The Self and Text: The Importance of Language Within Confessional Artwork, by Madeline Girling-Jones...
Madeline Girling-Jones was awarded one of Art in Liverpool’s Publication Awards in partnership with Liverpool Hope University. You can read a shortened...
Review: Walter Sickert at Walker Art Gallery
I can’t help finding the Sickert exhibition a little bit funny, not because of its content, but because of its press. The...
Review: Space is The Place, Patric Rogers & Angelo Madonna at Convenience Gallery
I said it last month and I’ll say it again – Convenience are making spaces for artists to do more, to try...
Review: Emily Speed: Flatland at Tate Liverpool
Emily Speed: Flatland at Tate LiverpoolWords, Lorraine Bacchus
During a conversation about the creative process, a poet friend of...
Review: Gold Maria Akanbi: BlackFest at The Royal Standard
Gold Maria Akanbi: BlackFest at The Royal Standard
Reading is incredibly powerful. You become part of an audience, listening...
Pause for Living, Roxy Topia & Paddy Gould; An exhibition at CBS Gallery &...
Two exhibitions, because they can. Two spaces I have meant to visit over and over and over again, and always failed, astounded...
The Self and Text: The Importance of Language Within Confessional Artwork, by Madeline Girling-Jones
Madeline Girling-Jones was awarded one of Art in Liverpool’s Publication Awards in partnership with Liverpool Hope University. This is a shortened version...
Review: Uncertain Data: a brief meditation at FACT
Uncertain Data:a brief meditation at FACT
So, you know how mindfulness is a way to force yourself to relax?...
Art in Liverpool, issue #25 – Editorial
The relationships between culture and horticulture are fairly fluid, but the way the worlds operate has always been closely tied.
Emily Fairchild, Private Press: An Exploration of Medieval Influence in the Private Press Movement
An Exploration of Medieval Influence in the Private Press Movement, by Emily FairchildEmily Fairchild was awarded one of Art in Liverpool’s Publication...
Review: Very Public Art
Very Public Art feels right. You know? Like a listening project rather than a show and tell. It feels local, and relevant...
Review: Challenging Histories, International Slavery Museum
International Slavery Museum’s new collection display shares a mass of artworks collected over the last four years.
Collections displays...
Review: Jon Edgley, On the Bright Side at Convenience Gallery
When you woke up today, did you see the positives ahead of you, or worry about the next step you had to...
Review: One Day at a Time Boys, Dead Pigeon Gallery
It doesn’t remotely matter if you’ve got formal training as an artist in order to be one. What matters is an open...
Art in Liverpool, issue #24 – Editorial
Collaboration is tough. It’s a revolving series of compromises, and requires mutual understanding, and the ability of all parties to listen to...
Review: Aliza Nisenbaum at Tate Liverpool
Review: Aliza Nisenbaum at Tate Liverpool
Travelling to Tate Liverpool on Tuesday 20th July 2021 to see a show...
Review: John Moores Painting Prize 2020
Review: John Moores Painting Prize 2020
John Moores Painting Prize 2020 holds on to its planned year in the...
Review: Public Service Announcement
Review: Public Service Announcement
Most artists ask themselves the question “what do I want to make work about?” When...
Art in Liverpool issue #23, August 2021 – Editorial
This is the first issue we’ve printed since the start of the pandemic. I don’t really know where to start on explaining...
Independents Biennial 2021, in hindsight
Independents Biennial 2021, in hindsight
I’ve never enjoyed a project more than this year’s Independents Biennial. I’ve also never...
Critical (on Funding)
Critical (on Funding)
Artists in the North West of England make less than the national average for artists, who...
Review: Jessica El Mal, Grounds for Concern (Liverpool Arab Arts Festival)
Review: Jessica El Mal, Grounds for Concern (Liverpool Arab Arts Festival)
Finally finding a chance to find Liverpool Arab...
Review: Lucian Freud & Louise Bourgeois at Tate Liverpool
Review: Lucian Freud & Louise Bourgeois at Tate Liverpool
Lucian Freud and Louise Bourgeois are two artists you can’t...
Review: Peace Doves by Peter Walker, at Liverpool Cathedral
Review: Peace Doves by Peter Walkerat Liverpool Cathedral
Words, Bryony Large (www.confessionsofanartjunkie.com)
Amongst the chaotic bustling...
Review: Rui Matsunaga at The Atkinson
Review: Rui Matsunaga at The AtkinsonOpen until 5th June 2021
Words, Louise Heys
This free solo...
Review: Liverpool Biennial 2021 (part 2)
There’s one thing I want to find from Liverpool Biennial – I need to see if it is any closer to the people of the city it rests in.
Lockdown Treasures: The Baltic Triangle (Part 3)
Lockdown Treasures: The Baltic Triangle (Part 3)
Words & Images, Bryony Large
As we draw closer...
Lockdown Treasures: The City Centre (Part 2)
Lockdown Treasures: The City Centre (Part 2)
Words & Images, Bryony Large
On the verge of...
Review: Liverpool Biennial 2021
Larry Achiampong
The format we use on Art in Liverpool means that the title at the top of...
Dead Pigeon Gallery Presents: Dockers – The ’95 to -98 Liverpool Lockout
Dead Pigeon Gallery Presents:Dockers - The ‘95 to ‘98 Liverpool LockoutDocumentary Photography Exhibition by Dave Sinclair
'In September 1995,...
Liverpool Lockdown Treasures: The Waterfront (Part 1)
Liverpool Lockdown Treasures: The Waterfront (Part 1)
Words, Images & Trail by Bryony Large...
Review: High Viz, Dead Pigeon Gallery
High Viz, Dead Pigeon GalleryWords & images, Lorraine Bacchus
High Viz
Lockdown 2. It’s like...
Featured Artist: Ashleigh Nugent, author of LOCKS, and Creative Director of RiseUp CIC
Featured Artist: Ashleigh Nugent, author of LOCKS, and Creative Director of RiseUp CIC
Interview,...
Review: German Revolution Expressionist Prints at Lady Lever Art Gallery
German Revolution Expressionist Prints at Lady Lever Art Gallery until 28th February 2021 (check here for updates on restrictions & visiting times)
Q&A with Steve Des Landes
Q and A with Steve Des LandesWords, Carol Emmas
Steve des Landes went from having a solo exhibition at...
Review: The Time We Call our Own, Open Eye Gallery
The Time We Call our OwnOpen Eye Gallery until 23rd October
View the full exhibition in VR online here
Review: The Liverpool Nude – An Exhibition of Work from Merseyside’s Life Drawing Groups
The Liverpool Nude – An Exhibition of Work from Merseyside’s Life Drawing Groups
Words & Images: Lorraine Bacchus
Review: Don McCullin at Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool’s Don McCullin is perhaps the most challenging exhibition of recent years.
Review: Linda McCartney Retrospective, Walker Art Gallery
Review of Linda McCartney RetrospectiveWalker Art Gallery, until 1st November 2020
words by Lorraine Bacchus
From...
Review: Linda McCartney Retrospective
Linda McCartney RetrospectiveWalker Art Gallery, 8 August – 1 November 2020
Words, Remy Greasley
Linda McCartney...