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=black smoke machine gun club= 4 – 12 September 2009 Don’t miss the opening of littlewhitehead‘s exhibition, for which the Glasgow-based duo have radically transformed The Royal Standard‘s gallery space during their three-week residency, working in response to experiences and [...]
All Change21 June – 4 July 2009All Change garners and borrows five artists from the rain-soaked cobbleways and warrens of Manchester’s Rogue Artists Studios, to the seagull squawked, windswept sea air of the industrial sanctuary that is Liverpool’s The Royal [...]
B A D I G L O O L U S T 16 April – 2 May 2010Asks the question: what does it mean to be a local or an international artist, if it means anything at all? BAD IGLOO [...]
Blind Alchemy: Rachel Adams | Ian Giles 12 – 27 February 2010 The Royal Standard is pleased to announce Blind Alchemy, the second in a series of collaborative projects between artists Rachel Adams and Ian Giles. One of the pursuits [...]
DEADPAN29 October – 28 November 2010With a good glug of irony and a sarcastic nod, DEADPAN gives a kick up the arse to the utter mess of an art world at a point of oversaturation by questioning strategies used by [...]
Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh Presents Elephants at the Royal Standard. 8 – 15 April 2011. Nicolas Party produces a new collaborative installation incorporating a selection of art works from the Embassy Members show. Nicolas is a Glasgow based artist who gained [...]
Hierarchies of Allegiance17 September – 17 October 2010The Royal Standard is pleased to present Hierarchies of Allegiance, one of two exhibitions during the Liverpool Biennial. This group exhibition brings together U.K based artists whose work encompasses film, performance, drawing and [...]
As part of the Long Night of the Biennial city-wide events, The Royal Standard present an evening of hot food, drink, performance and discussion, including the long-awaited unveiling of Oliver Walker’s New Constitutions, 1000 specially manufactured speaking dolls, hot off [...]
Low Profile – Dry Run, Performative Residency. 9 – 11 October 2008 Thursday 9th – Saturday 11th October 2008 Thu-Fri 11-18.00 , Sat 10-22.00A two day performative residency by Plymouth-based collaborative duo LOW PROFILE, culminating in a 12 hour durational [...]
Mr Democracy. 19th September – 30th November 2008The UK is one of only three countries in the world not to have a written constitution. In an ambitious international project exploring trade, democracy and globalisation, Mr Democracy will undertake the creation of a [...]
NAVIGATOR 19th September – 30th November 2008The inaugural exhibition in the Royal Standard’s new home draws on the organisation’s relocation to the periphery of the city centre. Set against Liverpool’s rapidly changing urban and cultural landscape, NAVIGATOR reflects a process [...]
‘Mr Democracy’ and ‘Navigator’ Final week of the exhibitions: Wed 26th – Sun 30th November 11am – 6pm Oliver Walker talk: Sun 30th November 2.30pm, refreshments will be served. After an intensive 10 week period of activity featuring over sixty [...]
Pretty Deep (inside your head) 20 March – 11 April 2009 Featuring Sarah Cooney, Alex Crocker, Grant Foster, Andy Mealor, Chris Miller, Laurence Owen and Nicholas Woods. Bringing together new works by seven artists from the UK and Europe, the [...]
SALE at the Royal Standard. 23 January – 28 February 2009SALE will transform the white walled galleries at the Royal Standard into an ‘Art Superstore’ stocked with hundreds of artworks including a vibrant array of paintings, sculpture, drawing, film, intervention [...]
Some people deserve everything they get.25 September – 17 October 2009Some people deserve everything they get assembles the most remarkable, outstanding, significant and superlative artists graduating from courses the length and breadth of the country this year. These graduates outshone [...]
The Winner Takes It All? Conference 24 – 26 October 2008A research and networking weekend that will aim to playfully explore and debate the effect of the European Capital of Culture status on its recipient cities. In collaboration with [...]
THIS MATTER22 May – 20 June 2010‘This Matter’ is an exploration into the physical nature of landscapes, drawing together the changing ideas of what is natural and unnatural within our everyday surroundings. This Matter is an independently curated project by [...]
Tom Milnes Residency Open Studio: 5 – 8 August, 12 noon – 17.00 Meet a resident artist Tom Milnes. Working in a variety of media including sound, performance, installation and interactive web-based projects, Milnes probes the possibilities opened up by [...]
19 – 21 August 2011 at Royal Standard Project Space. ‘After The Deluge’, an exhibition of new works by Frances Disley. Private view: Thursday 18 August 18.00 (note postponed from 11th). Open 19 – 21 August 12.00 – 17.00. After [...]
The Royal Standard: Artist Talk by Oliver Braid 3 March 14-15:00 Last year artist Oliver Braid embarked on a mission to develop relationships with the five most attractive young male undergraduates from Glasgow School of Art, in the hope of [...]
8 – 11 July 2011 at The Royal Standard Project Space. ‘Farewell to Yesterday’s Tomorrow’ by Dave Evans Private view – Thursday 7 July 18-20.00 Open daily 8 – 11 July, 12-18.00 In ‘Farewell to Yesterday’s Tomorrow’ Dave Evans shows [...]
