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Markus Soukup Wins The Liverpool Art Prize 2011 The winner of this year’s Liverpool Art Prize is new media, film and sound artist Markus Soukup. Markus will be awarded £2000 and will also be given the opportunity to show their [...]
Metal: Liverpool Art Prize 27 April – 9 June The Liverpool Art Prize 2012 is an exhibition of four shortlisted artists awarded for their outstanding achievements and contribution to contemporary art within Liverpool, and further afield. This year the exhibition [...]
7 December – 28 April 2013 A unique collection of fifteen paintings, displayed together for the first time, by the celebrated Liverpool-born author, Beryl Bainbridge. Beryl Bainbridge was one of the UK’s most famous novelists and an accomplished painter. The [...]
Nominations for the 2012 Liverpool Art Prize open on Monday 5 September 2011 and close on Friday 25 November 2011. The Liverpool Art Prize is a competition of contemporary art open to professional artists based in or born in the [...]
COMPETITION WINNERS CAPTURE THE BEAUTY OF NORTH LIVERPOOL Show Your Beautiful Face Photography Competition winners were announced at the unveiling of the exhibition on the evening of Wednesday 21st September. The competition offered cash prizes and the opportunity to be [...]
27 April 12.00 – 15.00 The Royal Standard has just expanded and we are looking for new studio members. We have taken on and additional space within the same business park as our current building and have room for approximately [...]
Open Eye Gallery 30 March – 10 June Viewing: 29 March 18:00 Main Exhibition RICHARD MOSSE: INFRA Archive Exhibition SIMON NORFOLK: FOR MOST OF IT I HAVE NO WORDS Wall Work EMILY SPEED: NOTHING IS FINISHED, NOTHING IS PERFECT, NOTHING LASTS [...]
22 June – 2 September 2012 Open Eye Gallery is excited to present Still Outside (or Unexplained), a group show looking at how we imagine and interact with our surroundings. Still Outside (or Unexplained) presents four artists, from the [...]
Fantastic to see the Open Eye gallery re-opening at its new venue near the waterfront last week. It looks great, there’s a lot more room, good lighting, nice little shop, beautifully fitted out and great location next to the new [...]
QUAY BROTHERS’ FILMS TO BE SCREENED AT VICTORIA GALLERY & MUSEUM Films by cult directors, the Quay Brothers, are to be screened at the University of Liverpool’s Victoria Gallery and Museum on Thursday, 26 May. The Dormitorium exhibition features 10 [...]
THE MYSTERY OF MOAI HAVA – Enigmatic ‘Easter Island’ statue at World Museum A rare statue from the mysterious island of Rapa Nui – widely known as Easter Island – has gone on display at World Museum. The island is [...]
30 May – 2 June 2012 Viewing: 30 May 19:30 – LATE Opening times: 1pm-7pm Websites: redwireredwire.com http://liverpoolartprize.com/?event=the-owls-are-not-what-they-seem-launch Message or Further Details: Focusing on deep primitive fears that humanity retains such as fear of the dark and a fear of [...]
From The Everyman Theatre which closes on 2 July 2011 (to be rebuilt) Share your memory of the Everyman… …before Friday June 24th’!! Your last chance to wish the Everyman well on its exciting new journey will be on [...]
On now until 18 May An exhibition which focuses on traditional drawing and skilled draughtsmanship, proving that they still have their place in an age of computer graphics and animation.
6 – 28 October 2012 Viewing: 5 October 18 – 21:00 Pamela Sullivan Aus der Asche Artist’s Carol Ramsay and Pamela Sullivan present ‘Unterschlupf’ (Shelter). A two piece installation made in response to the unique space that is St Lukes [...]
4 November 2011 – 29 January 2012 at Tate Liverpool ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Lewis Carroll’s enchanting tales of Alice in her Wonderland have delighted children and adults alike since their publication almost 150 years ago. These stories have remained enduringly [...]
Turner Monet Twombly – Tate Liverpool 22 June – 28 October 2012 £13.50/£10.00 Update: The exhibition includes five important Monet water lily paintings, two of which have never been shown before in Britain. The Water-Lily Pond c1917-19 lent by the [...]
17 May – 2 June 2013 Wolfson Gallery & related events Admission FREE Supported by Gower Street Estates trading as Albert Dock Liverpool and the Bloxham Charitable Trust On 24 May, Tate Liverpool celebrates the 25th anniversary of its opening, [...]
8 February – 12 May 2013 £8 Concessions and family tickets available Glam, a visually extravagant pop style exploded across Britain during the years 1971-5. The exciting, futuristic sounds, extravagant fashions and glitter-dappled personas emerging in this era had their roots [...]
8 February – 3 May 2013 Free Entry Although widely over-looked in the field of modern and contemporary art, Sylvia Sleigh was a realist painter who became an important part of New York’s feminist art scene in the 1960s and [...]
16 November 2012 – 20 January 2013 Tracing the Century highlights drawing’s fundamental role as a catalyst and vehicle for change in modern and contemporary art. The exhibition includes around one hundred artworks from the Tate Collection together with key loans [...]
The third Tatton Park Biennial opens in May 2012, with up to 20 new commissions from some of the most innovative artists working nationally and internationally today. Each work will respond to the Biennial theme, ‘Flights of Fancy’, addressing the [...]
24 – 28 August 2012 Viewing: 23 August 17:30 – 20:30 The final show for this years Artist Teacher MA. The culimination of two years hard work. Also sadly the end of the ATMA programme in LJMU!
