'My visit to the exhibition offered me an opportunity to reconnect with my own personal history as well' Richard Barrett reviews Your Salford 100: Contemporary Narratives at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, part of their centenary celebrations, which closes on 26 September.🏛️

Your Salford 100: Contemporary Narratives — Corridor8

Contemporary Narratives at Salford Museum and Art Gallery is an exhibition that forms part of the city of Salford’s current centenary celebrations. In the

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'Large black dots censor and obstruct. There is a whimsy to the shapes that juxtaposes the harsh nature of their contents.' @thatlooksqueer.bsky.social reviews Holly Kilner's exhibition at @abingdonstudios.bsky.social, Excavation of a Traitorous Body, still open until 17 October! ✉️

'Large black dots censor and obstruct. There is a whimsy to the shapes that juxtaposes the harsh nature of their contents.' @thatlooksqueer.bsky.social reviews Holly Kilner's exhibition at @abingdonstudios.bsky.social, Excavation of a Traitorous Body, still open until 17 October! ✉️

Holly Kilner: Excavation of a Traitorous Body — Corridor8

The title of Holly Kilner’s exhibition, Excavation of a Traitorous Body, conjures feelings of unearthing parts unknown or setting out on a dangerous but

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‘In a way, these new Founders’ Galleries are about...the changes and challenges museums like the Bowes must face.’ Lesley Guy reviews the newly reimagined Founders’ Galleries at The Bowes Museum @thebowesmuseum, County Durham. corridor8.co.uk/article/the-...

The Founders’ Galleries at The Bowes Museum — Corridor8

The newly renovated Founders’ Galleries occupy three rooms of the Bowes Museum and tell the story of Joséphine and John Bowes, the collectors who

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Jenny Eden talks to editor Jazmine Linklater about the group painting exhibition On Waking at Limerick City Gallery last summer, curated by Eden and Rebecca Sitar, with assistance from Gillian Lawler and featuring seven painters from the UK and Ireland🛏️🖌️

On Waking: Jenny Eden Interview — Corridor8

In summer 2025, a group painting exhibition, On Waking, showed at Limerick City Gallery of Art, curated by Jenny Eden and Rebecca Sitar, with Gillian

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‘This is what working sensitively with others and across generations actually looks like: beautifully complex, with plenty of unknowns on all sides.’ @elspethmitchell explores ‘Art is Ours, Mine and Yours! Assunta and Lou Art Club’ at Bloc Projects, Sheffield. corridor8.co.uk/article/art-...

Art is Ours, Mine and Yours! Assunta and Lou Art Club — Corridor8

The gallery space is draped in textiles onto which bright paint marks, drawn shapes, figures and faces have been printed. Gathered on the floor, on a

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‘Dawson’s work starts to feel like the landscape of a dream recreated through unsteady interventions that mash up symbols and proportions.’ Chloe Elliott reviews ‘Charlotte Dawson: If Memory Serves Me Well’ at Humber Street Gallery, on until 20 Sep. corridor8.co.uk/article/char...

Charlotte Dawson: If Memory Serves Me Well — Corridor8

During the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Methodism grew rapidly across Britain, driven in part by itinerant preaching as well as its appeal

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'Creed’s work, which takes up a significant portion of the space, very much presents this reading of contemporary society – isolating, fast, full – by capturing glimpses of life on the move.' Joseph Conway reviews Reflections: Sangat and the Self at the Whitworth in Manchester ☁️

Reflections: Sangat and the Self — Corridor8

This exhibition was curated by a collective under the umbrella of without SHAPE without FORM, who on their website describe themselves as ‘artists,

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'prioritising sustainability in recognition of our global interdependencies' Iona Glen reviews Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven at the Whitworth from, which includes works by eight contemporary Asian artists alongside 18th century textiles from the gallery's archives. 🧵

Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven — Corridor8

The first installation I encounter in the Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven at the Whitworth is Jounghye Yoo’s ‘Gilded Veil_A Mysterious

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'Northern towns like mine have been left to rot but they’re not dead. These are places not easily defined by post-industrial decline and deprivation.' Elliott Flanagan on his installation and accompanying book, You can never really return home, shown at The Salon in Burnley last year.

You can never really return home: Elliott Flanagan Interview — Corridor8

For the exhibition and accompanying book, You can never really return home, Elliott Flanagan returned to his hometown to reflect on memories of the

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'Common Ground is the sum of many parts, bringing together loaned works, museum artifacts, contemporary artworks, community participation and artist residencies, while standing as a testament to the power of partnership working.' Colette Griffin explores ‘Common Ground: Sleaford’s Shared Stories’.

