Patrick Kirk-Smith
Editor, Art in Liverpool
Threshold Festival of Music & Arts announces tenth and FINAL annual...
Threshold Festival of Music & Arts announces tenth and final annual event
Organisers of Liverpool’s Threshold Festival have announced their 2020 dates, marking a decade...
Art in Liverpool Magazine, issue #18: September 2019 editorial
From 9th April to 7th June next year, Candice Breitz brings Love Story, an international story of migration and displacement to Tate Liverpool. The...
Interview: Liz Magic Laser; Real Work at FACT
Interview: Liz Magic Laser
One half of FACT’s latest exhibition, Real Work, open until 6th October 2019
Real Work is an exploration of incredibly personal, and...
Review: Keith Haring at Tate Liverpool
Keith Haring hasn’t ever had a solo show in the UK. Yet for some reason I feel a closeness to Haring that has been...
Featured Artist: Richie Moment – LightNight 2019 commission
Featured Artist: Richie Moment
interview ahead of his 2019 LightNight commission at St George’s Hall
Ahead of this year’s LightNight, we’re trying to get to grips...
Review: Survey, Bluecoat – 12 years of Jerwood Visual Arts
Review: Survey, Bluecoat
12 years of Jerwood Visual Arts
Charting twelve years of Jerwood Visual Arts, Survey is a document of the changing creative industries.
In a...
Art in Liverpool Magazine, issue #14: April 2019 editorial (Culture Declares)
As Extinction Rebellion causes chaos throughout London, something really significant is happening in tandem. Culture Declares is a new initiative led by the UK’s...
Feature: Casey Orr on her latest project with Alternator Studios –...
Translating the street – The Hive, Birkenhead
Casey Orr on her latest project with Alternator Studios
Translating the street has been a project I’ve wanted to...
Review: 209 Women – from Parliament to Open Eye Gallery
209 Women - from Parliament to Open Eye Gallery
An exhibition of women in power, in a system dominated by men.
It is unity, more than...
Review: Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style
Review: Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style
at Walker Art Gallery
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an artist with his eyes open. The exhibition at Walker...
Art in Liverpool Magazine, issue #14: April 2019 editorial
Since 2008, Liverpool has been so palpably linked with Europe, leading by example for cities hoping to put the arts and culture at the...
RISE up!: Diverse programme of events launched to mark International Women’s Day
RISE up!: Diverse programme of events launched as part of RISE season
TO mark International Women’s Day, Liverpool is announcing a season of events which celebrate inspirational...
Art in Liverpool Magazine, issue #13: March 2019 editorial
Last week, we lost our car. Seven years, and jointly, mine and my partner’s first car, and the vehicle that enabled this paper to...
Review: Bluecoat Display Centre at 60
Bluecoat Display Centre at 60
60 @thebdc, open until 2nd March 2019
In sixty years, the Bluecoat Display Centre has probably done more for local makers...
Review: The Art Schools of North West England, at Bluecoat
The Art Schools of North West England, at Bluecoat
I don’t remember the days when there was an art school in every town, I can...
Review: Artist Rooms: Alex Katz, at Tate Liverpool
Artist Rooms was part of Nicholas Serota’s outgoing legacy at Tate. When the long serving Director of the national gallery group stepped down in...
Preview: Gray Ⓖ at Kirkby Gallery, and the 18th Knowsley Open
Preview: Gray Ⓖ at Kirkby Gallery, and the 18th Knowsley Open
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Historically, open exhibitions were revered, highly judged, highly commended, monetised affairs that...
Six Memos (on art and writing); Italo Calvino’s future becomes reality
Six Memos (on art and writing);
Italo Calvino’s future becomes reality on display at St George’s Hall
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Writing credits for ‘The Quick Guide’...
Review: Jade Montserrat, Instituting Care
Review: Jade Montserrat, Instituting Care
“The quiet in this library is a sound in itself.” A statement scrawled across the walls of the gallery seems...
