The Big Interview: Charmaine Watkiss
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...
“A tapestry of new possibilities…” Charmaine Watkiss: Legacy – Reviewed
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...
Too Good To Hide: Tony Hayes
“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...
LAAF: Port Cities – Reviewed
From the memories of oceans and those claimed by them, to the still burning embers of colonialism, in Port Cities, Mike Pinnington finds an urgent exhibition for our times… Ascending the stairs at...
Talking to The Wastes
“Truth, pretending, endings, and the stories we necessarily tell ourselves and each other.” Ellie Hoskins on a fragmentary and poetic debut novel by Roy Claire Potter… A good book, to me, feels like...
Dora Maar: Behind the Lens – In Pictures
Dora Maar: Behind the Lens emphasises the titular artist’s photographic talent and experimental flair. We invited the founder of Amar Gallery, Amar Singh, to talk us through some of his favourite works from...
This Town: Working Class Cultures on TV
Just 8% of people in film and TV identify as being from a working-class background. Can better, more nuanced representation on screen help? Kenn Taylor on Stephen Knight’s This Town… Dante (Levi Brown)...
Thy Race is Run – Apocalypse Now?
Why are we so drawn, perhaps increasingly so, to visions of the apocalypse? Mike Pinnington, via a variety of mediums – from poetry to gaming – interrogates our seemingly endless appetite for the end… “We...
S is for Science Fiction
“Genre boundaries are constantly shifting and being challenged.” Mike Pinnington asks: what is science fiction? What is Science Fiction? My response to this is that I know it when I see it (or,...