Common Ground: Sleaford’s Shared Stories — Corridor8

Common Ground: Sleaford’s Shared Stories is the first major collaboration between two cultural organisations in Sleaford: the Hub and Sleaford Museum.

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'Through abstraction Benoit engages with Grenada’s history without turning it into an illustrated chronology. There are no literal depictions of ships, colonial buildings or the people whose labour was bound into their construction.' Jazz Singh Swali reviews Oliver Benoit: Roots Through Ruins

Oliver Benoit: Roots Through Ruins — Corridor8

Short painted marks dash across the canvases in Oliver Benoit’s solo exhibition Roots Through Ruins, often forming around a central impression that

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"Given that young people are the inheritors of the future, what exactly is it that they are inheriting?" Natalie Hughes poses this question after spending time with Sahjan Kooner's exhibition @factliverpool.bsky.social. Last chance to visit this weekend. corridor8.co.uk/article/sahj...

Sahjan Kooner: (darkforest) The Zone of Ghosts — Corridor8

“Once.... In the future, there was a place where ideas and thoughts fractured. It was a forest, it was a fortress, it was filled with secrets from the

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corridor8.co.uk/article/our-... Read the full conversation between Kate Liston and Lucy Wright about her project Our Wic at @thestrawyardberwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed from 11 – 16 July 2026. @createberwick @artsheritage Photo credit Lucy Wright.

Our Wic: Lucy Wright Interview — Corridor8

I enter The Straw Yard’s small barn-like space via a gold foil tassel curtain. Inside, plush platinum creatures – swans, fish, crabs, cats, seals and

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‘An exhibition which creates rich and thoughtful dialogue between two artists working in dramatically different contexts’ Natalie Bradbury reviews ‘Kelly Chorpening and Kate Atkin: Surface Tension’, which was on at 9a Project Space, Todmorden, 27 Jun to 26 Jul 2026. corridor8.co.uk/article/kell...

Kelly Chorpening and Kate Atkin: Surface Tension — Corridor8

To say that the drawings in Surface Tension, a joint show by Kelly Chorpening and Kate Atkin, bring the outside world into the art gallery is true. The

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'As spectacles of artistic labour, these epically scaled mosaic and fabrics embody unevenly distributed production processes in terms of craftsmanship and participatory engagement.' Lesley Cheung reviews @aiww.bsky.social's enormous exhibition Button Up! at Aviva Studios🔴🪡 ‍

Ai Weiwei: Button Up! — Corridor8

In January 2026, I read from Chinese media that the artist Ai Weiwei had returned to China to visit his mother. Ai has been seen as a vocal critic of

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'Grids, gesture, layering, structure and material all become variables to be tested, with each artist asking a different question about what a painting can be.' Andee Collard reviews On the Thick and Thin of Painting at Cross Lane Projects in Kendal 🎨🖌️

On the Thick and Thin of Painting — Corridor8

What is a painting? Why does painting continue to obsess us? Conceived by artist and curator Daniel Sturgis, On the Thick and Thin of Painting approaches

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'Woolley’s feral practices suddenly offer more than just a new way of working for the artist, but offer us all a new way of being that is feral and more free.' Zara Worth reviews Relics: Objects of Devotion for Contemporary Life by @dawnwoolley.bsky.social at Salford Museum & Art Gallery 🐦‍⬛

Dawn Woolley: Relics: Objects of Devotion for Contemporary Life — Corridor8

Life-sized papier maché newspaper crows, clutching upturned shopping baskets and a mangled trolley by their claws, greet visitors entering Dawn Woolley’s

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Continuing our series of exploratory articles with In-Situ, Amie Kirby visited the weekend residential that started the ‘Leadership Collective’ of their Climate Lab Pendle programme to see how alternative models and community-led initiatives can serve us in the fight against climate catastrophe🌱

Leadership/Collective: A portrait of In-Situ’s Climate Lab Pendle — Corridor8

Lately, I’ve been thinking about liminal spaces. Not just because they’re currently flooding pop culture conversations, but because being suspended in

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‘Beaton’s life was in many ways a triumph of queer self-fashioning’ Amy Kitchingman reviews ‘Cecil Beaton: Staging Icons’ at Harewood House Trust @harewoodhouse, Leeds, which runs from 29 July to 4 October 2026. corridor8.co.uk/article/ceci...

Cecil Beaton: Staging Icons — Corridor8

Truman Capote once remarked that his friend Cecil Beaton was ‘a total self-creation’. This is certainly the stance taken in Harewood House’s collaborative

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‘Westwood’s designs do the things that fashion does, but they also inspire me to experiment with the form of my everyday life.’ Lesley Guy reviews ‘Vivienne Westwood: Rebel - Storyteller - Visionary’ at @thebowesmuseum, County Durham, on until 6 September 2026. corridor8.co.uk/article/vivi...

