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Reviewer

Jo Manby

Reviews

Mark Leckey: Parade [18 March 2004]

The idea of the signage being more on the move than the film's protagonist is a telling point in Mark Leckey's single-screen projection, Parade. Starring the artist, the neon promenades past the models rather than the other way round. As Leckey  Read on…

Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
13 February – 28 March

Jeff Wall: Landscapes [1 April 2003]

Set in the context of Manchester Art Gallery's collection of landscape painting – particularly its Dutch landscapes – and conceived as an opportunity to reconsider contemporary and historical representations of the land, Jeff Wall  Read on…

Fabrications: New art and urban memory in Manchester [31 October 2002]

Commissions in response to a three-year body of academic research by the Urban Memory in Manchester team at Manchester University's School of Art History and Archaeology gave six artists carte blanche to mine this extensive resource on the history  Read on…

Cube, Manchester 11 September – 2 November

How It Was & Retraces [31 March 2002]

Time was that art inspired feelings of devotion, pity, love, pride or patriotism. Willie Doherty's work, based on his intimate knowledge of his hometown Derry, unfurls for us the topography of quiet despair – one of uncertainty and division,  Read on…

How it was - Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston 26 January – 23 March

Retraces - Matt's Gallery, London 23 January – 17 March