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...
Feature: Casey Orr on her latest project with Alternator Studios – Translating The Street
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...
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...
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...
The power of print; Heart of Glass and Kate Hodgson in conversation
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...
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Angelo Madonna and Sylvia Battista
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Angelo Madonna and Sylvia Battista
Interview by Joanie Magill, Independents Biennial Writer-in-Residence
On 11 August, Sylvia Battista performed Persephone, a spoken...
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Faith Bebbington
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Faith Bebbington
Interview by Joanie Magill, Independents Biennial Writer-in-Residence
“I want my work to be outside on the street.”
Faith Bebbington’s large...
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Stephanie Carr
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Stephanie Carr
Interview by Joanie Magill, Independents Biennial Writer-in-Residence
Stephanie Carr’s exhibition, on the top floor of George Henry Lees former...
Featured Artist: John Moores Painting Prize artist, Pete Clarke
John Moores Painting Prize artist, Pete Clarke
on finding the right place to work, and the right artists to work with
Getting Longlisted for the John...
Building new futures: Liverpool Biennial artist Mae-ling Lokko
Building new futures:
On Liverpool Biennial artist Mae-ling Lokko, and her pursuit of an answer to a global question
Mae-ling Lokko, one of the headline...
Feature: “Photie-Man” How Tom Wood made a name for himself
“Photie-Man”
How Tom Wood made a name for himself
There’s something about the Wirral peninsula that must burrow deep inside the minds of artists who live...
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...
Measuring Your Contemporary Conditions: An Interview with Taus Makhacheva
Measuring Your Contemporary Conditions: An Interview with Taus Makhacheva
Interview by Joanie Magill
Ahead of her commission for Liverpool Biennial 2018, Taus Makhacheva talks about the...
Featured Artist: Marilyn Tippet, book artist
Featured Artist: Marilyn Tippet
In 2015 there was an email circulated between local artists, asking us to head to a meeting at Liverpool Central Library...
Guest publication: Messy Lines: Why I Write
Guest publication:
Messy Lines: Why I Write
Why should we care about art? To us readers of and contributors to an art magazine, the answer to...
(P)review: Fact at 15
FACT at 15
on the building, it's history and its director
FACT opened its doors in 2003, and in the fifteen years since has solidly cemented...
Featured Artist: Emma Smith, Euphonia
Featured Artist: Emma Smith: Euphonia
at Bluecoat, 27th April – 24th June 2018
Bluecoat has long been a gallery which has paved the way for more...
Feature: Ken’s show, in Ken’s words
Ken’s show, in Ken’s words
Tate Liverpool are celebrating turning 30 with an exhibition by their longest serving member of staff, Ken Simon’s. The exhibition...
Featured Artist: Peter Davis
Featured Artist: Peter Davis
Zeitgeist is open until 28th April, at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Interview, Patrick Kirk-Smith
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure...
Featured Artist: idle women
Featured Artist: idle women
the idle women institute, St Helens
Heart of Glass, St Helens’ status quo busting culture commissioner, brings yet another year of perception...
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...
FEATURE: Capstan’s Bazaar
Last Sunday was the third Capstan's Bazaar at the new Baltic Market. Independent Liverpool have naturally been behind everything and help get the whole...
Featured Artist: Jake Summerton, photographing The Las
Featured Artist: Jake Summerton, Photographer
‘The La’s 1987’ – Rarities Album Release & Liverpool Exhibition runs:
15th September – 7th October 2017
The Florrie, 377 Mill St, Liverpool L8 4RF
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Words,...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Julie Dodd
Julie Dodd
Ahead of this weekend’s Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we’re bringing you a series of to-the-point interviews with some of...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Anna Yevtukh-Squire
Anna Yevtukh-Squire
Ahead of this weekend’s Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we’re bringing you a series of to-the-point interviews with some of...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Wendy Williams
Wendy Williams (SCI Artists)
Ahead of this weekend’s Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we’re bringing you a series of to-the-point interviews with...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Marilyn Tippett
Marilyn Tippett (North West Book Artists)
Ahead of this weekend’s Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we’re bringing you a series of to-the-point...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Kate Bernstein
Kate Bernstein
Ahead of this weekend’s Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we’re bringing you a series of to-the-point interviews with some of...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Linda Parr
Linda Parr
Ahead of this weekend’s Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we’re bringing you a series of to-the-point interviews with some of...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Mike Clements
Mike Clements (Marches Book Art Group)
Ahead of this weekend's Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we're bringing you a series of to-the-point...
Featured Artist: Andrew Marr: Strokes of Colour at Corke Art Gallery
Andrew Marr: Strokes of Colour at Corke Art Gallery: Andrew Marr’s first public exhibition, tells two stories, one intentional, one not.
Featured Artist: Christopher Kline: O.K. The Musical at Tate Liverpool
Featured Artist: Christopher Kline: O.K. The Musical at Tate Liverpool
throughout April, with performances on 29th & 30th April
Interview, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Christopher Kline, whose musical has...
Featured Artist: Craig Easton
Craig Easton: I’m especially delighted when it is photographs in my own community that get recognised.
Featured Artist: Nina Edge, Nothing Welsh Streets
Nina Edge sheds a little light on what made Bluecoat so important to her, and explains how it enables potential.
Featured Artist: Marcus Dyer and Pilar Cortés for Threshold Festival
Marcus Dyer and Pilar Cortés
Interview, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Threshold Festival 2017 promises its usual explosion of art and music this weekend with its overwhelming events programme...
Featured Artist: John Elcock for Threshold Festival
John Elcock
Interview, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Threshold Festival 2017 is raring up to take over the Baltic Triangle again this weekend. It’s hard to believe it’s been...
Featured Artists: Baltic Clay
Featured Artists: Baltic Clay
Interview, Leyla Gurr
It's been a little over a year since Baltic Clay Studio opened in the Baltic Triangle. In that time...
Interview: Bryan Biggs, on Bluecoat’s 300th anniversary
Bryan Biggs, on Bluecoat’s 300th anniversary
Interview, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Ahead of Bluecoat’s 300th anniversary year in 2017 we met with Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director of Bluecoat...
Feature: Make Liverpool
Make Liverpool
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
You’ve heard of Kickstarter right? Well sometimes money just isn’t the right thing to ask for.
Make Liverpool’s move to their new...
