Animal magic. Richard Billingham Q&A.
Jessica Lack talks to art photographer Richard Billingham, as a new group show featuring his work opens at Castlefield Gallery Richard Billingham didn’t have to journey far to find fame...
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Anthony D'Offay: the ultimate gift aid
Jessica Lack talks to the influential art collector about what it’s like to give a multimillion pound collection of art away For over twenty years, Anthony D’Offay ran one of...
Wallpaper
at the Whitworth
at the Whitworth
Jessica Lack is impressed by an exhibition that puts the background in the foreground Wallpaper is seen as the spinster aunt of the arts and crafts movement. It hovers innocuously...
Master of disaster – Don McCullin
Jessica Lack speaks exclusively to Don McCullin ahead of his exhibition at Imperial War Museum North The photographer Don McCullin has captured some of the most iconic images of the...
White collar crime.
Office chairs, door wedges, strip lights: Manchester-based artist Ian Rawlinson has spent the past twenty years creating artworks that emerge out of his concerns with the urban environment. From building...
An unlikely pairing. Hambling & Lowry.
On the eve of an exhibition that pairs Maggi Hambling with LS Lowry, Hambling talks to Jessica Lack about the influence of the sea in her abstract paintings – and...
Sisters of the revolution.
The female surrealists on show in Manchester Art Gallery’s Angels of Anarchy exhibition were much more than objects of desire, finds Jessica Lack The artist Leonor Fini never liked André...