Review: Nisyros, Vivian’s Bed, Tate Liverpool
Nisyros, Vivian’s Bed, Tate Liverpool - The perfect antidote to grey Winter days has come to Liverpool from Guatemala in the form of Vivian Suter’s exuberant artworks
Review: Theaster Gates at Tate Liverpool
Review: Theaster Gates at Tate Liverpool - Theaster Gates retreated to the anonymity of Maine on the north-eastern coast of the United States for some much needed rest and relaxation
Review: LOOK Photo Biennial 2019
LOOK Photo Biennial
Various venues, until 22nd December 2019
Words, Carol Emmas
Images, courtesy of Open Eye Gallery
In the 1960s, American writer and critic Clement Greenberg said,...
Review: We The Youth – Tate Liverpool
We The Youth - Keith Haring's New York Nightlife
Words & Images, Michelle Pratt
Author and DJ Dave Haslam fluently guided an audience through a condensed...
Review: This Is What I Came Here to Do – The Tapestry
Review of “This Is What I Came Here To Do”, The Tapestry.
words and photos by Lorraine Bacchus
For this weekend only 12th & 13th October,...
Review: Nothing Dead Here – Dead Pigeon Gallery at 189 Oakfield Road
Review: Dead Pigeon Gallery, 189 Oakfield Road
by appointment until December
Words, Laura Brown
How do you deal with it when something bad happens where you live?...
Review: Drawing on Nature – Taki Katei’s Japan
Review: Drawing on Nature – Taki Katei’s Japan
Words, Col O’Kell
Pictures, Col O’Kell and courtesy of World Museum
You’ll draw plenty of pleasure from this excellent...
Review: Who Wants to Live Forever, Tate Exchange
Who Wants to Live Forever
Tate Exchange
Words, Sophia Charuhas
What if you could significantly contribute to groundbreaking scientific research for generations, but would not know about...
Review: Christian Furr, a Retrospective
Christian Furr, a Retrospective
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Words, Carol Emmas
Generally speaking with an artist there is a certain contemporary signature style attached to their work...
Review: Nahem Shoa: Black Presence, The Atkinson
Review of Nahem Shoa: Black Presence, The Atkinson, Southport.
Words by Lorraine Bacchus
It was something of a lilliputian experience walking into this exhibition – the...
Review: A Little Painting Show: Dead Pigeon Gallery
Review: A Little Painting Show: Dead Pigeon Gallery
at Dan Carden Constituency Office, Anfield
Words, Lorraine Bacchus
Photos, Josie Jenkins
The title and location of this exhibition is...
Review: Something Borrowed, Something New, VG&M
Review: Something Borrow, Something New
at Victoria Gallery & Museum until 19th October 2019
Words, Sophia Charuhas
When Salford-based artist Ian Irvine was asked to respond to...
Review: Westwood, at The Atkinson
Westwood
The Atkinson, Southport, 21 September 2019 – 28 March 2020
Words, Samantha Browne
“Westwood” at The Atkinson in Southport was two years in the planning and...
Review: Coast to Coast to Coast
Review of Coast to Coast to Coast, September 2019
Words: Lorraine Bacchus
Photos: Ron Davies
A recent event hosted by Open Eye Gallery was one of those...
Review: First Women, Anita Corbin at St George’s Hall
Review: First Women, Anita Corbin at St George's Hall
until 31st August
"Since the world began, men and women have held up the sky between them,...
Review: As Seen on Screen, Walker Art Gallery
As Seen on Screen – Walker Art Gallery
31 May – 18 August 2019
Words, Leyla Gurr
Images, Gareth Jones
Cinema, and the many adornments that come with...
Review: Shezad Dawood at Bluecoat
Shezad Dawood – Leviathan
Bluecoat
06 July – 13 October 2019
Words, Leyla Gurr
Images, Rob Battersby
I had only seen stills of Shezad Dawood's film series 'Leviathan' before...
Review: Rembrandt in Print, Lady Lever Art Gallery
The first thing I learn about Rembrandt in Print is that the artist’s full name is Rembrandt Harmenzoon Van Rinj. For some reason I...
Review: Keith Haring at Tate Liverpool
Keith Haring hasn’t ever had a solo show in the UK. Yet for some reason I feel a closeness to Haring that has been...
