Interview with Lawrence Sillars Chief Curator at the Baltic
Laurence Sillars is Chief Curator at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. The Baltic, located in the North East, provides an international calendar of contemporary visual art. The Grid quizzes...
View ArticleDiving into Damon Mohl’s Miniaturised Worlds
Damon Mohl is an award-winning filmmaker who combines painting, sculpture and drawing with digital technology to create some amazingly imaginative works. After seeing his celebrated film The Diver at...
View ArticlePopcorn, Alcopops and Cake…pops
This small exhibition hosted in York’s Amnesty bookshop featured a variety of pieces ranging from video installations to wall mounted knitting inspired by the work of Bruce Nauman. The theme of the...
View ArticleQ & A with artist Poppy Whatmore
Poppy Whatmore is a London based artist who won the 2013 Aesthetica Art Prize. She gained an MFA in Fine Art from the Slade in 2012. Her work has been collected by the Saatchi Gallery and exhibited in...
View ArticleInterview with Anna Lilleengen
For anyone who visited the most recent Lotte Inch exhibition, Across the North Sea, the work of locally-based photographer Anna Lilleengen may well have been a revelation and certainly a joy. Since her...
View ArticleJade Blood Interview
Jade Blood is a multi-talented York residing artist who kindly gave up her time to have a chat with me in The Habit. She talks creating contemporary art in a city most renowned for 866AD, The Wrong...
View ArticleNur, Afghan Notes: In conversation with Monika Bulaj
Monika Bulaj is a writer and a photographer (how much photo-reporter and how much an artist? “55% and 45%”, she says, but doesn’t let on which is which). She comes originally from Poland, but currently...
View Article5 Weeks in Palestine.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which began in the early part of the twentieth century, has only recently (I regret to say) had people react in large numbers around the world and protest,...
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