Corridor8

Contemporary art and writing in the North of England. Tweets by Lauren, Lara, Jazz, Lesley, Ben, Nat & Laura

[Corridor8 @Corridor8]

We are not here anymore, we are here instead: https://t.co/4R1IAZ9of0

[Corridor8 @Corridor8]

‘This exhibition sets out to show how imagination can play a huge part in forming our identities.’

@orlafoster reviews Sheila Gaffney: Embodied Dreaming at Blenheim Walk Gallery, @leedsartsuni, on until 11 January 2025.
https://t.co/Yf1x3q9vSr

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‘Middlesbrough Art Week, in its seventh edition, demonstrated once again how contemporary art can serve as a catalyst for community engagement and social change.’

Danielle Ash reviews MAW 2024: In the Now and the Far, which ran from 26 Sep to 5 Oct 2024.
https://t.co/xDWCVHibNe

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'Pearls are symbols of resilience, formed in adversity as the oyster coats the grit that threatens to damage it in shimmering nacre.'

@Frangipancesca reviews The Pearls and the Oyster, a group show of work by northern women painters at @the_birley 🦪🦪🦪 https://t.co/a5boJsopl5

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'while Wright describes them as "fierce, feminist warriors", they strike me equally as the nightmarish hosts of a terrifying gender reveal party. If the aim is to scare, they work.'

@Oh_SusannahT on @research_artist's Future Folk Archetypes @ThePortico https://t.co/Vm6i5seEaf

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‘I felt the paintings call to me, inviting me into a series of intimate scenes.’
Gertrude Gibbons reviews Wakefield-based artist Zoë Carlon's Where and When You Are at South Parade, London, on from 3 October to 9 November 2024.
https://t.co/CE1txOCCe3

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‘What unifies both O’Keeffe and Treanor is a commitment to expression.’

Even Allen (@thatlooksqueer) reviews Georgia O’Keeffe: Memories of Drawings / Ailish Treanor: Ulterior Motifs @BarnsleyCivic, on from 14 Sep ‘24 to 18 Jan ‘25.
https://t.co/5zMk97YT75

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'it’s absurd to me that we don’t have these mechanisms to process vicarious trauma, prejudices and improvement of practice within the arts.'

In our October long read on Substack, Samra Mayanja mourns and commemorates CLAY in Leeds✨ https://t.co/cKAcLUhgOR

[Tom Branfoot @tombranfoot]

Our second reader at More Song on November 7th is Jazmine Linklater. @jjhlinklater is a poet and writer living in Manchester, where she works for Carcanet Press and edits the online art journal @Corridor8. Her most recent pamphlet is Figure a Motion (Guillemot Press, 2020).

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‘Between the story of these two streets is a focus on a micro-history – that is, the individual works of community engagement that constitute a movement.’

@ElliottChlo reviews C&G Artpartment: Harcourt Road Exhibition @blocprojects, 28 Sep - 9 Nov 2024.
https://t.co/J9DfIVqqPL

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'What if we imagined a building as a shell, what kind of creature would make it home?'

Vivien Chan reviews Steph Huang: There is nothing old under the sun, at @eseacontemp🐚 https://t.co/W8Rlaptm1M

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Charu Vallabhbhai reviews FAT BABY: University of Leeds MA Fine Art Degree Show at @fahacs, which ran from 3 - 8 September 2024 and showcased the work of Astrid Butt, Em Eve, George Storm Fletcher, Yiwen Wang and Ruolin Wu.
https://t.co/1A9YSHpOmq

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‘Well-balanced and representing an array of concerns and practices, Jerwood Survey III provides models for politicised aesthetics in the digital age.’

@tombranfoot reviews Jerwood Survey III at @site_gallery, on from 27 September 2024 – 26 January 2025.
https://t.co/btDnBUgNFP

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'It is painting’s capacity to visualise rather than resolve or repress the complicated mess that constitutes our everyday experience that triumphs in this exhibition.'

@alliejcarr reviews Strange Gaze: Surrealism at @CrossLaneProj in Kendal🖼️ https://t.co/n2K2Urai8L

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'We shared silences and moments of awe, conversation and marshmallows...'

Sam Pickett went to @InSitu_1 and Supercollider's Enter the Equinox event at @HarwesFarmCIC to experience telescopes, microscopes, walking and even overnight camping! 🏕️ https://t.co/6IjbfMsJy9

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📢From November we’re expanding into the Midlands with funding from @innovateuk and we’re on the look out for partnerships, editors and writers! If this sounds like what you’ve been waiting for, get in touch now on: [email protected]

Find out more ➡️ https://t.co/xqP5trxUPC

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'it is a piece both ominous and humorous in equal turns... The bog is a toilet as well as a landscape.'

@hr_white reviews Preserving Hole by Bláithín Mac Donnell, Aled Simons and Tom Cardew at Division of Labour, showing until 12 October! 🕳️https://t.co/pkj0Nv71Bw

[Axis @axisweb]

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Communications Producer to join our team. In this role, you’ll help share our voice and amplify our mission, collaborating with our team to create stories that resonate and spark conversations. DL: 10/10/24 https://t.co/wfKi3MpBt7

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'As a result of this culture of salvense quien pueda (everyone for themselves), I have seen how the students that I teach struggle to work collaboratively and sustain solidarity'

Read our Director @LaurenVelvick in conversation with José Garcia Oliva

https://t.co/EDTNoWYbsC

[Venture Arts @VentureArts]

🎤 Brand new interview with artist Horace Lindezey from @Corridor8!
⚡ https://t.co/yFNcjJGGy6
"His joyful art plays out through all these different modes to welcome in a host of people, & 'We Are Gathered Here Together' made the great big network of connections even bigger".