Review: Fearless Creatures, The Gallery
Review: Fearless Creatures
The Gallery, until July 7th
Words, Julia Johnson (Messy Lines)
Club kids, whether in photos, films or occasionally on the streets of London’s Soho,...
Review: Cross Pollination at The Atkinson
Review: Cross Pollination
The Atkinson, until March 2020
by Lorraine Bacchus
On one of the dreary, wet early June days I took myself off on the train...
Review: Rembrandt in Print
Rembrandt in Print
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Runs until 15 September 2019
Words, Moira Leonard
The first thing I learn about Rembrandt in Print is that the...
Review: Inspired by Alice, The Atkinson
Inspired by Alice
Gallery 3, The Atkinson, Southport, until 7th September 2019
Words, Samantha Browne
A pair of closed curtains mark the entrance to the Inspired by...
Review: Astronomy Photographer of the Year
Astronomy Photographer of the Year
World Museum
Words, Sophia Charuhas
Few sights are more awe-inspiring than the sight of a sky full of stars. The Royal Observatory...
Review: The Williamson Open, 2019
The Williamson Open has been happening in more or less the same format for over 90 years, but this was my first time so...
Review: Survey, Bluecoat – 12 years of Jerwood Visual Arts
Review: Survey, Bluecoat
12 years of Jerwood Visual Arts
Charting twelve years of Jerwood Visual Arts, Survey is a document of the changing creative industries.
In a...
Review: In Character, RIBA North
Review: In Character, RIBA North
Words, Lorraine Bacchus
One of the exhibitions currently on at RIBA North’s Albert Docks headquarters is a hybrid – a conceptual...
Review: 209 Women, Open Eye Gallery
As a toddler I loved pink, picking up anything in the shop, much to my Mums dismay, that was pink. As I got to...
Review: Julie Arkell, In the Window
Julie Arkell, In the Window
Bluecoat Display Center
On College Lane, a whimsical little arrangement in the window of the Bluecoat Display Center is peering out...
Past & Present: Samantha Browne on cultural conservation in the UK
Words, Samantha Browne
Conservation ‘engages the past in a conversation with the present over a mutual concern for the future’, to paraphrase the words of...
Review: Aestheticism, Sam Harris-Wright
Aestheticism
Sam Harris-Wright
ArtHouse Gallery, Southport until 27 April 2019
Words, Samantha Browne
“The link between that which defines beauty and the beauty itself” is how Sam Harris-Wright...
Review: Ericka Beckman & Marianna Simnett, FACT
Ericka Beckman & Marianna Simnett, FACT, until 16th June
Words, Julia Johnson, Messy Lines
These five works by Ericka Beckman and Marianna Simnett cover over three...
Review: 209 Women – from Parliament to Open Eye Gallery
209 Women - from Parliament to Open Eye Gallery
An exhibition of women in power, in a system dominated by men.
It is unity, more than...
Review: Rituals, at Bluecoat Display Centre
Review: Rituals
Bluecoat Display Centre, until 20th April
Words, Charlotte Hill
Bluecoat Display Centre is a base not only for artists but also collectives, small organisations and...
Review: Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style
Review: Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style
at Walker Art Gallery
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an artist with his eyes open. The exhibition at Walker...
A Tour of Hardmans’ House
A Tour of Hardmans’ House,
by Lorraine Bacchus
There is something about stepping into a time capsule of recent history that is so much more poignant...
Review: The Female Gaze: Women Depicting Women – dot-art
The majority of visual artists are women, but typically a far smaller fraction than half are exhibited in art museums. On top of that,...
Review: Press Room – Ciara Phillips at Crosby Library
Review: Press Room, Crosby Library
1-30 March 2019, 10.00-13.00 Monday-Saturday.
by Lorraine Bacchus
My local library, Crosby, is only a ten-minute walk from my flat, which is...
Review: Painting Nature by Elaine Preece Stanley at Editions
It is on an unusually bright and sunny February morning that I decide to venture on the short walk from my apartment to Cook...
Review: Op Art in Focus, Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool’s exhibition Op Art in Focus is an assault on the senses. Involving paintings and sculptural work which span the walls and floors,...