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Corridor8 is an international journal of contemporary visual arts and new writing in the North and Midlands of England. Posts by Lauren, Lara, Jazz, Lesley, Ben, Nat, Rachel & Laura. corridor8.co.uk corridor8.substack.com

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'On the surface, it’s dazzling, fun, inviting your eye to wander. Look deeper, and the layers of imagery speak to those ever-present themes of Linder’s work; of gender, consumption, bodies, and nature.' Amie Kirby reviews Linder: The Return of Linderland at Grundy Art Gallery 🖼️
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Linder: The Return of Linderland — Corridor8
I remember the first time I laid eyes on a work by Linder. Fourteen, maybe fifteen years old, in my high school’s aggressively navy blue and slightly
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'Now, a self-regulated biometric check stands between a person and their right to be an anonymous part of a crowd. It is against this political backdrop that artists Leonie Bradley and Catherine Cartwright’s work is staged.' James McColl reviews Routes of Disconsent at The Birley this summer 🗺️
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Leonie Bradley and Catherine Cartwright: Routes of Disconsent — Corridor8
In April 2026, privacy campaigners from Big Brother Watch lost a High Court challenge that aimed to limit the Metropolitan Police's use of live facial
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'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.🏛️
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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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Even Allen @thatlooksqueer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Proud of this one. Give it a read and let me know what you think! With thanks as always to @corridor8.bsky.social for the opportunity.
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'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! ✉️
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘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-...
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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🛏️🖌️
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘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-...
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
‘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...
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
'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 ☁️
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
'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. 🧵
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
'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.
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
'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’.
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'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
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"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...
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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 @corridor8.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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.
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
‘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...
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
'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🔴🪡 ‍
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
'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 🎨🖌️
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
'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 🐦‍⬛
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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🌱
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
‘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...
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
‘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...
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
'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:
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
'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.
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
‘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...
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
'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
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
'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. 🛍️
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
‘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.
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
‘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...
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
''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 🖼️
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
'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!
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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
'One of the great strengths of Hammond’s work is collaboration, connecting this installation with the people who live and work here makes the work far more powerful.' Caroline Bagenal reviews Felicity Hammond's Reactor, which explores Barrow’s status as the UK’s only nuclear submarine manufacturer.
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Felicity Hammond: Reactor  — Corridor8
Felicity Hammond’s installation ‘Reactor’ is an interrogation of technologies’ implications for the future of warfare. Located at Signal Film and Media in
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
'Maybe it’s time we did a little more thinking about how we feel when encountering artworks, exhibitions, and diverse other aspects of the art world.' Bob Dickinson reviews FELT NOT THOUGHT... WORKS ON PAPER at Cross Lane Projects:
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Felt not Thought… Works on Paper — Corridor8
Maybe it’s time we did a little more thinking about how we feel when encountering artworks, exhibitions, and diverse other aspects of the art world.
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
'At the root of this trio of exhibitions is the space and support for creative experimentation, a philosophy carried from Alban Davis and her small artistic community in the 1940s, and given a contemporary legacy.' Denise Courcoux reviews the Women in Print exhibitions at Allan Bank in Grasmere:
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Women in Print Exhibitions — Corridor8
I walked up the footpath to Allan Bank on the hottest Saturday of the year so far. A Georgian villa and National Trust property, it is large but homely in
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
'As a Catholic-raised queer woman, Yearwood-Dan’s simultaneous appreciation of the faith and desire to reframe it tracks a profound and prolonged negotiation.' Liliana Muñoz Flannery reviews Michaela Yearwood-Dan's The Practice of Liberation at The Whitworth, open until October this year.
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Michaela Yearwood-Dan: The Practice of Liberation — Corridor8
Taking its title from the work of feminist theorist bell hooks, who defined liberation not as a static endpoint but as an active, engaged practice, The
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
'Luminous and transportive, hazy memories of funfairs drift over footage of spinning rides until I accidentally catch someone’s eye and we both burst out laughing.' Jazmine Linklater on Curtain Up at @thelowry.com, an exhibition exploring the energy of audiences. corridor8.co.uk/article/curt...
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Curtain Up — Corridor8
Bending my neck uncomfortably, I realise I’m standing just too close to the high-shine surfaces of Simeon Barclay’s ‘A Track with No Name’ (2018) to
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
'"In Iran, they understand the symbols immediately," she says. "Here, they understand the way I express them."' Mollie Bolshaw visits Yasaman Mollasalehi in her studio to explore recent paintings, her move from Tehran to Manchester, symbolism, figuration, process and emotion:
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Sad Music You Can Dance To: On Yasaman Mollasalehi — Corridor8
Following her contribution to Reflecting // Processing, a three-day group exhibition at Studio Sanct Manchester this April, I’m lucky enough to be able to
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
'Anyone who has spent any time with a small child will have observed that they are drawn towards the strange, small and humdrum: exactly the type of objects collected by Mary Greg.' Natalie Bradbury on Things of the Least: lively exhibition-making with children under-3 at Manchester Art Gallery.
