Visiting Writers
Art in Liverpool always welcomes original submissions from budding writers with something interesting to say. The articles on this page are just such articles, submitted by readers and artists who had something on their mind that they wanted to put out there.
Email features@artinliverpool.com if you're interested in writing for us
Review: Julie Arkell, In the Window
Julie Arkell, In the Window
Bluecoat Display Center
On College Lane, a whimsical little arrangement in the window of the Bluecoat Display Center is peering out...
Review: Rituals, at Bluecoat Display Centre
Review: Rituals
Bluecoat Display Centre, until 20th April
Words, Charlotte Hill
Bluecoat Display Centre is a base not only for artists but also collectives, small organisations and...
Review: The Female Gaze: Women Depicting Women – dot-art
The majority of visual artists are women, but typically a far smaller fraction than half are exhibited in art museums. On top of that,...
Art Students on Film, John Beck and Matthew Cornford
Art Students on Film
by John Beck and Matthew Cornford
You can blame the war for art students. At least, in typically flamboyant form, this is...
Review: Welsh Landscapes at dot-art
Review: Welsh Landscapes at dot-art
Words, Kathryn Wainwright
The Welsh countryside is an unbelievable resource we have right on our doorstep in the North West. I...
Review: Quentin Blake & John Yeoman: 50 Years of Children’s Books...
Review: Quentin Blake & John Yeoman: 50 Years of Children’s Books at Lady Lever Art Gallery
Words, Kathryn Wainwright
The Lady Lever is currently host to...
Review: A Different Way of Seeing
Review: A Different Way of Seeing,
at 92 Degrees Coffee:
Words, Sophia Charuhas
It takes an intrepid artist to make a traditional still life subject into a...
Review: Six Memos, a European CreArt Exhibition
Words, Joanie Magill
Weaving along the corridors and passages of the catacombs to get to the Bridge Gallery in St George’s Hall, I always feel...
Review: Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, News from Nowhere
Sci-fi, filmed here in Liverpool, opens up a window on the future as Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho tour their ongoing News From Nowhere...
Interview: Martin O’Brien, on Until the Last Breath is Breathed
Interview: Martin O’Brien,
on Until the Last Breath is Breathed
and making work about living with cystic fibrosis
Interview by Joanie Magill
Martin O’Brien is a live artist...
Preview of Broken Symmetries, a collaboration between FACT & CERN
Super Collider. When art and science met
Preview of Broken Symmetries, a collaboration between FACT & CERN
Words, Kathryn Wainwright
Coming later this month, FACT’s recent collaborations...
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Paul Mellor and John Elcock
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Paul Mellor and John Elcock.
Anatomy of an exhibition
Interview by Joanie Magill
A Long the Riverrun, a painting show curated by...
Interview with Independents Biennial artist Alice Lenkiewicz
Interview with Independents Biennial artist Alice Lenkiewicz.
Goddess Trail at Rimrose Valley.
By Bernadette McBride, Writer-in-Residence for Independents Biennial 2018.
See it online: https://tinyurl.com/y8kyytma
B: How does Gaia,...
The power of print; Heart of Glass and Kate Hodgson in...
The power of print
Heart of Glass and Kate Hodgson in conversation, on
their Independents Biennial collaboration
Liverpool/St Helens-based artist Kate Hodgson believes in the power...
Featured Artist: Brendan Lyons
Featured Artist: Brendan Lyons
Interview by Ian Fallace
Pictures by Fiona Filby
Brendan Lyons is a painter who has exhibited for many years producing stand alone and...
Mersey or Huangpu? Liverpool or Shanghai? Chapter Two of China Dream
Words, Ian Fallace
Shanghai has been twinned with Liverpool since 1999 and in the interim there has been a building of cultural links between the...
Review: Sean Scully at Walker Art Gallery
Review: Sean Scully at Walker Art Gallery
Words, Ian Fallace
“The stripe can do anything in any direction and since it is so common, it corresponds...
Review: New Brighton Revisited – Martin Parr, Ken Grant, Tom Wood
Review: New Brighton revisited
Words, Kathy Wainwright
A room with a view, and not just of the ever popular beach. The Sailing School at Marine Point...
OUTPUT Gallery: Liverpool’s latest, loyalest, addition to the gallery scene
OUTPUT Gallery: Liverpool’s latest, loyalest, addition to the gallery scene
Gabrielle De La Puente on her grand plans for a
space built by and for...
Review: ‘Voices from the Hub’ at Open Eye Gallery
‘Voices from the Hub’
Words and images, Adele Emmas
Outside Open Eye Gallery, stands the 'Voices from the Hub' exhibition. A collection of poetry and photography produced by Liverpool's 'Waves...
