The Weekender
As we ease our way into 2025, the first Culture Diary for the year will be with us next week. But, we thought, given a few choice cuts coming this way, it would...
Tribes of England: David Wright
Training his lens on a plethora of subcultures, photographer David Wright’s Tribes of England captures those enjoying the liberation of choice… In an infamous exchange, Lady Susan Hussey – a British noblewoman who served as...
Kaleidoscopic Realms – Reviewed
“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...
The Vegetal Turn? Contemporary Art, Nature and The TreeStory Approach
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… ...
The 86 Book: Nicki McCubbing
“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...
Brickworks @ Tate Liverpool – Reviewed
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...
“An Intriguing Proposition”
Art Plays Games
“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...
LOOK Photo Biennial:
Beyond Sight
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...
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...