Life on 40 farms through a photographer's eye

This week: What it's like to photograph 40 Cumbrian farms, 15 years of painting the same barbershop, Tate Liverpool's new look and a 70s play that resonates in post-Brexit UK

‘One of Amy Bateman’s striking Forty Farms photographs (Pic: Amy Bateman)

‘Timeless’ would be an apt word to describe Amy Bateman’s photographs of Cumbrian farms - a herd of sheep blocking the way like a gang of sullen teenagers on a street corner, the yellow lights of a cattle shed spilling out into a cobbled courtyard, patchwork quilts of landscape ta…