Corridor8 December Newsletter: reflections, transitions and renewals as 2023 comes to end.
After seven years as Managing Editor of Corridor8 Lara Eggleton will be taking an extended leave from January 2024 and will return to the Board of Directors.
We wholeheartedly thank Lara for her years of hard work and editorial guidance since 2016, launching the writing residency programmes that we have continued to develop, and leading on the funding bids that have enabled us to publish books and commission many new voices. Check out some of Lara’s work below:
An Art Editor’s Manifesto by Lara Eggleton
In their own words: New Contemporaries artists on using language in their practice by Lara Eggleton
facingextinction.corridor8.co.uk
Autumn ‘Firestack’ (2015-2016) by Julie Brook.
If you haven’t already, make sure to sign up as a paid subscriber to read the urgent and beautifully written reflection on 'The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu' (2022) by Albert Ibokwe at this year’s Liverpool Biennial by Jazmine Linklater, our Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria editor.
Albert Ibokwe Khoza, ‘The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu’ (2023). Liverpool Biennial 2023 at Tobacco Warehouse. Courtesy of Liverpool Biennial. Photography by Mark McNulty.
For your reading pleasure over the holiday; recent reviews, interviews and features published across the Northern regions to replenish your creative energies and plan an exhibition crawl for the new year:
Uma Breakdown: Earth A.D. 2, FACT, Liverpool by Emma Curd (EARTH A. D. 2 is on at FACT Liverpool until 28th January 2024)
Julie Brook: What is it That Will Last? Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal by Lucy Holt (Julie Brook: What is it That Will Last? is on at Abbott Hall until 30 December 2023)
Blue Futures: In conversation with Suzy O’Hara, The Word, South Shields by Christie Yung-hei Chan
Contested Bodies, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds by Eliza Goodpasture (Contested Bodies is on at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds until 6 April 2024)
Middlesbrough Art Week, Multiple Venues, Middlesbrough by Uma Breakdown
Paradise Works: Open Studios, Salford by Natalie Russett (Division of Labour’s Tree & Leaf runs until 18 January 2024)
Garth Gratrix: Cheeky Felicia, Crescent Arts, Scarborough by Even Allen (Cheeky Felicia is on at Crescent Arts, Scarborough until 18 February 2024)
Fiona Larkin and Ian Giles: Soft Structures, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough by Lesley Guy (Soft Structures is on at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art until 31 March 2024)
Before, During & After: Here Now (How To Keep The Balance), Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom, Site Gallery, Sheffield by Sylvia Carpenter (Before, During & After: Here Now (How To Keep The Balance) is on at Site Gallery, Sheffield, until February 2024)
Brass Tacks: In the Round, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne by Kin (Brass Tacks will hold a second exhibition from 20 January – 24 February 2024 with Laurie Powell, Bethany Stead, Mani Kambo and Sean Alec Auld)
Seke Chimutengwende: It Begins in Darkness, Lancaster Arts, by Chantal Oakes (this performance took place on 20 October 2023. Tour resumes in Spring 2024 at Cambridge Junction, 17 April. More dates to follow)
New Contemporaries 2023, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool by mandla (the exhibition was on show at The Grundy until 16 December, and will be opening at Camden Arts Centre on 19 January to 31 March 2024)
Uma Breakdown, Earth A.D. 2 (2023). Installation view at FACT Liverpool. Photography by Rob Battersby
See you in 2024! With love and solidarity from the Corridor8 team.