the Fourdrinier

  • April 2026
    • REVIEW Apr 2026 Delaine Le Bas ‘Un-Fair-Ground’ at the Whitworth
    • REVIEW Apr 2026 ‘Plant Dreaming’ at Leeds Art Gallery
    • INTERVIEW Apr 2026 My Hat and My Other Hat with Caz Egelie and Katy Morrison at PINK
    • FEATURE Mar 2026 Held in the Quiet Light – an artists’ painted bower
    • REVIEW Mar 2026 Jayne Simpson ‘LION’ at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
    • FROM THE ARTIST’S MOUTH Mar 2026 Jeffrey Knopf: The Bunker
    • PASSING CLOUD Vol 2 Mar 2026 #3
  • Audio
    • AUDIO 2025 AI Baby - Passing Cloud x the Fourdrinier at The Manchester Contemporary
  • Features
    • FEATURE Jan 2026 ‘Roots in the Sky’ at HOME Manchester
    • FEATURE Dec 2025 Into Unsafe Territory: The Pearls at The Manchester Contemporary
    • FEATURE Nov 2025 Turner Prize & Practice Bradford
    • FEATURE Nov 2025 Creating Connections: Intimate Portraits and Difficult Conversations
    • FEATURE Nov 2025 Floor to ceiling – 150th Anniversary Exhibition at The Atkinson
    • FEATURE Oct 2025 Shining out ‘From the Shadow’ – Ten Obstructions at Rogue
    • FEATURE Sept 2025 East Street Arts Leeds
    • FEATURE Jul 2025 To Distant Lands: Remembering Ann Fordham
    • FEATURE Jun 2025 The paintings of Chidimma Urunwa Ikegwuonu
    • FEATURE Jan 2025 ‘Barbara Walker: Being Here’ at The Whitworth
    • FEATURE Dec 2024 Venice Biennale: A Return to Art
    • FEATURE Mar 2024 Longsight Community Art Space CIC
    • FEATURE Dec 2023 Julie Brook
    • Hybrid Beings Destined for Change: Suraj Adekola
    • Albert Adams: Finding His Time
    • A Modest Show: Stock Gallery Presents ‘Combine With Me’ at Cass Art Manchester
    • The artist as crime scene investigator: Carolyn Curtis Magri’s forensic drawings
    • A Modest Show - for starters - an overview
    • David Hancock: Dolls, Myths and Museum Objects
    • Statue to a Critic
    • David Leapman: Gold lines and complex fluorescence
    • Behind The Times with Sarah Hardacre
    • School Prints 2021 | The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Notes on Paper
    • Lizzie King: Rediscovering Salford – Musings from a Park Bench
    • Contemporary Portraits: Part One
    • Contemporary Portraits: Part Two
    • Short Supply: You do me, I’ll do you?
    • Nasreen Mohamedi: Poetry Within Structure
    • Jasmir Creed: In Conversation
    • Foday Kabba: Where do we go from here?
    • Around the north in sound: Noizechoir’s graphic scores
    • Elise Ashby: Drawings Made in Lockdown
    • What does the future hold? Revisiting the Tarot deck in contemporary art
    • ‘It is not an image I am seeking’: 60 years of drawings by Louise Bourgeois
    • Lisa Denyer: I Feel it Like a Hunger
    • Sadé Mica: Nothing Unseen
    • Inky fingers: Talking fanzines with Shy Bairns
    • Brutal / Beautiful: Sarah Hardacre in Conversation
    • Darren Nixon: Painting and Collaboration
    • Mary Herbert: From Mesopotamia to the Cairngorm Mountains
    • Rings of Saturn: Hondartza Fraga’s Cassini Images
    • Chasing Paper Amy
    • Camgirls and Boiler Cupboards: A Peek Inside Paola Ciarska’s Miniature Floating Rooms
    • Modern Alchemy: Iain Andrews on Faith, Fairy Tales and Old Masters
    • Hannah Leighton-Boyce: Consequences of progress, remnants for the future
    • Zhu Laoshi: Zhu Jinshi, An Education
    • Physical land, visual landscapes
    • Art by the Metre: Jenny Steele’s Wallpaper for Crosby Library
    • Making Connections: Jade Montserrat on Art on the Underground
    • Dragonflies and Paper Bricks in the work of Alicja Mrozowska
    • Jack Brown: Scraps of Paper, Snatches in Time
    • Activism on Paper
    • Marie Jacotey: Menstruation, satin bedsheets and Henry Miller
    • Tim Ellis - Cypher
    • Lubna Ali - Does the art world have an alcohol problem?
