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An essay on Dean Melbourne

Dean Melbourne’s paintings are invitations into secret, forgotten and imagined places, places where nature runs wild and people live at … More

Coates & Scarry, Dean Melbourne, essay, painting

Témoins ocula­ires

Surely there is something of a magpie in all of us: an attraction to gloss, to bright colours and to … More

Bristol, Isabelle Cornaro, Spike Island, Témoins ocula­ires

(M)imosa / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (M)

I wanted to be a dancer when I was a child. My mother booked me ballet lessons, but after a … More

(M)imosa / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church, Arnolfini, Bristol, Cecilia Bengolea, Francois Chaignaud, Gathering Storm, IBT15, In Between Time, Marlene Freitas, Mimosa, review, Trajel Harrell

Fog / Fire in the Lungs, In Between Time Festival

Today I have to steam the floor in the gallery. I have to erase all traces of blood-paint from its … More

IBT15, In Between Time

Lectures at Birmingham School of Art, February 2015

I’m looking forward to getting back into some higher education teaching in the next couple of weeks at the beautiful … More

Arts Based Masters Programme, Birmingham City University, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham School of Art, BOM, Cathy Wade, higher education, Karen Newman, lecture, Susan May, teaching

The Artist and the City and KULES Residency, Stoke-on-Trent

A new five-year project in Stoke-on-Trent titled ArtCity aims to re-stimulate cultural growth and opportunity for those living and working … More

Airspace Gallery, ArtCity, B Arts, KULES, New Art WM, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, The Artist and the City

Donald Rodney and Luke Fowler: Recent Acquisitions and Commissions in the West Midlands

Two of the region’s best-loved galleries have been working hard to acquire and commission artworks from some of the most … More

acquisitions, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Museums Trust, commissions, Donald Rodney, Film and Video Umbrella, Hepworth Wakefield, Luke Fowler, New Art WM, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Josephine Pryde: These are just things I say, they are not my opinions

Riding a miniature locomotive train through an exhibition is an unlikely way to experience a series of photographs. The train … More

Arnolfini, Bristol, Josephine Pryde, photography, Photomonitor

Upcoming reviews and In Between Time Festival

I am delighted to have been selected for the Writers Programme for the upcoming In Between Time Festival in Bristol. … More

Birmingham Show, Bristol, Croft Castle, Eastside Projects, exhibition reviews, In Another Light, In Between Time, Isabelle Cornaro, Meadow Arts, New Art Gallery Walsall, Sikander Pervez, Spike Island

I Sell the Shadow to Save the Substance

An exhibition of new photographs by Birmingham-based Lucy Hutchinson takes as its central idea the ways in which identities are … More

GRAIN, Library of Birmingham, Lucy Hutchinson, photography, Photomonitor

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