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Bryan Eccleshall is an artist living in North Nottinghamshire, though he has strong ties to Cumbria where he helps deliver the FRED Festival. He has lived all over the UK. He returned to art practice in 2001 after working for several years in printing and publishing. He is interested in art that uses ideas and is not afraid to move towards it's audience.
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Unheimlich is usually translated as Uncanny. Freud wrote an essay on the subject during one of his rare forays into aesthetics. His basic thesis was that something that disturbs, or even horrifies us, is not the opposite of something safe and Read on…
Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds
18 April - 17 May 2008
It’s reassuring that artists can still find ways of re-imagining the world in which they live. Patricia Townsend’s “The Circles They Desire” show at The Dock Museum in Barrow-in-Furness works in an unfashionable realm which Read on…
The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
28 November 2007 - 3 February 2008
I attended the first day at the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester. It continues here for another day before decamping to Liverpool John Moores University for another two days. The programme is different in each city. I watched: Jason Lim Read on…
Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
20-21 November 2007
For a week in August, artists from the twin towns of York and Münster worked side by side and amongst finished work by other artists in York’s beautiful Guildhall. Each afternoon the public were invited in to meet artists, to discuss works Read on…
Guildhall and other venues, York
3-10 August
Three artists from Kangaroo Kourt, Bristol, and the three that make up rednile Projects, from Sunderland have collaborated on a two site project called ARTCAST. Each group visited the other's city and worked in the space there. The spaces were Read on…
rednile Studios
7 July 2007 to 7 July 2007
There is much to protest about these days, but how to go about it in an era when The Who's “Won't Get Fooled Again” rattles around the brain at the (non) election of a new Prime Minister, whilst doubling as the title music for Read on…
1000000mph Project Space
6 June 2007 to 7 July 2007
Though the Great War may almost be beyond living memory, Janet Manogue seeks to record and remember its effect on lives and landscape through her poised and accomplished artwork. This elegantly hung work (way above the standard of her peers), uses Read on…
UCLAN, Preston
6 June 2007 to 6 June 2007
Best known for winning the Jerwood Sculpture Prize (for Field, in 2005), Judith Dean has just completed a residency at The Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere. A solo show has opened to present the work completed during her time there. The three room Read on…
3¡W Gallery, Grasmere
12 December 2006 to 3 March 2007
Covering the whole of Cumbria for the first two weeks in October with all sorts of non-gallery work (it was on hills, in business centres, restaurants, fields and by lakes and pathways), ‘Fred’ is marketed as an art invasion, but it’s Read on…
Various locations, Cumbria
30 September – 15 October
Barrow-in-Furness is a town with economic and social problems, but with Art Gene it also has a forward-thinking, professional and original centre for contemporary art providing a commentary and engagement in its regeneration. ‘When We Were Read on…
Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness
18 August – 19 September
On entering the gallery I am confronted by pretty much nothing, except for a cage around the statue of Victoria and Albert at one end of the space. In this visual desert a small tear in the coving above seems important until I'm jolted by a loud Read on…
The Storey Gallery, Lancaster
7 July 2006 to 8 August 2006
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