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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. https://corridor8.co.uk/ https://corridor8.substack.com/

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Dec 4

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

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'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.

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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'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.

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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‘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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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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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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'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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'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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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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‘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.

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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 15d

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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'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.

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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Jazmine Linklater @jjhlinklater.bsky.social · 23d

Another beautiful exhibition that I got to write about for Corridor8

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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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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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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.

A Gathering: Newcastle University Post-Graduate Degree Show — Corridor8

A Gathering, Newcastle University's 2025 postgraduate exhibition

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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Sep 9

Continuing our independent commissioning thanks to your paid Substack subscriptions and donations, Laura Biddle reviews The Way In Is Not The Whole Way Through at texture, a new, temporary space in Manchester, including works by Haydn Albrow, Katrina Colwing, Conor Rogers and Fleur Yearsley 👻

The Way In Is Not The Whole Way Through — Corridor8

If you want to find disused, cavernous industrial buildings in a city, follow the artists. It is standard fare to find arts spaces in industrial areas –

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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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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Aug 28

'Its rationale was laid out: to amplify both individual and collective voices of resistance that emerge from oppression'

REVIEW - Resounding Diasporic Sonic Worlds, The NewBridge Project , Newcastle upon Tyne by @cyhchristie.bsky.social

Resounding Diasporic Sonic Worlds — Corridor8

Resounding Diasporic Sonic Worlds at The Newbridge Project was an exhibition presenting ten multimedia and archival projects conceived by artists,

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Aug 25

'While I’m in the gallery, a family steps in front of the artwork. The youngsters jump and pull faces in its mirrored surface, while the man reads the caption. He does not explain it to them.’

Jennifer Brough on 'We Grown-Ups Can Also Be Afraid' at Attenborough Arts Centre.

We Grown-Ups Can Also Be Afraid: Creativity in Times of Crisis — Corridor8

Upon entering the subterranean, white-walled gallery space, I am immediately confronted by Mona Hatoum’s ‘Hot Spot’ (2016). The outlines of each continent

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Aug 24

'To write about a biennial from this perspective is a step outside of the tempo and often placeless perspective of the art reviewer who jets into a city and takes from it only what they need.'

Read Liverpool resident Laura Harris, reflecting on the civic, emplaced and social nature of biennials.

The Lithic Biennial

By Laura Harris

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Aug 18

'What I like is going into new places and somehow getting under the skin.'

Pippa Hale talks to Lesley Guy at The Bowes Museum @thebowesmuseum about her new exhibition ‘Pet Projects’, on until 1 March 2026.

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Pippa Hale: Pet Project — Corridor8

I travelled to The Bowes Museum to interview artist Pippa Hale, and after my long drive down was delighted to be able to take off my shoes, leap and

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Aug 16

‘I keep wondering - is contemporary art dead?’

Wayne Burrows speaks to Bruce Asbestos about his two new commissions now on show at Ilam Park and Wentworth Woodhouse.

Link to the full article in our bio.

Image: 'Pepperpot the Mole' (2025), National Trust, Ilam Park. Photo by Jules Lister.

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Narbi Price @narbiprice.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thanks to Kate Liston and @corridor8.bsky.social for their thoughtful review of the first outing of Going Back Brockens in Bishop Auckland.

Read all about it below.
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Going Back Brockens: Monuments and Rhetoric After the Miners’ Strike — Corridor8

The Level 1 Car Park hums under fluorescent strip lighting. In one corner, a ticket machine awaits; in another, a set of blue fire doors stands open next

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Aug 11

'The intriguing display system forced me to confront each photograph intimately, my hands grabbing the edges, fingers grazing the glazing as I peered into each frame.'

Vaishna Surjid reviews Confluences at Cross Lane Projects, a show around Mark Woods and the artists who have influenced him.

Confluences — Corridor8

I was welcomed to Kendal by a steel band playing joyfully tinny renditions of Michael Bublé and ABBA. Perhaps this was the first sign that the day would

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Aug 8

In June, Lesley Guy went to the Uncanny Carnival in Newcastle – the brainchild of Seymour Mace and the rest of the NewBridge Programming Committee – and had a canny time.

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Uncanny Carnival — Corridor8

Here in the North East, the word ‘canny’ can mean so much. You may have heard it in Geordie phrases like ‘canny lad’. Fundamentally it means good, nice,

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Chainmail 4 asks for compassion and seeks out care."

Natalie Hughes on Amartey Golding at @factliverpool.bsky.social, the final instalment of the Resolution project which invited four artists to collaborate with participants from the justice system.

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Amartey Golding — Corridor8

Artist Amartey Golding’s chainmail series—which he began in 2015, and spans film, sculpture, and photographs—continues at FACT with Chainmail 4: Silent

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Aug 4

'What was interesting to watch was how many people stopped to look and, seeing themselves, shied away'

Chantal Oakes reviews Snapes Open Call and Response, curated by Hans Browne and featuring 29 local artists responding to the building that housed printworks firm T. Snape &Co. for 150 years! 🏫

Snapes Open Call and Response — Corridor8

In Preston, an old industrial building recently came on the market. It used to be the premises of T. Snape &Co., a Preston-based print works firm in

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