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Every time I summon the courage to sketch in public I kick myself that I don't do it often enough ...

My first visit to the relatively recently renovated Old Parcels Office gallery and studio space in Scarborough was for the ...

I was delighted to be given the opportunity to write an article for the Nottingham-based Left Lion cultural magazine. The ...

This was a small but very well-curated exhibition of Henry Moore's drawings and early works at the Museum of Making ...

Another wonderful set of documentary photographs from Chris Killip in Skinningrove and on Tyneside. When he first arrived in the ...

A first visit to Bilbao was an exciting prospect with October chosen to hopefully be a little quieter. Spain’s economy ...

A contemporary art gallery in Eastbourne you say? Oh yes. The Towner is an example of bold intervention in a ...

Pallant house in Chichester is described as having the finest permanent collection of art outside Tate in London. it was ...

A quick visit to this year’s Ferens Open in one of my favourite cities. I didn’t enter this year and ...

I'm fascinated by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (or more trendily the PRB) in how they rebelled against a stuffy and resistant ...

How to win at photography was the current show at the Photographer's Gallery. In our age of ubiquitous imagery, this ...

The Crossley Gallery sits within the iconic Dean Clough complex in Halifax. Visiting is an unusual experience as the gallery ...

This was an overdue visit to the Graves Gallery in Sheffield which had been closed due to COVID and other ...

In my mind, the New Art Exchange is the coolest art venue in Nottingham, situated as it is in the ...

This was our first trip to see the Wireworks Project on the edge of Shining Cliff woods in Ambergate, a ...