When the opportunity to interview artist Helen Gibson, or perhaps better known through her alias as The Perky Painter, presented itself I was keen to visit the Arch Café once more. I first met Helen […]
Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Damien Hirst Review
The Yorkshire Sculpture Festival will be taking place for the first time, this summer, from June 22nd to September 29th, it has been publicised as the UK’s largest festival dedicated to sculpture, and will be […]
Supreme X Meissen Figurine resells at well over asking price
What do a crowbar, a pinball machine and a Meissen ceramic sculpture all have in common? Ask your nearest fifteen year old – they might just surprise you with the answer
Canvas on a Can: How Beer Labels Have Become Art
I myself am not a lover of beer, but I am certainly a lover of art. So, although the pleasure I receive when walking down the supermarket aisles is not related to the alcohol, there […]
Musee d’Orsay Seeks to Challenge Art Historical Canon With New Exhibition
A new exhibition taking place at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris is challenging conceptions of fine art, due to the mainstream art scene often excluding people of colour. The exhibition is called “Le modèle noir: de […]
Renee So’s Bellarmines and Bootlegs
The opening of Bellarmines and Bootlegs by Renee So at the Henry Moore Institute was certainly an eye-opening experience, in more ways than one. Not only was her work a fascinating insight into how bold […]
When Art Becomes Satanism: Meet the ‘Demonic’ Marina Abramović
Proclaiming herself to be the ‘grandmother of performance art’, Marina Abramović has been pushing her body to its utmost limits since 1970s. Infamous for testing the relationship between performer and spectator, Abramović insists that art […]
“Gather them in”: the Musical Treasures of W.T Freemantle at The Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery
The staff at the Leeds University galleries are known for the high standards of their exhibition spaces and for the exhibitions hosted there; and, “Gather them in”: the Musical Treasures of W.T Freemantle, is no […]
An Ode to Roger Stevens
Everybody remembers their first time in the Roger Stevens building. Somehow, I had escaped meeting this mega-monument on my open day to Leeds, so it wasn’t until the timetabling gods allotted me the elusive “Roger […]
Pop-up Popularity: The Future of the Gallery Space or Simply a Hipster Trend?
I have lived the majority of my life up the road from a local pop-up venue, once suitably named The Pink Cabbage. In that time, I have watched the space cycle through its various functions, […]