Flights of Fancy: Tatton Park Biennial 2012
Posted on | May 14, 2012 | No Comments
Nestled in the middle of a 1,000 acre National Trust park in Knutsford, Cheshire, the Tatton Park Biennial 2012 showcases new commissions, including works by Northwest-based artists, during the course of the summer. Housed in a Georgian mansion, its private gardens and parkland, the Biennial adheres closely to the theme ‘Flights of Fancy’. Of the [...]
Preview: FutureEverything 2012, Manchester
Posted on | May 13, 2012 | No Comments
Formerly FutureSonic, FutureEverything returns for a seventeenth year to Manchester this 16th through 19th of May 2012. Celebrating innovative technologies, this year the arts, music and ideas festival focuses on heightened connectivity that exists within our increasingly participatory culture. FutureEverything features new media artworks from fifty-two international artists which will be on display until 10th [...]
Adventures in radical print
Posted on | May 12, 2012 | No Comments
Corridor8 will be appearing at this weekend’s Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention, Manchester, Saturday 19th May 2012. For more information about the event, which is being held during the FutureEverything Festival, see here. Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road, Manchester, M13 0FE Hope to see you there!
Audacious Abstraction: Fiona Rae at Leeds Art Gallery
Posted on | May 11, 2012 | No Comments
In a new series of blogs looking at what’s on in the North as it opens, we sent Alice Miller to the new Fiona Rae exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery. Continuing the city’s courtship of the YBAs, Fiona Rae is the latest artist of that generation to be exhibited at Leeds Art Gallery, following [...]
Ben Jeans Houghton – Coping With Theandor
Posted on | March 31, 2012 | No Comments
Included in the current issue, No.3 Part 2, the insert Re-reading Breakthrough Fictioneers includes an insert with ‘fictions’ by Anna Barham, Pavel Büchler, David Osbaldeston, Imogen Stidworthy, Charlotte Morgan, Ben Jeans Houghton, Carol Mavor, Roger Luckhurst and Richard Kostelanetz. Ben Jeans Houghton’s work Coping With Theandor is only a partial extract – but you can [...]
Corridor8 #3 Part 2 launches at S1 Artspace, Sheffield, Friday 30th March
Posted on | March 25, 2012 | No Comments
The second part of our special roving edition of Issue #3, which for this issue only will be appearing in four parts. Part 1 was launched in Newcastle, and Parts 3 and 4 will be launched in Liverpool and Manchester later in 2012. Our guest speaker on Friday will be Roger Luckhurst, professor of modern [...]
Monica Biagioli: Speak Through, Untitled Gallery, Manchester
Posted on | March 25, 2012 | No Comments
Carol Huston takes a look at the latest sculpture and drawing by Monica Biagioli. Tucked away in the basement of an early nineteenth century building is Untitled Gallery in central Manchester. The gallery’s current exhibition ‘Speak Through’ features a collection of newly-commissioned works by London-based artist Monica Biagioli. Cradled by the small, narrow space with [...]
Our favourite three films from the North East film screening…
Posted on | February 27, 2012 | No Comments
As part of Corridor 8’s winter launch of Issue 3 in Newcastle, we held a open-submission film screening in the Star and Shadow cinema space. We now come back with a special feature on our three favourite films. The seven films screened in Newcastle demonstrated the diversity of activity throughout the North East and the [...]
Northern Art Prize
Posted on | February 4, 2012 | No Comments
Carol Huston analyses the recent announcement of Leo Fitzmaurice as the 2011 Northern Art Prize winner. As announced at Leeds Art Gallery, the fifth winner of the Northern Art Prize was Shropshire-born artist Leo Fitzmaurice (born 1963). Besides pronouncing the fact that painting is repeatedly shunned by art judges generally, perhaps the appeal of Fitzmaurice’s [...]
A Silence That Never Was
Posted on | January 29, 2012 | No Comments
Robert Casselton Clark’s solo show at North Gallery, Northumbria University opens this Friday, 3 February 2012. Artist, writer and a regular contributor to The Guardian, Robert is contributing an article on Sheffield, the city he’s worked in for the past 25 years, to the March edition of Corridor8. A Silence That Never Was is an [...]
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