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...
“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...