I parked recently in a small town shopping centre car park for an exhibition opening. Exiting the closed shopping precinct … More
Category: Reviews
Tabitha Jussa: Memorandum of Understanding
Internationalised working practices, the spatial flexibility offered by digital technologies and the relentless march of capitalism are signalling a loss … More
Niki de Saint Phalle
In the episode ‘Shoot’, young suburban housewife and mother Betty Draper shocks the small-screen audience of ‘Mad Men’ by calmly … More
A K Dolven: please return
A K Dolven’s work is supremely elegant. Exploring her body’s sensual relationship to the Norwegian landscape that she calls home … More
Birmingham Show
Curated by Ruth Claxton and Gavin Wade, ‘Birmingham Show’ at Eastside Projects proposes three specific questions as starting points from … More
Témoins oculaires
Surely there is something of a magpie in all of us: an attraction to gloss, to bright colours and to … More
(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
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
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
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
