Dean Melbourne’s paintings are invitations into secret, forgotten and imagined places, places where nature runs wild and people live at…
Témoins oculaires
Surely there is something of a magpie in all of us: an attraction to gloss, to bright colours and to…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Anneka French 