Take a deep breath and breathe…
I love Manchester Art Gallery's newest addition of a quiet room complete with its comfy modern sofas and armchairs, giving…
Becky Wild, Director & Curator at AIR Gallery
Becky Wild is a Director & Curator at AIR Gallery in Altrincham, Manchester. Also an artist herself, she graduated from…
A hotter-bed of degree talent at Manchester School of Art
It’s the time of the year when Degree Shows pop up all over the place and a fresh dynamic to…
Cherie Grist, Artist & Co-Founder of Duke Street Studios
Cherie is co-founder and director of 104 Duke Streets Studios, an artist studio and gallery space in Liverpool city centre.…
Wham. Bam. Pow. A stunning parody on American culture
There’s a bunch of pop artists from the Fifties and Sixties that are truly recognisable for their ultra distinctive art.…
The powerful ideas shaping Woodman & Schiele’s self-reflective work
An undeniably introspective exhibition by the Tate filled with a myriad of small pieces letting the work and ideas between…
Abandoned and derelict but not forgotten at AIR
With two solo exhibitions taking place at AIR Gallery right now it has a significantly busy programming schedule. With a…
A time for declaration: Making a stand in Hard Times
Stepping into Lubaina Himid’s current installation at the Harris reminded me of a murder mystery dinner event where a number…
A multitude of colour, shape and symmetry in Kaleidoscope
Stylistically there's no other era quite like the Sixties. Gazing into the expanse of works on show in Kaleidoscope is…
Contrasting dark & light in Alison Wilding’s sculptures
Playing with light and dark, delicate and heavy, small and large, Alison Wilding's sculptural installations follow a flow similar to…
The presence of landscape transformed by technology & art
Inspired by the mosslands dotted in and around the Warrington area, Haecceity, a new exhibition from Tracy Hill captures the…
Drawing a modern narrative of tragedy
Wreckage. Screaming people. Terrifying seas. Clamouring over each other. Flailing arms. Tortured cries. A highly emotive exhibition of drawings from…
Peter Davis shows how we’re all captivated by white light
Were you aware that the average person checks their phone at least 150 times a day and 80% of us…
Kate Haywood’s symbolic poetry of ceramics
Visiting Kate Haywood's exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery was a real eye opener to process and adornment. There is deliberate…
Piecing together the fragments of life in John Stazeker’s collages
Like an old-style police line-up, as soon as you walk into the Whitworth's main gallery area are the surreal pictorial…
A delicate touch of cultivated nature
Nature is all around us. Cultivated, tamed. But left to its own devices it would gradually creep and cover the…
Femininity takes centre stage as Numero Uno in ‘Oneness’
Identity. Our lives are dominated by it but what does it really mean. The media has created a set of…
Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid tells the tales of her African cut-outs
Like sentinels guarding her treasures Lubaina Himid's African figures stand silent and proud next to important and signifying works of…