Category Archives: Review

Review

DIY Summer at Site

August 24, 2011

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

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The shadow of the valley

August 8, 2011

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

Profile

Profile #2: Our Favourite Places

July 12, 2011

A guide book made by designers for people of taste.

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How to paint an apocalypse

July 11, 2011

John Martin, the lesser known painter of apocalyptic sensations comes to Sheffield, and proves his historic influence.

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Constellation

July 7, 2011

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.

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Review: Departure and Graft at Liverpool John Moores

June 20, 2011

Liverpool John Moores’ aptly named degree show is a highly professional group production.

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What We Buy

May 31, 2011

A publication documenting goods costing £1 or less.

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Hunter Gatherer, feast your eyes

May 22, 2011

From gasmasks to bird eggs, 10,000 artefacts in an educational archive in Holbeck are scrutinised by artists at Project Space Leeds

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tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l

April 20, 2011

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.

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Mazes – A Thousand Heys

April 14, 2011

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.