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2 weeks ago | corridor8.co.uk | Jay Drinkall |Ghada Habib |Pamela Crowe |Steve Spithray

Fæthm, Fæþm – noun, m (nominative plural fæþmas):1. Outstretched arms; embrace, bosom. Kelham Island Museum takes its name from the spit of land it stands on, which is cradled by two arms of water just north of Sheffield city centre. The River Don is on the north side, a South Yorkshire waterway that is the central focus of fæthm. It rises in the Pennines and flows east through Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and many towns between until it joins the Ouse in the East Riding.

1 month ago | corridor8.co.uk | Amy Kitchingman |Megan Jones |Michael Barnes-Wynters |Emma Curd

Hull’s Princes Avenue is familiar to many as the destination for a great night out. Nestled amongst the lively bars, cafes and coffeeshops, however, is a more contemplative choice – the contemporary art and community co-production space, 87 Gallery. Here, Hull-based artist-writer and founding director of Tales and Scales Productions, Emily Oetegenn, has created her own space for celebration with her first solo exhibition, Special.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

2 months 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.