December 2024
REVIEW Dec 2024 ‘Mikhail Karikis: Songs for the Storm to Come’ at HOME
FEATURE Dec 2024 Venice Biennale: A Return to Art
PASSING CLOUD Dec 2024 part fifteen
REVIEW Nov 2024 Ruth Moilliet: FOFO at The Atkinson
REVIEW Nov 2024 ‘The Omnipotence of Dream’ at Salford Museum and Art Gallery
FROM THE ARTIST’S MOUTH Nov 2024 MADE IT 2024: From the outside looking in
Audio
AUDIO Oct 2024 AI Baby - Passing Cloud x The Omnipotence of Dream
Features
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 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 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
Passing Cloud
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 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
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December 2024
REVIEW Dec 2024 ‘Mikhail Karikis: Songs for the Storm to Come’ at HOME
FEATURE Dec 2024 Venice Biennale: A Return to Art
PASSING CLOUD Dec 2024 part fifteen
REVIEW Nov 2024 Ruth Moilliet: FOFO at The Atkinson
REVIEW Nov 2024 ‘The Omnipotence of Dream’ at Salford Museum and Art Gallery
FROM THE ARTIST’S MOUTH Nov 2024 MADE IT 2024: From the outside looking in
Audio
AUDIO Oct 2024 AI Baby - Passing Cloud x The Omnipotence of Dream
Features
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 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 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
Passing Cloud
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 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
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AUDIO Oct 2024 AI Baby - Passing Cloud x The Omnipotence of Dream