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...
Featured Artist: Liz Wewiora, Culture Shifts
Liz Wewiora: Culture Shifts is here to help us work out how we might best do this, but not by working just as lone image makers, but together as visual collaborators.
Feature: Coming Home, working on Liverpool
I met with two of the most influential members of those projects last week, to talk about their new collaboration, Coming Home.
Hidden Gems Feature: Spaces of The Liver Sketching Club Since 1872
The Liver Sketching Club was founded on 11 May 1872. The passage of time may have dulled our appreciation of just how long ago this was
October 2016 Film Round Up
October 2016 film round up
Words, Ilona Walker
After a flurry of film screenings as part of Scalarama last month it's back to the regular schedule...
Hidden Gems Feature: Liverpool’s Staple Bound Gallery: The Drawing Paper
An image might be worth a thousand words, but words tend to be more legible, so it’s a necessary exercise to try and switch their context around once in a while.
Hidden Gems Feature: Gateway to the Public: Liverpool’s Commercial Galleries
While the great comedian W.C. Fields is quoted to have said, “Never work with children or animals”, it is safe to say even the most discerning of artists would probably add themselves onto that list.
Featured Artists: Eimear Kavanagh & Eilis Ní Fhaoláin
I’ve had to battle with my perfectionist ways and that was the hardest part but the part in which I have been best able to grow.
Featured Artist: Ali Barker, Four Dimensional Colour
Featured Artist: Ali Barker, Four Dimensional Colour
dot-art, 10th-24th September 2016
Ali Barker’s synaesthesia hasn’t always been with her. What has though, is her music, and...
Hidden Gems Feature: Not Such a Small View Gallery
Tucked away on Hanover Street, nestling in Liverpool’s city centre we have Gostins shopping arcade. In this we have a mishmash of independent traders