Vivienne Westwood: Rebel - Storyteller - Visionary — Corridor8

A huge collection of garments and accessories by fashion icon Vivienne Westwood are on display in Vivienne Westwood: Rebel - Storyteller - Visionary at

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'I was aware of the temptation that comes when visiting a final degree show, to look beyond the work itself and to ask who will succeed, who will develop this practice further, who might become the next significant artist.' Peter Shukie reviews this year's Degree Show at Lancaster University:

The Fine Art Degree Show: Lancaster University — Corridor8

A digital print of a fallen arm resting on a bedsheet, poised somewhere between surrender and death, bears the words 'Shared Skin' across the flesh. This

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'Da Silva, as America, was never ‘discovered’. He was already there, already making, already meaningful to the people around him.’ Pamela Vivas reviews ‘Chico da Silva: And the soul is for the birds’ at Nottingham Contemporary.

Chico da Silva: And the soul is for the birds — Corridor8

As I walk into the first of three large rooms at Nottingham Contemporary, orange walls from floor to ceiling, my first thought is: where are the birds? I

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‘In Ghalamdar’s practice, every act of creation and image-making is meditated.’ Simal Rafique reviews ‘Parham Ghalamdar: Aerotheology’ at Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, which you can see until 1 August 2026. corridor8.co.uk/article/parh...

Parham Ghalamdar: Aerotheology — Corridor8

Scrolling through the Iranian-British artist Parham Ghalamdar’s Instagram, I stumble across an image caption in Arabic from Surah Ar-Rahman of the Quran,

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'Reflecting on the roles of women in society, and thinking of my own heritage as someone who also navigates between two cultures, this feeling of carrying the past while living in the present feels personal to me.' Pamela Vivas reviews ‘Matrika: She Who Makes Worlds’ at New Art Exchange, Nottingham

Matrika: She Who Makes Worlds by Saroj Patel — Corridor8

Upon entering the gallery at New Art Exchange I felt like I had been transported somewhere else, an organised explosion of colour, a universe occupied by

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'Nuclear waste sits alongside queer histories. Folk traditions sit alongside skateboarding. Ancient-looking vessels sit alongside speculative futures.' Chris Alton reviews Rough Terrain at Art Gene in Barrow-in-Furness, a group show by ten artists working in, on, and about Cumbria. 🛍️

Rough Terrain — Corridor8

Rough Terrain brings together ten artists working in, on, and about Cumbria. The exhibition's curatorial framework draws on the writing of environment

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‘Recognition, I suspect, is where empathy begins. We rarely encounter ourselves exactly in art. Instead, we find fragments: a shared joke, a class sensibility, a remembered feeling.' James Steventon reviews ‘Jason and the Adventure of 254’ at Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester.

Jason Wilsher-Mills: Jason and the Adventure of 254 — Corridor8

Jason Wilsher-Mills describes his work as “Think I, Daniel Blake meets The Beano”. I’m so glad he didn’t say The Dandy. I was never a fan of the Texan

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‘I wondered where my memory was going to go. Or whether what we pursue and wish for always goes wrong.’ Jessie Tam talks to our editor Jazmine Linklater about memory, the concept of 'home', and her latest exhibition at C&G Artpartment in Sheffield. corridor8.co.uk/article/it-h...

It Has to Be Apart: Jessie Tam Interview — Corridor8

I love visiting an artist’s studio for the first time and feeling a rush of recognition. Jessie Tam’s window at PINK in Stockport is covered in various

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''Giovanelli is a master of the extreme close-up, an artistic device that withholds the full picture to maintain cinematic mystery.' Kirsty Jukes reviews Louise Giovanelli's From Here to Here to Here at Grundy Art Gallery, which is entering its final week! You can still visit until 28 June 🖼️

Louise Giovanelli: From Here to Here to Here — Corridor8

Louise Giovanelli: From Here to Here to Here, curated by Paulette Brien, is the Manchester-based painter’s second solo exhibition at Grundy Art Gallery.

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'Eaton makes an interesting proposition, and one which is very inline with decolonial heritage discourse: that rather than being stuck in time, heritage can and should be alive.' Jessica El Mal reviews Microtonal by Invisible Flock which opens at Barnsley Civic today!

Invisible Flock: Microtonal — Corridor8

Microtonal is an installation comprising 200 borindos (pronounced boreendo) – a clay wind instrument from the desert of Sindh, Pakistan. Officially added

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