I visited The 80s: Photographing Britain at the Tate Gallery in 2025. This is how the Tate website describes the exhibition: Explore one of the UK’s most critical decades, the 1980s. This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications – creating radical responses to

Manchester Art Gallery is located in a building on the corner of Mosley Street and Princess Street. It opened to the public nearly 200 years ago and everything is free to view. The Gallery holds a wonderful and diverse collection of paintings, artefacts and other items. Here are some of

I saw the exhibition Sargent and Fashion at the Tate Britain in June 2024. This showcased many portrait paintings by the American artist John Singer Sargent in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was so interesting to see fashion used as art in this way. I saw some

In 2024, the Tate Britain put on the exhibition Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920. This was educational for me. I hadn’t heard of any female artists, except Gwen John, and the only painting of hers that I knew was her self-portrait (which is