Sat on Liverpool’s waterfront is Open Eye Gallery, one of the most important galleries -not only in the northwest but also throughout the UK- for promoting photography as an artistic discipline. This year the gallery […]
Janis: Little Girl Blue – A worthy climax to a year of bio-docs
We’ve had a year filled with monumental bio-docs on some of the most legendary singers including: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck; What Happened, Miss Simone; and the Academy Award Winning Amy. Now this great year for music […]
Holly Rowan Hesson at &Model
The blurred image of a window, printed on an unbound canvas, is suspended against a wall and illuminated by two upward-pointing lights. The shadows crisscross over the photo and around the creaky, nineteenth-century room. This […]
Review: Exposed – A Collection of Shallow Archetypes
Declan Dale does not exist. Declan Dale is a pseudonym for the director who abandoned this film after Lionsgate Premiere edited what was meant to be a bilingual, surrealist drama (sounds promising so far) into […]
A Graphic War: Ian Kirkpatrick‘s Contemporary WWI Art
Ian Kirkpatrick, a Canadian contemporary artist, has recently begun a yearlong residency at Leeds Museums and Galleries. Although he is most famous for the sculptures he was commissioned to create for the 2012 London Olympics, […]
Editor‘s Pick: BAS8 Children of the Unquiet
The British Art Show, the only exhibition with its finger well and truly on the pulse of the contemporary British art scene, has been open in Leeds for a month now. It is the first […]
Review: No/Gloss Film Festival
In early October, No/Gloss Film Festival returned to Leeds for its fourth year of showcasing the best from the underground, DIY film scene. Many of the films this year touched on contentious themes in cinema such […]
Editor’s Picks: Leeds’ Top Five Art Spaces
Welcome to Leeds, arty freshers. We thought we’d count down some of Leeds’ top artistic gems for you to get your teeth into: 5. Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds In […]
Ed Fringe Review – The Worry Monster
Raymond Noon’s life is full of self-doubt, crippling social self-awareness, and… cardboard. It is within this setting that we explore the impact that social anxiety takes on our washed-up protagonist and on those closest to […]
Ed Fringe Update – Untold Wars
203theatre’s new musical Untold Wars wasn’t something I had planned on going to see at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. I only decided to go halfway through my time up here when I met one […]
Ed Fringe Update – The Five Drinks Play
Dating – at the best of times – is awkward. At least it has been in my experience and it certainly is in the case of Dylan Moon. On a drinks date with self-confident yuppie […]
Ed Fringe Update – The Leeds Tealights: Discuss… A Sketch Show
A colourful carpet of flyers and leaflets lines the medieval roads of Edinburgh’s old town. Art-aficionados from across the globe buzz to the venue of their next play, cabaret, or stand-up gig. Circus escapees perform […]