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Ethereal Matter — Corridor8 Matter in the form of rain leaches from a January sky the colour of lead as I make my way along the wet streets of Beeston, south Leeds. I’m on my way to

‘To step into the kitchen of this domestic setting is to find warm and friendly refuge’

Dr Kerry Harker reviews ‘Ethereal Matter’, a group exhibition by students of MA Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University held at BasementArtsProject, Leeds, on until Mon 23 Feb 2026.

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The Nature of Gothic: Cultivation, Curation, and the Working-Class Voice By Peter Shukie

'Heritage, here, is horticulture. The past is pruned. Inconvenient growth is removed. Beauty is arranged to flatter.'

On Substack Peter Shukie thinks through The Nature of Gothic at Blackburn Museum to consider the working class voice and distinctions between heritage and community work.

John-Paul Brown and Sophy King: The Guardians of Living Matter — Corridor8 The Guardians of Living Matter, the ambitious new exhibition by John-Paul Brown and Sophy King, offers a refreshingly distinct utopian story. Opening at

'the artists explained that it was important that these lights are controlled by "low carbon" AI, being mindful of the 2026 reality of the environmental impact of massive AI data centres.'

Andee Collard reviews The Guardians of Living Matter by John-Paul Brown and Sophy King at @thelowry.com

ECHO LIMA: Anna Júlía Friðbjörnsdóttir’s Women in Print Residency  — Corridor8 The morning I visit Anna Júlía Friðbjörnsdóttir in Preston, I sit opposite her as she traces lines into square copper tiles. 15x15cm, many of them are

For the latest in our Women in Print series, Tessa Harris writes on Anna Júlía Friðbjörnsdottir's Artlab Contemporary Print Studios residency and the printmaking processes she explored there with drawing and intaglio.

OUR TURN: The Art of Becoming — Corridor8 A great deal has happened in my life since moving from London to Bradford. A multitude of creative opportunities have opened up for me – unexpectedly,

‘In that instant, art had done what it does best – created a bridge between strangers, a shared recognition of beauty that required little explanation.’

Martin Scott, recipient the OUR TURN Emerging Writer Bursary, explores OUR TURN Festival in a personal essay.

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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

‘Guest curator Joanna Whittle, herself a painter, describes this show not as an addendum to Neve’s text but as “papers slipped between the pages”’

Hanna Dhaimish reviews Unquiet Landscapes at Persistence Works, Sheffield, on until 24 Jan, open Thurs to Sat, 12-5pm.

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The Manchester Contemporary: A Diary — Corridor8 Will Marshall of texture, one of Manchester’s youngest independent galleries, diarises his weekend at Manchester Art Fair 2025. Thursday 7pm After a day

'I didn’t really know what to expect, whether works would actually sell, or if it was more of a networking experience. Art fairs are odd environments, overstimulating and inherently a really bad way of viewing art.'

Will Marshall of texture diarises his time at The Manchester Contemporary 2025 🖼️

Landscape & Protest: Signal Artist Lab — Corridor8 Barrow-in-Furness-based arts charity Signal launch their Artist Lab exhibition with the first group show in their newly refurbished venue, Cooke's

'It’s testament to the collaboration that such disparate works capture so coherent a sense of land unhooked from time.'

Simon Sylvester reviews Artist Lab at Cooke's Studios in Barrow, which includes fourteen North West artists who have developed works over a two year development programme. 🗺️

Corinne: The Severed Wing — Corridor8 Arriving at the Lowry on a characteristically rainy Friday evening, my bones ache. It’s been a week. I’ve been having a terrible time with my chronic

'I want every able-bodied person in my life to watch it and really listen to what is being said'

Amie Kirby reviews The Severed Wing by Corinne, a remote performance live streamed from the artist's bed to @thelowry.com on 14 November 2025. 🐦‍⬛

Lintukoto and The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing   — Corridor8 How do we tell stories of ongoing dispossession and displacement? How do we mark beginnings and ends of colonial tragedies that are still unfolding? The

Silvia Hassouna provides a fascinating, critical and moving accompaniment to the works by Theo Panagopoulos and Henna Asikainen.

