Author: Nancy Collantine
“Was it a deliberate act to remove women from history?” Artist Jane Fairhurst talks to Northern Soul
Artist Jane Fairhurst has been making art, exhibiting and curating exhibitions for more than three decades. She attended Liverpool School of Art at 18 and later gained a Master’s degree at Liverpool John Moores University in 2010. Fairhurst works across a range of media including textile sculptures, painting, drawing, mixed-media and installation from her studio at Cross Street Arts in Wigan.
Book Review: Bosh! on a Budget
Bosh! on a Budget. Its promise is affordable plant-based recipes at roughly £1-£2 per person. Convenience isn’t cheap and neither is eating animals. We all know that by now, right?
“I’d rather try and fail than never try at all.” Domino Panton-Oakley, Founder of Cotton On MCR
Cotton On MCR has been hard at work building a fan base of Manchester art lovers.
Review: Stand Close and Breathe Me In, Oceans Apart, OA Studios, Salford
On a temporarily blockaded King Street West in Salford, just a mere stride across the river near Blackfriars, is the the red brick building that houses Ocean’s Apart’s gallery and artists’ studios.
Precincts and high-rises: BRUTAL, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
Not a single human being populates the paintings and sculpture in BRUTAL, the latest offering from Saul Hay Gallery in Manchester.
Book Review: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
What would happen if our ‘what-goes-on-behind-closed-doors’ was witnessed?
“These are rare paintings.” Steve Swallow, owner of Castlegate Gallery, talks about abstract painter, Bob Crossley
“The 1950s is of particular interest to us because it was a significant time in British painting,” says Steve Swallow, co-owner of Castlegate House Gallery in Cockermouth, Cumbria.
Review: John Moores Painting Prize Virtual Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
The John Moores Painting Prize brings together the best in contemporary British painting.
Art Review: How to break the humdrum – Obstructions at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
It’s hardly welcoming. A snide, on-screen solicitor is the only semblance of human contact we encounter during Obstructions, the latest virtual exhibition at Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery.
Review: Grayson Perry’s Art Club, Manchester Art Gallery
It was the swings swaddled in clingfilm-like tied-back curtains that got me.
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