Features
Review: New Faces, New Focus: Stories We Share at Open Eye Gallery
New Faces, New Focus feels like two exhibitions. New Faces, introducing the mechanisms of socially engaged practice, community building, and community linking. New Focus,...
Review: Julia Carter Preston at the Bluecoat
Julia Carter Preston is one of the most important British ceramicists of the 20th century. Her iconic and instantly recognisable style is collected, displayed...
Review: ‘Just come in’: 30 years of Maggie’s Centres at RIBA North
In 1995, when the first Maggie’s Centre opened, a year after the death of Maggie Keswick Jencks, it changed the physical landscape of cancer...
Review: BRB at FACT
Mania, restriction and fear are the key words for BRB at FACT. On its face, the exhibition is approachable and chaotic, but deep down...
Review: New Faces, New Focus at Kirkby Gallery
Being part of a community no matter how big or small, can be greater than just the sum of its parts. It’s both a...
Review: Transmissions (Part I) Ancestors: Material Matters at Bridewell Studios & Gallery
Stones carried the earliest possible components of life. They carry the elements, minerals, water, sugar, that make life possible in any corner of the...
Review: A Gentle Man (Part II)(1975-2029): Becky Beasley at Bluecoat
A Gentle Man is movingly stark, from start to finish. It’s the coldest I’ve felt these rooms at Bluecoat in a long time. Becky...
Review: Made From Scratch: Celebrating Julia Carter Preston, Ceramicist at Bluecoat Display Centre
Of the five Julia Carter Peston exhibitions around Liverpool, each celebrating her life and work in different ways, it’s Bluecoat Display Centre that stands...
Review: Close to Home: Mark Storer & Heart of Glass at the Cunard Building
I don’t think I gave this the respect it deserved.
Somewhere around Chronicle 3, I realised I couldn’t.
My thoughts had become interrupted, paced, and unstructured....
Editorial: Art in Liverpool, issue #60, October 2026
There’s some degree of assumed respect when you visit a gallery. Not to the gallery, or the other visitors. You don’t owe them anything....
Feature: Hands Around Huyton: Martin Heron takes over Huyton Village
Dotted all over Huyton since early summer, these relief works emphasise a new creative spirit for the village, and cast a tiny bit of...
Review: Earth & Sound: Altar Pottery at Gallery 1889
Just down the road from their studio on Windsor Street, Altar Pottery have started an annual tradition, showing works by the collective of ceramicists,...
Review: British Glass Biennale 2026, at The World of Glass
I vividly remember this one exhibition at Tate Liverpool from the early 2000s - Bruce Nauman, ‘Make Me Think Me’. I was probably fifteen...
Review: Wide-Angle View: Architecture as social space in the Manplan series 1969-70 at RIBA...
In 1969, following years of frustration and disappointment at the unrealised post-war dreams of a new, thriving Britain, powered by new housing, and inspiring...
Review: Brian & George Fell, Always Something New at the Atkinson
Dotted around Prescot (some time around the opening of Shakespeare North Playhouse) a handful of intriguing sculptures appeared through the town. They were familiar,...
Review: Leonard McComb: Nature and Humanity at Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Intrigue, probably, is the word that sums up Leonard McComb most appropriately. Not ours, his. He was an artist whose work was so clearly...
Editorial: Art in Liverpool, issue #59, September 2026
I was going to write about Bruce Nauman here, because I couldn’t get a memory out of my head, but then Monty Don announced...
Editorial: Art in Liverpool issue #58, July 2026
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a question I used to focus a lot of writing on, before I got involved with this...
Review: Making a Mark: Studio Prints at Victoria Gallery & Museum
In its 43 years, Studio Prints had a huge influence on the art world. The London-based studio facilitated the work of Frank Auerbach, Leucian...
Review: The Space Between: Liam Bononi at Gallery 1889
Even if you’re visiting Liverpool for the first time, you’ve probably already encountered work by Liam Bononi. The Brazilian-born artist has been resident in...
Review: Gender Stories at Walker Art Gallery
‘What if You Regret It?’ asks Charli Kleeman, whose work exploring DIY hormone production, and black market hormone sourcing greets you when you walk...
Feature: Skalli by Patric Rogers
Skalli tells a story of the origin of one of the most loaded words in the city. Beyond Merseyside the word is as interchangeable...
Review: Sahjan Kooner: (Darkforest) The Zone of Ghosts at FACT
Sahjan Kooner’s Darkforest, currently upstairs at FACT, is probably the closest you’ll get to playing D&D as art in this life. Singles can explore...
A gently heated discussion inspired by ‘Is This a Garden?’ at Open Eye Gallery
We’re writing this from an allotment, and knowing how often we like to judge the gardens of others. But that judgment is not negative,...
Review: George Hallett: Home and Exile at Exhibition Research Lab
Home and Exile charts the whole life of George Hallett, but at its centre is the story of a twenty four year exile from...
Review: Roaming Britain at RIBA North
Home isn’t loose construct, but it isn’t concrete either. For Traveller and Gypsy communities, their way of life has been tangled up in that...
Review: Nocturnal Rainbow: Maurice Cockrill at Bridewell Studios & Gallery
When I started writing for this paper (then blog), I was given a tour of Bridewell ahead of one of their shows. The gallery...
Review: Zahed Taj-Eddin: ANTIQUA at The Atkinson
I’m not actually sure I can say anything about Zahed Taj-Eddin that would offer, in even the slightest way, something useful. He knows his...
Review: Listening All Night in The Rain: John Akomfrah at Walker Art Gallery
One introduction to the Listening All Night in The Rain, written ahead of its screening in Venice in 2024 by British Pavilion curator Tarini...
Introducing: Play Play Play Press
The Circular Arts Network’s main launch this month is about getting our materials library into use, but the projects here are more than that.
It’s...
Feature: Common Thread at BIRCH Studios & Gallery
Last year, Marina Diamantidi started a monthly garment-saving workshop at Birch Studios and Gallery. Common Thread has become an essential piece of the make...
Introducing: Bootle Kitchen Library
Bootle and Crosby Libraries have been significantly different to traditional libraries for nearly a decade thanks to a long-term intervention by Rule of Threes,...
Circularity & Space in Halton
The next few articles focus on the power of space. In some cases, the Circular Arts Network makes use of them, on others, they...
Broken Grey Wires: Space, New Beginnings, & Support
In 2014, I was sat on a bed, listening to the calls of distressed women. I was tired and sore, mentally and physically. I...
Reflections: Art After Dark
Overall I loved putting together the map for the art after dark event, I worked with Make CIC to take into account feedback, next...
Independents Biennial x CAN
Independents Biennial 2025 had a predicted materials budget of £30k. That was built in to commission costs, and production costs. We saved every penny...
Liverpool Tool Library: Pioneering circular economies
In late 2020, Liverpool Tool Library opened their doors to the public, in one of the country’s first to adopt a model of repair...
Reflection: A Trip to London with Two Architects
For someone whose practice has long centred around community collaboration, housing, accessibility and grassroots cultural organising, being invited to take part in Repairing the...
The Wanderin’ Library goes to Glasgow
It’s the 4th weekend in May and The Wanderin’ Library is making it’s way to Glasgow Zine Fest, for it’s furthest journey to date.
All...
Red Brick Market at 10*
Having celebrated our 10th Birthday in January the first incarnation of the Market was Red Brick Vintage which used to be in the Brewery...
