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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

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esea contemporary

Manchester

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

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HOME

Manchester

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

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Art Gene

Barrow-in-Furness

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

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Blackpool

Grundy Art Gallery

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

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Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham

Painting of an iceberg floating in a calm sea

Keith Grant: Elemental Nature

28.02.2025, by Kirsty Jukes

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Southport

The Atkinson

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

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Holden Gallery

Manchester

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

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Heart of Glass

Knowsley

Merseyside

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

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HOME

Manchester

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

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Sheffield

Yorkshire Artspace

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

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Lowry

Salford

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

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Lowry

Salford

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

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Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University

Leeds

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

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Middlesbrough

Multiple Venues

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