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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

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

Ames 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 Emeri 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