Top Ten Shows from the UK and Ireland
What to look forward to in February, from a new body of work by Harare-based painter Misheck Masamvu to a retrospective by Hong Kongese filmmaker Wong Kar Wai
Our February round-up of must-see shows and online projects tackles everything from the realities of living with a disability to what happens we invite our ancestors for dinner. Here are the exhibition highlights from across the UK and Ireland this month.
Misheck Masamvu,
Thoughts before the Rain, 2020, oil on canvas, 174 × 235 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Goodman Gallery, London/ Cape Town
What happens when we invite our ancestors for dinner, asks Misheck Masamvu in his first UK solo show, ‘Talk to Me while I’m Eating’. In a 2018 feature for
Popular Salford music festival pleads for help after cancelling second festival in a row
Sounds from the Other City is now facing an extremely precarious future, organisers say
Sounds From the Other City in 2018 (Image: Publicity Picture)
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22 Dec 2020, 11:00
The creative economist and chair of the Baltic Creative cluster of businesses in Liverpool, talks about blowing her student grant the week before starting university, and how art can be used to transform places.
Why did you choose a career in property/placemaking?
I started out an artist, not a placemaker. But what artists can do is imagine a different future and set about painting and crafting it so others can imagine it too. That’s what I do. Imagine the world differently, paint the picture, involve as many people as I can in making that imagined future a shared one, then recognise and value the thousand small contributions it takes to create it and populate it.