Image in previous tweet: Film still from Memory Stone, courtesy Nikta Mohammadi.
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Art historian/writer Kirsty Jukes on Nikta Mohammadi’s immersive film installation ‘Memory Stone’ at The Lowry. Mohammadi, originally from Tehran, now based in West Yorkshire, explores dreams & displacement in the British countryside.
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Image in previous tweet: Photograph taken on the Memory Stone film set by and courtesy of Nikta Mohammadi.
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April 2024 theFourdrinier: New writing: Kirsty Jukes reviews ‘Nikta Mohammadi: Memory Stone’ at The Lowry plus Passing Cloud a serialised journal part seven Xhi Ndubisi, Jo Manby & an imaginary Artificial Intelligence
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Image in previous tweet: Stamp of Katanga, the Republic of the Congo overprint on the stamp of Belgian Congo, issued 22/9/1960, face value 2 Katangan franc, image of Leopard Orchid (ansellia africana)
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‘You are in a savannah meadow, a rolling plain of fire resistant and spiked plants, trees that scorn leaves, populating the grassland with their monolithic trunks’ - Jo Manby, Mpumalanga Lowveld/Passing Cloud part 6
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Image in previous tweet: Nesta Wynn Lewis Dragonfly Rocket (2024) mixed media

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Passing Cloud 6 ‘The mid-fuselage lifts out of the abdomen, and the aft, engorges, straightens into a glorious, segmented tail, bracing the dragonfly as it shakes the newness from its skin’ - Xhi Ndubisi, How to Make a Spaceship
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Image in previous tweet: REIGN Flower Mandala by Nadia Sultana, photo Chris Bailkoski
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March issue theFourdrinier inspirational, cultural force for good: feature on Longsight Community Art Space CIC by Jo Manby
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Image in previous tweet: Stamp of Katanga, the Republic of the Congo overprint on stamp of Belgian Congo, issued 22/9/1960, face value 2 Katangan franc, image of Leopard Orchid (ansellia africana)
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‘You are in a savannah meadow, a rolling plain of fire resistant and spiked plants, trees that scorn leaves, populating the grassland with their monolithic trunks’ - Jo Manby Passing Cloud pt6
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Image in previous tweet: Nesta Lewis Dragonfly Rocket (2024) mixed media

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Passing Cloud pt6 ‘The mid-fuselage lifts out of the abdomen, and the aft, engorges, straightens into a glorious, segmented tail, bracing the dragonfly as it shakes the newness from its skin’ - Xhi Ndubisi, How to Make a Spaceship
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Image in previous tweet: Afterlife (Ruby Tingle and KINRAR) Digital and Vinyl Single Artwork by Lewis Lafond
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theFourdrinier Editor Jo Manby reviews ‘Ruby Tingle Afterlife’, a multi-media, multi-sensory show reanimating the historic taxidermy collection of The Whitaker, Rossendale as a set of newly imagined dioramas.
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Image in previous tweet: Longsight Community Art Space, photo Chris Bailkoski
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Mar 2024 theFourdrinier: New writing: feature on Longsight Community Art Space CIC/review of Ruby Tingle Afterlife at The Whitaker by Jo Manby plus Passing Cloud a serialised journal part six Xhi Ndubisi, Jo Manby, Princess AiB
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Image in previous tweet: Page from Thesaurus thesaurorum (c. 1725) Reference: MS.4775 Public Domain Mark. Credit: Thesaurus thesaurorum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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“scarlet filaments, brown ribbons punctuated with gelatinous studs, succulent emerald green streamers, purple blots fringed with cilia.” Passing Cloud part 5, Xhi Ndubisi, Jo Manby & imagined AI.
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