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...
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...
“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 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...
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)...
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...
“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,...
Thomas Dillon, Science Fiction Collections Curator at the University of Liverpool, talks us through the largest catalogued collection of science fiction materials in Europe… Hi Thomas. Tell us about the University of Liverpool’s Science Fiction Collections...