Blue Room at Ten, Review
Blue Room at Ten, Review
Blue Room has, for ten years, been working with learning disabled artists not just in creating new art, but creating...
Review: Stirling Prize Shortlist exhibition 2018, at RIBA North
Review: Stirling Prize Shortlist exhibition 2018, at RIBA North
2018’s Stirling Prize Winner is Bloomberg’s European Headquarters. The annual award is an unlimited, uncategorized prize...
Review: Jasmir Creed, Dystopolis at the VGM
Review: Jasmir Creed, Dystopolis
at the VGM
Victoria Gallery & Museum has hosted some wonderful multimedia installations over the years, one was, I think, the...
Four Words: Future Alan Dunn’s Channel 4 takeover. Catch up on...
Four Words: Future
Alan Dunn’s Channel 4 takeover. Catch up on All4
You know how those adverts on facebook target you? Or down the side of...
Art in Liverpool Magazine, issue #11: January 2019 Editorial
Increasingly, we’re trying to find a reason for art. It might be education, wellbeing, discovery, freedom of thought, cultural understanding, community growth, etc. etc.
Key...
Review: Knowsley Book Art; Liverpool Book Art’s graduation, 2018
Earlier this year, the Hornby Room at Liverpool Central Library hosted Frankenstein 2018, a celebration of 200 years since the first publication of Mary...
Review: Fernand Léger at Tate Liverpool
At Tate Liverpool until 29 March 2019
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Léger’s early work is really fairly disappointing to see. Le Jardin de ma mère, painted as...
Rarely heard voices; how the women of St Helens provoked a...
Review: TORCH, by ANU Productions
Nervously fidgeting with a box of ink in my pocket for an hour spent in a terraced house in St...
Art in Liverpool Magazine, issue #10: December Editorial
It’s been a pretty big year for Art in Liverpool, given that this time last year this newspaper didn’t exist, and we’d just started...
Spectacular light show to round off St Helens 150th anniversary celebrations...
Spectacular light show to round off St Helens 150th anniversary celebrations and Borough of Culture
A dazzling light projection made up of 200,000 lumens of...
Independents Biennial, a diary
Independents Biennial, a diary
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
I’ll start where I mean to end; something happened this year that clarified a new responsibility for Art in...
Review: Liverpool Biennial 2018
Review: Liverpool Biennial 2018
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Beautiful World, What Are You?, rather than Beautiful World, Where Are You? seems to be more appropriate title. What...
Review: Test! The programme of trial and error taking chances for...
Test! The programme of trial and error taking chances for Independents Biennial
There’s an important layer to the visual arts that rarely gets seen. It’s...
Preview: Dragons of the Pool, coming later this month to Arts...
Believing they had been deserted, the families of Chinese seamen who had been secretly deported back to the Far East tell their somewhat unknown...
Farewell Victoria Street; a sad goodbye to a cultural hub, and...
Without agenda or pretence, I want to commemorate a building which has been an invaluable support to Art in Liverpool, the Independents Biennial and...
Art in Liverpool Magazine: Issue #8, 2018 – Editorial
Our final Independents Biennial issue is here. In November, we’re back to normal, returning to routine. But that, in no way, means things are...
It’s the Travelling Life – new exhibition depicts life in Liverpool’s...
It’s the Travelling Life - new exhibition depicts life in Liverpool’s Irish Traveller community
A new exhibition, curated by American artist Jona Frank, provides a...
Liverpool Biennial’s strongest card? Open Eye Gallery’s Madiha Aijaz
Liverpool Biennial’s strongest card? Open Eye Gallery’s Madiha Aijaz
One of Liverpool Biennial’s loudest, and aptly, quietest, statements about globalism and the impact of individualism...
How Liverpool’s Metropolotian Cathedral grew new limbs. Ryan Gander’s Liverpool Biennial...
How Liverpool’s Metropolotian Cathedral grew new limbs.
Ryan Gander’s Liverpool Biennial commission
Time Moves Quickly, the message from Ryan Gander to Liverpool. On the platform outside...