As The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery in Rossendale approaches its first birthday since reopening, it continues to share the best emerging and established contemporary artists in its visual arts programme. Now on is Martin...
Read MoreIt depends on how you look at things: what you see, what you notice, what you take heed of. Tony Heaton’s art, which is playful and sculptural, constantly wrong-foots you, diverts and demands your attention, revealing in the...
Read MoreSome years back when I was living the high life in that there London, I was taken to Sweden’s Ice Hotel in the Arctic Circle. Temperatures were routinely minus 15° Celsius and one night was spent in the sprawling igloo...
Read MoreThere’s an old saying in China that ‘women hold up half the sky’. In other words, women make up 50 per cent of the world’s most populated nation. In celebration of this, the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in...
Read MoreI’m standing in woodland near Wakefield, mallet in hand, looking at a piece of stone and wondering what on earth I’m supposed to do with it. It’s not your average Saturday: I’m on a stone-carving course at...
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