Review: OPAVIVARÁ! Utupya at Tate Liverpool
OPAVIVARÁ! Utupya Words, Joanie Magill
Brazilian artist collective OPAVIVARÁ! has taken over the top floor of Tate Liverpool, creating Utupya, their first solo exhibition in the...
Review: Museum of the Moon, at Liverpool Cathedral
Luke Jerram's Museum of the Moon
at Liverpool Cathedral until 28th May 2018
words, Joanie Magill
Suspended from the ceiling in the centre of the well of...
Review: People Like Us: the Mirror (FACT at 15)
People Like Us: the Mirror (FACT at 15)
Words, Joanie Magill
Dive into the rabbit hole and enter an immersive audio-visual stream of consciousness where we...
Review: Contrast Mural Festival
Contrast Mural Festival
Words, Joanie Magill
It couldn’t have been a better week for the Contrast Mural Festival. The sun beat down on the streets in...
Review: Hands of History +20
Review: Hands of History +20
at Victoria Gallery & Museum, until 21st April 2018
Words, Steph Preston
20 years ago the artist Raymond Watson persuaded Northern Irish...
Review: Positions of Power, Disparity Collective
The Tapestry: Positions of Power, Disparity Collective
(exhibition ended)
Words, Joanie Magill
Pictures, courtesy of the artists at Disparity Collective
Seven divergent perspectives explore and challenge the theme...
Review: Trapped in the Image: West Kirby Arts Centre
Jacob Gourley and Stephen Nulty's exhibition - Trapped in the Image
on exhibition throughout February 2018
at West Kirby Arts Centre
Words, Trevor Smith (Visiting Writer)
If January and February...
Featured Artist: Holly Rowan Hesson at Pyramid Arts Centre
Words & Interview, Eli Regan
Interview with Holly Rowan Hesson whose installation ECHO is showing at Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington (29 September 2017 to 27...
Review: The Liverpool Collection, at dot-art
The Liverpool Collection
dot-art Gallery, until 13th January 2018
Words, Kevin Symes
Hidden away in a charming Diagon Alley-esque side street is dot-art Gallery, who have just opened...
Review: Past, Present, Future at Bluecoat Display Centre
Past, Present, Future
Bluecoat Display Centre,
Words & Pictures, Daniel Payne
The Bluecoat Display Centre is a cozy space: half shop, half gallery. The current exhibition,...
Review: Open 3: Affecting Change at Open Eye
Open 3: Affecting Change
Open Eye Gallery: Open 3 – affecting change
Words, Melissa Dowell
In a city known for its independence and standing up for everyone...
In Pictures: LIMF
Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) 2017
Pictures, Tony Knox
LIMF 2017 was a huge success, as always, but for whatever reason Art in Liverpool always keeps...
Review: You and I are like that red wall… CBS
You and I are like that red wall…
Crown Building Studios
Words, Devon Forrester-Jones
You and I are like that red wall… is an exhibition guest curated...
Review: dot-art: Micro Macro
Dot-art: Micro Macro, Amy Ritchie and Sarah Nicholson
Words, Jessica Fenna
Hidden away on the street affectionately dubbed Liverpool’s ‘Diagon Alley’ is one of Liverpool’s most innovative...
Review: Foodsketz, Relay
Foodsketz, Relay
Words, Jessica Fenna
Foodsketz describe themselves as a ‘collaborative vehicle for food, art and discussion,’ they comprise of Alison Claire and Cat Smith. Starting...
In Pictures: Africa Oyé 2017: Record breaking festival of African culture
Africa Oyé 2017: A record breaking festival of African culture
Photos, Christelle Marris
2017 saw Africa Oyé completely shatter its attendance records, and the start of...
Review: Juliet Fleming, Kieran Leach and Robyn Nichol: Aftertaste, at The...
Juliet Fleming, Kieran Leach and Robyn Nichol: Aftertaste
The Trophy Room
Words, Devon Forrester-Jones
Devon Forrester-Jones, Artist and Co-Leader of Surtsey Projects, takes a look at The...
Review: Sir Peter Blake, in conversation with Richard Cork
Sir Peter Blake, In conversation with Richard Cork
Words, Jessica Fenna
Often dubbed the founder of British pop art, the renowned artist, Peter Blake has been...
Review: Future Forwards at Bluecoat Display Centre
Words, Jessica Fenna
Bluecoat Display Centre presents another thought-provoking exhibition, ‘Future Forwards’, showcasing the role of innovative technologies in the world of craft and applied...
Review: The Transglobal Art of Mark Wigan
In becoming the temporary home for The Transglobal Art of Mark Wigan, Chester Arts Centre provides a shock of colour