-
Aug 20, 2024 | 
corridor8.co.uk | Amie Kirby |Anthony Ellis |Simon Sylvester |Lesley Guy
As my train rolls into Kendal, I think about how, despite being a stone’s throw away, I’ve never visited before. I’m here now to see Thinking is Making, a group show of ten artists who have all been recipients of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award (MTSA) in the past eleven years, spotlighting each individual artist and the richness of their practice, whilst bringing specific works into a wider dialogic space under the shared legacy of the MTSA.
-
Aug 5, 2024 | 
corridor8.co.uk | Lesley Guy |Christie Yung-hei Chan |Mymona Bibi |Kate Liston
The degree show presented a number of jaw-dropping rooms with artworks displayed across campus, in the Hatton Gallery, the larger King Edward VII building and the Boiler House. In a show of nearly seventy soon-to-graduate artists, more than a few were driven to create work that expressed discomfort and unease with the limitations on identity imposed by societal structures, with childhood memory and the institution of the family being a recurring theme.
-
Jun 6, 2024 | 
corridor8.co.uk | Lesley Guy
Some Assembly Required at Slugtown was an interim show organised by first year MFA students from Newcastle University. The cohort of six assembled themselves using their differences as a starting point, which is wittily articulated in their co-authored ‘statement’ —an exquisite corpse, or game of consequences for those of you not acquainted with the Surrealist term.
-
Apr 15, 2024 | 
corridor8.co.uk | Michele Allen |Lesley Guy |Orla Foster |Steve Spithray
I arrive in Middlesbrough on a warm February day, the pale winter light creating a muted colour palette in the townscape, intermittent sunshine suggesting spring is just around the corner. I’m with an old friend and collaborator, poet and local historian p.a. morbid, and as we cross the grass, we bump into MIMA director Elinor Morgan and walk together towards the gallery.
-
Mar 28, 2024 | 
corridor8.co.uk | Simon Sylvester |Lesley Guy |Nia Thomas |Anthony Ellis
In the early days of cinema, a pioneering Russian filmmaker called Lev Kuleshov codified the editing technique of montage: the idea that unique and superficially unrelated shots could generate new meaning through the act of juxtaposition. To prove his theory, Kuleshov cut together shots of a famous theatre actor gazing at soup, to show his hunger; and then at a corpse, to show his sadness; and finally at a young woman, to show his love.
-
Mar 22, 2024 | 
corridor8.co.uk | Kate Liston |Lesley Guy
Closed Enough, an exhibition at Vane Gallery, Gateshead, embraces the restrictions of bringing artworks from one island to another. Convened by Joe Keys and Una Björg Magnúsdóttir it includes nine artists based in or associated with Iceland who have brought their work to Tyneside in luggage, in one instance by post, with a few additional objects being bought or made in the week the artists spent installing and preparing the show. Attending the preview I note the scale of the works.
-
Mar 18, 2024 | 
corridor8.co.uk | Mymona Bibi |Tom Jeffreys |Lesley Guy |James McColl
Mymona Bibi visited Bordered Belonging, an exhibition and programme developed with writer, maker & social-tech activist Bhavani Esapathi at The NewBridge Project. She chats to Project Manager, Izzy Finch about how the project came about and what it takes to make a gallery space more accessible. Mymona Bibi [MB]: Where, and how, was the idea for Bordered Belonging born?
-
Mar 11, 2024 | 
corridor8.co.uk | Amelia Crouch |Emma Bolland |Uthra Rajgopal |Lesley Guy
It’s April 2023, I’m on Eyre Lane in Sheffield when an unexpected phrase catches my eye: ‘grief must be love with nowhere to go’. The words are rendered on a billboard in a sturdy blackletter font and appear hastily creased-paper pasted. Their ambiguity intrigues me. As does the disjunct between the considered design and provisional presentation. But I don’t dwell on them for too long. Nine months later I encounter the billboard again, in documentation online, and its significance has changed.
-
Jan 24, 2024 | 
corridor8.co.uk | Lesley Guy
Our North East editor Lesley Guy headed west (via zoom) to chat with Rebecca Larkin, the Assistant Curator and Projects Manager of Cross Lane Projects in Kendal. Lesley Guy: Tell me about Cross Lane Projects. How did it come about? Rebecca Larkin: Cross Lane Projects is an independently run contemporary art space in Kendal. It was founded by Rebecca Scott, who is a painter, and Mark Woods who is a sculptor and photographer.
-
Jan 13, 2024 | 
corridor8.substack.com | Lesley Guy
By Lesley GuyI look back to the last review I wrote for Corridor8, Fiona Larkin and Ian Giles: Soft Structures at MIMA. I visited the exhibition exhausted and in pain. It was the first review I’d written in a long time. I bore the weight of a heavy moon boot encased around my fractured foot and of the chronic illness in deeper parts of my system that was making noise on top of the injury. Endometriosis. I was sweating.