    • David Hancock - Freedom by Proxy
    • Hannah Wooll - Diving Inwards
    • James Moore - The Other Side of the Moon
    • Vincent James - Animating Reality
    • Pär Strömberg - #BlackMetalGirls and Modes of Romanticism
    • Tracey Eastham - Symbols of Identity
    • Ilona Kiss - Freeing the Shadows
    • Lisa Denyer - Painting and the Digital Collide
    • Linda Hemmersbach - Paper and Poetry
  • Interviews
    • INTERVIEW Feb 2026 Sophy King and John-Paul Brown at Lowry
    • INTERVIEW Dec 2025 Gwen Evans: The Space Between
    • INTERVIEW Sept 2025 Jazmin Morris on Gaming, World-Building, and Inclusive Futures
    • INTERVIEW Jul 2025 ‘Chila Kumari Burman: I Love You Southport’ at The Atkinson
    • INTERVIEW Jun 2025 Benji Reid: Frame by Frame
    • INTERVIEW Jun 2025 Lela Harris: Memory, Resistance and Ink
    • INTERVIEW Sep 2024 Pipeline and Slugtown Gallery Swap
    • INTERVIEW May 2024 The Whitworth Traces of Displacement
    • INTERVIEW Jan 2024 Sofia Niazi
    • Lubaina Himid: A Fine Toothed Comb – Interview part two
    • Lubaina Himid: A Fine Toothed Comb – Interview part one
    • A Tall Order! Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s
    • End of paper days – interview with PAPER Director David Hancock
    • Die Geduld des Papiers at PAPER – interview with Axel Obiger
    • ‘Familiars’ and ‘Silk Graves’ at PAPER – interview with Ruby Tingle and Left Winter
    • Plant apocalypse – Heather Beardsley’s speculative embroidery
    • Interview with Greig Burgoyne and Elisabeth Sonneck: Negotiations
    • In search of human spirit – Twinkle Troughton: Remnant
    • Playing with Words: an interview with Darren Nixon & Laura Hopkson
    • Flights of Fancy: An interview with Darren Nixon & Laura Hopksinson
    • Jade Magenta Williams: A Smart Price Way of Life
    • Dakota Noot: New Queer Hybrids
    • WATCH: Interview with Katie McCabe, author of ‘More than a Muse'
    • Annegret Soltau: SPIDER
    • Susannah Douglas: In Conversation
    • Introducing: New Contemporaries 2019 artist, Liam Ashley Clark
    • ‘I like to think of the surface of the paper as a membrane’ – Five Minutes With Rachel Goodyear
    • ‘Trying to get away from the idea of making “good” images’ – Five Minutes With Owen Herbert
    • ‘Lockdown is profoundly inward facing’ – Five Minutes With Lowri Evans
    • ‘A hand-cut line cannot be created by a mouse’ – Five Minutes With DR.ME
    • 'I also spend a lot of time looking into ponds' – Five Minutes With Ruby Tingle
    • Marc Bauer: Mal Ȇtre / Performance
    • Terrible Beauty and ‘Anti-Tasteful’ Aesthetics – Jill Randall: In Conversation
    • This Land is Our Land: Interview With the Curators
    • Subversive Objects: A Conversation with Annabel Dover
    • Meanwhile, on the Chinternet… An Interview with the Curators of Chinternet Ugly
    • Rosanne Robertson - Slipping. Suspended.
