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Corridor8 is an international journal of contemporary visual arts and new writing in the North and Midlands of England. Posts by Lauren, Lara, Jazz, Lesley, Ben, Nat, Rachel & Laura.
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Hello, we are an international journal of contemporary visual arts and new writing in the North and now the Midlands of England. We work with writers, artists and organisations across the regions that we cover. Don't pretend there's nothing going on outside London 😉 find us here: corridor8.co.uk
Richard Barrett reviews How to Read a Book by Stephen Emmerson, showing at Manchester's Portico Library until 14 March 2026, with an evening of readings coming up next week from Steven, James Davies, Tom Jenks and our own Greater Manchester editor Jazmine Linklater. 📖
Stephen Emmerson: How to Read a Book — Corridor8
I’m at the Portico library, a former members-only library in central Manchester, for their current exhibition How to Read a Book from artist-writer
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November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Richard Barrett reviews How to Read a Book by Stephen Emmerson, showing at Manchester's Portico Library until 14 March 2026, with an evening of readings coming up next week from Steven, James Davies, Tom Jenks and our own Greater Manchester editor Jazmine Linklater. 📖
‘Cities are strange places. Not least because they seem to exist in a liminal state. Distinct, specific, and yet constantly in flux. They accelerate, transform, and beckon us back with a promise of change.'
Alexander Mobbs-Iles reviews ‘Up Town Again’ at Two Queens, Leicester.
Alexander Mobbs-Iles reviews ‘Up Town Again’ at Two Queens, Leicester.
Up Town Again — Corridor8
Cities are strange places. Not least because they seem to exist in a liminal state. Distinct, specific, and yet constantly in flux. They accelerate,
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November 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
‘Cities are strange places. Not least because they seem to exist in a liminal state. Distinct, specific, and yet constantly in flux. They accelerate, transform, and beckon us back with a promise of change.'
Alexander Mobbs-Iles reviews ‘Up Town Again’ at Two Queens, Leicester.
Alexander Mobbs-Iles reviews ‘Up Town Again’ at Two Queens, Leicester.
'I rarely see bodies like mine in art. By viewing it, I feel as though I have been given a precious gift, of reaching out to another place, finding others whose genders fall outside of Western and binary structures'
Grey Marlow reviews Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp at The Whitworth🌈
Grey Marlow reviews Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp at The Whitworth🌈
Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp — Corridor8
The world I am about to step into, Darwin in Paradise Camp, is a utopia that Japanese-Sāmoan artist Kihara has created for the Fa’afafine community to
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November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
'I rarely see bodies like mine in art. By viewing it, I feel as though I have been given a precious gift, of reaching out to another place, finding others whose genders fall outside of Western and binary structures'
Grey Marlow reviews Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp at The Whitworth🌈
Grey Marlow reviews Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp at The Whitworth🌈
'[William English & Sandra Cross'] unconventional working methods ensure that To Farse All Things turns out to be an appropriately curious title for a very curious kind of show.’
Wayne Burrows reviews To Farse All Things at Bonington Gallery.
Wayne Burrows reviews To Farse All Things at Bonington Gallery.
William English & Sandra Cross: To Farse All Things — Corridor8
The word ‘farse’ can be defined as both an obsolete variant of the old French source word for ‘farce’, designating a form of exaggerated absurdist comedy,
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November 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
'[William English & Sandra Cross'] unconventional working methods ensure that To Farse All Things turns out to be an appropriately curious title for a very curious kind of show.’
Wayne Burrows reviews To Farse All Things at Bonington Gallery.
Wayne Burrows reviews To Farse All Things at Bonington Gallery.
The second review in our NewBridge Project, Collective Studio mentoring collaboration is out! 🕊
Esther Salamon: Woodland Bird Woman at Newcastle Contemporary Art by Mridula Sharma.
Esther Salamon: Woodland Bird Woman at Newcastle Contemporary Art by Mridula Sharma.
Esther Salamon: Woodland Bird Woman — Corridor8
Woodland Bird Woman features a twenty-minute single screen video, notes showing Esther Salamon’s ideas for the exhibition, and some objects displayed in
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November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The second review in our NewBridge Project, Collective Studio mentoring collaboration is out! 🕊
Esther Salamon: Woodland Bird Woman at Newcastle Contemporary Art by Mridula Sharma.
