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A red brick wall with two large screens showing letters like a word search and a futuristic scene of a street with a floating spaceship of gardens above.

TIDAL: Relax into 2050: Artfly

09.01.2024, by Michael Orr

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Barrow-in-Furness

Cooke's Studios

Four screens in a dark room show characters in brightly coloured costumes against a starry sky

Eelyn Lee & Collaborators: Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸

08.01.2024, by Emma Bolland

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Bloc Projects

Sheffield

Uma Breakdown: Earth A.D. 2

16.12.2023, by Emma Curd

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FACT

Liverpool

A short cylindrical tower built of fry stone wall in the outdoors under a blue sky

Julie Brook: What is it That Will Last?

14.12.2023, by Lucy Holt

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Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Kendal

Three sculptural forms against a grey wall - a ceramic face, a knitted woollen torsa, a figure made from draped pink fabric on an aluminium frame.

Contested Bodies

06.12.2023, by Eliza Goodpasture

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The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds

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

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Middlesbrough

Multiple Venues

Orange and white striped wall with towel hanging on rail to the left, broom propped up against the wall to the right

Garth Gratrix: Cheeky Felicia

28.11.2023, by Even Allen

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Crescent Arts

Scarborough

Two stacks of publications on a grey plinth. The jackets read 'SOFT''

Fiona Larkin and Ian Giles: Soft Structures

26.11.2023, by Lesley Guy

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Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Screen in a dark room showing the edge of a symbol in close focus.

Before, During & After: Here Now (How To Keep The Balance), Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom

24.11.2023, by Sylvia Carpenter

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Sheffield

Site Gallery

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

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Newcastle Arts Centre

Newcastle upon Tyne

The five performers captured moving together, four upright with pained expressions on their faces, they seem to be crying, and a fifth performer in light orange shirt is kneeling on the floor in front of them.

Seke Chimutengwende: It Begins in Darkness

15.11.2023, by Chantal Oakes

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Lancaster

Lancaster Arts

The gallery has white walls and brown wooden floors. A large multicoloured canvas to the right with small monitors against the far back wall and a large black cushion on the floor in the middle of the space.

New Contemporaries 2023

10.11.2023, by mandla

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Blackpool

Grundy Art Gallery

A roll of perforated orange plastic in front of a tent-like structure made from aluminium tubing

Katrina Cowling: Near to the Wild Heart

06.11.2023, by Saffron Ward

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Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University

Leeds

Painting of a black dog roaming about a deserted street

Judging a Painting: John Moores Painting Prize 2023

02.11.2023, by Reece Griffiths

Review

Liverpool

Walker Art Gallery

Dark room with red neon text 'I'm Sorry' hanging from the ceiling, reflecting off the floor

Annabel McCourt: I’m Sorry

30.10.2023, by Orla Foster

Review

Barnsley

Barnsley Civic

Free Your Mind

23.10.2023, by Lawrence Dunn

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Aviva Studios

A white-walled gallery space with brown parquet flooring and two llow viewing benches. On the wall are two large canvases, on the left a gradient from blue to grey-beige, and on the right a mottled light brown.

Helene Appel: Among Trees, Among Sand Grains

10.10.2023, by Kyle Nathan Brown

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Williamson Art Gallery & Museum

Wirral

A bright multicoloured digital collage with objects flying out from the centre including a CD, pieces of paper, a small glove and a bar of soap.

Matrices and Communities: FACT Together 2022-2023

28.09.2023, by Reece Griffiths

Review

FACT

Liverpool

A blue transporter bridge over a stretch of river in an industrial area.

People Powered: Stories from the River Tees

27.09.2023, by Steve Spithray

Review

Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Fourteen people sit around a table. They all have texts (books, papers, phone screens) in front of them from which they are reading and discussing together. Behind them a cinema screen projects the words 'ARD Liverpool'.

A.Mal Projects present: ARD

25.09.2023, by Natalie Hughes

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FACT

Liverpool

Installation view with multiple paintings visible including a scene on a beach and an overgrown tree trunk

Landscape of the Gods

21.08.2023, by Neil Greenhalgh

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Cross Lane Projects

Kendal

The shop front has two big windows on either side and a recessed door in the middle. There are pink display boards with artworks in the windows

You’ll like this exhibition because you’re in it!: an East Manchester Open

17.08.2023, by Michael D'Este

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Longsight Art Space

Manchester

a collage of Rave night flyers collected by the artist and presented under Perspex, illuminated from the back.

Rachel Riggs: Ravenous

30.07.2023, by Chantal Oakes

Review

The Carlton Club

A gallery space with white painted walls and concrete floor. Light enters the windows along the back wall. There are several artworks in the gallery: a modified pool or snooker table, a sofa and arm chair, a green curtain, and a set of antlers mounted to the wall.

Luke Beech: Winner Breaks First

27.07.2023, by Emma Curd

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Hull

Humber Street Gallery

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

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NGCA

Sunderland

Sunderland Museum

A rectangular painting with dark blues and greens across a white canvas with lots of white space between and around

Rob Davies: Watercolours

24.07.2023, by Andee Collard

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Williamson Art Gallery & Museum

Wirral

Two hands touch a knitted blanket. The blanket is cream with blue woven text. The only word that can be made out is 'HELGA'.

Memorial Gestures

13.07.2023, by Alice Bradshaw

Review

Holocaust Centre North

Huddersfield

A person in light clothing and a dark headscarf crouches down in the desert looking at the ground

Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah: And still, it remains

12.07.2023, by Harpreet Kaur

Review

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival

A dark gallery space with low benches arranged in front of a large screen showing a film still with a view of mountains in low cloud

Shezad Dawood: Leviathan: From the Forest to the Sea

11.07.2023, by Ella Otomewo

Review

Rochdale

Touchstones Art Gallery

A metal bridge over pools of water in a metal foor

TIDAL: Troubled Waters by Stine Deja

10.07.2023, by James McColl

Review

Barrow-in-Furness

Cooke's Studios

Layers of white gauze fabric hanging in a gallery, printed with images of skeletal grey trees.

We Live, Like Trees, Inside the Footsteps of Our Ancestors

07.07.2023, by Sylvia Carpenter

Review

Leeds Arts University

A washing line with white clothing hanging, in front of a brick wall

TIDAL: Zoe Forster, Mel Galley & Nuria Rovira

05.07.2023, by Sam Pickett

Review

Barrow-in-Furness

Cooke's Studios

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

Exploration

Feature

Review

Liverpool Biennial

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

Exploration

Interview

Review

Cross Lane Projects

Kendal

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

Exploration

Review

Heart of Glass

An exhibition space including, to the left, a green and yellow coloured film showing plant life, and to the right a to-scale greenhouse whose glass panes are covered with black and white images of layered lines or tubes.

Nick Jordan: Natural Interaction

22.04.2023, by Neil Greenhalgh

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