    • Lisa Wilkens - In Conversation
    • Paraic Leahy - In Conversation
    • Catching up with the Tracing PAPER 2018 artists
    • Exploring PAPER with Olivia Punnett
    • Bella Easton - Interview with the Curator
    • Rui Matsunaga - In Conversation
    • Sarah Eyre - Work in Progress
    • Sharon Leahy-Clark - Me, Myself and… the Other
    • Ruby Tingle - Folklore and Spectrograms
  • Reviews
    • REVIEW Nov 2025 Curation in triplicate at texture, Manchester
    • REVIEW Nov 2025 London showing at The Manchester Contemporary
    • REVIEW Nov 2025 Lawyartist NEON
    • REVIEW Sept 2025 Albert Richards at The Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead
    • REVIEW Aug 2025 Chidimma Urunwa Ikegwuonu: Ode to Becoming (two tales, one body) at PINK Manchester
    • REVIEW Jul 2025 ‘Apologues; An awkward combination of things’ by Luce Bergman at The Whitaker
    • REVIEW Jul 2025 ‘Energy House 2.0: Mishka Henner and Emily Speed’
    • REVIEW Jun 2025 ‘Between the Earth and the Sky’ at New Adelphi Gallery
    • REVIEW Jun 2025 ‘From the River’s Mouth’ Hayley Suviste’s acoustic installation at SFTOC
    • REVIEW May 2025 Holding Fragility: Reflections on Naomi Kendrick’s ‘Fragments of Time’
    • REVIEW Apr 2025 ‘Women in Revolt!’ at The Whitworth
    • REVIEW Mar 2025 What Does Peace Mean to You? at The Peace Museum, Bradford
    • REVIEW Mar 2025 ‘Medusa’ + ‘Persephone & Friends’ at Union, London
    • REVIEW Mar 2025 ‘Christiane Baumgartner: Sunken Treasure’ at Cristea Roberts, London
    • REVIEW Feb 2025 ‘Elemental Nature: Keith Grant’ at The Atkinson
    • REVIEW Jan 2025 'Local / National / International' at Lowry
    • REVIEW Dec 2024 ‘Mikhail Karikis: Songs for the Storm to Come’ at HOME
    • REVIEW Nov 2024 ‘The Omnipotence of Dream’ at Salford Museum and Art Gallery
    • REVIEW Nov 2024 Ruth Moilliet: FOFO at The Atkinson
    • REVIEW Oct 2024 ‘Steph Huang: There is nothing old under the sun’ at esea contemporary
    • REVIEW Sep 2024 Object – Space – Time: John Tunnard and the English Modernists at Leeds Art Gallery
    • REVIEW Aug 2024 40 Years of the Future: Where Should We Be Now? Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
    • REVIEW Jul 2024 John Lyons: ‘Carnivalesque’ at The Whitworth
    • REVIEW Jun 2024 Paul Winstanley: Reprise
    • REVIEW May 2024 Nicola Ellis and Richard Dean Hughes Twelve Thousand
    • REVIEW Nikta Mohammadi: ‘Memory Stone’ at The Lowry Apr 2024
    • REVIEW Mar 2024 Ruby Tingle
    • REVIEW Feb 2024 Jo Lathwood
    • Review of ‘The Waiting Gardens of the North’, Michael Rakowitz at BALTIC
    • Immersive Watergrove by Sophie Cooper and Babs Smith: The destination and the journey
    • Hybrid Futures: ‘The Poetics of Water’ at Castlefield Gallery
    • ‘Black Venus: Reclaiming Black Women in Visual Culture’ at Somerset House
    • ‘Gordon Cheung: The Garden of Perfect Brightness’ at The Atkinson, Southport
    • ‘Imagine What We Can Do Tomorrow’ at Division of Labour Gallery Salford
    • Chris Paul Daniels: ‘Is there anybody there?’ at HOME, Manchester
    • Hew Locke: The Ambassadors at The Lowry
    • PAPER / Axel Obiger – Objects
    • Review of ‘Althea McNish: Colour is Mine’, Whitworth Art Gallery
    • Review of Turner Prize 2022 at Tate Liverpool
    • Review of Paper After All at PAPER Gallery
    • A Modest Show – review of A Modest Evening with Ruby Tingle at SOUP Manchester: Welcome Axel Obiger
    • A Modest Show: Fayre Share Fayre at The Whitworth
    • A Modest Show: ‘Intersections’ / Triple Decker at Paradise Works
    • A Modest Show: ‘Drawing In Breathing Out’ at Rogue Artists’ Studios
    • My New Favourite Shop by Leslie Thompson
    • Ghosted – Barbara Walker: Vanishing Point
    • TOWARDS MEMORIAL and MO(NU)MENTARIES: Yuen Fong Ling
    • ‘Pushing Paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now’ at Cooper Gallery, Barnsley