Esther Salamon: Woodland Bird Woman at Newcastle Contemporary Art by Mridula Sharma.
'I can imagine Starling earnestly pedalling downstream encountering severe pollution, fluctuating water levels through cities and farmland and forced to disassemble and reassemble his boat, a darkly humorous protest at environmental damage.'
Caroline Bagenal reviews Simon Starling: Boat Works
Caroline Bagenal reviews Simon Starling: Boat Works
Simon Starling: Boat Works — Corridor8
Simon Starling’s Boat Works is an ambitious exhibition across two venues in Cumbria: Abbot Hall in Kendal and Windermere Jetty Museum. The exhibition
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November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
'I can imagine Starling earnestly pedalling downstream encountering severe pollution, fluctuating water levels through cities and farmland and forced to disassemble and reassemble his boat, a darkly humorous protest at environmental damage.'
Caroline Bagenal reviews Simon Starling: Boat Works
Caroline Bagenal reviews Simon Starling: Boat Works
'Klottrup’s paintings also delve into the landscape’s enduring presence, switching the crisp documentative approach for an expressive, semi-abstraction.'
Kyle Nathan Brown reviews Juliet Klottrup's An Archive at Windermere Jetty Museum ⛵
Kyle Nathan Brown reviews Juliet Klottrup's An Archive at Windermere Jetty Museum ⛵
Juliet Klottrup: An Archive — Corridor8
Perched lakeside in the idyllic Lake District landscape, Windermere Jetty Museum is devoted to the 200-plus-year history of people and boats in the area.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
'Klottrup’s paintings also delve into the landscape’s enduring presence, switching the crisp documentative approach for an expressive, semi-abstraction.'
Kyle Nathan Brown reviews Juliet Klottrup's An Archive at Windermere Jetty Museum ⛵
Kyle Nathan Brown reviews Juliet Klottrup's An Archive at Windermere Jetty Museum ⛵
'Once the incoming tide washed away these designs, their messages were delivered to the sea, swept into the coastal marine ecosystem.'
Iona Glen reviews Anna Clough's Inter/Extra Terrestrial at Full of Noises last month, which came out of a residency there in September. 🌊
Iona Glen reviews Anna Clough's Inter/Extra Terrestrial at Full of Noises last month, which came out of a residency there in September. 🌊
Anna Clough: Inter/Extra Terrestrial — Corridor8
It is a stormy day when I visit Manchester-based Cumbrian artist Anna Clough’s exhibition Inter/Extra Terrestrial at the concert, film and sound art venue
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November 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
'Once the incoming tide washed away these designs, their messages were delivered to the sea, swept into the coastal marine ecosystem.'
Iona Glen reviews Anna Clough's Inter/Extra Terrestrial at Full of Noises last month, which came out of a residency there in September. 🌊
Iona Glen reviews Anna Clough's Inter/Extra Terrestrial at Full of Noises last month, which came out of a residency there in September. 🌊
New Review! 🎀
Beth J Ross: Her Extraordinary Colours by Anna Mud.
'By ...turning symbols of power and division into emblems of solidarity and care... Ross reimagines the flag not as a boundary marker, but as a starting point for curiosity, conversation, and resilience'
Beth J Ross: Her Extraordinary Colours by Anna Mud.
'By ...turning symbols of power and division into emblems of solidarity and care... Ross reimagines the flag not as a boundary marker, but as a starting point for curiosity, conversation, and resilience'
Beth J Ross: Her Extraordinary Colours — Corridor8
Her Extraordinary Colours is a public art project featuring twenty flags installed across Berwick-upon-Tweed. Over ten weeks, artist Beth J. Ross worked
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October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
New Review! 🎀
Beth J Ross: Her Extraordinary Colours by Anna Mud.
'By ...turning symbols of power and division into emblems of solidarity and care... Ross reimagines the flag not as a boundary marker, but as a starting point for curiosity, conversation, and resilience'
Beth J Ross: Her Extraordinary Colours by Anna Mud.
'By ...turning symbols of power and division into emblems of solidarity and care... Ross reimagines the flag not as a boundary marker, but as a starting point for curiosity, conversation, and resilience'
‘Sometimes, it’s an artist’s willingness to share their trials and errors which can lead to the real creative breakthrough.’
