people in groups, at sea, in boats, obscured by lines and other marks on the surface of the images

Rebecca Scott: Small Boats & Family Matters

22.06.2024, by Anthony Ellis

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Cross Lane Projects

Kendal

A gallery view with introductory wall text on the left and straight ahead one of Cahun's mirror portraits displayed on a deep purple wall

Claude Cahun: Beneath this Mask

14.06.2024, by Kirsty Jukes

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Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Kendal

A close up of mylar with a lit up object behind it making everything orange

Brass Art: rock, quiver, and bend

13.06.2024, by Jazmine Linklater

Review

HOME

Manchester

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

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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

A white woman with brown hair wearing black in a dark space filed with triangular shapes holds two glowing drum sticks as though mid stroke. She is looking down to the drums out of frame.

Mishka Henner: The Conductor

29.05.2024, by Jack Nicholls

Review

Salford

Sounds from the Other City

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

Installation shot. Bunting containing the words 'Trust Your Gut' hang in the foreground. In the background a knitted length of fabric striped orange, blue and yellow hangs on a wall.

The Town is The Gallery: This is Birkenhead

18.04.2024, by Josh Coates

Review

Birkenhead

Convenience Gallery

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

Arts Catalyst

Millennium Gallery

Sheffield

Site Gallery

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 dark room with deep red bean bags in front of a large film screen which shows a man with white in his beard, semi-transparent laid over the image of a hill

To Mourn and To Remember: Memory Stone by Nikta Mohammadi

12.04.2024, by Jessica El Mal

Exploration

Review

Salford

The Lowry

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

Huddersfield

Old older Southeast Asian women sit outside among rocks all focusing on the work in their hands with white fabric

Jane Jin Kaisen: Halmang

02.04.2024, by Natalie Russett

Review

esea contemporary

Manchester

A white walled room full of stuff scattered all about, all looks a bit sci fi techy, with lots of silver medal and red tones

Lee Holden: Universal Bridge

28.03.2024, by Simon Sylvester

Review

Cross Lane Projects

Kendal

Two large screens on the left and right show someone looking out from behind a wire fence. A small screen sits between the two large screens, in the distance.

On The Other Side

27.03.2024, by Natalie Hughes

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FACT

Liverpool

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

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

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Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University

Leeds

An older man with a pale complexion, grey hair and glasses, holds a mirror under his chin. The man's face reflected upside-down, doubling his head

Walkie Talkie

03.03.2024, by Laura Harris

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studioMade

Wales

An installation view of Courses for Dis-Courses by Roo Dhissou showing a laid table with a royal blue tablecloth and stools in different colours, the walls are painted pale peach with a mural of a snake in the same royal blue as the tablecloth curling around the room.

Courses for Dis-Course(s): Roo Dhissou

25.02.2024, by Niall Farrelly

Review

Nottingham

Primary

A white walled gallery space lit up green, on the floor in the foreground stencils for lettering reading WE ARE ALL IN A CYCLE and to the left in the back a ladder, to the right a trolley with buckets of paint

Jo Lathwood: Making Up

07.02.2024, by Jazmine Linklater

Review

Salford

The Lowry

In a room with white walls and a blurred bookcase in the background, Amy is mid-sentence with a look of laughter on her face, holding an interview card that says TOPS on the back

Amy Pennington: TOPS

11.01.2024, by Sabine Sharp

Review

Islington Mill

Manchester