Lintukoto and The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing were on show at The NewBridge Project in Newcastle from 1-29 November 2025.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom — Corridor8 At a time when galleries and museums are cautious of commenting on the politics of Israel and Palestine for fear of reputational damage, Nottingham

‘I pass between the metal walls and catch sight of word-processed screenshots tacked on the other side. They are documents, letters and poems […] Each piece of writing is a precious meeting in the shadows.'

Amrit Doll reviews Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme at Nottingham Contemporary.

Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal, Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The British East India Company on Trial — Corridor8 What is the purpose of a legal system? The great schism of twentieth-century legal thought is between those who would have it that the principles of

‘The law is so often a space of theatre, of fictions... At times, it’s maybe more artful than art itself.’

Tessa Norton reviews ‘Radha D’Souza & Jonas Staal, Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes’, at Blenheim Walk Gallery, LAU, on until 31 Jan '26.

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Bankley Studios’ Threat of Eviction — Corridor8 In October, days after our 2025 Bankley Open exhibition launch and open studios weekend – which were attended by hundreds of visitors – we were formally

'Having prepared for the opening with warm support from our landlord, the sudden arrival of the eviction notices came as a surprise that was difficult to digest.'

Studio holder and committee member Ciara Leeming explains what's happened, what's at stake and how you can support Bankley Studios:

Our Place in the Arts: Creativity, community and quiet resilience in Stockton-on-Tees — Corridor8 Standing outside ARC, Stockton Arts Centre, on a Friday evening is one of the best ways to get a snapshot of the arts in Stockton-on-Tees. People file in

The third review in our NewBridge Project, Collective Studio mentoring collaboration is out! 🦄 Our Place in the Arts:
Creativity, community and quiet resilience in Stockton-on-Tees by Harriet Mee.

Watery Commons: The Tweed River Festival 2025 — Corridor8 Curated by Connecting Threads, the inaugural edition of the Tweed River Festival took place in Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, from 31 October to 2

Watery Commons: The Tweed River Festival, 2025. By Maria Howard. Curated by Connecting Threads, the inaugural edition of the Tweed River Festival took place in Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, from 31 October to 2 November.

Stephen Emmerson: How to Read a Book — Corridor8 I’m at the Portico library, a former members-only library in central Manchester, for their current exhibition How to Read a Book from artist-writer

Richard Barrett reviews How to Read a Book by Stephen Emmerson, showing at Manchester's Portico Library until 14 March 2026, with an evening of readings coming up next week from Steven, James Davies, Tom Jenks and our own Greater Manchester editor Jazmine Linklater. 📖

Up Town Again — Corridor8 Cities are strange places. Not least because they seem to exist in a liminal state. Distinct, specific, and yet constantly in flux. They accelerate,

‘Cities are strange places. Not least because they seem to exist in a liminal state. Distinct, specific, and yet constantly in flux. They accelerate, transform, and beckon us back with a promise of change.'

Alexander Mobbs-Iles reviews ‘Up Town Again’ at Two Queens, Leicester.

Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp — Corridor8 The world I am about to step into, Darwin in Paradise Camp, is a utopia that Japanese-Sāmoan artist Kihara has created for the Fa’afafine community to

'I rarely see bodies like mine in art. By viewing it, I feel as though I have been given a precious gift, of reaching out to another place, finding others whose genders fall outside of Western and binary structures'

Grey Marlow reviews Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp at The Whitworth🌈

William English & Sandra Cross: To Farse All Things — Corridor8 The word ‘farse’ can be defined as both an obsolete variant of the old French source word for ‘farce’, designating a form of exaggerated absurdist comedy,

'[William English & Sandra Cross'] unconventional working methods ensure that To Farse All Things turns out to be an appropriately curious title for a very curious kind of show.’

Wayne Burrows reviews To Farse All Things at Bonington Gallery.

Esther Salamon: Woodland Bird Woman — Corridor8 Woodland Bird Woman features a twenty-minute single screen video, notes showing Esther Salamon’s ideas for the exhibition, and some objects displayed in

The second review in our NewBridge Project, Collective Studio mentoring collaboration is out! 🕊
Esther Salamon: Woodland Bird Woman at Newcastle Contemporary Art by Mridula Sharma.