Writer Orla Foster met with three of the artists that will be taking part in the Yorkshire Artspace Open Studios on November 15 & 16.
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Writer Orla Foster met with three of the artists that will be taking part in the Yorkshire Artspace Open Studios on November 15 & 16.
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Exchange Place Studios: Inside Sheffield’s art laboratory — Corridor8
Exchange Place is a large art deco building in Sheffield's historic Castlegate Quarter. Since 2013, it has been managed as affordable art studios by
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October 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
‘Sometimes, it’s an artist’s willingness to share their trials and errors which can lead to the real creative breakthrough.’
Writer Orla Foster met with three of the artists that will be taking part in the Yorkshire Artspace Open Studios on November 15 & 16.
corridor8.co.uk/article/exch...
Writer Orla Foster met with three of the artists that will be taking part in the Yorkshire Artspace Open Studios on November 15 & 16.
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⭐ Review!
In All Possible Worlds: Middlesbrough Art Week 2025 by Kin #MAW25
In All Possible Worlds: Middlesbrough Art Week 2025 by Kin #MAW25
In all possible worlds: Middlesbrough Art Week, 2025 — Corridor8
Over the past eight years, Middlesbrough Art Week (MAW) has cemented itself as an absolute must-see in the North East’s cultural calendar. Its modus
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October 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
⭐ Review!
In All Possible Worlds: Middlesbrough Art Week 2025 by Kin #MAW25
In All Possible Worlds: Middlesbrough Art Week 2025 by Kin #MAW25
'The expansive scope of textiles as a material of artistic, domestic and commercial function is clear to see in the Biennial’s vast programme.'
Sally Button reviews this year's British Textiles Biennial, at various venues in Lancashire until 2nd November🧵
Sally Button reviews this year's British Textiles Biennial, at various venues in Lancashire until 2nd November🧵
British Textile Biennial 2025: The Future Was Always There — Corridor8
Stitches on stitches, roses within stars: I gaze towards densely woven yarns, impassioned reds, blues, blacks, a pattern inside a pattern. Up close, the
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October 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
'The expansive scope of textiles as a material of artistic, domestic and commercial function is clear to see in the Biennial’s vast programme.'
Sally Button reviews this year's British Textiles Biennial, at various venues in Lancashire until 2nd November🧵
Sally Button reviews this year's British Textiles Biennial, at various venues in Lancashire until 2nd November🧵
'What begins to emerge throughout the exhibition is the idea that digital spaces—game worlds, fantasy and dreamscapes—offer a kind of terrain where one can imagine differently.'
Jessica El Mal reviews FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE by Fafswag at HOME this year as part of Manchester International Festival.
Jessica El Mal reviews FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE by Fafswag at HOME this year as part of Manchester International Festival.
FAFSWAG: FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE — Corridor8
Fale Sā / Sacred House, which showed at HOME as part of Manchester International Festival (MIF) this year, was developed by New Zealand-based collective
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October 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
'What begins to emerge throughout the exhibition is the idea that digital spaces—game worlds, fantasy and dreamscapes—offer a kind of terrain where one can imagine differently.'
Jessica El Mal reviews FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE by Fafswag at HOME this year as part of Manchester International Festival.
Jessica El Mal reviews FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE by Fafswag at HOME this year as part of Manchester International Festival.
'The trio of dancers seemed to be suspended in time as they moved with an intricate balance of stillness and motion, their bodies extensions of one another.'
Ella Otomewo reviews BLOOM at Hallé St Peters for Japan Week in Manchester last month.
Ella Otomewo reviews BLOOM at Hallé St Peters for Japan Week in Manchester last month.
BLOOM: A Story of Metamorphosis — Corridor8
The auditorium of the Hallé St Peter’s was draped in long, loose fabrics under soft lighting before the performance began. The stage was set for a
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October 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
'The trio of dancers seemed to be suspended in time as they moved with an intricate balance of stillness and motion, their bodies extensions of one another.'
Ella Otomewo reviews BLOOM at Hallé St Peters for Japan Week in Manchester last month.
Ella Otomewo reviews BLOOM at Hallé St Peters for Japan Week in Manchester last month.
