“Doing better is the overarching motif of Kaleidoscopic Realms.” Mike Pinnington on a group exhibition putting learning disabled and neurodivergent artists front and centre… Kaleidoscopic: having complex patterns of colours; multicoloured; made up of...
Laura Robertson looks to an ambitious Liverpool-based digital art project that is using photography to document important trees – and as a result, charts the lives and cohabitation of humans and non-human species… ...
“There can be intrigue, beauty and humour in the everyday, even on the bus.” Artist Nicki McCubbing invites us to join her on journeys on the number 86 bus, undertaken as part of a...
Current Tate Liverpool exhibition takes inspiration from the most humble of materials. Could Brickworks exceed similarly modest expectations? The press release for Tate Liverpool’s current exhibition, Brickworks, I admit, did not fill me...
“Gaming has earned its place at the table.” With a new exhibition collapsing disciplinary boundaries between contemporary art and gaming, Mike Pinnington considers the medium’s growing confidence and ambition… For years, the predominant...
In 2024′s LOOK Photo Biennial, three projects strive to bring the climate crisis into greater focus. Mike Pinnington considers the issues at hand, and the success (or otherwise) of the works on display… Earlier...
To mark her new exhibition Legacy at Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, Charmaine Watkiss talks to fellow artist Lela Harris about their experiences of joining the permanent art collection, of using art to tell...
Kirsty Jukes reviews Legacy, Charmaine Watkiss’ new exhibition at Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, and finds a generous, critical, female gaze cast across botanics, history, ritual and mythology… Legacy, curated by Helen Stalker, is...
“He takes up the invitation to look, but also takes possession without payment – a visual act of shoplifting.” Curator Stephen Clarke on Too Good To Hide, a new exhibition of photography currently on display at Chester’s...