Kathryn Maple: Under a Hot Sun – Reviewed
“I wouldn’t paint the walls in my house pink, green and brown, so why do these hues work so well here?” Kathryn Maple’s aptly titled exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery resonates with...
Callout For New Photography Criticism! ‘HOME’: Ukrainian Photography Inspiring UK Words // Deadline Sunday 30 April 2023
Writers wanted! To celebrate Eurovision 2023, Open Eye Gallery, The Double Negative and ArtReview collaboratively invite writers from the Liverpool City Region to pitch article ideas. Co-published across The Double Negative and ArtReview,...
Fanchon Fröhlich: The Wrong Sex – Reviewed
In the clamour to redress the balance of art history, some will inevitably continue to slip through the cracks. But a new retrospective exhibition suggests that an until now overlooked artist is worthy...
Probably Just A Wrong Number: On Kirsty Harris’ Cold Call
In an essay excerpted from the catalogue for Two Plus Two Makes Four – an exhibition ‘rooted in the lived experience of mental illness’ – Mike Pinnington responds to anxieties found in the...
Rachel Goodyear: Stirrings – Reviewed
“The spirit of surrealism is alive and well.” Mike Pinnington on Rachel Goodyear’s Stirrings, an exquisite exhibition of drawings and animation at Salford Museum & Art Gallery… “I began to read the surrealists...
Venture Arts: NARRATIVES – Reviewed
“A convincing argument for collaboration.” Mike Pinnington on Venture Arts’ new exhibition, NARRATIVES, at Salford’s waterside Lowry gallery… We cling stubbornly to the romantic cliché that an artist toils away in solitude day...
Lakwena Maciver’s A green and pleasant land (HA-HA) – Reviewed
Who’s laughing at who? Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou finds poetry, beauty and manifold meanings in Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s new exhibition… The taxi turns into the expansive grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) and my eye catches...
Grace Ndiritu Wins 2022 Film London Jarman Award
It has been announced that Grace Ndiritu is the winner of 2022’s Film London Jarman Award, beating out strong competition from contemporaries including Jamie Crewe, Onyeka Igwe, Morgan Quaintance, Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Alberta...
Finding Richard and Barbara: A Sculpture Walk
“Perhaps public artworks are created knowing they will be relinquished to external forces: to the elements, to politics, and their publics.” Denise Courcoux on the mixed fates of public sculpture in Liverpool… In...