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14 June 18.00 – 21.00 15, 16 June 11.00 – 17.00 Small stuff, curated by Andrea Herrada, brings together new work by Laura O’Neill, Owen Lacey, Lara Kenworthy, Alice Turner and Antonio de la Hera. Through their numerous artistic approaches [...]
31 May – 20 July Ceramics Now is a collaboration across 4 galleries; Bluecoat Display Centre, Bevere Gallery, Contemporary Ceramics and the New Ashgate Gallery, each selecting from Craft Potters Association members. Bluecoat Display Centre exhibitors include: Loretta Braganza, Halima [...]
18 May – 23 August 2013 Launch event 17.00 18 May The Brink, 15 – 21 Parr Street, Liverpool L1 9EF A brand new collection of works from Lamp Post Collective as part of LOOK/13 Photography Festival. Featured work will [...]
6 – 27 June 2013 Showcasing artwork by Danny Hampson In a world where human life and man-made structures continually collide with the organic shapes of nature. Hampson’s aim is to abstract and reconstruct these elements to create an eclectic [...]
8 May – 7 September 2013 Launch 8 May 2013 at 19.00 at Contact, Oxford Road Manchester Blank Media Collective are once again partnering Contact to present a new contemporary exhibition, which explores craft and process-led art work. Please see [...]
7 June – 29 September 2013 Opening night: Thursday 6 June 18.00 – 20.00 Part of LOOK/13 Photographers’ talk: Thursday 13 June 18.00 – 19.30 Processing is an exhibition of new work by Merseyside based photographers Kevin Casey, Stephen King and McCoy Wynne. Each photographer will [...]
7 June – TBC Private View: 7 June 19.00 – 21.00 A collection of work from ‘ex-St Hildrans’ as teachers and pupils alike come together once again to produce an exhibition celebrating their past at St Hilda’s High School. The [...]
17 June – 2 August Liverpool based painter Clare Ellis is to hold her first solo show at the dot-art Showroom this summer. Her distinctive and highly decorative work, with its intricate and textural patterns of dots, has gained many [...]
14 June – 20 July Private View 13 June 17.00 – 20.00 It’s hard to believe that this is the fourth Liverpool Open Arts exhibition hosted and organised by Editions. Featuring a wide range of style, sizes and artists, we [...]
13 June – 15 September Free This summer at FACT Liverpool, a selection of provocative international artists tackle some of the most pressing, controversial and literally ground-breaking political issues of today. Exploring aspects of environment, architecture, capitalism and augmented reality, [...]
20 June – 4 July The Fallout Factory is located at 97 Dale Street, just 3 doors down from the Magistrates courts and on the same side
17 June – 5 October 2013 An exhibition of work by Anthony Ratcliffe, including woodcut prints, watercolours, sketchbooks and artists’ books which reflect a lifelong passion for the British landscape. Ratcliffe presents a selection of his work from two recent projects [...]
23 June 2013 11.00 – 16.30 Draw Your Heart Out is a series of Sunday drawing workshops focusing on expressive drawing using live performance, costume and sound in the Lantern Theatre. The workshop includes guided experiments in mark making and the creation of interesting live [...]
18 May – 21 June 2013 Open for Light Night 17 May 10.00 – 20.00 (This exhibition will stay open later than publicised) Part of LOOK/13 Photography Festival BLACKOUT pulls into focus the space between viewer and subject. It asks what happens [...]
LOOK/13, Liverpool’s International Photography Festival, opens 17 May. To kick off the launch party at Camp and Furnace will be a giant slideshow, featuring the best photographic work submitted in response to the title ‘Made in Liverpool’. The event is [...]
17 May – 25 August 2013 Main Gallery Free Entry LOOK/13 Liverpool International Photography Festival Charles Fréger (b. 1975) is a French photographer based in Rouen. The artist presents at Open Eye, for the first time in a British institution, a large [...]
17 May – 25 August 2013 Upper Gallery Free Entry Eva Stenram (b.1 976) is a Swedish-born photographer, who lives and works in London. The artist brings together analogical archival material and digital manipulation, creating scenarios where the uncanny takes [...]
The Caravan Gallery Museum of Liverpool Pier Head Liverpool Waterfront Liverpool L3 1DG Merseystyle: photographs by The Caravan Gallery 10 May – 27 October Liverpool One Thomas Steers Way Liverpool L1 8LW Outdoor Exhibition Dates tbc Redeye [...]
