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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

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Preston

The Birley Project Space

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

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Manchester

The Portico Library

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

Zoë Carlon: Where and When You Are

04.11.2024, by Gertrude Gibbons

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London

South Parade

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

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Barnsley

Barnsley Civic

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

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Bloc Projects

Sheffield

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

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esea contemporary

Manchester

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

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Leeds

University of Leeds

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

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Sheffield

Site Gallery

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

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Cross Lane Projects

Kendal

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

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In-Situ

Lancashire

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

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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

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Charmaine Watkiss: Legacy

02.08.2024, by Chantal Oakes

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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

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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

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Manchester

The Whitworth

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

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Manchester

The Whitworth

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

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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

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HOME

Manchester

Detail of a graffiti-style collage work of art

Some Assembly Required

06.06.2024, by Lesley Guy

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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