Friday 22 July – Sunday 18 September 2011 at The Bluecoat. ‘Honky Tonk’ Viewing: Friday 22 July 18-20, with live music from Mike Badger & The Shady Trio at 18.30. SOUTH BY NORTH WEST – TEXAS COMES TO LIVERPOOL with [...]
1 December 2012 11 – 17:00 Come along for some festive cheer at the Bluecoat this Saturday where 2dartmarkets will be presenting their Christmas Art Market. Chat with the artists and shop for those extra special Christmas presents from a [...]
07 December 2012 – 03 February 2013 One of South Africa’s greatest contemporary artists, William Kentridge is acclaimed worldwide for his films, drawings, theatre and opera productions. He is also an innovative and prolific printmaker whose career began studying etching [...]
The Bluecoat: Topophobia 2 March-22 April 2012 Viewing: 2 March 18 – 20:00 daily 10– 18:00 Free admission Anne Eggebert, Matze Einhoff, David Ferrando Giraut, Polly Gould, Marja Helander, Uta Koegelsberger, Abigail Reynolds, Almut Rink, Emily Speed, Louise K Wilson. [...]
1 – 21 August 2012 C.Pike – Painting Is So Much Fun August 1st – August 21st The Bohemia Space is also pleased to present, for our first show; Painting Is So Much Fun by Lebanon based artist C.Pike. Painting [...]
28 August – 23 September 2012 Viewing: 28 August 19:30 – Late An exhibition of old and new paintings by Liverpool Based Artist Hamish McLain. Soon to depart Liverpool for London, the exhibition brings together work made during his time [...]
8 – 14 June 2012 viewing: 8 June 19 – 22:00 An exhibition that presents a variety of photographic work by five innovative artists. Each demonstrating their own interpretation of the urban and rural landscape. The work exhibited will include [...]
23 – 30 November 2012 Viewing: 23 November 19:00 onwards For one week only! An exhibition of Grandfather, Father and Son artists Eric, Anthony and Nathan Pendlebury showing a range of paintings and prints. This is the first time Eric’s [...]
26 October – 21 November Private View 26 October 6.30 – 11pm Opening times Monday – Friday 10.30am – 4.30pm, Saturday 10.30am – 1.30pm Andrew Logan has exhibited his jewellery and sculptures all over the world, in such diverse places as [...]
27 – 30 September 2012 Critically Engaging Art, Outside London. The Manchester Contemporary is a focus for you to experienceart produced by both emerging and more established artists from the UK and beyond.Whether you are a new or established collector, [...]
15 September – 25 November 2012 Janine Antoni Umbilical, 2000 Antoni’s work draws upon the complex, intimate relationship between mother and child, and between objects and bodies. Antoni cast the inside of her mouth, cupped around the bowl of a [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Royal Standard – Annual Fundraising Party Saturday 15th December from 7pm til the END. £2 grants you entry to the N E W W O R L D After the universally cataclysmic year of 2012 The Royal Standard invites all [...]
7 – 25 November 2012 Opening Wednesday 7 November 6.30-9.00pm It’s Moving from I to It – Scene 10 What happens when all characters leave the stage An exhibition by Beatriz Olabarrieta Background information: -The Royal Standard invites FormContent to [...]
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 [...]
Lovely photo by Mark McNulty. We stayed in the Baltic area on Friday evening so missed a lot of stuff but also saw some good things and will post some pictures later. Thousands Switched on to Liverpool’s Light Night Liverpool’s [...]
Art in Liverpool in association with Tate Liverpool have 5 pairs of tickets to giveaway to 5 lucky Art in Liverpool readers. Want to be in with a chance of winning? Simply send your name, email and home address to artinliverpool@gmail.com. [...]
1 June – 30 August 2012 Viewing: 31 May 2012 Birds’ Ear View collective cordially invites you to the private view of The Spectacle of the Lost on 31st May at the Victoria Gallery & Museum in Liverpool.Featuring work by [...]
THE LOST WORLD OF THE HITTITE EMPIRE RECREATED AT THE VICTORIA GALLERY & MUSEUM, LIVERPOOL An exhibition that showcases the archaeological discoveries of the Hittite Empire more than 100 years ago by the Liverpool archaeologist, Professor John Garstang, will open [...]
24 June 2011 – 25 September 2011 at The Walker Art Gallery ‘Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911′ City of Radicals exhibition features work by van Gogh, Matisse, Gauguin and Signac and celebrates the pioneering exhibition The Sandon Studios Society [...]
Walker Art Gallery shortlisted for 60K Contemporary Art Society Annual Award 2011 The Annual Award was set up three years ago, and is an initiative to support UK museums to commission new work that, once completed, will remain within the [...]
19 May – 12 August Viewing 18 May ‘Rolf Harris: Can you tell what it is yet?’ will be a major retrospective of legendary artist, musician and TV personality, Rolf Harris. It will feature an eclectic range of paintings, memorabilia [...]
21 October 2011 – 15 April 2012 at The Walker Art Gallery. The Art Books of Henri Matisse – First public showing in the UK The Walker Art Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of art books by [...]
10 – 27 May SPECTRUM WCS Presents | As part of Liverpool Art Month WCS Presents SPECTRUM: 15 solo exhibitions, with 5 Liverpool based Artists, Duos and Collectives from various stages of their careers, exhibiting each week. A hugely eclectic, [...]
