The go-to listings site for visual arts in Liverpool This is an exhibition of works by Nicholas Franklin who is an art director for Mersey TV currently working on Hollyoaks. There are a few small canvases of really thick impasto paintings of things like chocolate bars and chewing gum [...]
Just managed to see the Richard (Dick) Young retrospective at Cornerstone before it finished today and am so glad I did. I’d heard a lot of good comments about the artist who died in 2003 aged 81 but this is [...]
Colin Reid : “Re-collection” Solo Painting 9 November 2009 – 3 January 2010 Angie McCormick “Elemental 5” 23 November 2009 – 31 January 2010 Both at The Lauries Centre, Birkenhead There are two exhibitions running at the moment in the [...]
The current exhibition at the Liverpool Academy of Arts is by Simon Pritchard and is titled ‘Rebel Yell – Bad Boys of Rock n Roll’. Simon is passionate about the music of the 50′s and 60′s and this comes across [...]
The latest exhibition in the living room/gallery space of museumMAN is ‘reformat:product’ by Simon Bendi. There are several mixed media works using paint, wire, beads and other found objects similar to the one pictured here which is called ‘east coast [...]
How to pack out a private viewing. If I owned a gallery, every so often just for fun I would advertise a private viewing with unlimited free drink, music, goodie bags, maybe even food. Give it an ambiguous title but [...]
Photographs of graffiti on the walls of an old factory might not sound interesting but this is a fascinating story. Photographer Brian Jones was involved in a photographic course in North Wales when, by chance, he came across a former [...]
Don’t worry – the S&M are Serjent and Milburn. The two artists have covered all four walls (two walls each and the back of the door) of a room with a collection of their photographs. The room is in the [...]
These bas-relief paintings are well worth close inspection, the artist has cleverly constructed pieces that show the inspiration of the coasts and hills of his native Wales. There are some excellent drawings too. Salvage: An Exhibition by Tony Roberts at [...]
Small Things Too – Duo Show by Nathan & Anthony Pendlebury 6 February – 1 March 2009 Curated by HeadSpace 84 small paintings and photographs now cover the walls of Egg Cafe, all the work of father and son artists, [...]
Image: Terry Duffy next to ‘Poem in the Rock’ 2002 (Diptych) Duffy’s 2 diptychs and a triptych are looking really impressive in ‘the flat’ – the open area on the first floor at the Walker. From a distance and close [...]
Last night was the live performance part of the ‘stands’ exhibition at the Arena Gallery. There were 6 activities at various locations. Seems not many people could be bothered to come along which is a shame but your intrepid blogger [...]
‘Stuff’ solo show by Leon Ellis Jakeman finishes tomorrow! Sunday 20 June 2010. Shame, it’s a really good exhibition which changes the look of the Egg cafe dramatically with the sort of 3D installations and bright neon lights that look [...]
Another lovely summer’s day outing to Southport on Friday. Got there early to avoid the holiday crowds, good planning as it was packed out later on. ‘Take Me: I’m Yours’ is a group exhibition at the Atkinson Gallery until September [...]
The Ceri Hand Gallery is an exciting new commercial gallery in Cotton Street very close to Stanley Dock. The inaugural exhibition ‘These Living Walls of Jet’ is on from 4 July to 2 August 2008 and is an excellent start [...]
This exhibition is part of Homotopia 2005 and was opened last night. I couldn’t get there for the viewing so called in today to take a look. Apparently Trademark ‘created the visual identity for the legendary venues Heaven and Trade [...]
This is a fascinating exhibition in the International in Slater Street. Artistically the photos are nothing special but its interesting, very few people in the pictures will ever know they are on display and includes weddings, holidays and parties. You [...]
There’s an interesting new exhibition at Urban Coffee in Smithdown Rd. Several recent JMU graduates have formed a group (as yet, untitled) and this is their first show ‘Untitled For Now’ (you’ll have to do better than that guys). There [...]
This is an excellent exhibition by one of the country’s leading printmakers. We are really fortunate to have the show here in the city where Desmet was born. The skill is amazing but so is the invention as she is [...]
A reference to chickens and eggs I suppose. This is another exhibition by ‘The Long Journey Home‘ group of artists. They’ve had a few in the Liverpool galleries over the past year or more. I don’t have a full list [...]
Patricks is a newish bar at the North John St. end of Victoria St, I hadn’t been there before, seems a nice place with the customary sofas in the corner, I thinks its a gay bar and at the far [...]
There’s a nice exhibition of some of the photos from last year’s project in the Visitor Information Centre (formerly the 08 place) in Whitechapel until the end of May 2009. They’re for sale too at only £20 a print. There [...]
So is this the end for Anthony Brown’s 100 Heads project? Its a year on from its launch exhibition at this same venue, the Post & Echo building in Old Hall Street and I’m sure there’s more than 100 now [...]
I was a bit lazy and dashed off to view this exhibition at World Museum Liverpool (2nd floor) without reading up on what it was all about. But no worries there’s a nice A4 information pack to take as I [...]
Did you know that Liverpool was built on the cotton trade, there’s even a myth that the Liver Building was literally built on foundations of cotton bales. The ‘Spirit of Liverpool’ statue on top of the Walker Art Gallery rests [...]
Just been reading the first of Mercy‘s e-zines for this year. Its only 6 pages but a good read, the poetry is excellent as you would expect from Nathan Jones & Co. and Tom Common’s article about Sheffield architecture is [...]
The latest exhibition at the old Barber Shop adjacent to the Bluecoat a.k.a. The Lost Soul & Stranger Service Station is entitled ‘12,586‘. This is the total number of houses to be demolished under the Merseyside-wide New Heartlands program. The [...]
Domino Gallery recently celebrated its 20th year in business. An excellent achievement. I missed to party unfortunately but Minako and a great many others were there. Rebecca Dittman took lots of photos and created a slideshow which you can view [...]
An exhibition in the top floor flat of 45 Hope Street opened tonight, we got there after champagne and canapes at the John Lennon exhibition launch so this was quite a contrast and very refreshing. The show by 7 contemporary [...]
4 x 4. 6 March – 10 May 2009 at the Bluecoat. Four galleries, four exhibitions. 4×4 is the first in an occasional series of simultaneous exhibitions exploring the unique features of the Bluecoat’s new gallery spaces. This looks like [...]
’5′ at the Cornerstone 22 January – 19 February 2010 Artists: Pete Clarke, Tim Dolphin, Peter Dover, Emma Gregory, Emily Johns You can always rely on the Merseyside printmakers to put on a really good show. Emily Johns engravings are [...]
Another review by Lisa Dawson for the BBC Liverpool website. This is the new ‘Meta-Conceptual’ gallery at 52 Roscoe St. Lisa has been busy and beat me to it this time. I did, of course, attend the viewing and had [...]
So I’m listening to my free CD of roots music as I type this. The likes of Lee Perry, Bob Marley and U Roy. Not my favourite genre but its ok and there’s no denying its influence on youth culture [...]
