Review: Un/Earthed – A Retrospective by Landlines Studio at Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
I think I’m going to feel like I’m cheating writing this, because nearly all of it’s been said, and language used to explore the...
Review: For Your Pleasure: 15 Years of DuoVision at Open Eye Gallery
I’m not sure what’s more exciting about DuoVision’s retrospective of 90s queer club culture; the culture itself or the process of its documentation. It’s...
Review: Safe Zone by Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Free to Choose by Bahar Noorizadeh...
Two immersive film exhibitions opened at FACT in February. ‘Free to Choose’ by Bahar Noorizadeh, and ‘Safe Zone’ by Christopher Kulendran. They are equally...
Review: Di Mainstone’s Subterranean Elevator at Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
In a continuation of the Williamson’s bold steps into more ambitious contemporary programming, Di Mainstone’s Subterranean Elevator creates an immersive, sensory space for play,...
Review: Drudenhaus Collective at Bridewell Studios & Gallery
In the centre of the main room at Bridewell Studios & Gallery, is a table, set for two, with plates reading “Skyes-Picot 1916”. It...
Review: The Plant that Stowed Away at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North
Britain has been a passionate leader in global plant collection for about as long as Britain has existed. It’s a spill-off of empire, and...
Art in Liverpool issue #47, March 2025, Editorial
I can’t start to explain how quickly this year is running. It’s just sprinting along and I’m caught on its laces. Somehow, I’m meant...
Review: 21st Knowsley Open Art Exhibition at Kirkby Gallery
It’s not remotely easy to judge what you’re going to see at an open. By nature, it is a mixed bag, of mixed quality,...
Feature: Little Vintage Photography
Rachel Brewster set up Little Vintage Photography in 2014. Ten years on, it was time for a new beginning, and new surroundings, so the...
Review: But Does it Speak? at Bluecoat
Bluecoat’s latest programme, ‘But Does it Speak?’ might be quiet, but its not subdued. There is so much purpose in an exhibition programme that...
Feature: Artist Parent: A new resource for parents and caregivers maintaining a practice
In September last year, we were exploring ways to make what we do more accessible to parents. Galleries across the region are having conversations...
Review: Material Matters: Into The Wyld, Spirituality at Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Last year, Material Matters took over Birkenhead’s Williamson Art Gallery & Museum. Of everything I’ve seen at that gallery over the last ten years,...
Review: Ruth Molliet’s FOFO at The Atkinson
Ruth Molliet’s FOFO (Fear of Finding Out) is immersive in a few different ways. Firstly, it is physically immersive. You are literally forced through...
Review: Farah Al Qasimi: Everybody was Invited to a Party (2018) at the Bluecoat
A language I can call my own / Their meaning lost and still, unknown. The playful, whimsical portrayal of puppetry in Farah Al Qasimi’s Everybody...
Review: Into The Mystic: Vincent Kelly at The Egg Cafe
Into The Mystic by Vincent Kelly at the Egg Café is a striking adventure in colour, documenting the artists’ travels around Mexico and North...
Review: Indian Perspectives at Victoria Gallery & Museum
Jasmir Creed and Tony Phillips present new painting at the Victoria Gallery & Museum this month in the context of British life from the...
Review: With My Ear to the Wall: Jenny Gaskell & Rule of Threes at...
At Bootle Library, until 9th November, there is an intimate exhibition by Jenny Gaskell, inviting you to eavesdrop on a series of important inner...
Review: Into the Wyld, Part III: Chivalry at Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
By the time you read this, this portion of Into the Wyld is over, replaced by the exhibition's final instalment (Spirituality) from 7th November....
Review: Conversations at Walker Art Gallery
Conversations at the Walker is essential viewing. As well as showing the work of a handful of the UKs most influential Black artists, it...
Review: Ni de aquí, ni de allá; Stephanie Trujillo and Talía Belen Laing at...
