Review: Bluecoat Display Centre at 60
Bluecoat Display Centre at 60
60 @thebdc, open until 2nd March 2019
In sixty years, the Bluecoat Display Centre has probably done more for local makers...
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: The Art Schools of North West England, at Bluecoat
The Art Schools of North West England, at Bluecoat
I don’t remember the days when there was an art school in every town, I can...
Review: Artist Rooms: Alex Katz, at Tate Liverpool
Artist Rooms was part of Nicholas Serota’s outgoing legacy at Tate. When the long serving Director of the national gallery group stepped down in...
Review: Quentin Blake & John Yeoman: 50 Years of Children’s Books at Lady Lever...
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...
Preview: Gray Ⓖ at Kirkby Gallery, and the 18th Knowsley Open
Preview: Gray Ⓖ at Kirkby Gallery, and the 18th Knowsley Open
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Historically, open exhibitions were revered, highly judged, highly commended, monetised affairs that...
Six Memos (on art and writing); Italo Calvino’s future becomes reality
Six Memos (on art and writing);
Italo Calvino’s future becomes reality on display at St George’s Hall
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Writing credits for ‘The Quick Guide’...
Review: Leonardo Da Vinci: A Life in Drawing
Leonardo Da Vinci: A Life in Drawing 1 Feb – 6 May 2019
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Review
Words and images by Moira Leonard
12 sketches in 12...
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: Fernand Léger: New Times, New Pleasures, Tate Liverpool
Fernand Léger: New Times, New Pleasures, Tate Liverpool
Words, Louise Emily
Sometimes I think in another life I was a moth, or magpie. Bright colours and...
Review: Jade Montserrat, Instituting Care
Review: Jade Montserrat, Instituting Care
“The quiet in this library is a sound in itself.” A statement scrawled across the walls of the gallery seems...
Blue Room at Ten, Review
Blue Room at Ten, Review
Blue Room has, for ten years, been working with learning disabled artists not just in creating new art, but creating...
Review: Monochrome at Bluecoat Display Centre
Review: Monochrome at Bluecoat Display Centre
Words, Kathryn Wainwright
Using the word monochrome to describe can give varying reactions, from the somewhat dull or demure to...
Review: Stirling Prize Shortlist exhibition 2018, at RIBA North
Review: Stirling Prize Shortlist exhibition 2018, at RIBA North
2018’s Stirling Prize Winner is Bloomberg’s European Headquarters. The annual award is an unlimited, uncategorized prize...
Review: Jasmir Creed, Dystopolis at the VGM
Review: Jasmir Creed, Dystopolis
at the VGM
Victoria Gallery & Museum has hosted some wonderful multimedia installations over the years, one was, I think, the...
Review: Robert Mapplethorpe at The Atkinson
Robert Mapplethorpe at The Atkinson.
Samantha Browne on the era defining artist, and what his legacy means in hindsight
Words, Samantha Browne
“I’m looking for the unexpected....
Between You and Me, Everything Else is Different; Review: Leo Fitzmaurice at Walker Art...
Between You and Me, Everything Else is Different
Review: Leo Fitzmaurice at Walker Art Gallery
Psamathe (1879-80) by Frederic, Lord Leighton looks away, with her back...
Four Words: Future Alan Dunn’s Channel 4 takeover. Catch up on All4
Four Words: Future
Alan Dunn’s Channel 4 takeover. Catch up on All4
You know how those adverts on facebook target you? Or down the side of...
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...
Review: Knowsley Book Art; Liverpool Book Art’s graduation, 2018
Earlier this year, the Hornby Room at Liverpool Central Library hosted Frankenstein 2018, a celebration of 200 years since the first publication of Mary...
Review: Fernand Léger at Tate Liverpool
At Tate Liverpool until 29 March 2019
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Léger’s early work is really fairly disappointing to see. Le Jardin de ma mère, painted as...
Review: Broken Symmetries
Broken Symmetries, FACT, until March 3 2019
Words & pictures, Julia Johnson
Particle physics: undoubtedly astounding, yet frequently utterly bewildering. It’s one thing to understand that...
Rarely heard voices; how the women of St Helens provoked a performance that defined...
Review: TORCH, by ANU Productions
Nervously fidgeting with a box of ink in my pocket for an hour spent in a terraced house in St...
Book review: Post-it: Independents Biennial Writers-in-Residence 2018
Eight writers, four months, two books. What happens when you ask writers to respond to something that is itself evolving? In this case, a...
Ideas Depot; where art isn’t part of the curriculum. It’s all of it.
Ideas Depot; where art isn’t part of the curriculum. It’s all of it.
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Quietly, not after but during the Biennials, Tate Liverpool opened...
Review: It’s The Travelling Life; an exhibition based on fact, by Liverpool irish Festival
Words, Kathryn Wainwright
Liverpool Irish Festival’s lead exhibition focussed on Irish Travellers, in their own words, and their own images. I expected it to dispel...
Review: Liverpool Biennial 2018
Review: Liverpool Biennial 2018
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Beautiful World, What Are You?, rather than Beautiful World, Where Are You? seems to be more appropriate title. What...
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...
Experience Independents Biennial 2018’s Discordia Exhibition in 360
Discordia, by Laura Brownhill was an ambitious multi-media exhibition for Independents Biennial 2018. Captured in 360 by Peter Nelson below, you can watch the...
What happened at Tate Exchange? Network yourself.
Liverpool Artist Network (LAN) and Contemporary Visual Art Network (CVAN) sit at opposite ends of a spectrum. They each make incredible things happen, and...
Review: Test! The programme of trial and error taking chances for Independents Biennial
Test! The programme of trial and error taking chances for Independents Biennial
There’s an important layer to the visual arts that rarely gets seen. It’s...
Preview: Dragons of the Pool, coming later this month to Arts Centre EHU
Believing they had been deserted, the families of Chinese seamen who had been secretly deported back to the Far East tell their somewhat unknown...
Review: Smoke and Fire at Bridewell Studios
Smoke and Fire
at the Bridewell, Prescot St. until 14th October 2018
Words, Ian Fallace
Images, courtesy of the artists
Six artists have created a multi-disciplined show on...
Farewell Victoria Street; a sad goodbye to a cultural hub, and a warm hello...
Without agenda or pretence, I want to commemorate a building which has been an invaluable support to Art in Liverpool, the Independents Biennial and...
Liverpool Biennial’s strongest card? Open Eye Gallery’s Madiha Aijaz
Liverpool Biennial’s strongest card? Open Eye Gallery’s Madiha Aijaz
One of Liverpool Biennial’s loudest, and aptly, quietest, statements about globalism and the impact of individualism...
How Liverpool’s Metropolotian Cathedral grew new limbs. Ryan Gander’s Liverpool Biennial commission
How Liverpool’s Metropolotian Cathedral grew new limbs.
Ryan Gander’s Liverpool Biennial commission
Time Moves Quickly, the message from Ryan Gander to Liverpool. On the platform outside...
Review: Haegue Yang’s surreal escape at Tate Liverpool
Haegue Yang’s surreal escape at Tate Liverpool
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
On my way in to Tate Exchange to visit our writers-in-residence this month I stumbled across...
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...