Adam Scovell discusses English Eerie and Folk Horror fiction, the “messiness of modern nature”, and subterranean worlds with collaborator, academic and bestselling author, Robert Macfarlane… Robert Macfarlane has been one of a number of...
Linda Pittwood hears about the threads that bind together the films of contemporary artist Cao Fei: the star guest at this year’s Chinese Visual Festival in London… In the Q&A, someone asked: “What does it mean...
Up and down the land, Fine Art students are preparing their final, graduate exhibitions. But who really stands out across Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside? Jack Welsh asks the tutors to pick...
Why do we paint? Jack Roe looks for answers inside and outside of the canvas with three invigorating, theatrical, and very human, artists… The question that acts as a kind of leitmotif for...
As her figurative painting exhibition comes to a close in Southport and travels on to Eastbourne, the frieze magazine co-editor, art writer and newbie curator talks about her emotional attachment to the works...
Laura Robertson tries to recall an evening of pseudo-science, divine ritual and camp, James Bond villainy at The Kazimier’s new venue… I think I might have joined a cult. Or have I been hypnotised? I’m confused,...
Swiss artist Not Vital unveils huge new stainless steel sculptures at his first major UK exhibition… We saw them just as they were installed; glinting in the sunshine, placed carefully by a team of...
Zian Chen travels forwards in time, to July 2016, to bring us a review of this year’s Liverpool Biennial festival… Relative to visual cultures, literature is a rather more stable intellectual milieu – and...
Cocaine, a haunted Château, and sweet reminiscence: Paper Gallery’s current exhibition channels the recently departed David Bowie to great effect, finds Denise Courcoux… David Bowie was – that sounds so disquieting, four months after his...