Bridewell’s galleries are showing increasingly unmissable exhibitions. Stephanie Trujillo and Talía Belen Laing’s collaborative work, ‘Ni de aquí, ni de allá’, is one of...
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Review: Dan Kelly & Barry Stedman at Bluecoat Display Centre
Dan Kelly & Barry Stedman’s exhibition at Bluecoat Display Centre is a beautiful education in how medium affects colour.
Clay takes pigment differently to paper,...
Review: Art Plays Games at FACT
Rachel Maclean, Sahej Rahal, Angela Washko, and Youngju Kim of Loopntale Collective present new digital and games-based art at FACT. It’s really hard to...
Review: Brickworks at Tate x RIBA North
I know it’s been a year, but I’m still excited by the fact Tate Liverpool is condensed into RIBA North’s gallery spaces.
Art, architecture and...
Review: Now You See Me, by Chris Day at Walker Art Gallery
Chris Day’s glass work at the Walker continues their responsive programme, inviting Black British artists to respond to their collections, with a particular focus...
Review: The Flowers Still Grow & The Magic Money Tree at Open Eye Gallery
Food banks and heating advice present Open Eye Gallery’s socially engaged photography credentials in a series of connected exhibitions, produced and invited by the...
Editorial: Art in Liverpool, issue #44, October 2024
We’ve never done a full audience analysis for this newspaper (what a captivating way to open an issue…) but I’m kind of intrigued about...
Review: Stitching Souls: Threads of Silence; Karen McLean at Walker Art Gallery
Taking inspiration from portraits of merchants across the Walker’s collection, Karen McLean explores the legacy of the slave trade, and emphasises the scale of...
Preview: The Liverpool Neurodiversity Arts Festival
Neurodiversity isn’t a description of the 20% of us with a neurodivergence. It is a statement that 100% of us have diverse neurological states....
Art in Liverpool’s 20th Anniversary: A look back at our first months
Art in Liverpool is 20 years old this month. We started out as a fan-blog for Liverpool Biennial in 2004 (its 3rd edition) and...
Review: LJMU MA Show
We missed 99% of the degree shows in the North West this year, but I was so happy to catch ‘Studio 6?’ by graduating...
Five must-see exhibitions in September
Laura Davis picks out three shows opening this month - and two you still have time to catch.
The Holly Johnson Story, Museum of Liverpool,...
Review: Into the Wyld, Material Matters at the Williamson
I’ve said this so many times, to so many people, that I’m starting to question my sanity, but… Into the Wyld is the best...
Review: Johnny Vegas and Emma Rodgers at Walker Art Gallery
There’s a curious cabinet in the corner of one of the collection galleries at Walker Art Gallery.
It’s filled with a mix of objects from...
Liverpool East and South East Asian Network: Happy third birthday to us!
Liverpool East and South East Asian Network aka LESEAN (pronounced 'lee-seen' not 'le-sean') was formed by Sufea Mohamad Noor in September 2021 to bring...
Review: Port Cities, Liverpool Arab Arts Festival
When it takes an outsider to teach you about your own city, you know there’s a gap in education. Siska’s film, highlighting the streets...
Review: Josie Jenkins and Daniel Halsall at Bridewell Studios & Gallery
Until 3rd September Josie Jenkins and Daniel Halsall are at Bridewell Studios & Gallery with two new bodies of work from these two studio...
Review: Pride in Liverpool, by Simon Dredge at Bluecoat Display Centre
I’d love to see this rolled out on buildings across the city, but Bluecoat Display Centre’s window on College Lane is a good start.
Simon...
Review: Into the Light: And Intervention by Nahem Shoa at Walker Art Gallery
In almost every room of the Walker Art Gallery, Nahem Shoa’s paintings, some new, some not, replace disputed masterpieces. The intervention is a clever...
Review: Roxy Topia and Paddy Gould with Cormac Gould: Let Your Ideas Come Back...
If eating robot poop and enforced meditation are the key to a brighter more prosperous future, count me in.
This weird future is imagined by...