Now & After Lockdown: Opportunities, Ideas and Inspiration
Helping you get creative in the strange new normal… Recently, we were invited by the brill Writing on the Wall to take part in their Enterprise Hub (via Zoom, natch), to talk about...
Racing Against Time: 24/7 Society & Helga Schmid
“In global lockdown, how we experience time has unexpectedly shifted.” Gabriella Warren-Smith considers her pre-coronavirus experience in Uchronia, artist Helga Schmid’s ‘clockless utopia’… If I granted you three wishes, what would they be?...
Research In The Wild: “An ever-changing map of connected relationships”
What issues effecting the arts are to the fore in Lancashire and Cumbria right now? In the first of a new series commissioned by Contemporary Visual Arts Network North-by-NorthWest (CVAN NbyNW), Ross Dalziel highlights those embracing an...
Self-Isolation Culture Special: Free Film, Music, Art, Essays, Books and More
Welcome to the strange new normal – how are you doing? If you’re anything like us, the constant reporting of all things Coronavirus (COVID-19) is taking its toll. With huge numbers of us...
Truth and Memory: Stephen Clarke – San Diego Topographics
How do we separate truth from memory? Should we try? A pair of recently published photo books from Stephen Clarke poses intriguing questions about the passage of time, finds Mike Pinnington… Time does...
Now, Then and Tomorrow:
A Postcard From Liverpool
With the UK’s shambolic withdrawal from the EU finally confirmed, we look at the role Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture Award played in the city’s 21st Century renaissance… In Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery there...
Time & Space: On Being a Gallery Invigilator
“You are both a font and a target.” Stephen Curtis reflects on his time as a gallery assistant, which affords philosophical freedom while also making you a magnet for the pedantic, and those...
The Reliquary of the (Late) 20th century: Mark Leckey’s O’ Magic Power of Bleakness
What happens when a totem of working class life and culture is recreated in an elite palace for art? Kenn Taylor reflects on Mark Leckey’s journey from Wirral underpass to the pinnacle of...
The Devil is in the Detail: Anj Smith @ MOSTYN Gallery – Reviewed
Feral landscapes and Anthropocene detritus combine to deliver a fearsome dose of future shock in an exhibition of Anj Smith’s paintings at MOSTYN gallery, finds Mike Pinnington… The devil is in the detail, they...