Digital Exhibitions
Digital Exhibitions (most recent first):
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....
Art x Science Calendar created bydrag queens, kings and microbiologists
The THIRST 2027 wall calendar is a collaborative art + science project that celebrates the hidden lives of microorganisms and their intimate relationship with...
Metal and Liverpool Philharmonic mark 10 years since landmark Edge Hill Station performance
A decade after its landmark site-specific performance at Edge Hill Station, Steve Reich’s orchestral masterpiece, Different Trains, returns to Liverpool. Performed by Liverpool Philharmonic's...
Seven artists are chosen for Paul O’Grady Commissions
Seven artists will share a £12,000 fund to create new artworks commissioned as part of a major retrospective commission in Birkenhead, Wirral, this year...
I Am Here: Liverpool Irish Festival and the art of being seen
Between 1845 and 1853, around 1.8 million people fleeing An Gorta Mór (the Great Hunger) arrived in Liverpool through Clarence Dock. Many of them...
Liverpool Artists’ Book Fair returns to the Bluecoat this October
Liverpool Artists’ Book Fair has announced its return to the Bluecoat on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th October 2026 – with a packed weekend...
Wings of the Sea: Chinese art to go on display at World Museum
Opening on 10 October, the display will showcase art from Liverpool’s twin city, Shanghai.
Jade carvings, showstopping opera costumes, intricate ceramics and more will go...
Artist Rooms brings Gilbert & George to The Atkinson this November
ARTIST ROOMS Gilbert & George is presented in collaboration with Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland.
Defining themselves as ‘two people, but one artist’,...
Homotopia Festival 2026: Full programme launched for October 2026
Homotopia Festival 2026 is officially live, and the full programme is here. This year, We Come Together is an invitation. Are you ready?
To gather...
Material Matters return to Liverpool with TRANSMISSIONS
The Material Matters Collective returns to Liverpool’s Bridewell Gallery with TRANSMISSIONS – the next major project since their critically-acclaimed residency Into the Wyld at...
Julia Carter Preston to be celebrated this month, with exhibitions across five galleries
Five leading galleries in Liverpool will host exhibitions on the life and work of the celebrated and popular Liverpool artist Julia Carter Preston (1926-2012),...
Rae-Yen Song and Seema Mattu rethink ideas of kinship and connection in new solo exhibitions at FACT
From Friday 18 September 2026 to Sunday 14 February 2027, FACT presents two major solo exhibitions by Rae-Yen Song and Seema Mattu.
For Rae-Yen Song,...
River of Light returns to Liverpool with ‘Together’, this autumn
River of Light - the iconic light art festival - will return to the streets of Liverpool this autumn under the theme of ‘Together’.
Between...
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 North + Tate Liverpool
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,...
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The world is keeping its distance, the UK is in lockdown, and we can’t get out to see everything we want to, but artists are still creating.
This page is a response to COVID-19, but something we think will be useful beyond that. Isolation has always existed, it’s an issue that affects many around the world, so this page will (hopefully) continue beyond the current emergency.
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