‘Halliwell-Sutton’s metal structures are sullied artefacts that seek to revise [a] local heritage of extraction.’
Simal Rafique reviews ‘Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton: From skin to land, from walls to worlds’, at GLOAM, Sheffield, which ran from 22 Aug – 14 Sep 2025.
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Simal Rafique reviews ‘Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton: From skin to land, from walls to worlds’, at GLOAM, Sheffield, which ran from 22 Aug – 14 Sep 2025.
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Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton: From skin to land, from walls to worlds — Corridor8
Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton’s solo-exhibition From skin to land, from walls to worlds presents sculpture that deals with analogue photography as a
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October 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
‘Halliwell-Sutton’s metal structures are sullied artefacts that seek to revise [a] local heritage of extraction.’
Simal Rafique reviews ‘Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton: From skin to land, from walls to worlds’, at GLOAM, Sheffield, which ran from 22 Aug – 14 Sep 2025.
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Simal Rafique reviews ‘Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton: From skin to land, from walls to worlds’, at GLOAM, Sheffield, which ran from 22 Aug – 14 Sep 2025.
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Paige Costinescu reviews '13 Beautiful Horses' at Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University. An exhibition featuring thirteen artists from the MA Contemporary Art Practice course at DMU.
13 Beautiful Horses — Corridor8
Nestled within De Montfort University campus is a building with a shining glass wall that offers passers-by a glimpse into other worlds. Leicester Gallery
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October 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Paige Costinescu reviews '13 Beautiful Horses' at Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University. An exhibition featuring thirteen artists from the MA Contemporary Art Practice course at DMU.
'Vulnerability and ambition have equally been embraced by this cohort, giving the exhibition a sense of openness' Joanna Jowett reviews The Inside and Outside of Belonging – MA Fine Art Degree Show 2025 at the University of Leeds.
The Inside and Outside of Belonging – MA Fine Art Degree Show 2025 — Corridor8
Belonging is rarely simple. It can feel like a warm tether or a boundary, a place of safety or a reminder of exclusion, making us question, ‘Where do we
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September 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
'Vulnerability and ambition have equally been embraced by this cohort, giving the exhibition a sense of openness' Joanna Jowett reviews The Inside and Outside of Belonging – MA Fine Art Degree Show 2025 at the University of Leeds.
'The more I explore and read here, the more I am reminded that no "path" we take as humans is without consequence.'
Joanna Jowett reviews ‘Acting in the Middle: A Glossary of Encounter — David Eckersley’ at Sovereign Design House, Huddersfield, 27 Jun — 19 Jul '25.
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Joanna Jowett reviews ‘Acting in the Middle: A Glossary of Encounter — David Eckersley’ at Sovereign Design House, Huddersfield, 27 Jun — 19 Jul '25.
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Acting in the Middle: A Glossary of Encounter — David Eckersley — Corridor8
David Eckersley’s exhibition Acting in the Middle: A Glossary of Encounter is a deep dive into the layered histories and fragile ecosystems of the North
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September 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
'The more I explore and read here, the more I am reminded that no "path" we take as humans is without consequence.'
Joanna Jowett reviews ‘Acting in the Middle: A Glossary of Encounter — David Eckersley’ at Sovereign Design House, Huddersfield, 27 Jun — 19 Jul '25.
corridor8.co.uk/article/acti...
Joanna Jowett reviews ‘Acting in the Middle: A Glossary of Encounter — David Eckersley’ at Sovereign Design House, Huddersfield, 27 Jun — 19 Jul '25.
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‘I feel a certain sacred melancholy emanating from the gallery walls, one that reflects a global ecological anxiety around preservation and conservation.'
Wingshan @wingshan.bsky.social reviews ‘FOREST’ at Nottingham Castle.
Wingshan @wingshan.bsky.social reviews ‘FOREST’ at Nottingham Castle.
FOREST — Corridor8
Nottingham Castle was once at the centre of a sprawling forest, stretching from Radcliffe-on-Trent, all the way to Mansfield. In the 1200s, this forest
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September 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
‘I feel a certain sacred melancholy emanating from the gallery walls, one that reflects a global ecological anxiety around preservation and conservation.'
Wingshan @wingshan.bsky.social reviews ‘FOREST’ at Nottingham Castle.