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Things of the Least: lively exhibition-making with children under-3 — Corridor8
The word ‘least’ often has negative connotations, implying comparisons against which a situation, person or object comes up short: something might be less
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
'I am thinking especially of the language around migrants and who belongs where, as the fables of mono-culturalism and nativism seemingly reach into every corner and conversation.' Chantal Oakes writes on Amy Townsend-Lowcock's 'Enter, Tragic Mulatta':
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Amy Townsend-Lowcock: ‘Enter, Tragic Mulatta’ — Corridor8
On 26 November 2025 at Manchester Art Gallery, ten women and non-binary writers of European and African mixed heritage performed texts about themselves
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
'Entering Raisa Kabir’s solo exhibition I only dance, I wish we could sing at the Hub in Sleaford, I felt that I was stepping into a scene of pure queer joy.' Ruth Charnock explores Raisa Kabir's new solo exhibition at the Hub, Sleaford. Link to read the full review below.
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Raisa Kabir: I only dance, I wish we could sing — Corridor8
Entering Raisa Kabir’s solo exhibition I only dance, I wish we could sing at the Hub in Sleaford, I felt that I was stepping into a scene of pure queer
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Jay Drinkall reviews two exhibitions @sheffieldmuseums: ‘Gathering Landscapes: 150 Years of Collecting at Weston Park Museum’, Weston Park Museum, 28 Nov 2025 – 1 Nov 2026 ‘When the Day is Done: New Paintings by Ryan Mosley’, Graves Gallery, 26 Feb – 4 Jul 2026 corridor8.co.uk/article/gath...
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Gathering Landscapes & When the Day is Done: Two Sheffield Exhibitions — Corridor8
Heavy Water Collective’s Gathering Landscapes: 150 Years of Collecting at Weston Park Museum and Ryan Mosley’s When the Day is Done at Graves Gallery make
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Suzanne Golden reviews Becky Beasley: A Gentle Man (Part II) (1975-2029) currently at QUAD, Derby.
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Becky Beasley: A Gentle Man (Part II) (1975-2029) — Corridor8
I encountered Becky Beasley’s new touring exhibition, A Gentle Man (Part II) (1975-2029), newly installed at Quad in Derby. An introductory area,
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Farah Dailami explores Yorkshire Contemporary's artist development programme ‘Practice: Leeds’, speaking to the three artists – Matilya Njau, Rhian Cooke and Thahmina Begum – who made up the most recent cohort. corridor8.co.uk/article/shap...
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‘Shaped Around Us’ – Practice: Leeds, Yorkshire Contemporary’s Artist Development Programme — Corridor8
Yorkshire Contemporary, the Leeds-based arts organisation, has in past lives existed as The Tetley (2013-2023) and Project Space Leeds (2006-2012).
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
'At the heart of this method is the duality within the word itself: 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 to mean 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 to mean 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. Both 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 and 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, bound together.' The latest article for our Women in Print series, by Sally Button, follows Lisa Milroy's explorations of still life, process and printing.
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Stillness in Motion: Lisa Milroy’s Women in Print Residency — Corridor8
Early in our conversation, Lisa Milroy directs her gaze over my left shoulder, gesturing to an artwork on the wall. We’re sitting in a small office
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
'Folklore here, in Scarborough’s world is unstable yet contemporary, shaped through synthetic forms, shifting voices, and partial, intermittent encounters.' Wingshan reviews 'David John Scarborough: Earth-Stepper' presented by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art.
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David John Scarborough: Earth-Stepper — Corridor8
I encounter Earth-Stepper from my bed, in the midst of a chronic fatigue flare. Movement, for now, is limited to the small choreography of keys and
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
'Shaw describes the futility of trying to return to a place you once knew – even his pilgrimage back to Sheffield for this show has taught him as much.' Orla Foster reviews 'George Shaw: Small Returns' at Persistence Works, Sheffield, on from 14 Mar to 25 Apr 2026. corridor8.co.uk/article/unqu...
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Unquiet Landscapes — Corridor8
Unquiet Landscapes, a collaboration between Yorkshire Artspace and Contemporary British Painting, brings together thirty-eight artists in response to
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
'She contemplates the juxtaposition of the performance of these manoeuvres with the authenticity of the reaction that comes after an accident or event.' Grace Edwards reviews Slow Puncture by Harriet Bowman at Cross Lane Projects in Kendal🛞
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Harriet Bowman: Slow Puncture — Corridor8
On this overcast late winter’s day, the wide windowed facade of Cross Lane Projects is a beacon on its suburban Kendal street. Harriet Bowman’s Slow
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
'that desire is warped by the presentation of the mezzanine-style upper gallery itself, left deliberately darkened, creating a looming sense of somewhere out of bounds.' Kyle Nathan Brown spoke with Tony Heaton about his current exhibition at Lancaster Arts' Peter Scott Gallery, Serial Dissenter 🪧✊🏼
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Tony Heaton: Serial Dissenter — Corridor8
‘The work can’t exist without the fault,’ sculptor Tony Heaton OBE tells me as we sit in his studio in Southport, everything coated in a fine layer of
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
'It is dark, and a pair of silky pink kitten heels catch my eye. The body they adorn is slumped, ruffled and mysterious under the spotlight.' Mollie Balshaw explores Gabriel Kidd's first major solo show, I found the giant and he was dead, at HOME, Manchester ⋆˙⟡
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Against Control: Anti-Heroic Authorship in New Exhibitions from Ellis and Kidd — Corridor8
My first thought: razor blades. Giant sheets of metal spattered in red. Bloody fingerprints on the surface. A violent image arriving in my mind, in a show
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