Simon Starling: Boat Works — Corridor8 Simon Starling’s Boat Works is an ambitious exhibition across two venues in Cumbria: Abbot Hall in Kendal and Windermere Jetty Museum. The exhibition

'I can imagine Starling earnestly pedalling downstream encountering severe pollution, fluctuating water levels through cities and farmland and forced to disassemble and reassemble his boat, a darkly humorous protest at environmental damage.'

Caroline Bagenal reviews Simon Starling: Boat Works

Juliet Klottrup: An Archive — Corridor8 Perched lakeside in the idyllic Lake District landscape, Windermere Jetty Museum is devoted to the 200-plus-year history of people and boats in the area.

'Klottrup’s paintings also delve into the landscape’s enduring presence, switching the crisp documentative approach for an expressive, semi-abstraction.'

Kyle Nathan Brown reviews Juliet Klottrup's An Archive at Windermere Jetty Museum ⛵

Anna Clough: Inter/Extra Terrestrial — Corridor8 It is a stormy day when I visit Manchester-based Cumbrian artist Anna Clough’s exhibition Inter/Extra Terrestrial at the concert, film and sound art venue

'Once the incoming tide washed away these designs, their messages were delivered to the sea, swept into the coastal marine ecosystem.'

Iona Glen reviews Anna Clough's Inter/Extra Terrestrial at Full of Noises last month, which came out of a residency there in September. 🌊

Beth J Ross: Her Extraordinary Colours — Corridor8 Her Extraordinary Colours is a public art project featuring twenty flags installed across Berwick-upon-Tweed. Over ten weeks, artist Beth J. Ross worked

New Review! 🎀
Beth J Ross: Her Extraordinary Colours by Anna Mud.
'By ...turning symbols of power and division into emblems of solidarity and care... Ross reimagines the flag not as a boundary marker, but as a starting point for curiosity, conversation, and resilience'

Exchange Place Studios: Inside Sheffield’s art laboratory — Corridor8 Exchange Place is a large art deco building in Sheffield's historic Castlegate Quarter. Since 2013, it has been managed as affordable art studios by

‘Sometimes, it’s an artist’s willingness to share their trials and errors which can lead to the real creative breakthrough.’

Writer Orla Foster met with three of the artists that will be taking part in the Yorkshire Artspace Open Studios on November 15 & 16.

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In all possible worlds: Middlesbrough Art Week, 2025 — Corridor8 Over the past eight years, Middlesbrough Art Week (MAW) has cemented itself as an absolute must-see in the North East’s cultural calendar. Its modus

⭐ Review!
In All Possible Worlds: Middlesbrough Art Week 2025 by Kin #MAW25

British Textile Biennial 2025: The Future Was Always There — Corridor8 Stitches on stitches, roses within stars: I gaze towards densely woven yarns, impassioned reds, blues, blacks, a pattern inside a pattern. Up close, the

'The expansive scope of textiles as a material of artistic, domestic and commercial function is clear to see in the Biennial’s vast programme.'

Sally Button reviews this year's British Textiles Biennial, at various venues in Lancashire until 2nd November🧵

FAFSWAG: FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE — Corridor8 Fale Sā / Sacred House, which showed at HOME as part of Manchester International Festival (MIF) this year, was developed by New Zealand-based collective

'What begins to emerge throughout the exhibition is the idea that digital spaces—game worlds, fantasy and dreamscapes—offer a kind of terrain where one can imagine differently.'

Jessica El Mal reviews FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE by Fafswag at HOME this year as part of Manchester International Festival.

BLOOM: A Story of Metamorphosis — Corridor8 The auditorium of the Hallé St Peter’s was draped in long, loose fabrics under soft lighting before the performance began. The stage was set for a

'The trio of dancers seemed to be suspended in time as they moved with an intricate balance of stillness and motion, their bodies extensions of one another.'

Ella Otomewo reviews BLOOM at Hallé St Peters for Japan Week in Manchester last month.

Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton: From skin to land, from walls to worlds — Corridor8 Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton’s solo-exhibition From skin to land, from walls to worlds presents sculpture that deals with analogue photography as a

‘Halliwell-Sutton’s metal structures are sullied artefacts that seek to revise [a] local heritage of extraction.’

Simal Rafique reviews ‘Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton: From skin to land, from walls to worlds’, at GLOAM, Sheffield, which ran from 22 Aug – 14 Sep 2025.

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