    • Strata: Elise Ashby & Lisa Denyer
    • Luiz Zerbini: Fire at Stephen Friedman Gallery
    • Sunil Gupta: From Here to Eternity at The Photographers’ Gallery
    • Linderism at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
    • Picasso and Paper at the Royal Academy of Arts
    • Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography at The Photographers’ Gallery, London
    • Amalia Pica: Private & Confidential at New Art Gallery, Walsall
    • Peer to Peer at Open Eye Gallery and St. George’s Hall, Liverpool
    • Magic and Fear: ‘Looking In’ at Casa das Histórias Paula Rego
    • Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
    • Architecture Now at Bury Sculpture Centre
    • Esther Teichmann: On Sleeping and Drowning at Flowers Gallery, London
    • Flugblätter at Cross Lane Projects, Kendal
    • Jennie Franklin: Well Done, Good Draw at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre
    • Drawing Biennial 2019 at Drawing Room, London
    • Sally Annett - Systems of Philosophy, Wall(paper)s of Mind
    • PAPER and Durden & Ray: The Sense and Surface of Things
    • Narbi Price - Codeword
  • Partnerships
    • REVIEW Jan 2026 ‘Frances Priest: Motif | Line | Colour’ at Blackwell
    • INTERVIEW Nov 2025 ‘Juliet Klottrup: An Archive’ at Windermere Jetty Museum
    • REVIEW Oct 2025 Righting Moment – ‘Simon Starling: Boat Works’ Abbot Hall & Windermere Jetty Museum
    • REVIEW Jul 2025 ‘Expanding Landscapes: Painting after Land Art’ at Abbot Hall
    • REVIEW May 2025 ‘Annie Garnett: The Alchemy of Colour’ at Blackwell - the Arts and Crafts house
    • REVIEW Feb 2025 ‘Lawson Oyekan’ at Blackwell – The Art & Crafts house
  • Passing Cloud
    • PASSING CLOUD Vol 2 Feb 2026 #2
    • PASSING CLOUD Vol 2 Jan 2026 #1
    • PASSING CLOUD Oct 2025 part twenty four
    • PASSING CLOUD Sept 2025 part twenty three
    • PASSING CLOUD Aug 2025 part twenty two
    • PASSING CLOUD Jul 2025 part twenty one
    • PASSING CLOUD Jun 2025 part twenty
    • PASSING CLOUD May 2025 part nineteen
    • PASSING CLOUD Apr 2025 part eighteen
    • PASSING CLOUD Mar 2025 part seventeen
    • PASSING CLOUD Feb 2025 part sixteen
    • PASSING CLOUD Dec 2024 part fifteen
    • PASSING CLOUD Nov 2024 part fourteen
    • PASSING CLOUD Oct 2024 part thirteen
    • PASSING CLOUD Sep 2024 part twelve
    • PASSING CLOUD Aug 2024 part eleven
    • PASSING CLOUD Jul 2024 part ten
    • PASSING CLOUD Jun 2024 part nine
    • PASSING CLOUD May 2024 part eight
    • PASSING CLOUD Apr 2024 part seven
    • PASSING CLOUD Mar 2024 part six
    • PASSING CLOUD Feb 2024 part five
    • PASSING CLOUD Jan 2024 part four
    • PASSING CLOUD Dec 2023 part three
    • PASSING CLOUD Nov 2023 part two
    • PASSING CLOUD Oct 2023 part one
  • Experiments
    • EXPERIMENTAL Oct 2024 Leftovers
    • EXPERIMENTAL Aug 2024 The Artists in The Exhibition: A Depiction – Brass Art at HOME
    • Alexis Soul-Gray & Hannah Wooll: What Was Lost
    • Interpreting a shepherd’s life in ‘Tracing Shadows’
    • DiamondTider: Make your own Ilona Kiss care crystal
    • Laura Hopkinson: Puppets in Lockdown
    • A letter from Manchester to the headwaters of the Cahuinarí River
    • On bodies: Cézanne’s Crouching Venus
    • Lady Skollie: Weakest Link at Eastside Projects, Birmingham
    • Luke Ching: Gazing Within/Without
    • Drawing / Writing: A Co-Respondence
    • The Art and Life of Dee Ridley: Part Five – Street Pass
    • The Art & Life of Dee Ridley: Part Four – Primary Cut
    • The Art and Life of Dee Ridley: Part Three – Fenced Up
    • The Art and Life of Dee Ridley: Part Two – Nettle Sting
    • The Art and Life of Dee Ridley: Part One – Double Face
    • Megan Powell - Get Stabbed & Boogie
    • Dividing Rules: The Line Between – Or, what exactly are we dealing with here?
