Screen printing, collaging, crockery, tree-rubbing and parties – opening with a Zine Library over 200 copies deep! Site Gallery, Sheffield offers a creative outlet for late summer Continue reading
South Square Gallery becomes home and studio for Leeds-based artist Alfie Strong, camping out for a month in the gallery’s first ever artist’s residency Continue reading
John Martin, the lesser known painter of apocalyptic sensations comes to Sheffield, and proves his historic influence. Continue reading
Constellation: a group or cluster of related things. Stars forming a recognisable pattern. In Cornerhouse’s Constellation exhibition, a cluster of four artists’ work impose an idea of transience, ephemerality and the impermanency of movement. Continue reading
Liverpool John Moores’ aptly named degree show is a highly professional group production. Continue reading
From gasmasks to bird eggs, 10,000 artefacts in an educational archive in Holbeck are scrutinised by artists at Project Space Leeds Continue reading
In w h o k i l l we have a case of sonic multiple personality. I wouldn’t say ‘disorder’, since beyond a determined veering from convention there’s nothing awry in the outcome. Continue reading
Okay, so there isn’t a whole lot new about Mazes. They’re based in London, but they could easily convince you that they’re from the same Californian noise pop scene as No Age and Wavves. A Thousand Heys is full of sunny riffs that inject punk ideology into lo-fi indie, showing Mazes to be pretty close descendents of Pavement and early-REM. ‘Boxing Clever’ in particular sounds as though it’s been mooching off of Stephen Malkmus’ stash. Continue reading