Williamson Archive

Saturday 21 May – Sunday 5 June 2016. VISION – Wirral Met BA Fine Art Degree Show. The annual final year degree show for art and illustration students from Wirral Metropolitan College

Saturday 2 April - Sunday 8 May 2016. An open exhibition has been part of the local art scene for as long as most of us can remember. The exhibition has gone from strength to strength.

Saturday 6 February - Sunday 20 March 2016. Exploring Liverpool’s painters of the 19th Century in parallel with the Walker Art Gallery’s exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty and Rebellion.

Wednesday 20 January 2016 - Sunday 13 March 2016. William Gawin Herdman (1805-1882) was a vigorous opponent of the Pre-Raphaelite tendency in Liverpool’s Academy. He took very seriously his mission to document Liverpool as it changed into a bustling Victorian town.

Until April 2016. The selection here comes from a group of over 100 paintings that was chosen by Hugh Belsey and Claudio Spadoni for an exhibition in 2004 at Ravenna, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, the first major British watercolour show in that country for many years.

Wednesday 7 October- Sunday 10 January 2016. The last Confederate surrender of the American Civil War occurred in Merseyside on 6 November 1865, when the Confederate warship ‘CSS Shenandoah’ surrendered.

Sunday 1 November- Sunday 22 November 2015. Newly commissioned site specific piece – Starkers from Davy and Kristin McGuire with work reflecting themes within the Williamson art gallery collections.

Thursday 15 October 2015 - Saturday 9 January 2016. The Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead will be celebrating romance this autumn when it hosts a display of wedding dresses.

1 October - Sunday 1 November 2015. The series features 3 intricate paper models inspired by Rear Window and The Birds, and the McGuire’s award winning animated paper installation Psycho – Homage to Hitchcock.

Thursday 1 October to Sunday 1 November 2015. Visitors to the Williamson Art gallery, will be invited to take part in a treasure hunt to uncover over 20 hidden artworks.

Tuesday 22 September until Sunday 25 October 2015. An opportunity for us all to see the results of the hard work, inspiration and creations produced during Summer Art Workshops and outreach programme.

Exhibition runs Saturday 19 September to Sunday 18 October 2015. Every 2 years since 2000 the Wirral Society of Arts has invited other artists to exhibit alongside their members and 2014 has the 8th such exhibition.

Saturday 19 September - Sunday 18 October 2015. An exhibition of paintings and prints by BA Fine Art fellowship students: Anna Clark, Jay Chesterman and Rachel Perry.

30 June - Sunday 27 September 2015 - Year 3 children from Bidston Ave Primary School created zentangles, inspired by Paul Klee. ‘A drawing is like taking a dot for a walk’

15 July - Sunday 4 October 2015 (Extended) - Thomas Burke was born in 1906 in Liverpool. During the 1920s and 30s he studied art at Liverpool College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London.

6 June – Sunday 25 October 2015 - The National Army Museum and Liverpool’s museums join forces to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo with special displays.

27 June - 30 August 2015 Open daily Free Peter is a Liverpool-based representational painter working mainly in oils but he has produced many large-scale drawings of...

20 June - Sunday 19 July 2015 Open daily Free Viking Wirral exhibition will be on show at the Williamson in Birkenhead. Sylvia is a poet, painter, music...

23 May - 7 June 2015 Wednesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm Free Each year for the twenty years since the Wirral Met College Fine Art Degree...

18 April 2015 11.30am Free Award-winning writer and producer Horatio Clare will speak on his latest book, Down to the Sea in Ships, at the Williamson Art...

10 April - 10 May 2015 Wednesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm Free Our annual opportunity for all artists with Wirral connections to submit work, in both...

14 March 2015 11.30am Free Joyce’s War is the recently published wartime journal of Joyce Thomas (née Parry) who lived in Oxton in the last six years...

5 March - 5 July 2015 Wednesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm Free Albert Richards (19 December 1919 - 5 March 1945) was born in Liverpool but moved...

March - June 2015 Wednesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm. Free This alumni exhibition shows the results of photography workshops facilitated by Suzanne Bowen of VidA at...

28 February 2015 11.30am Free Colin Simpson, Principal Museums Officer, will tell us how he developed an interest in watercolour painting, and share with us how this...

21 February 2015 11.30am Free Julian Treuherz, former keeper of art for National Museums Liverpool, has extensive expertise on nineteenth-century Pre-Raphaelite art movement. Over the years he...

14 February 2015 11.30am Free After his failed marriage to Effie Gray, Victorian art critic John Ruskin fell passionately in love with Rose La Touche, who died...

14 February - 22 March 2015 Open daily Free Event night: 13 February 7-9pm Rachael has been a successful practising textile artist and designer since leaving the Royal College of...

5 February - 12 April 2015 Open daily Free Launch event: Thursday 5 February 2015, 5-7pm. Friends of the Williamson are invited. The photographs of Glyn Akroyd, Ian Chantler, George Evans,...

31 January 2015 11.30am Free, donations welcome The Williamson's programme of public talks resume again for 2015. Jonathan Sharples will be speaking about Matisse: The Cut Outs following a...

24 January - 2 March 2015 10am-5pm Wednesday - Sunday Free Photographer Andy Gotts’s Behind the Mask show for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts...

22 January 2015 7-10pm £20 Special VIP opening event for the new Andy Gott's photographic exhibition Behind the Mask, with an opportunity to view the celebrity portraits, during...

6 December From 11.30am with opportunity for lunch in the cafe Free, donations welcome. Book tickets: FriendsWilliamson@gmail.com. Dr Maryam Farahani, University of Liverpool, 'Carpets in Oriental Life and the significance and...

24 October - 23 November 2014 Wed-Sun 10am-5pm Free The @merseyforest is working with a range of partners to deliver environmental improvements in Bidston and Birkenhead making...

4 October - 2 November 2014 Free For this year’s, Big Draw Event, there will be a wide range of events and activities to get everybody involved in...

13 September - 12 October 2014 Wednesday - Sunday 10am - 5pm Free Private View 12 September 7-9pm The 2013/14 Fellows of the Wirral Met College Art School...

July - 31 August 2014 Open daily Free Exhibition of still life painting featuring the opulent works of fine artist, George Lance, alongside other works from the...

21 June - 31 August 2014 Wednesday - Sunday 10.00 - 17.00 Free Richard Hamilton was one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century,...

16 May - 1 June 2014 10.00 - 17.00 daily Private View 16 May 2014 Free admission A final year Degree exhibition showcasing the talents of art students...

Now - 4 May 2013 Gary Blythe is an illustrator and painter from Wirral with an impressive reputation and his first children’s picture book, The...