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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

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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

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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

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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

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Lowry

Salford

Two people dance in an industrial space lit red

Diasporas Now

09.04.2024, by Michael Barnes-Wynters

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Lowry

Salford

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

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Islington Mill

Manchester

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 Chloe Elliott

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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