Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Lunatics' Common Room is the first solo exhibition by photographer-artist Yoanna Walden. Featuring 15 carefully staged photographic works, Walden aims to create a shared space for those historically deprived of their autonomy within psychiatric institutions, while interrogating systems of control and the social construction of madness.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFactory International has built a reputation for bringing world class exhibitions to Manchester, and Ai Weiwei: Button Up! continues that trend.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Crying out for imagination, absurdity or self-awareness: Woof is just a play about two dogs.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes“A snapshot of the city, carefully curated”
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Saturday 13 June, Woolwich Works joins makers around the world for World Wide Stitch In Public Day, with a free celebration of craft, community and creativity. We sat down with one of the organisers of World Stitch Day, Allison Thistlewood, to discuss the upcoming event.
Reading Time: 4 minutesHannah Caplan is a writer and visual artist working across painting, ceramics and fibre art. THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME. is her debut play, with her visual practice directly informing the production’s hand-crafted set and material language. We sat down with Hannah to discuss her upcoming performance.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down with Cathy Waller to talk about Cathy Waller Company’s new triptych of live dance, film and visual art, You & Us that asks timely and urgent questions about invisibility, identity and what it truly means to be seen.
Reading Time: 3 minutesExperimental cross-arts company Fevered Sleep will make its Barbican debut with public art intervention This Grief Thing.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHersh Dagmarr is a queer singer and visual artist based in London. On stage at Crazy Coqs, a lavish cabaret venue located inside Brasserie Zédel, he performs a selection of classic Hollywood songs, from ‘Black Market’ (A Foreign Affair, 1948) through to ‘More’ (Dick Tracy, 1990).
Reading Time: 2 minutesLowry’s Developed With programme supports another artist’s ambitious new work to develop The Guardians of Living Matter. Created by multidisciplinary artists John Paul Brown and Sophy King, the exhibition brings together art, climate research and technology in a way that feels open and easy to engage with.