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2 weeks ago | corridor8.co.uk | Pete Mercer

Artists across our isle often find themselves well-acquainted with remnants of England’s industrial past. Though not necessarily by choice. Soaring property values and eye-watering rents mean that once-derelict Salfordian cotton mills now serve as cross-disciplinary arts studios, and car garages have become experimental music venues.

3 weeks ago | corridor8.co.uk | Jack Nicholls |Hilary White |Anne Waggot Knott |Kirsty Jukes

They could be ordinary suburban houses. The camera journeys along hallways decorated in inoffensive greys and beiges; we see kitchens, bedrooms, lounges and an exterior bearded with ice, as if filmed in the middle of a harsh winter. Gradually, though, we see things aren’t quite right. Among the soft furnishings, a huge, sculpted finger lurks, while fleshy-looking textiles drape themselves over the king-sized bed. Paintings of car accidents and apocalyptic wastelands hang, unassumingly, on the walls.

1 month ago | corridor8.co.uk | Rachel Boyd |Kate Liston |Rene Francis- McBrearty

Patterns are a system of forms, rhythms, and refrains. Ax·is Mun·di– which translates as ‘centre of the earth’ – explores how pattern, observed and anticipated, can become a method of worlding: an ongoing, iterative act. Kambo’s development of this ensemble of practices was afforded through the expertise of BALTIC’s technical, curatorial, and production teams, emerging during her residency in the fourth-floor studio.

1 month ago | corridor8.co.uk | Natalie Russett |Andy Abbott |Tom Taylor |Natalie Bradbury

Aliyah Hussain is at an exciting point in her career. Recent successes include a solo exhibition at Lowry; being featured alongside works by Salvador Dali, Leonora Carrington and Jean Arp in The Hepworth’s, 100 Years of Surrealist Landscapes; and an Artist Fellowship at the UCLan ceramics department. A ceramicist who also works across sound, collage and digital, Hussain’s work constructs narratives out of abstract and ornate sculptural forms.

2 months ago | corridor8.co.uk | Chantal Oakes |Sam Pickett |Natalie Hughes |Alessandra Saviotti

In her book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014), Naomi Klein argues that climate change denial isn’t just about rejecting science, but that it’s deeply tied to the capitalist ideology we live within.