Carol Emmas
I have had over 10 years journalism experience having spent time as a news journalist and five years as a wine journalist/taste editor/restaurant reviewer for Harpers Wine & Spirit in the South East. My current position is editor of over 400 encyclopaedic/information-based websites. I have always had an interest in the arts through writing and exhibiting. In my spare time, I am a photographic artist, plus a member of Oxton Artists and I sit on the committee of Wirral Open Studios.
Review: LOOK Photo Biennial 2019
LOOK Photo Biennial
Various venues, until 22nd December 2019
Words, Carol Emmas
Images, courtesy of Open Eye Gallery
In the 1960s, American writer and critic Clement Greenberg said,...
Review: Christian Furr, a Retrospective
Christian Furr, a Retrospective
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Words, Carol Emmas
Generally speaking with an artist there is a certain contemporary signature style attached to their work...
Mark Cass, founder of Cass Art, on bridging the divide between...
Mark Cass started a quiet revolution in 1984 when he opened up Cass Art, an art supply shop with a passion for production and...
Review: Mark Leckey at OUTPUT gallery
Review: Mark Leckey at OUTPUT gallery
Words, Carol Emmas
Tapping into the emotions that nostalgia can create is Mark Leckey’s artistic obsession. Clawing memories from his...
Review: Tom Wood & Cian Quayle at The Williamson
Photographer, Tom Wood seems to be on-trend currently having had a plethora of exhibitions over this past year. His exhibition at the Williamson Art...
Review: Woodman and Schiele, on the anniversaries of their deaths
Woodman and Schiele, on the anniversaries of their deaths.
Carol Emmas on Life in Motion at Tate Liverpool
As Tate Liverpool continues its 30th anniversary celebrations,...
Review: Ken’s Show: Exploring the Unseen
Ken’s Show: Exploring the Unseen
Tate Liverpool, until 17th June 2018
A Guardian four star review and header that says: “Sublime choices from a non-expert puts the...
Review: John Moores prizewinners at Walker Art Gallery
Review: John Moores prizewinners
at Walker Art Gallery, From 16th December 2017, until ??
Words, Carol Emmas
Sixty years of the John Moores Painting prize can certainly...
Review: Slaves of Fashion: New Works by The Singh Twins
Slaves Of Fashion: New Works by The Singh Twins
at Walker Art Gallery, until 20 May 2018
Words, Carol Emmas
‘Slaves of Fashion; is an exhibition of 20...
Review: Steve des Landes, Un-settled, at the Williamson Art Gallery
Steve des Landes, Un-settled
Williamson Art Gallery, until 4th March 2018
Words, Carol Emmas
One of the questions I repeatedly ask myself is, what takes an artist...
Review: The Pier Head – Tom Wood
The Pier Head - Tom Wood
Open Eye Gallery, until 25th March 2018
Words, Carol Emmas
I recently rewatched the BBC4 ‘What Artists Do All Day’ documentary...
Review: Art et Liberté: Surrealism in Egypt
Art et Liberté: Surrealism in Egypt
Tate Liverpool, until 18th March 2017
Words, Carol Emmas
I thought I knew quite a bit about Lee Miller and Roland Penrose,...
Review: Eimear Kavanagh’s experimental workshops at Bluecoat
Did it conquer my fear? It certainly loosened me up enough to lose some of the irrational artistic control I’ve developed
Review: Expressive Art on The Mersey, Claire McCarthy
Expressive Art on The Mersey, Claire McCarthy
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, 22nd April - 21st May 2017
Words, Carol Emmas
In today’s commercial art scene there are not many...
Review: Victorian Treasures at Walker Art Gallery
Victorian Treasures
Walker Art Gallery, 27th January - 7th May 2017
Words, Carol Emmas
Hot on the heels of the Waker Art Gallery’s recent exhibition., Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty and Rebellion,...
Review: Jerwood Photoworks Awards
Jerwood Photoworks Awards, Review
Open Eye Gallery, 28 October – 18 December 2016
Words, Carol Emmas
It was a busy evening across Liverpool with a few simultaneous...
Review: Contemporary Construction at Bluecoat Display Centre
Bringing an essence of architectural design into our interiors are the Bluecoat Display Centre’s latest exhibitors
Review: AEROSOL at dot-art
There’s a crack in everything and that’s how the light gets in, and so it was on a rainy July day that I visited the Dot Art Gallery to be greeted by a splash of sunlight in the form of AEROSOL
Review: It’s All About Me, Darling, Nick Hugh McCann at The...
In keeping with the gallery’s grandiose style is the exhibition “IT’S ALL ABOUT ME, DARLING” by local-boy-done-good, Nick Hugh McCann, who, growing up in Birkenhead, recalls being taken to the Williamson
Featured Artist: Nick Hugh McCann
Describing the North West as an ‘emotional magnet’, Birkenhead-born Nick Hugh McCann may have left Wirral as a boy but his connections have continued to grow.
Review: Summer Arts Market at St George’s Hall
People will always justify a reason not to; ‘perhaps next time’ or ‘when I have a bit more money’. So, in these times of economic austerity, it’s all power to any artist to create their work and actually move people to put their hands in their pockets and buy.
Review: #Threeform at Editions
Pauline Hughes, Jo Sweeting, and Naomi Munuo, began following each other on Twitter because they not only liked each other's work but recognised similarities in form and style.
Review: Picasso Linocuts from the British Museum at Lady Lever Gallery
The linocuts currently showing at the Lady Lever Art Gallery are a testament not only to Picasso's never-ending talent but also to the fact he was firing work out well into his 80s and beyond.
Review: L for Leather at Bluecoat Display Centre
Leather is all around us; our shoes, sofas and jackets are all constructed from it, but we often overlook it because of the too familiar form it generally takes. This is leather - not as we know it.