Wingshan @wingshan.bsky.social reviews ‘FOREST’ at Nottingham Castle.
Catch our August-September newsletter via the link below - a roundup of all the great writing we've published as well as some exciting bookshop and book fair news!
August-September Newsletter:
the slow collapse of summer
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September 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Catch our August-September newsletter via the link below - a roundup of all the great writing we've published as well as some exciting bookshop and book fair news!
'In this context, the criminal justice system of self-management, learned mainly through the judgements of peers and other authorities, is at fault.'
We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this literary review by Kate Paul of Nell Osborne's debut novel Ghost Driver, published by Moist.
We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this literary review by Kate Paul of Nell Osborne's debut novel Ghost Driver, published by Moist.
Nell Osborne: Ghost Driver — Corridor8
Artist Kate Paul reviews Ghost Driver, the first novel by Nell Osborne, published by MOIST. Malory, the character whose life carries Ghost Driver,
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September 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
'In this context, the criminal justice system of self-management, learned mainly through the judgements of peers and other authorities, is at fault.'
We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this literary review by Kate Paul of Nell Osborne's debut novel Ghost Driver, published by Moist.
We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this literary review by Kate Paul of Nell Osborne's debut novel Ghost Driver, published by Moist.
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Another beautiful exhibition that I got to write about for Corridor8
Our regional editor @jjhlinklater.bsky.social reviews Pippa Eaon's solo show, Four-fold Reverie, at PINK, which comes out of an @artscouncilengland.bsky.social DYCP-funded period of experimentation with ceramics, film and sound, and research into neurodivergence, selfhood, sensation and perception:
Pippa Eason: Four-fold Reverie — Corridor8
With a quarter of an hour to go before her exhibition opens, Manchester-based artist Pippa Eason is moving slowly around PINK’s second floor gallery,
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September 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Another beautiful exhibition that I got to write about for Corridor8
In this month's long read, Sally Button writes via the underground, the city and the landscape to reflect on moving from London to the northwest of the northwest, finding fragmented artistic community in and around Lancaster and Morecambe, exposing interiority and accessing space:
LANDSCAPE, INTERIORS, ART, UNDERGROUND: London to Lancaster
By Sally Button
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September 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
In this month's long read, Sally Button writes via the underground, the city and the landscape to reflect on moving from London to the northwest of the northwest, finding fragmented artistic community in and around Lancaster and Morecambe, exposing interiority and accessing space:
A Gathering: Newcastle University Post-Graduate Degree Show. Review by Uma Breakdown
'Rather than entrenching, the most exciting work in this show disperses itself, pulling pieces of futures and past, fact and fiction, affects and politics.' Read the rest of this stunning review by Uma Breakdown.
'Rather than entrenching, the most exciting work in this show disperses itself, pulling pieces of futures and past, fact and fiction, affects and politics.' Read the rest of this stunning review by Uma Breakdown.
A Gathering: Newcastle University Post-Graduate Degree Show — Corridor8
A Gathering, Newcastle University's 2025 postgraduate exhibition
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September 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A Gathering: Newcastle University Post-Graduate Degree Show. Review by Uma Breakdown
'Rather than entrenching, the most exciting work in this show disperses itself, pulling pieces of futures and past, fact and fiction, affects and politics.' Read the rest of this stunning review by Uma Breakdown.
'Rather than entrenching, the most exciting work in this show disperses itself, pulling pieces of futures and past, fact and fiction, affects and politics.' Read the rest of this stunning review by Uma Breakdown.
Our regional editor @jjhlinklater.bsky.social reviews Pippa Eaon's solo show, Four-fold Reverie, at PINK, which comes out of an @artscouncilengland.bsky.social DYCP-funded period of experimentation with ceramics, film and sound, and research into neurodivergence, selfhood, sensation and perception:
Pippa Eason: Four-fold Reverie — Corridor8
With a quarter of an hour to go before her exhibition opens, Manchester-based artist Pippa Eason is moving slowly around PINK’s second floor gallery,
corridor8.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Our regional editor @jjhlinklater.bsky.social reviews Pippa Eaon's solo show, Four-fold Reverie, at PINK, which comes out of an @artscouncilengland.bsky.social DYCP-funded period of experimentation with ceramics, film and sound, and research into neurodivergence, selfhood, sensation and perception: