UK exhibitions to see this October
The best exhibitions showing across the country this month
By
Adam Wells
October 7, 2022
In-Side-Out-Side-In at Site Gallery, Sheffield
Fans of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s micro and macro investigations into the human body should definitely visit this new exhibition at Sheffield’s Sit Gallery. Centred around Laura Wilson’s new sculptural installation Ladybower, this group exhibition features works by Helen Chadwick, Phoebe Collings-James, Charles and Ray Eames, Eva Fàbregas, Shana Moulton, Poppy Nash and Tai Shani, all considering the human digestive system, and our bodies’ varying reactions to changing environments. With its Fibonacci-inspired shape, Ladybower also serves as the amphitheatre for Laura Wilson's work Gutted, a scripted performance piece considering gut processes as landscape-scale infrastructure alongside comparisons to archaeological digs. Splitting the exhibition between internal and external space, Ladybower is named after the Sheffield reservoir, visually echoing the structures which provide the city’s drinking water and making the exhibition a uniquely local exploration of its universal themes.
In-Side-Out-Side-In is showing at Site Gallery until 22nd December
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary at Nottingham Contemporary
Another exhibition suited perfectly to its city comes in the form of Nottingham Contemporary’s Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & the Subterranean Imaginary. The city of Nottingham is built on top of a network of over 800 hand-carved caves, utilised by residents across hundreds of years. Hollow Earth explores the concept of caves, bringing together 150 works by over 50 artists to explore the themes of darkness, thresholds and prehistory across the history of art. With many even describing the geological structures as the earliest studios and museums due to cave-painting, Hollow Earth considers the role of the cave in humanity’s collective impulse to produce images. The exhibition itself features major works by René Magritte, Santu Mofokeng, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall and Aubrey Williams, alongside new commissions from Sofia Borges, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Goshka Macuga, Lydia Ourahmane and Liv Preston.
Mairéad McClean: HERE at Belfast Exposed Photography
Interrogating the politics and culture of religion and their definitions in different areas, award-winning visual artist Mairéad McClean’s HERE “seeks to explore what it means to be ‘of’ a place, as opposed to being ‘from’ a place”. Utilising changes from the Belfast Exposed archive of over 1 million images, as well as McClean’s own personal works, HERE offers an important view of everyday life during the Troubles, as well as the political upheaval caused by the eventual ceasefire. Also on display, a monumental site-specific piece Learning to Read (Northern Ireland, 1971) uses children’s characters as a memoir of the time, connecting thematically to a new iteration of the artist’s award-winning 2013 film No More. This new work, titled Dialogue, offers a ‘retelling’ of No More, with the two pieces working together to create a “film [as]oral history, offering up co-incidences and new realisations”.
Mairéad McClean: HERE is showing at Belfast Exposed Photography until 23rd December
Jon Key: I, Too at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
Writer, designer and painter Jon Key’s first solo exhibition with Carl Freedman Gallery is made up of a new series of oil and acrylic paintings, presented alongside two new large screen prints. In these works, Key investigates his own identity as a Queer Black man from Alabama, the themes of his life - chiefly Queerness, Blackness, Southernness and family - intersecting within the works of I, Too. With painted furniture and screen-printed wallpaper, Key transforms the gallery interior into a patterned space to better reflect the bold lines and stark colours of his paintings. A blend of archival ephemera and artefacts are portrayed within his paintings against a backdrop of environments designed to hide American oppression, allowing the artist to offer strength, support and resilience through his work. Jon Key is also the co-founder of Codify Art, “a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of colour, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of colour”.
Jon Key: I, Too is showing at Carl Freedman Gallery until 6th November
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with every exhibition you visit!
In-Side-Out-Side-In at Site Gallery, Sheffield
Fans of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s micro and macro investigations into the human body should definitely visit this new exhibition at Sheffield’s Sit Gallery. Centred around Laura Wilson’s new sculptural installation Ladybower, this group exhibition features works by Helen Chadwick, Phoebe Collings-James, Charles and Ray Eames, Eva Fàbregas, Shana Moulton, Poppy Nash and Tai Shani, all considering the human digestive system, and our bodies’ varying reactions to changing environments. With its Fibonacci-inspired shape, Ladybower also serves as the amphitheatre for Laura Wilson's work Gutted, a scripted performance piece considering gut processes as landscape-scale infrastructure alongside comparisons to archaeological digs. Splitting the exhibition between internal and external space, Ladybower is named after the Sheffield reservoir, visually echoing the structures which provide the city’s drinking water and making the exhibition a uniquely local exploration of its universal themes.
In-Side-Out-Side-In is showing at Site Gallery until 22nd December
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary at Nottingham Contemporary
Another exhibition suited perfectly to its city comes in the form of Nottingham Contemporary’s Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & the Subterranean Imaginary. The city of Nottingham is built on top of a network of over 800 hand-carved caves, utilised by residents across hundreds of years. Hollow Earth explores the concept of caves, bringing together 150 works by over 50 artists to explore the themes of darkness, thresholds and prehistory across the history of art. With many even describing the geological structures as the earliest studios and museums due to cave-painting, Hollow Earth considers the role of the cave in humanity’s collective impulse to produce images. The exhibition itself features major works by René Magritte, Santu Mofokeng, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall and Aubrey Williams, alongside new commissions from Sofia Borges, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Goshka Macuga, Lydia Ourahmane and Liv Preston.
Mairéad McClean: HERE at Belfast Exposed Photography
Interrogating the politics and culture of religion and their definitions in different areas, award-winning visual artist Mairéad McClean’s HERE “seeks to explore what it means to be ‘of’ a place, as opposed to being ‘from’ a place”. Utilising changes from the Belfast Exposed archive of over 1 million images, as well as McClean’s own personal works, HERE offers an important view of everyday life during the Troubles, as well as the political upheaval caused by the eventual ceasefire. Also on display, a monumental site-specific piece Learning to Read (Northern Ireland, 1971) uses children’s characters as a memoir of the time, connecting thematically to a new iteration of the artist’s award-winning 2013 film No More. This new work, titled Dialogue, offers a ‘retelling’ of No More, with the two pieces working together to create a “film [as]oral history, offering up co-incidences and new realisations”.
Mairéad McClean: HERE is showing at Belfast Exposed Photography until 23rd December
Jon Key: I, Too at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
Writer, designer and painter Jon Key’s first solo exhibition with Carl Freedman Gallery is made up of a new series of oil and acrylic paintings, presented alongside two new large screen prints. In these works, Key investigates his own identity as a Queer Black man from Alabama, the themes of his life - chiefly Queerness, Blackness, Southernness and family - intersecting within the works of I, Too. With painted furniture and screen-printed wallpaper, Key transforms the gallery interior into a patterned space to better reflect the bold lines and stark colours of his paintings. A blend of archival ephemera and artefacts are portrayed within his paintings against a backdrop of environments designed to hide American oppression, allowing the artist to offer strength, support and resilience through his work. Jon Key is also the co-founder of Codify Art, “a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of colour, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of colour”.
Jon Key: I, Too is showing at Carl Freedman Gallery until 6th November
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with every exhibition you visit!
In-Side-Out-Side-In at Site Gallery, Sheffield
Fans of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s micro and macro investigations into the human body should definitely visit this new exhibition at Sheffield’s Sit Gallery. Centred around Laura Wilson’s new sculptural installation Ladybower, this group exhibition features works by Helen Chadwick, Phoebe Collings-James, Charles and Ray Eames, Eva Fàbregas, Shana Moulton, Poppy Nash and Tai Shani, all considering the human digestive system, and our bodies’ varying reactions to changing environments. With its Fibonacci-inspired shape, Ladybower also serves as the amphitheatre for Laura Wilson's work Gutted, a scripted performance piece considering gut processes as landscape-scale infrastructure alongside comparisons to archaeological digs. Splitting the exhibition between internal and external space, Ladybower is named after the Sheffield reservoir, visually echoing the structures which provide the city’s drinking water and making the exhibition a uniquely local exploration of its universal themes.
In-Side-Out-Side-In is showing at Site Gallery until 22nd December
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary at Nottingham Contemporary
Another exhibition suited perfectly to its city comes in the form of Nottingham Contemporary’s Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & the Subterranean Imaginary. The city of Nottingham is built on top of a network of over 800 hand-carved caves, utilised by residents across hundreds of years. Hollow Earth explores the concept of caves, bringing together 150 works by over 50 artists to explore the themes of darkness, thresholds and prehistory across the history of art. With many even describing the geological structures as the earliest studios and museums due to cave-painting, Hollow Earth considers the role of the cave in humanity’s collective impulse to produce images. The exhibition itself features major works by René Magritte, Santu Mofokeng, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall and Aubrey Williams, alongside new commissions from Sofia Borges, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Goshka Macuga, Lydia Ourahmane and Liv Preston.
Mairéad McClean: HERE at Belfast Exposed Photography
Interrogating the politics and culture of religion and their definitions in different areas, award-winning visual artist Mairéad McClean’s HERE “seeks to explore what it means to be ‘of’ a place, as opposed to being ‘from’ a place”. Utilising changes from the Belfast Exposed archive of over 1 million images, as well as McClean’s own personal works, HERE offers an important view of everyday life during the Troubles, as well as the political upheaval caused by the eventual ceasefire. Also on display, a monumental site-specific piece Learning to Read (Northern Ireland, 1971) uses children’s characters as a memoir of the time, connecting thematically to a new iteration of the artist’s award-winning 2013 film No More. This new work, titled Dialogue, offers a ‘retelling’ of No More, with the two pieces working together to create a “film [as]oral history, offering up co-incidences and new realisations”.
Mairéad McClean: HERE is showing at Belfast Exposed Photography until 23rd December
Jon Key: I, Too at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
Writer, designer and painter Jon Key’s first solo exhibition with Carl Freedman Gallery is made up of a new series of oil and acrylic paintings, presented alongside two new large screen prints. In these works, Key investigates his own identity as a Queer Black man from Alabama, the themes of his life - chiefly Queerness, Blackness, Southernness and family - intersecting within the works of I, Too. With painted furniture and screen-printed wallpaper, Key transforms the gallery interior into a patterned space to better reflect the bold lines and stark colours of his paintings. A blend of archival ephemera and artefacts are portrayed within his paintings against a backdrop of environments designed to hide American oppression, allowing the artist to offer strength, support and resilience through his work. Jon Key is also the co-founder of Codify Art, “a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of colour, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of colour”.
Jon Key: I, Too is showing at Carl Freedman Gallery until 6th November
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with every exhibition you visit!
In-Side-Out-Side-In at Site Gallery, Sheffield
Fans of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s micro and macro investigations into the human body should definitely visit this new exhibition at Sheffield’s Sit Gallery. Centred around Laura Wilson’s new sculptural installation Ladybower, this group exhibition features works by Helen Chadwick, Phoebe Collings-James, Charles and Ray Eames, Eva Fàbregas, Shana Moulton, Poppy Nash and Tai Shani, all considering the human digestive system, and our bodies’ varying reactions to changing environments. With its Fibonacci-inspired shape, Ladybower also serves as the amphitheatre for Laura Wilson's work Gutted, a scripted performance piece considering gut processes as landscape-scale infrastructure alongside comparisons to archaeological digs. Splitting the exhibition between internal and external space, Ladybower is named after the Sheffield reservoir, visually echoing the structures which provide the city’s drinking water and making the exhibition a uniquely local exploration of its universal themes.
In-Side-Out-Side-In is showing at Site Gallery until 22nd December
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary at Nottingham Contemporary
Another exhibition suited perfectly to its city comes in the form of Nottingham Contemporary’s Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & the Subterranean Imaginary. The city of Nottingham is built on top of a network of over 800 hand-carved caves, utilised by residents across hundreds of years. Hollow Earth explores the concept of caves, bringing together 150 works by over 50 artists to explore the themes of darkness, thresholds and prehistory across the history of art. With many even describing the geological structures as the earliest studios and museums due to cave-painting, Hollow Earth considers the role of the cave in humanity’s collective impulse to produce images. The exhibition itself features major works by René Magritte, Santu Mofokeng, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall and Aubrey Williams, alongside new commissions from Sofia Borges, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Goshka Macuga, Lydia Ourahmane and Liv Preston.
Mairéad McClean: HERE at Belfast Exposed Photography
Interrogating the politics and culture of religion and their definitions in different areas, award-winning visual artist Mairéad McClean’s HERE “seeks to explore what it means to be ‘of’ a place, as opposed to being ‘from’ a place”. Utilising changes from the Belfast Exposed archive of over 1 million images, as well as McClean’s own personal works, HERE offers an important view of everyday life during the Troubles, as well as the political upheaval caused by the eventual ceasefire. Also on display, a monumental site-specific piece Learning to Read (Northern Ireland, 1971) uses children’s characters as a memoir of the time, connecting thematically to a new iteration of the artist’s award-winning 2013 film No More. This new work, titled Dialogue, offers a ‘retelling’ of No More, with the two pieces working together to create a “film [as]oral history, offering up co-incidences and new realisations”.
Mairéad McClean: HERE is showing at Belfast Exposed Photography until 23rd December
Jon Key: I, Too at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
Writer, designer and painter Jon Key’s first solo exhibition with Carl Freedman Gallery is made up of a new series of oil and acrylic paintings, presented alongside two new large screen prints. In these works, Key investigates his own identity as a Queer Black man from Alabama, the themes of his life - chiefly Queerness, Blackness, Southernness and family - intersecting within the works of I, Too. With painted furniture and screen-printed wallpaper, Key transforms the gallery interior into a patterned space to better reflect the bold lines and stark colours of his paintings. A blend of archival ephemera and artefacts are portrayed within his paintings against a backdrop of environments designed to hide American oppression, allowing the artist to offer strength, support and resilience through his work. Jon Key is also the co-founder of Codify Art, “a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of colour, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of colour”.
Jon Key: I, Too is showing at Carl Freedman Gallery until 6th November
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with every exhibition you visit!
In-Side-Out-Side-In at Site Gallery, Sheffield
Fans of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s micro and macro investigations into the human body should definitely visit this new exhibition at Sheffield’s Sit Gallery. Centred around Laura Wilson’s new sculptural installation Ladybower, this group exhibition features works by Helen Chadwick, Phoebe Collings-James, Charles and Ray Eames, Eva Fàbregas, Shana Moulton, Poppy Nash and Tai Shani, all considering the human digestive system, and our bodies’ varying reactions to changing environments. With its Fibonacci-inspired shape, Ladybower also serves as the amphitheatre for Laura Wilson's work Gutted, a scripted performance piece considering gut processes as landscape-scale infrastructure alongside comparisons to archaeological digs. Splitting the exhibition between internal and external space, Ladybower is named after the Sheffield reservoir, visually echoing the structures which provide the city’s drinking water and making the exhibition a uniquely local exploration of its universal themes.
In-Side-Out-Side-In is showing at Site Gallery until 22nd December
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary at Nottingham Contemporary
Another exhibition suited perfectly to its city comes in the form of Nottingham Contemporary’s Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & the Subterranean Imaginary. The city of Nottingham is built on top of a network of over 800 hand-carved caves, utilised by residents across hundreds of years. Hollow Earth explores the concept of caves, bringing together 150 works by over 50 artists to explore the themes of darkness, thresholds and prehistory across the history of art. With many even describing the geological structures as the earliest studios and museums due to cave-painting, Hollow Earth considers the role of the cave in humanity’s collective impulse to produce images. The exhibition itself features major works by René Magritte, Santu Mofokeng, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall and Aubrey Williams, alongside new commissions from Sofia Borges, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Goshka Macuga, Lydia Ourahmane and Liv Preston.
Mairéad McClean: HERE at Belfast Exposed Photography
Interrogating the politics and culture of religion and their definitions in different areas, award-winning visual artist Mairéad McClean’s HERE “seeks to explore what it means to be ‘of’ a place, as opposed to being ‘from’ a place”. Utilising changes from the Belfast Exposed archive of over 1 million images, as well as McClean’s own personal works, HERE offers an important view of everyday life during the Troubles, as well as the political upheaval caused by the eventual ceasefire. Also on display, a monumental site-specific piece Learning to Read (Northern Ireland, 1971) uses children’s characters as a memoir of the time, connecting thematically to a new iteration of the artist’s award-winning 2013 film No More. This new work, titled Dialogue, offers a ‘retelling’ of No More, with the two pieces working together to create a “film [as]oral history, offering up co-incidences and new realisations”.
Mairéad McClean: HERE is showing at Belfast Exposed Photography until 23rd December
Jon Key: I, Too at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
Writer, designer and painter Jon Key’s first solo exhibition with Carl Freedman Gallery is made up of a new series of oil and acrylic paintings, presented alongside two new large screen prints. In these works, Key investigates his own identity as a Queer Black man from Alabama, the themes of his life - chiefly Queerness, Blackness, Southernness and family - intersecting within the works of I, Too. With painted furniture and screen-printed wallpaper, Key transforms the gallery interior into a patterned space to better reflect the bold lines and stark colours of his paintings. A blend of archival ephemera and artefacts are portrayed within his paintings against a backdrop of environments designed to hide American oppression, allowing the artist to offer strength, support and resilience through his work. Jon Key is also the co-founder of Codify Art, “a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of colour, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of colour”.
Jon Key: I, Too is showing at Carl Freedman Gallery until 6th November
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with every exhibition you visit!
In-Side-Out-Side-In at Site Gallery, Sheffield
Fans of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s micro and macro investigations into the human body should definitely visit this new exhibition at Sheffield’s Sit Gallery. Centred around Laura Wilson’s new sculptural installation Ladybower, this group exhibition features works by Helen Chadwick, Phoebe Collings-James, Charles and Ray Eames, Eva Fàbregas, Shana Moulton, Poppy Nash and Tai Shani, all considering the human digestive system, and our bodies’ varying reactions to changing environments. With its Fibonacci-inspired shape, Ladybower also serves as the amphitheatre for Laura Wilson's work Gutted, a scripted performance piece considering gut processes as landscape-scale infrastructure alongside comparisons to archaeological digs. Splitting the exhibition between internal and external space, Ladybower is named after the Sheffield reservoir, visually echoing the structures which provide the city’s drinking water and making the exhibition a uniquely local exploration of its universal themes.
In-Side-Out-Side-In is showing at Site Gallery until 22nd December
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary at Nottingham Contemporary
Another exhibition suited perfectly to its city comes in the form of Nottingham Contemporary’s Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & the Subterranean Imaginary. The city of Nottingham is built on top of a network of over 800 hand-carved caves, utilised by residents across hundreds of years. Hollow Earth explores the concept of caves, bringing together 150 works by over 50 artists to explore the themes of darkness, thresholds and prehistory across the history of art. With many even describing the geological structures as the earliest studios and museums due to cave-painting, Hollow Earth considers the role of the cave in humanity’s collective impulse to produce images. The exhibition itself features major works by René Magritte, Santu Mofokeng, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall and Aubrey Williams, alongside new commissions from Sofia Borges, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Goshka Macuga, Lydia Ourahmane and Liv Preston.
Mairéad McClean: HERE at Belfast Exposed Photography
Interrogating the politics and culture of religion and their definitions in different areas, award-winning visual artist Mairéad McClean’s HERE “seeks to explore what it means to be ‘of’ a place, as opposed to being ‘from’ a place”. Utilising changes from the Belfast Exposed archive of over 1 million images, as well as McClean’s own personal works, HERE offers an important view of everyday life during the Troubles, as well as the political upheaval caused by the eventual ceasefire. Also on display, a monumental site-specific piece Learning to Read (Northern Ireland, 1971) uses children’s characters as a memoir of the time, connecting thematically to a new iteration of the artist’s award-winning 2013 film No More. This new work, titled Dialogue, offers a ‘retelling’ of No More, with the two pieces working together to create a “film [as]oral history, offering up co-incidences and new realisations”.
Mairéad McClean: HERE is showing at Belfast Exposed Photography until 23rd December
Jon Key: I, Too at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
Writer, designer and painter Jon Key’s first solo exhibition with Carl Freedman Gallery is made up of a new series of oil and acrylic paintings, presented alongside two new large screen prints. In these works, Key investigates his own identity as a Queer Black man from Alabama, the themes of his life - chiefly Queerness, Blackness, Southernness and family - intersecting within the works of I, Too. With painted furniture and screen-printed wallpaper, Key transforms the gallery interior into a patterned space to better reflect the bold lines and stark colours of his paintings. A blend of archival ephemera and artefacts are portrayed within his paintings against a backdrop of environments designed to hide American oppression, allowing the artist to offer strength, support and resilience through his work. Jon Key is also the co-founder of Codify Art, “a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of colour, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of colour”.
Jon Key: I, Too is showing at Carl Freedman Gallery until 6th November
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with every exhibition you visit!
In-Side-Out-Side-In at Site Gallery, Sheffield
Fans of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s micro and macro investigations into the human body should definitely visit this new exhibition at Sheffield’s Sit Gallery. Centred around Laura Wilson’s new sculptural installation Ladybower, this group exhibition features works by Helen Chadwick, Phoebe Collings-James, Charles and Ray Eames, Eva Fàbregas, Shana Moulton, Poppy Nash and Tai Shani, all considering the human digestive system, and our bodies’ varying reactions to changing environments. With its Fibonacci-inspired shape, Ladybower also serves as the amphitheatre for Laura Wilson's work Gutted, a scripted performance piece considering gut processes as landscape-scale infrastructure alongside comparisons to archaeological digs. Splitting the exhibition between internal and external space, Ladybower is named after the Sheffield reservoir, visually echoing the structures which provide the city’s drinking water and making the exhibition a uniquely local exploration of its universal themes.
In-Side-Out-Side-In is showing at Site Gallery until 22nd December
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary at Nottingham Contemporary
Another exhibition suited perfectly to its city comes in the form of Nottingham Contemporary’s Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & the Subterranean Imaginary. The city of Nottingham is built on top of a network of over 800 hand-carved caves, utilised by residents across hundreds of years. Hollow Earth explores the concept of caves, bringing together 150 works by over 50 artists to explore the themes of darkness, thresholds and prehistory across the history of art. With many even describing the geological structures as the earliest studios and museums due to cave-painting, Hollow Earth considers the role of the cave in humanity’s collective impulse to produce images. The exhibition itself features major works by René Magritte, Santu Mofokeng, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall and Aubrey Williams, alongside new commissions from Sofia Borges, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Goshka Macuga, Lydia Ourahmane and Liv Preston.
Mairéad McClean: HERE at Belfast Exposed Photography
Interrogating the politics and culture of religion and their definitions in different areas, award-winning visual artist Mairéad McClean’s HERE “seeks to explore what it means to be ‘of’ a place, as opposed to being ‘from’ a place”. Utilising changes from the Belfast Exposed archive of over 1 million images, as well as McClean’s own personal works, HERE offers an important view of everyday life during the Troubles, as well as the political upheaval caused by the eventual ceasefire. Also on display, a monumental site-specific piece Learning to Read (Northern Ireland, 1971) uses children’s characters as a memoir of the time, connecting thematically to a new iteration of the artist’s award-winning 2013 film No More. This new work, titled Dialogue, offers a ‘retelling’ of No More, with the two pieces working together to create a “film [as]oral history, offering up co-incidences and new realisations”.
Mairéad McClean: HERE is showing at Belfast Exposed Photography until 23rd December
Jon Key: I, Too at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
Writer, designer and painter Jon Key’s first solo exhibition with Carl Freedman Gallery is made up of a new series of oil and acrylic paintings, presented alongside two new large screen prints. In these works, Key investigates his own identity as a Queer Black man from Alabama, the themes of his life - chiefly Queerness, Blackness, Southernness and family - intersecting within the works of I, Too. With painted furniture and screen-printed wallpaper, Key transforms the gallery interior into a patterned space to better reflect the bold lines and stark colours of his paintings. A blend of archival ephemera and artefacts are portrayed within his paintings against a backdrop of environments designed to hide American oppression, allowing the artist to offer strength, support and resilience through his work. Jon Key is also the co-founder of Codify Art, “a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of colour, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of colour”.
Jon Key: I, Too is showing at Carl Freedman Gallery until 6th November
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with every exhibition you visit!
In-Side-Out-Side-In at Site Gallery, Sheffield
Fans of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s micro and macro investigations into the human body should definitely visit this new exhibition at Sheffield’s Sit Gallery. Centred around Laura Wilson’s new sculptural installation Ladybower, this group exhibition features works by Helen Chadwick, Phoebe Collings-James, Charles and Ray Eames, Eva Fàbregas, Shana Moulton, Poppy Nash and Tai Shani, all considering the human digestive system, and our bodies’ varying reactions to changing environments. With its Fibonacci-inspired shape, Ladybower also serves as the amphitheatre for Laura Wilson's work Gutted, a scripted performance piece considering gut processes as landscape-scale infrastructure alongside comparisons to archaeological digs. Splitting the exhibition between internal and external space, Ladybower is named after the Sheffield reservoir, visually echoing the structures which provide the city’s drinking water and making the exhibition a uniquely local exploration of its universal themes.
In-Side-Out-Side-In is showing at Site Gallery until 22nd December
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary at Nottingham Contemporary
Another exhibition suited perfectly to its city comes in the form of Nottingham Contemporary’s Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & the Subterranean Imaginary. The city of Nottingham is built on top of a network of over 800 hand-carved caves, utilised by residents across hundreds of years. Hollow Earth explores the concept of caves, bringing together 150 works by over 50 artists to explore the themes of darkness, thresholds and prehistory across the history of art. With many even describing the geological structures as the earliest studios and museums due to cave-painting, Hollow Earth considers the role of the cave in humanity’s collective impulse to produce images. The exhibition itself features major works by René Magritte, Santu Mofokeng, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall and Aubrey Williams, alongside new commissions from Sofia Borges, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Goshka Macuga, Lydia Ourahmane and Liv Preston.
Mairéad McClean: HERE at Belfast Exposed Photography
Interrogating the politics and culture of religion and their definitions in different areas, award-winning visual artist Mairéad McClean’s HERE “seeks to explore what it means to be ‘of’ a place, as opposed to being ‘from’ a place”. Utilising changes from the Belfast Exposed archive of over 1 million images, as well as McClean’s own personal works, HERE offers an important view of everyday life during the Troubles, as well as the political upheaval caused by the eventual ceasefire. Also on display, a monumental site-specific piece Learning to Read (Northern Ireland, 1971) uses children’s characters as a memoir of the time, connecting thematically to a new iteration of the artist’s award-winning 2013 film No More. This new work, titled Dialogue, offers a ‘retelling’ of No More, with the two pieces working together to create a “film [as]oral history, offering up co-incidences and new realisations”.
Mairéad McClean: HERE is showing at Belfast Exposed Photography until 23rd December
Jon Key: I, Too at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
Writer, designer and painter Jon Key’s first solo exhibition with Carl Freedman Gallery is made up of a new series of oil and acrylic paintings, presented alongside two new large screen prints. In these works, Key investigates his own identity as a Queer Black man from Alabama, the themes of his life - chiefly Queerness, Blackness, Southernness and family - intersecting within the works of I, Too. With painted furniture and screen-printed wallpaper, Key transforms the gallery interior into a patterned space to better reflect the bold lines and stark colours of his paintings. A blend of archival ephemera and artefacts are portrayed within his paintings against a backdrop of environments designed to hide American oppression, allowing the artist to offer strength, support and resilience through his work. Jon Key is also the co-founder of Codify Art, “a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of colour, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of colour”.
Jon Key: I, Too is showing at Carl Freedman Gallery until 6th November
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with every exhibition you visit!
In-Side-Out-Side-In at Site Gallery, Sheffield
Fans of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s micro and macro investigations into the human body should definitely visit this new exhibition at Sheffield’s Sit Gallery. Centred around Laura Wilson’s new sculptural installation Ladybower, this group exhibition features works by Helen Chadwick, Phoebe Collings-James, Charles and Ray Eames, Eva Fàbregas, Shana Moulton, Poppy Nash and Tai Shani, all considering the human digestive system, and our bodies’ varying reactions to changing environments. With its Fibonacci-inspired shape, Ladybower also serves as the amphitheatre for Laura Wilson's work Gutted, a scripted performance piece considering gut processes as landscape-scale infrastructure alongside comparisons to archaeological digs. Splitting the exhibition between internal and external space, Ladybower is named after the Sheffield reservoir, visually echoing the structures which provide the city’s drinking water and making the exhibition a uniquely local exploration of its universal themes.
In-Side-Out-Side-In is showing at Site Gallery until 22nd December
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary at Nottingham Contemporary
Another exhibition suited perfectly to its city comes in the form of Nottingham Contemporary’s Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & the Subterranean Imaginary. The city of Nottingham is built on top of a network of over 800 hand-carved caves, utilised by residents across hundreds of years. Hollow Earth explores the concept of caves, bringing together 150 works by over 50 artists to explore the themes of darkness, thresholds and prehistory across the history of art. With many even describing the geological structures as the earliest studios and museums due to cave-painting, Hollow Earth considers the role of the cave in humanity’s collective impulse to produce images. The exhibition itself features major works by René Magritte, Santu Mofokeng, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall and Aubrey Williams, alongside new commissions from Sofia Borges, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Goshka Macuga, Lydia Ourahmane and Liv Preston.
Mairéad McClean: HERE at Belfast Exposed Photography
Interrogating the politics and culture of religion and their definitions in different areas, award-winning visual artist Mairéad McClean’s HERE “seeks to explore what it means to be ‘of’ a place, as opposed to being ‘from’ a place”. Utilising changes from the Belfast Exposed archive of over 1 million images, as well as McClean’s own personal works, HERE offers an important view of everyday life during the Troubles, as well as the political upheaval caused by the eventual ceasefire. Also on display, a monumental site-specific piece Learning to Read (Northern Ireland, 1971) uses children’s characters as a memoir of the time, connecting thematically to a new iteration of the artist’s award-winning 2013 film No More. This new work, titled Dialogue, offers a ‘retelling’ of No More, with the two pieces working together to create a “film [as]oral history, offering up co-incidences and new realisations”.
Mairéad McClean: HERE is showing at Belfast Exposed Photography until 23rd December
Jon Key: I, Too at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
Writer, designer and painter Jon Key’s first solo exhibition with Carl Freedman Gallery is made up of a new series of oil and acrylic paintings, presented alongside two new large screen prints. In these works, Key investigates his own identity as a Queer Black man from Alabama, the themes of his life - chiefly Queerness, Blackness, Southernness and family - intersecting within the works of I, Too. With painted furniture and screen-printed wallpaper, Key transforms the gallery interior into a patterned space to better reflect the bold lines and stark colours of his paintings. A blend of archival ephemera and artefacts are portrayed within his paintings against a backdrop of environments designed to hide American oppression, allowing the artist to offer strength, support and resilience through his work. Jon Key is also the co-founder of Codify Art, “a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of colour, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of colour”.
Jon Key: I, Too is showing at Carl Freedman Gallery until 6th November
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with every exhibition you visit!
In-Side-Out-Side-In at Site Gallery, Sheffield
Fans of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s micro and macro investigations into the human body should definitely visit this new exhibition at Sheffield’s Sit Gallery. Centred around Laura Wilson’s new sculptural installation Ladybower, this group exhibition features works by Helen Chadwick, Phoebe Collings-James, Charles and Ray Eames, Eva Fàbregas, Shana Moulton, Poppy Nash and Tai Shani, all considering the human digestive system, and our bodies’ varying reactions to changing environments. With its Fibonacci-inspired shape, Ladybower also serves as the amphitheatre for Laura Wilson's work Gutted, a scripted performance piece considering gut processes as landscape-scale infrastructure alongside comparisons to archaeological digs. Splitting the exhibition between internal and external space, Ladybower is named after the Sheffield reservoir, visually echoing the structures which provide the city’s drinking water and making the exhibition a uniquely local exploration of its universal themes.
In-Side-Out-Side-In is showing at Site Gallery until 22nd December
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary at Nottingham Contemporary
Another exhibition suited perfectly to its city comes in the form of Nottingham Contemporary’s Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & the Subterranean Imaginary. The city of Nottingham is built on top of a network of over 800 hand-carved caves, utilised by residents across hundreds of years. Hollow Earth explores the concept of caves, bringing together 150 works by over 50 artists to explore the themes of darkness, thresholds and prehistory across the history of art. With many even describing the geological structures as the earliest studios and museums due to cave-painting, Hollow Earth considers the role of the cave in humanity’s collective impulse to produce images. The exhibition itself features major works by René Magritte, Santu Mofokeng, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall and Aubrey Williams, alongside new commissions from Sofia Borges, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Goshka Macuga, Lydia Ourahmane and Liv Preston.
Mairéad McClean: HERE at Belfast Exposed Photography
Interrogating the politics and culture of religion and their definitions in different areas, award-winning visual artist Mairéad McClean’s HERE “seeks to explore what it means to be ‘of’ a place, as opposed to being ‘from’ a place”. Utilising changes from the Belfast Exposed archive of over 1 million images, as well as McClean’s own personal works, HERE offers an important view of everyday life during the Troubles, as well as the political upheaval caused by the eventual ceasefire. Also on display, a monumental site-specific piece Learning to Read (Northern Ireland, 1971) uses children’s characters as a memoir of the time, connecting thematically to a new iteration of the artist’s award-winning 2013 film No More. This new work, titled Dialogue, offers a ‘retelling’ of No More, with the two pieces working together to create a “film [as]oral history, offering up co-incidences and new realisations”.
