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Category Archives: 2017

Kevin Reid’s Burdlife

July 4, 2018

Its high pitch and speed makes birdsong feel utterly alien. However, Marcus Coates’s stunning installation, ‘Dawn Chorus‘, closes that distance. …

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Let’s talk about sex, baby – Jennifer Copley’s Some Couples

February 21, 2018

Suede’s debut single, ‘The Drowners’, enacts a war between Butler’s masculine, strident rhythm guitar and the androgyny of Anderson’s lyrics …

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Timewatching – Luke Wright’s The Toll

February 7, 2018

My father’s watch clasps my wrist now. Big shoes to fill, his shoes. The removal of three links slimmed it …

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Knives out – Matthew Stewart’s The Knives of Villalejo

October 23, 2017

Our Gothic dopplegängers suppress our unease. Conveniently externalised, Mr Hyde and Victor’s creature stalk the margins. We reassure ourselves that the …

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