1 – 29 June 2013 Meet the artist at the Private View 6 June 19.30 – 21.30 In this new series of paintings, Nicky Higgs, a Wirral based artist, has worked from photos taken on walks both locally and on holiday [...]
8 June -6 October 2013 £10 entry (concessions and family tickets available) Marc Chagall (1887–1985) is one of the great artists of the last century. Bringing together more than sixty paintings and a selection of works on paper from across [...]
17 June – 6 July Open daily 11.00 – 17.00 Free admission Order and Chaos is an exhibition of art from local and national artists who have put their own interpretation of the theme into individual forms of expression and [...]
19 June – 28 July 30 print workshops across the UK and Ireland, including the Bluecoat, took part in the 20:20 Print Exchange, now in its third year. Organised by Salford’s Hot Bed Press, the exhibition demonstrates the strength and [...]
Saturdays, 13.00 – 16.00 Free art activities for all the family linked to our gallery programme. Highlights this season include activities around the I exist (in some way) exhibition. Free, donations accepted
18 May – 14 July 2013 Part of LOOK/13 Photography Festival Responding to the question ‘Who do you think you are? – the theme of Look/13 – this exhibition features the work of photographers who examine constructions of personal and [...]
18 May – 14 July 2013 10.00 – 18.00 In collaboration with Amber/Side, Newcastle, we present classic works by August Sander (1876-1964) and Weegee (1899-1968), two of the 20th century’s greatest photographers. Despite his precise methods, Sander created extraordinarily sensitive portraits, [...]
3 May – TBC Daily, 11.00 – 17.00 Private View: Thursday 2 May 2013 18.00-22.00 The Private View will include performances by Sonny Morris and Mark Pountney. The Drifter’s Escape; an exhibition of paintings by Barry Charlton/Gareth Kemp/James Quin/Nick Sykes/Chiz Turnross. [...]
25 May – 26 July 2013 Free Platform presents: Frances Heyes and Angela Wilkinson. Photography, prints and painting that engulf you in a sea of blue
24 May – 12 July 2013 Private View: 23 May 18.00 – 20.00 It’s all back to front, telling stories with pictures and making sculptures with words, but that is what you’ll find in Warrington from May to July as the [...]
17 May – 28 June 2013 Opens 17 May 18.00 as part of Light Night Admission free, all work is for sale In a major new group show beginning 17th May, The Gallery Liverpool brings to the city a unique collective [...]
15 September 2012 – TBC Patrick Murphy’s ‘Belonging’ responds to the Biennial’s notion of the uninvited guest. Banished from city centres and branded a nuisance, pigeons will become a familiar sight at the Walker Art Gallery during the Biennial, when [...]
17 May – 15 September 2013 Part of LOOK/13 Photography Festival
20 April – 20 August 2013 Part of LOOK/13 Photography Festival From young couples kissing on a dingy dance floor to the faded grandeur of a seaside town, an exhibition of work by acclaimed photographers Martin Parr and Tom Wood [...]
17 November 2012 – TBC Free entry This display from the Tinne collection features 14 outfits, 10 of which have never been on public display before. Whole wardrobes of clothes, as worn by one family over many years, are very [...]
2 February 2013 – Unknown This exciting exhibition is a chance to see artworks acquired by the gallery over recent years. Included in the selection are works by Anish Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois, Paula Rego, Yoko Ono, Lubaina Himid and Haroon [...]
17 May – 15 September 2013 Part of LOOK/13 Photography Festival
11 October 2012- 20 December 2013 John James Audubon (1785-1851) was a nineteenth-century wildlife artist and naturalist. He travelled the American wilderness identifying, studying and drawing hundreds of species of birds and mammals. Audubon gave himself the title of the [...]
4 January – 31 July 2013 An opportunity to view some of the University’s collection of Victorian Sculpture.
27 December 2012 – 11 October 2013 The Decorative Art Gallery displays some of the Sir Charles Sydney Jones collection of 18th and early 19th centry British ceramics and Chinese export ceramics, enhanced with silver and drinking ware. Themes explored [...]
4 January – 20 December 2013 An internationally important display of false teeth and replica Victorian dental surgery
5 January – 20 Decmeber 2013 All of the paintings in this room are inspired by light. The artists in this gallery include J.M.W.Turner, Elias Childe, Joseph Wright of Derby, William Redmore Bigg and Nathan Theodore Fielding.