    • Are cat videos the new opiate?
  • From the Artist's Mouth
    • FROM THE ARTIST’S MOUTH Feb 2026 Change Between the Lines – Jane Walker
    • FROM THE ARTIST’S MOUTH Nov 2024 MADE IT 2024: From the outside looking in
    • From the Artist’s Mouth Jul 2024 Jack Brown
    • Pär Strömberg: Art and Wine
    • Richard Meaghan: A crisis of masculinity – Picasso and painting me
    • Tracey Eastham on British values and ‘blitz spirit’
    • Bethan Hamilton: Five artworks that have shaped my practice
    • ‘Bertrand Russell Abandons Wales’ – New Works from James Moore
  • Shop
  • About
    • REVIEW Apr 2026 Delaine Le Bas ‘Un-Fair-Ground’ at the Whitworth
    • REVIEW Apr 2026 ‘Plant Dreaming’ at Leeds Art Gallery
    • INTERVIEW Apr 2026 My Hat and My Other Hat with Caz Egelie and Katy Morrison at PINK
    • FEATURE Mar 2026 Held in the Quiet Light – an artists’ painted bower
    • REVIEW Mar 2026 Jayne Simpson ‘LION’ at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
    • FROM THE ARTIST’S MOUTH Mar 2026 Jeffrey Knopf: The Bunker
    • PASSING CLOUD Vol 2 Mar 2026 #3
    • AUDIO 2025 AI Baby - Passing Cloud x the Fourdrinier at The Manchester Contemporary
    • FEATURE Jan 2026 ‘Roots in the Sky’ at HOME Manchester
    • FEATURE Dec 2025 Into Unsafe Territory: The Pearls at The Manchester Contemporary
    • FEATURE Nov 2025 Turner Prize & Practice Bradford
    • FEATURE Nov 2025 Creating Connections: Intimate Portraits and Difficult Conversations
    • FEATURE Nov 2025 Floor to ceiling – 150th Anniversary Exhibition at The Atkinson
    • FEATURE Oct 2025 Shining out ‘From the Shadow’ – Ten Obstructions at Rogue
    • FEATURE Sept 2025 East Street Arts Leeds
    • FEATURE Jul 2025 To Distant Lands: Remembering Ann Fordham
    • FEATURE Jun 2025 The paintings of Chidimma Urunwa Ikegwuonu
    • FEATURE Jan 2025 ‘Barbara Walker: Being Here’ at The Whitworth
    • FEATURE Dec 2024 Venice Biennale: A Return to Art
    • FEATURE Mar 2024 Longsight Community Art Space CIC
    • FEATURE Dec 2023 Julie Brook
    • Hybrid Beings Destined for Change: Suraj Adekola
    • Albert Adams: Finding His Time
    • A Modest Show: Stock Gallery Presents ‘Combine With Me’ at Cass Art Manchester
    • The artist as crime scene investigator: Carolyn Curtis Magri’s forensic drawings
    • A Modest Show - for starters - an overview
    • David Hancock: Dolls, Myths and Museum Objects
    • Statue to a Critic
    • David Leapman: Gold lines and complex fluorescence
    • Behind The Times with Sarah Hardacre
    • School Prints 2021 | The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Notes on Paper
    • Lizzie King: Rediscovering Salford – Musings from a Park Bench
    • Contemporary Portraits: Part One
    • Contemporary Portraits: Part Two
    • Short Supply: You do me, I’ll do you?
    • Nasreen Mohamedi: Poetry Within Structure
    • Jasmir Creed: In Conversation
    • Foday Kabba: Where do we go from here?
