Bluecoat Display Centre Archive

Saturday 4 June 2016 - Saturday 2 July 2016. Featuring leading contemporary designers/makers working primarily in leather.

Saturday 23 April - Saturday 28 May 2016. This exhibition will feature designer makers whose works have been inspired by Japan, its imagery, craft techniques and culture. The exhibition will examine how a sense of place can influence us as individuals and how this is reflected in artworks we create.

Saturday 12 March - Saturday 16 April 2016. Manifest is a touring exhibition of jewellery by the Designer Jewellers Group to celebrate its fortieth anniversary with a selling exhibition of jewellery encompassing bangles, rings, bracelets, hand pieces and cufflinks, loosely themed around the ruby

Saturday 23 January - Saturday 5 March 2016. This exhibition, co-curated by Claire Norcross, features leading contemporary lighting designers working in a range of media to include ceramic, concrete & leather, woven wicker, paper and glass.

Saturday 21 November 2015 - Saturday 16 January 2016. This exhibition’s theme revolves around the work of printmaker Sue Brown and wood artist Mikael Nilsson both of which feature crows and black birds.

1 October 2015 - Saturday 31 October 2015. In celebration and support of this year’s Liverpool Irish festival we have invited the acclaimed Belfast ceramic artist Sara Flynn to exhibit In the Window

Saturday 10 October 2015 - Saturday 14 November 2015. Curated by ceramic artist Paul Scott, this selling exhibition is one of a series of curated shows at Bluecoat Display Centre.

Saturday 29 August - Saturday 3 October 2015. The Bluecoat Display Centre will be showing the work of the internationally renowned glass engraver Alison Kinnaird MBE here for the first time.

Saturday 11 July 2015 - Saturday 22 August 2015. Featuring leading artists working in wood, willow and natural fibres.

23 June - 4 July 2015 Open daily Free The exhibition features a selection of designer makers whose works explore a maritime theme through a range of...

24 February 2015 1-4pm (arrive from 1pm for a 1.30pm start) Tickets £12.50 each (includes tea, sandwiches & cakes at The Athenaeum, Liverpool) As part of Bluecoat...

23 January - 7 March 2015 Open daily Free Craft Goes Pop is a celebration of the Pop movement. This exhibition revisits Pop Art through contemporary craft,...

14 November 2014 - 17 January 2015 Open daily Free Private view: Thursday 13 November 2014, 5.30-7.30pm Bluecoat Display Centre is delighted to have the opportunity to exhibit...

30 October 2014 2.30 – 4.30pm Tickets: £4.95 (£3.95 BDC Friends and concs.) from Bluecoat Display Centre. Call 0151 709 4014 to book a place! The talk will last...

28 October 2014 1.00 – 4.00pm (arrivals from 1pm for 1.30pm start) Location: The Athenaeum Club, Liverpool Tickets : £12.50 each (includes tea, sandwiches & cakes at...

23 September 2014 1- 4pm (arrivals from 1pm for 1.30pm start) Tickets : £12.50 each (includes tea, sandwiches & cakes at The Athenaeum Club, Liverpool) As part...

12 September – 8 November 2014 Open Monday – Saturday 10.00 – 17.30, Sundays 12.00 – 17.00 Free This new show in Liverpool is a development of a...

September 2014   Daily   Free   Bluecoat Display Centre have awarded Liverpool Hope University Graduate, Byron Jones,  with a spotlight exhibition. The exhibition will take place at Bluecoat Display Centre throughout...

1 - 31 August 2014 Viewing from shop / street Free Having trained as a potter, James Campbell had by the mid 1970s become part of the...

4 July – 6 September 2014 Open Monday – Saturday 10.00 – 17.00, Sundays 12.00 – 17.00 Free Down Town will feature selected local, and nationally based, artists...

20 May 2014 13.00 – 16.00 (arrivals from 13.00 for 13.30 start) Tickets : £12.50 each (includes tea, sandwiches & cakes at The Athenaeum Club, Liverpool) As part of...

  9 May - 28 June 2014 Open daily Free This exhibition will feature the work of toy makers who employ traditional techniques which encourage children to engage...

26 April 2014 15.30 Free Midnight Llama (an experimental music band from Yorkshire) will give an improvised acoustic performance at Bluecoat Display Centre using the voice, percussion, nyckelharpa and recorders in...

12 April 2014 15.00 - 16.00 Free Mark Byrne will play an acoustic set of John Martyn songs in the Music Makers exhibition space as part of...

19 April 2014 14.30 Free In celebration of Record Store Day, Mike Badger will perform a short acoustic set at Bluecoat Display Centre. This will launch the release...

21 March - 3 May 2014 Open daily 10.00 - 18.00 Free Private View 20 March 17.30 - 19.30 We approached the textile artist Michael Brennand-Wood to invite...

31 January - 15 March Open Monday – Saturday 10.00 – 17.30, Sundays 12.00 - 17.00 Admission: Free The Wedding Party exhibition will feature everything the discerning,...

17 - 25 January Open Monday – Saturday 10.00 – 17.30, Sundays 12.00 – 17.00 Preview: 18 January, 14.00 - 16.00 Join us and selected members of...

25 February (available to new and current BDC subscribing friends) 1.00 – 16.00 (arrivals from 1.00pm for 1.30 start) Location: The Athenaeum Club, Liverpool Tickets : £12.50 each...

31 May - 20 July Ceramics Now is a collaboration across 4 galleries; Bluecoat Display Centre, Bevere Gallery, Contemporary Ceramics and the New Ashgate Gallery,...

20 April - 1 June Monday - Saturday 11.00 - 17.00 Landbaby at the Bluecoat Collaboration between Stef Bradley and Claire Bates When customer Stef Bradley handed Claire...

1 - 30 April 2013 Free Entry Manchester-based designer Joseph Hartley makes useable objects by hand from the simplest materials. His pure and honest forms, which...

9 March - 20 April 2013 Private View: 8 March 17.30 - 19.30 A mixed media exhibition of work, exploring the secret world of birds. Eleven...

1 - 10 March 2013 10.00 - 18.00 Free North-West based artist Sara Devoreux-Ward explores the social and cultural impact of communication technologies through work that links...

1 - 31 March 2013 Free Helen Chatterton is a Liverpool-based artist specialising in cushions, scarves and lavender bags in a range of fine fabrics. Chatterton...

26 February 13 - 16:00 ickets: £12.50 each (including afternoon tea at The Athenaeum in Liverpool), or £10 as part of our Special Ticket Offer, see...

26 January- 2 March 2013 Private View: Friday 25th January - 5.30pm to 7.30pm This exhibition will feature 3 contemporary ceramic artists at differing career stages...

26 January - 2 March 2013 Victoria Foster is an illustrator and designer-maker with a background in contemporary fine art practice. She lives and works between...

Thursday 5 July 2012, 6.00pm  The Bluecoat Liverpool Writer and artist Derek Horton will be talking about the online art and writing magazine Soanyway, co-produced...

June 2012 Bluecoat Display Centre are pleased to announce ceramicist Jane Perryman as a solo exhibitor for our June 2012 'In The Window' exhibition. With over...