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,...
Review: Light Blue, at The Royal Standard
Sometimes you forget you missed your inner child, until an exhibition brings it out of you. Light Blue did that for me.
Light Blue questions...
Review: She’s Eclectic – Women Artists of the VGM Collection
In the short time I have been living in Merseyside, I have already established a routine of popping into the Victoria Gallery & Museum...
Review: Here & Now, at Open Eye
Review: Here & Now, at Open Eye Gallery (2019)
Open Eye Gallery, 19th February (event finished)
Words & Images, Michelle Pratt
Open Eye Gallery’s collaborative pop-up exhibition,...
Review: Mark Leckey at OUTPUT gallery
Review: Mark Leckey at OUTPUT gallery
Words, Carol Emmas
Tapping into the emotions that nostalgia can create is Mark Leckey’s artistic obsession. Clawing memories from his...
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...
