Sarah Creed visits her namesake’s new exhibition and finds a heady mix of crude humour, playfulness and exploration… I arrive at the Southbank on a cloudy Sunday morning, slightly disheveled by the drizzly weather, plus...
Emma Sumner appreciates how one artist is exploring drawing whilst utilising Castlefield Gallery’s new launching pad… Since its establishment in 1984, Castlefield Gallery has played a fundamental role in the development of emerging...
Visiting Holden Gallery’s latest exhibition, Luke Healey analyses the ‘diagram’ through the prism of art, football (!) and pseudoscience… There’s a spartan feel to the current show at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Holden Gallery. Despite...
James West unearths the horrifying truth behind colonial brutality and sees how photography became a powerful catalyst in the campaign for human rights… This powerful exhibition, Brutal Exposure: the Congo, currently on show...
Responding to yesterday’s massive funding cuts, and ahead of the International Festival of Business 2014, Laura Brown argues that we need a whole new approach to arts giving in Liverpool, otherwise we risk losing...
Dodging vegetable masks and flying lobsters, C James Fagan wonders how to describe last night’s live performance by Filippos Tsitsopoulos… In this crazy world of art you discover that there are at least two...
Hoaxes, exploitation and monsters: Lauren Velvick explores Jamie Shovlin’s latest exhibition and discovers a pervading sense of giddiness… Jamie Shovlin’s Hiker Meat explores the labour of, and mythology surrounding, low budget or amateur...
Oli Rahman speaks to an artist intrigued by glacial landscapes, our relationship with water, and the impending “apocalyptic ice melt”… Over the past decade Scottish artist Elizabeth Ogilvie has been exploring the theme of...
C James Fagan considers the impact that artist and architect Gordon Matta-Clark has had on our impressions of the built environment… Not to sound creepy but… have you ever watched people? Especially people in...