Mairéad McClean: HERE is showing at Belfast Exposed Photography until 23rd December
Jon Key: I, Too at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
Writer, designer and painter Jon Key’s first solo exhibition with Carl Freedman Gallery is made up of a new series of oil and acrylic paintings, presented alongside two new large screen prints. In these works, Key investigates his own identity as a Queer Black man from Alabama, the themes of his life - chiefly Queerness, Blackness, Southernness and family - intersecting within the works of I, Too. With painted furniture and screen-printed wallpaper, Key transforms the gallery interior into a patterned space to better reflect the bold lines and stark colours of his paintings. A blend of archival ephemera and artefacts are portrayed within his paintings against a backdrop of environments designed to hide American oppression, allowing the artist to offer strength, support and resilience through his work. Jon Key is also the co-founder of Codify Art, “a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of colour, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of colour”.
Jon Key: I, Too is showing at Carl Freedman Gallery until 6th November
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with every exhibition you visit!
In-Side-Out-Side-In at Site Gallery, Sheffield
Fans of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s micro and macro investigations into the human body should definitely visit this new exhibition at Sheffield’s Sit Gallery. Centred around Laura Wilson’s new sculptural installation Ladybower, this group exhibition features works by Helen Chadwick, Phoebe Collings-James, Charles and Ray Eames, Eva Fàbregas, Shana Moulton, Poppy Nash and Tai Shani, all considering the human digestive system, and our bodies’ varying reactions to changing environments. With its Fibonacci-inspired shape, Ladybower also serves as the amphitheatre for Laura Wilson's work Gutted, a scripted performance piece considering gut processes as landscape-scale infrastructure alongside comparisons to archaeological digs. Splitting the exhibition between internal and external space, Ladybower is named after the Sheffield reservoir, visually echoing the structures which provide the city’s drinking water and making the exhibition a uniquely local exploration of its universal themes.
In-Side-Out-Side-In is showing at Site Gallery until 22nd December
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary at Nottingham Contemporary
Another exhibition suited perfectly to its city comes in the form of Nottingham Contemporary’s Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & the Subterranean Imaginary. The city of Nottingham is built on top of a network of over 800 hand-carved caves, utilised by residents across hundreds of years. Hollow Earth explores the concept of caves, bringing together 150 works by over 50 artists to explore the themes of darkness, thresholds and prehistory across the history of art. With many even describing the geological structures as the earliest studios and museums due to cave-painting, Hollow Earth considers the role of the cave in humanity’s collective impulse to produce images. The exhibition itself features major works by René Magritte, Santu Mofokeng, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall and Aubrey Williams, alongside new commissions from Sofia Borges, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Goshka Macuga, Lydia Ourahmane and Liv Preston.
Mairéad McClean: HERE at Belfast Exposed Photography
Interrogating the politics and culture of religion and their definitions in different areas, award-winning visual artist Mairéad McClean’s HERE “seeks to explore what it means to be ‘of’ a place, as opposed to being ‘from’ a place”. Utilising changes from the Belfast Exposed archive of over 1 million images, as well as McClean’s own personal works, HERE offers an important view of everyday life during the Troubles, as well as the political upheaval caused by the eventual ceasefire. Also on display, a monumental site-specific piece Learning to Read (Northern Ireland, 1971) uses children’s characters as a memoir of the time, connecting thematically to a new iteration of the artist’s award-winning 2013 film No More. This new work, titled Dialogue, offers a ‘retelling’ of No More, with the two pieces working together to create a “film [as]oral history, offering up co-incidences and new realisations”.
Mairéad McClean: HERE is showing at Belfast Exposed Photography until 23rd December
Jon Key: I, Too at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
Writer, designer and painter Jon Key’s first solo exhibition with Carl Freedman Gallery is made up of a new series of oil and acrylic paintings, presented alongside two new large screen prints. In these works, Key investigates his own identity as a Queer Black man from Alabama, the themes of his life - chiefly Queerness, Blackness, Southernness and family - intersecting within the works of I, Too. With painted furniture and screen-printed wallpaper, Key transforms the gallery interior into a patterned space to better reflect the bold lines and stark colours of his paintings. A blend of archival ephemera and artefacts are portrayed within his paintings against a backdrop of environments designed to hide American oppression, allowing the artist to offer strength, support and resilience through his work. Jon Key is also the co-founder of Codify Art, “a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of colour, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of colour”.
Jon Key: I, Too is showing at Carl Freedman Gallery until 6th November
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with every exhibition you visit!