13 May – 9 June 2011 at the Royal Standard. I Can’t Follow You If You Don’t Move – Andrew Maughan – Graeme Durant Preview: Thursday 12 May 2011, 6-8pm Open: Wednesday – Sunday 12–6pm Artist talk and meal event, [...]
8 – 14 May 2011 at the Royal Standard Private View – 19.00 Saturday 7 May JazzCakes presents the second in a series of projects. Postcards once again brings together artists from various disciplines connected by a common brief and [...]
The Bluecoat: Reactor micro-projects (part of The Royal Standard Dialogues programme) 16-18:00 Reactor is an art collective that creates projects in which audiences become active participants. Reactor leaves no room for the passive observer, creating work in which, rather than [...]
“Karl Jung is a Grass” Psychogeography in Liverpool and London 2 – 3 June 2012 The Royal Standard is hosting a weekend of events and activities exploring psychogeography as an artistic technique. Artists Colin Dilnot and Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau [...]
The Royal standard: //Plans Within Plans// 6 April – 6 May Open Friday to Sunday 12noon-6pm or by appointment Viewing: 5 April 18 – 21:00 The fabric of Richard Whitby’s work appears to be on the verge of collapsing, ‘degenerating’ [...]
Viewing: 18 January 2012 19 January – 3 February 2013 Open Friday to Sunday 12noon-5pm or by appointment The Royal Standard is pleased to present WARM BREEZE OVER ROCK, a two person show exploring the parameters of place, object and [...]
5 May 2012 15:00 Richard Whitby will give a talk at the gallery on his work and answer questions about the exhibition on Sat 5th May at 3pm. The exhibition is soon to close so if you haven’t already [...]
16 March 14.00 To accompany the Misdirect Movies exhibition, Cathy Lomax will be giving a talk on her practice and making special reference to her work relating to her Film Diary series. Cathy Lomax’s work is rooted in the romance of [...]
19 October 2012 The Agency, as part of The Royal Standard’s Service Provider and Liverpool Biennial would like to invite you to Crawl Inclusive – an evening of shots, tunez and ART. Capitilising on the emerging market of leisure based art tourism;Crawl Inclusive provides a [...]
5 August 2012 15:00 – 17:00pm “No Direction” will be a one-off event held at The Royal Standard car park and project space featuring a new experimental performance work by Biennial Australian artist in residence Eric Bridgeman. The event will [...]
30 March 2013 Film Material Soup are an informal collective of Artists working with experimental film and video, who regularly meet at Manchester’s Rogue Artists’ Studios. On Saturday 30th March they will take over part of The Royal Standard for one [...]
10 October 2012 12 – 20:00 As part of the Royal Standard’s Biennial exhibition Service Provider Generator Projects and artist Catrin Jeans present The Agency. On Wednesday the 10th of October The Agency will be officially opened and the public are invited to come along [...]
8 June – 1 July 2012 Viewing: 7 June 18 – 21:00 The Royal Standard is to present the first Liverpool solo show of painter and songwriter Mikey Georgeson (b.1967). Bringing together a varied body of work from Georgeson’s extensive [...]
16 – 31 March 2013 Open Friday – Sunday 12.00 – 17.00 (By appointment only) Private View: 15 March 18.00 – 21.00 This year’s third show at The Royal Standard is Misdirect Movies. A visually exciting group exhibition continues the [...]
The Royal Standard: My 5 New Friends 4 February – 3 March Viewing: 3 Feb 18- 21:00 By Oliver Braid With It’s Our Playground Featuring new commissions by: David Hoyle & Lee Baxter, Maayke Schurer, Patrick Staff, Roxy Topia & [...]
14 September – 25 November 2012 In its first year as an official partner to the Liverpool Biennial, The Royal Standard will explore the festival’s core theme of hospitality by initiating Service Provider, as part of The Unexpected Guest. This [...]
27 October 2012 16 – 19:00 Laura Mansfield & Sovay Berriman The Royal Standard are pleased to invite you to ||HOST||, a collaboration between artist Sovay Berriman and curator Laura Mansfield that sees the development of a ‘relaxation booth’ for [...]
19 August 2012 14:00 Come and join us for The Royal Standard Summer Fête to have some fun in our quintessenially Engish car park and raise some money for our ambitious biennial programme. There will be a barbeque, bands, booze [...]
The Royal Standard: Tully Moore Open Studio Open Studio: Thursday 26 Jan, 18-20:00pm Tully Moore has been the Australian Artist in Residence at The Royal Standard since November 2011. During the three months of his residency he has been producing [...]
22 February – 13 March 2013 The Royal Standard are excited to announce our first partnership with Manchester’s Malgras|Naudet to bring you UNSPECIFIC OBJECTS, an exhibition over two sites featuring 22 contemporary artists. UNSPECIFIC OBJECTS questions the relationships between the art object and [...]
13 – 28 April 2013 Open Friday – Sunday 12.00 – 17.00 (By appointment) Private View: 12 April 18.00 – 21.00 Drawing influence from either side of the Modernist movement, ‘White Teeth in the Planetarium’ presents a series of dystopian [...]
3 August 2012 19:00 Dominique Rey and Nicola Naismith of Satellite will be visiting The Royal Standard to deliver a presentation of material gathered around the subject of UFO sightings in East Anglia and the Touring Territories Project. Dave Evans [...]
