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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Sep 8

‘Holmes transforms ancient terrors into endearing companions, questioning where folklore sits in sanitised modern times.’

Hanna Dhaimish reviews ‘Dale Holmes: Beenderman & Gytrash’ at South Square Centre, Thornton, on until 5 Oct 2025.

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Dale Holmes: Beenderman & Gytrash — Corridor8

Celtic mythology describes certain places as having a 'thin veil’ between worlds, separating the mundane everyday from the otherworld – that parallel

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Aug 26

on hometown solo shows, cultural assets that the owners don't want to look after anymore, memorialisation and ambivalence via pals, old bandmates and a big boat tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/what...

What Is a Working-Class Artist?

A new exhibition in post-industrial Wearside ventures beyond stereotypes to present a nuanced vision of labour history, defying the obstacles working-class creatives face in modern Britain.

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Aug 7

berwick got me on the xl bully sheep algo

screenshot of an instagram advertisement showing a very beefy sheep

easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Jul 31

photograph from Berwick-upon-Tweed Salmon Queen crowning showing two women with their backs to the camera holding a large colourful banner that reads 'Salmon Queen' in Salmon Pink. The women on the left is me.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · Jul 29

there hasn’t been a song of the summer yet because we can’t hear it over the screaming

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Jul 27

Really interesting talk from @timjerrome.bsky.social just now on finding queer histories in rural records, on the subject of a lack of northern representation it might be worth checking out the @nenature.bsky.social archive - could've said this in person but wandered off before I thought of it 🤪

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Jul 22

How it always goes in wars, austerity, entire election campaigns and governments, this genocide. Everyone who matters unites in the period where the horrors might yet be averted to ensure they proceed unimpeded, and that anyone who says they should be is stomped into the earth. Later: silence.

Abi Wilkinson @AbiWilks
Such overwhelming hate in my heart for people I know who had lots to say about October 7th and nothing now
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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Jul 17

who up chongin they salmons

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Our new publication is out now! Barkle and Tranklements: Art Writing from the Midlands is a 192-page collection of essays, fictions, surveys and rituals from nine writers from across the Midlands, edited by Ben Barra and Lesley Guy. Buy one today!

Barkle and Tranklements — Corridor8

Photograph courtesy of Ashleigh Armitage. Photograph courtesy of Ashleigh Armitage. Photograph courtesy of Ashleigh Armitage. Photograph courtesy of

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Jul 11

i'm going to go to this, i don't really know anyone else who's going though, have a pint with me

Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jul 11

As socialists from all over the world prepare to attend the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, we explore the story of the Gala’s iconic banners, which celebrate our historic solidarity and continuing hope in the face of oppression and hatred.

DMG 2025: Communism in the Coalfields

As socialists from all over the world prepare to attend the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, we explore the story of the Gala’s iconic banners, which celebrate our historic solidarity and continuing hope…

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Jul 9

this was great, more cultural events with very good content but also an explicit call to hang out, please

Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social · Jul 5

What a night!

Thanks to all who came down and made it so special.

And thanks to @garethdennis.uk, Jake Trelease, Lyndsey Ayre and Yara Rodrigues Fowler!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Jul 8

getting in a fistfight because me and the boys can't decide if "making your robot talk like Hitler" is a Simpsons Homer & Mr Burns B-plot episode, a Community Pierce & Abed A-plot episode, a 30 Rock Jack & Pete C-plot episode, or a Data & Geordi 2-part cliffhanger TNG episode

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Jul 9

having a classic 'public art in a whimsical small town' time at the moment getting passed back and forth between the town council and county council because nobody knows who's supposed to give permission relating to this www.gov.uk/government/p...

Flying flags: a plain English guide

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Jul 7

monkmode is over it's scriptorium girl summer (one of the projects i'm producing at work is a 'sci-fi scriptorium' and i'm making a mood board for the imaginationless)

illustration (1980s/90s style?) of monks with cliche monk haircuts in franciscan robes scribing with the lads

medieval fresco (?) of a lone monk with a halo scribing

monochrome engraving of a monk scribing on a fancy curly scroll surrounded by scattered folio

medieval fresco (?) of three cherry-lipped monks a-scribing

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Jul 7

just a bit of fun!

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jul 6

Yesss, Southern Reach Reddit... you're all grown up now. 😭

Jeff VanderMeer's bluesky

I went to Jeff VanderMeer's bluesky today to check out the reports I had seen on this subreddit. The first few posts were exactly what I expected, posts about research for a new book, pictures of birds, news from the writing world. But as I began to scroll further, past grids and grids of bird pictures, I began to feel an odd sensation in the corner of my eye. That there was some contamination. That by posting on reddit about bluesky posts about reddit we had somehow contaminated both. I began to see screenshots of the /r/SouthernReach subreddit that I didn't remember existing, that shouldn't have existed, somehow distorted. Too close up, as if Jeff had taken the screenshots from my own reddit post editor. I continued to scroll even though it felt like there was no reward in the risk. People getting fucked up by Stockholm amusement rides. A truly uncountable number of bird pictures.

Was this what we were warned against? That by exposure this this number of bird pictures one would join the birding subreddit? That we would feel compelled to download the Merlin app to identify their chaotic and brilliant songs outside our windows? That we would sign off and go... outside?

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · Jul 6

A second heartwarming story about Brits walking around has turned out to be a massive scam

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Jul 6

having some absolutely atrocious work dreams at the moment, last night i was trying to interview 40 people simultaneously for a shit amorphous job that only paid 10k

easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Jul 2

there we r

Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Jul 2

What happened in June, you ask? Fear not, all is here! Catch up with the free-to-read activity on our site in this recent newsletter, delve into our paid long read on the Substack from @pdkmitchell.bsky.social‬, frolic in the summer fields of art writing from the top half of England, etc, etc:

June Newsletter: we have been awandering

Post-strawberry moon and summer solstice tidings ~

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · May 29

i wrote about some of the strangeness from my life for the last ten years, working for arts organisations, universities and other institutions on temporary contracts all over the north of england, in the style of a terribly sincere personal essay, and that's VERY interesting

Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · May 23

'An aim of these salons was also to soothe my own fatigue and cynicism towards marketing and audiences...'

Over on SUBSTACK - Lauren Velvick reflects on her nomadic career and the strategies she's used to find connection in a precarious art world.
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Temporary arts contracts have made a reluctant nomad of me, and that's VERY interesting

By Lauren Velvick

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Apr 27

trying to get a trans pope chant going in newcastle

a photograph from a trans solidarity protest in newcastle uk showing trans pride flags and a hand made sign saying 'let trans people piss'

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Apr 26

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.

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Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic

The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Apr 16

'Not quite fifteen years ago, on a very cold morning, my friend called me over to marvel at a little stalactite that had formed on a water pipe in our studio...'

April's newsletter comes from Merseyside with a confession from artist-led studios past 😱

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March-April Newsletter: springing into the new quarter

The month has been a busy one for our writers across all the regions and creating in community has never felt more important...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Apr 10

Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm!

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Apr 9

i saw a real seal the other day, i live in a town with seals now, chongin pure salmons

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easy peeler @velvick.bsky.social · Mar 26

devastating to be making a 5 hour train journey from Berwick to Blackburn today in the UK after this one from Wrocław to Krakow last week 🥲

I am sat at a table in a train dining car in Poland with a crisp pint of lager

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