    • Around the north in sound: Noizechoir’s graphic scores
    • Elise Ashby: Drawings Made in Lockdown
    • What does the future hold? Revisiting the Tarot deck in contemporary art
    • ‘It is not an image I am seeking’: 60 years of drawings by Louise Bourgeois
    • Lisa Denyer: I Feel it Like a Hunger
    • Sadé Mica: Nothing Unseen
    • Inky fingers: Talking fanzines with Shy Bairns
    • Brutal / Beautiful: Sarah Hardacre in Conversation
    • Darren Nixon: Painting and Collaboration
    • Mary Herbert: From Mesopotamia to the Cairngorm Mountains
    • Rings of Saturn: Hondartza Fraga’s Cassini Images
    • Chasing Paper Amy
    • Camgirls and Boiler Cupboards: A Peek Inside Paola Ciarska’s Miniature Floating Rooms
    • Modern Alchemy: Iain Andrews on Faith, Fairy Tales and Old Masters
    • Hannah Leighton-Boyce: Consequences of progress, remnants for the future
    • Zhu Laoshi: Zhu Jinshi, An Education
    • Physical land, visual landscapes
    • Art by the Metre: Jenny Steele’s Wallpaper for Crosby Library
    • Making Connections: Jade Montserrat on Art on the Underground
    • Dragonflies and Paper Bricks in the work of Alicja Mrozowska
    • Jack Brown: Scraps of Paper, Snatches in Time
    • Activism on Paper
    • Marie Jacotey: Menstruation, satin bedsheets and Henry Miller
    • Tim Ellis - Cypher
    • Lubna Ali - Does the art world have an alcohol problem?
    • David Hancock - Freedom by Proxy
    • Hannah Wooll - Diving Inwards
    • James Moore - The Other Side of the Moon
    • Vincent James - Animating Reality
    • Pär Strömberg - #BlackMetalGirls and Modes of Romanticism
    • Tracey Eastham - Symbols of Identity
    • Ilona Kiss - Freeing the Shadows
    • Lisa Denyer - Painting and the Digital Collide
    • Linda Hemmersbach - Paper and Poetry
    • INTERVIEW Feb 2026 Sophy King and John-Paul Brown at Lowry
    • INTERVIEW Dec 2025 Gwen Evans: The Space Between
    • INTERVIEW Sept 2025 Jazmin Morris on Gaming, World-Building, and Inclusive Futures
    • INTERVIEW Jul 2025 ‘Chila Kumari Burman: I Love You Southport’ at The Atkinson
    • INTERVIEW Jun 2025 Benji Reid: Frame by Frame
    • INTERVIEW Jun 2025 Lela Harris: Memory, Resistance and Ink
    • INTERVIEW Sep 2024 Pipeline and Slugtown Gallery Swap
    • INTERVIEW May 2024 The Whitworth Traces of Displacement
    • INTERVIEW Jan 2024 Sofia Niazi
    • Lubaina Himid: A Fine Toothed Comb – Interview part two
    • Lubaina Himid: A Fine Toothed Comb – Interview part one
    • A Tall Order! Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s
    • End of paper days – interview with PAPER Director David Hancock
    • Die Geduld des Papiers at PAPER – interview with Axel Obiger
    • ‘Familiars’ and ‘Silk Graves’ at PAPER – interview with Ruby Tingle and Left Winter
    • Plant apocalypse – Heather Beardsley’s speculative embroidery
    • Interview with Greig Burgoyne and Elisabeth Sonneck: Negotiations
    • In search of human spirit – Twinkle Troughton: Remnant
    • Playing with Words: an interview with Darren Nixon & Laura Hopkson
    • Flights of Fancy: An interview with Darren Nixon & Laura Hopksinson
    • Jade Magenta Williams: A Smart Price Way of Life
    • Dakota Noot: New Queer Hybrids
    • WATCH: Interview with Katie McCabe, author of ‘More than a Muse'
    • Annegret Soltau: SPIDER
    • Susannah Douglas: In Conversation
    • Introducing: New Contemporaries 2019 artist, Liam Ashley Clark
    • ‘I like to think of the surface of the paper as a membrane’ – Five Minutes With Rachel Goodyear
    • ‘Trying to get away from the idea of making “good” images’ – Five Minutes With Owen Herbert
    • ‘Lockdown is profoundly inward facing’ – Five Minutes With Lowri Evans
    • ‘A hand-cut line cannot be created by a mouse’ – Five Minutes With DR.ME
    • 'I also spend a lot of time looking into ponds' – Five Minutes With Ruby Tingle
    • Marc Bauer: Mal Ȇtre / Performance
    • Terrible Beauty and ‘Anti-Tasteful’ Aesthetics – Jill Randall: In Conversation
    • This Land is Our Land: Interview With the Curators
    • Subversive Objects: A Conversation with Annabel Dover
    • Meanwhile, on the Chinternet… An Interview with the Curators of Chinternet Ugly
    • Rosanne Robertson - Slipping. Suspended.
    • Lisa Wilkens - In Conversation
    • Paraic Leahy - In Conversation
    • Catching up with the Tracing PAPER 2018 artists
    • Exploring PAPER with Olivia Punnett
    • Bella Easton - Interview with the Curator
    • Rui Matsunaga - In Conversation
    • Sarah Eyre - Work in Progress
    • Sharon Leahy-Clark - Me, Myself and… the Other
    • Ruby Tingle - Folklore and Spectrograms
    • REVIEW Nov 2025 Curation in triplicate at texture, Manchester
    • REVIEW Nov 2025 London showing at The Manchester Contemporary
    • REVIEW Nov 2025 Lawyartist NEON
    • REVIEW Sept 2025 Albert Richards at The Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead
    • REVIEW Aug 2025 Chidimma Urunwa Ikegwuonu: Ode to Becoming (two tales, one body) at PINK Manchester
    • REVIEW Jul 2025 ‘Apologues; An awkward combination of things’ by Luce Bergman at The Whitaker
    • REVIEW Jul 2025 ‘Energy House 2.0: Mishka Henner and Emily Speed’
    • REVIEW Jun 2025 ‘Between the Earth and the Sky’ at New Adelphi Gallery
    • REVIEW Jun 2025 ‘From the River’s Mouth’ Hayley Suviste’s acoustic installation at SFTOC
    • REVIEW May 2025 Holding Fragility: Reflections on Naomi Kendrick’s ‘Fragments of Time’
    • REVIEW Apr 2025 ‘Women in Revolt!’ at The Whitworth
    • REVIEW Mar 2025 What Does Peace Mean to You? at The Peace Museum, Bradford
    • REVIEW Mar 2025 ‘Medusa’ + ‘Persephone & Friends’ at Union, London
    • REVIEW Mar 2025 ‘Christiane Baumgartner: Sunken Treasure’ at Cristea Roberts, London
    • REVIEW Feb 2025 ‘Elemental Nature: Keith Grant’ at The Atkinson
    • REVIEW Jan 2025 'Local / National / International' at Lowry
    • REVIEW Dec 2024 ‘Mikhail Karikis: Songs for the Storm to Come’ at HOME
    • REVIEW Nov 2024 ‘The Omnipotence of Dream’ at Salford Museum and Art Gallery
    • REVIEW Nov 2024 Ruth Moilliet: FOFO at The Atkinson
    • REVIEW Oct 2024 ‘Steph Huang: There is nothing old under the sun’ at esea contemporary
    • REVIEW Sep 2024 Object – Space – Time: John Tunnard and the English Modernists at Leeds Art Gallery
    • REVIEW Aug 2024 40 Years of the Future: Where Should We Be Now? Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
    • REVIEW Jul 2024 John Lyons: ‘Carnivalesque’ at The Whitworth
    • REVIEW Jun 2024 Paul Winstanley: Reprise
    • REVIEW May 2024 Nicola Ellis and Richard Dean Hughes Twelve Thousand
    • REVIEW Nikta Mohammadi: ‘Memory Stone’ at The Lowry Apr 2024
    • REVIEW Mar 2024 Ruby Tingle
    • REVIEW Feb 2024 Jo Lathwood
    • Review of ‘The Waiting Gardens of the North’, Michael Rakowitz at BALTIC
    • Immersive Watergrove by Sophie Cooper and Babs Smith: The destination and the journey
    • Hybrid Futures: ‘The Poetics of Water’ at Castlefield Gallery
    • ‘Black Venus: Reclaiming Black Women in Visual Culture’ at Somerset House
    • ‘Gordon Cheung: The Garden of Perfect Brightness’ at The Atkinson, Southport
    • ‘Imagine What We Can Do Tomorrow’ at Division of Labour Gallery Salford
    • Chris Paul Daniels: ‘Is there anybody there?’ at HOME, Manchester
    • Hew Locke: The Ambassadors at The Lowry
    • PAPER / Axel Obiger – Objects
    • Review of ‘Althea McNish: Colour is Mine’, Whitworth Art Gallery
    • Review of Turner Prize 2022 at Tate Liverpool
    • Review of Paper After All at PAPER Gallery
    • A Modest Show – review of A Modest Evening with Ruby Tingle at SOUP Manchester: Welcome Axel Obiger
    • A Modest Show: Fayre Share Fayre at The Whitworth
    • A Modest Show: ‘Intersections’ / Triple Decker at Paradise Works
    • A Modest Show: ‘Drawing In Breathing Out’ at Rogue Artists’ Studios
    • My New Favourite Shop by Leslie Thompson
    • Ghosted – Barbara Walker: Vanishing Point
    • TOWARDS MEMORIAL and MO(NU)MENTARIES: Yuen Fong Ling
    • ‘Pushing Paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now’ at Cooper Gallery, Barnsley
    • Strata: Elise Ashby & Lisa Denyer
    • Luiz Zerbini: Fire at Stephen Friedman Gallery
    • Sunil Gupta: From Here to Eternity at The Photographers’ Gallery
    • Linderism at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
    • Picasso and Paper at the Royal Academy of Arts
    • Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography at The Photographers’ Gallery, London
    • Amalia Pica: Private & Confidential at New Art Gallery, Walsall
    • Peer to Peer at Open Eye Gallery and St. George’s Hall, Liverpool
    • Magic and Fear: ‘Looking In’ at Casa das Histórias Paula Rego
    • Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
    • Architecture Now at Bury Sculpture Centre
    • Esther Teichmann: On Sleeping and Drowning at Flowers Gallery, London
    • Flugblätter at Cross Lane Projects, Kendal
    • Jennie Franklin: Well Done, Good Draw at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre
    • Drawing Biennial 2019 at Drawing Room, London
    • Sally Annett - Systems of Philosophy, Wall(paper)s of Mind
    • PAPER and Durden & Ray: The Sense and Surface of Things
    • Narbi Price - Codeword
    • REVIEW Jan 2026 ‘Frances Priest: Motif | Line | Colour’ at Blackwell
    • INTERVIEW Nov 2025 ‘Juliet Klottrup: An Archive’ at Windermere Jetty Museum
    • REVIEW Oct 2025 Righting Moment – ‘Simon Starling: Boat Works’ Abbot Hall & Windermere Jetty Museum
    • REVIEW Jul 2025 ‘Expanding Landscapes: Painting after Land Art’ at Abbot Hall
    • REVIEW May 2025 ‘Annie Garnett: The Alchemy of Colour’ at Blackwell - the Arts and Crafts house
    • REVIEW Feb 2025 ‘Lawson Oyekan’ at Blackwell – The Art & Crafts house
    • PASSING CLOUD Vol 2 Feb 2026 #2
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April 2026 / REVIEW Apr 2026 Delaine Le Bas ‘Un-Fair-Ground’ at the Whitworth
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April 2026 / REVIEW Apr 2026 ‘Plant Dreaming’ at Leeds Art Gallery
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April 2026 / INTERVIEW Apr 2026 My Hat and My Other Hat with Caz Egelie and Katy Morrison at PINK
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April 2026 / FEATURE Mar 2026 Held in the Quiet Light – an artists’ painted bower
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April 2026 / REVIEW Mar 2026 Jayne Simpson ‘LION’ at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
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April 2026 / FROM THE ARTIST’S MOUTH Mar 2026 Jeffrey Knopf: The Bunker
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April 2026 / PASSING CLOUD Vol 2 Mar 2026 #3