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Contemporary art and writing in the North of England. Tweets by Lauren, Lara, Jazz, Lesley, Ben, Nat & Laura
Leeds, England
Joined August 2010
‘This exhibition sets out to show how imagination can play a huge part in forming our identities.’. @orlafoster reviews Sheila Gaffney: Embodied Dreaming at Blenheim Walk Gallery, @leedsartsuni, on until 11 January 2025.
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Sheila Gaffney's feminist awakening happened while she was a student at Camberwell. In one sense, it was the most stimulating period of her life, an
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‘Middlesbrough Art Week, in its seventh edition, demonstrated once again how contemporary art can serve as a catalyst for community engagement and social change.’. Danielle Ash reviews MAW 2024: In the Now and the Far, which ran from 26 Sep to 5 Oct 2024.
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Middlesbrough Art Week (MAW) 2024, in its seventh edition, demonstrated once again how contemporary art can serve as a catalyst for community engagement
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'Pearls are symbols of resilience, formed in adversity as the oyster coats the grit that threatens to damage it in shimmering nacre.'. @Frangipancesca reviews The Pearls and the Oyster, a group show of work by northern women painters at @the_birley 🦪🦪🦪
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Facing institutional injustice, mismanagement and the ever-deteriorating conditions of work in the contemporary university, what kinds of community might
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'while Wright describes them as "fierce, feminist warriors", they strike me equally as the nightmarish hosts of a terrifying gender reveal party. If the aim is to scare, they work.' . @Oh_SusannahT on @research_artist's Future Folk Archetypes @ThePortico
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There’s something deliciously apt about the venue for Weird as Folk: Tall Tales from the Northwest. The discreet side-street doorway leading to
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‘I felt the paintings call to me, inviting me into a series of intimate scenes.’.Gertrude Gibbons reviews Wakefield-based artist Zoë Carlon's Where and When You Are at South Parade, London, on from 3 October to 9 November 2024.
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Wakefield-based artist Zoë Carlon's solo exhibition of new paintings at South Parade in East London is playful and evocative. I felt the paintings call to
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‘What unifies both O’Keeffe and Treanor is a commitment to expression.’. Even Allen (@thatlooksqueer) reviews Georgia O’Keeffe: Memories of Drawings / Ailish Treanor: Ulterior Motifs @BarnsleyCivic, on from 14 Sep ‘24 to 18 Jan ‘25.
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Two women from different times connected through a shared sense of playfulness – that was my first impression on arriving at Barnsley Civic for Memories
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'it’s absurd to me that we don’t have these mechanisms to process vicarious trauma, prejudices and improvement of practice within the arts.'. In our October long read on Substack, Samra Mayanja mourns and commemorates CLAY in Leeds✨
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RT @tombranfoot: Our second reader at More Song on November 7th is Jazmine Linklater. @jjhlinklater is a poet and writer living in Manchest….
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‘Between the story of these two streets is a focus on a micro-history – that is, the individual works of community engagement that constitute a movement.’. @ElliottChlo reviews C&G Artpartment: Harcourt Road Exhibition @blocprojects, 28 Sep - 9 Nov 2024.
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Harcourt Road in Broomhill, Sheffield, is a quiet residential road. Travel from the top of the street and you’ll gently descend towards Crookes Valley
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'What if we imagined a building as a shell, what kind of creature would make it home?' . Vivien Chan reviews Steph Huang: There is nothing old under the sun, at @eseacontemp🐚
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The air is humid after another night of October rain; I’ve stepped in a few puddles on the way to esea contemporary from Manchester Piccadilly, and my
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Charu Vallabhbhai reviews FAT BABY: University of Leeds MA Fine Art Degree Show at @fahacs, which ran from 3 - 8 September 2024 and showcased the work of Astrid Butt, Em Eve, George Storm Fletcher, Yiwen Wang and Ruolin Wu.
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The MA Fine Art Degree Show at the University of Leeds this year platforms the talent of five graduating artists: Astrid Butt, Em Eve, George Storm
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‘Well-balanced and representing an array of concerns and practices, Jerwood Survey III provides models for politicised aesthetics in the digital age.’. @tombranfoot reviews Jerwood Survey III at @site_gallery, on from 27 September 2024 – 26 January 2025.
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The inclement weather has ceased by the time I enter Sheffield’s Site Gallery for Jerwood Survey III, a major biennial touring exhibition of ten artists
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'It is painting’s capacity to visualise rather than resolve or repress the complicated mess that constitutes our everyday experience that triumphs in this exhibition.'. @alliejcarr reviews Strange Gaze: Surrealism at @CrossLaneProj in Kendal🖼️
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Strange Gaze: Surrealism at Cross Lanes Projects is a new group exhibition at Cross Lane Projects in Kendal with, according to the press release, the
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'We shared silences and moments of awe, conversation and marshmallows. '. Sam Pickett went to @InSitu_1 and Supercollider's Enter the Equinox event at @HarwesFarmCIC to experience telescopes, microscopes, walking and even overnight camping! 🏕️
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On my arrival at Harwes Farm I was met by a blast of fresh air and uninterrupted views of the open moors. I had climbed the steep track, negotiating
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📢From November we’re expanding into the Midlands with funding from @innovateuk and we’re on the look out for partnerships, editors and writers! If this sounds like what you’ve been waiting for, get in touch now on: info@corridor8.co.uk . Find out more ➡️
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'it is a piece both ominous and humorous in equal turns. The bog is a toilet as well as a landscape.'. @hr_white reviews Preserving Hole by Bláithín Mac Donnell, Aled Simons and Tom Cardew at Division of Labour, showing until 12 October! 🕳️
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Entering the brightly lit long white room of the gallery space known as Division of Labour, situated within Salford's Paradise Works building, I approach
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RT @axisweb: We’re looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Communications Producer to join our team. In this role, you’ll help share our….
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'As a result of this culture of salvense quien pueda (everyone for themselves), I have seen how the students that I teach struggle to work collaboratively and sustain solidarity'. Read our Director @LaurenVelvick in conversation with José Garcia Oliva.
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Corridor8 Director Lauren Velvick speaks to José Garcia Oliva, a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist who is based in London and was recently commissioned
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RT @VentureArts: 🎤 Brand new interview with artist Horace Lindezey from @Corridor8! .⚡ ."His joyful art plays out….
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