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...
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?...
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...
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...
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: 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: 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...
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...
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)
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...
Lockdown Walking To Another Place
Lockdown Walking To Another Placewords and images: Lorraine Bacchus
One of the inherent qualities of Antony Gormley’s iron men...
Review: Remedial Phantasmagoria: Frances Disley’s ‘Pattern Buffer’ at The Bluecoat
Pattern Buffer is Frances Disley’s retort to the elitist, and somewhat traditional, conventions of beauty
Review: Jonathan Baldock, Facecrime at Bluecoat
Review: Jonathan Baldock, Facecrimeat Bluecoat until 21st June 2020
Words by Remy Greasley
There isn’t a...
Review: Frances Disley, Pattern Buffer – Bluecoat
Review: Frances Disley, Pattern Buffer
Bluecoat
Words & Images, Sophia Charuhas
What do we do to feel better about ourselves? In her installation, Pattern Buffer, Frances Disley...
Review: An English Ladies Wardrobe
Review: An English Ladies Wardrobe
The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, L3 8EL
Until 1st March 2020
Words and pictures by Col O’Kell
An Enthralling Glimpse of the Liverpool...
Review: Medical Mavericks; a Tate Exchange from Alder Hey Hospital & Twin Vision
Medical Mavericks: Alder Hey Hospital & Twin Vision
Tate Exchange, until 29th February 2020
Review, Sophia Charuhas
At the beginning of the 19th century, Liverpool had the highest...
Review: Secret Art of Survival: Creativity and Ingenuity of British Far East prisoners of...
Review: Secret Art of Survival: Creativity and Ingenuity of British Far East prisoners of war, 1942-1945
- Victoria Gallery & Museum
Words, Remy Greasley
Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore;...
Review From Kirkby With Love – Portraits Celebrating Local Communities by Philip Garrett
Review - From Kirkby With Love – Portraits Celebrating Local Communities by Philip Garrett
Words by Lorraine Bacchus
Photos by Sherriff
“Painting is more than just a...
Review: Visual Rights – Open Eye Gallery
Visual Rights, Open Eye Gallery - Corinne Silva’s Garden State rethinks territory. It’s a challenge to many things, but primarily to how we as individuals think about ownership.
Review: Away Day – Bath Society of Arts, at Edtions Ltd.
Bath Society of Arts - There was an enticing opportunity the other evening to talk to some printmakers about the many ways in which they achieve their images...
Review: John Moores Prize Winners, Walker Art Gallery
John Moores Prize Winners, The Walker Art Gallery - To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the competition...