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,...
Art Students on Film, John Beck and Matthew Cornford
Art Students on Film
by John Beck and Matthew Cornford
You can blame the war for art students. At least, in typically flamboyant form, this is...
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...
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,...
Art Students on Film, John Beck and Matthew Cornford
Art Students on Film
by John Beck and Matthew Cornford
You can blame the war for art students. At least, in typically flamboyant form, this is...
Interview: Martin O’Brien, on Until the Last Breath is Breathed
Interview: Martin O’Brien,
on Until the Last Breath is Breathed
and making work about living with cystic fibrosis
Interview by Joanie Magill
Martin O’Brien is a live artist...
The power of print; Heart of Glass and Kate Hodgson in...
The power of print
Heart of Glass and Kate Hodgson in conversation, on
their Independents Biennial collaboration
Liverpool/St Helens-based artist Kate Hodgson believes in the power...
Featured Artist: Brendan Lyons
Featured Artist: Brendan Lyons
Interview by Ian Fallace
Pictures by Fiona Filby
Brendan Lyons is a painter who has exhibited for many years producing stand alone and...
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Angelo Madonna and Sylvia Battista
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Angelo Madonna and Sylvia Battista
Interview by Joanie Magill, Independents Biennial Writer-in-Residence
On 11 August, Sylvia Battista performed Persephone, a spoken...
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Faith Bebbington
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Faith Bebbington
Interview by Joanie Magill, Independents Biennial Writer-in-Residence
“I want my work to be outside on the street.”
Faith Bebbington’s large...
Why do you share photographs? (Snapshot to WeChat)
Why do you share photographs? (Snapshot to WeChat)
Ahead of Open Eye Gallery’s next major exhibition, exploring identity and networks and the influence social media...
Interview with The Serving Library’s Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey for Art in Liverpool
If you are looking for a quick read, try the shortened version of events here.
The interview that follows is with Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey no behalf...
Why #writecritical?
Words by Sue Flowers
Much has been written about the visual arts over the last few centuries, maybe as a way of defining it, by attempting...
REALITY at the Walker Proves Painting is Still Relevant
Words by Alice Benbow
Reality: - the status of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them; having...
Discovering Liverpool Central Library & Williamson Art Gallery
Discovering Liverpool Central Library & Williamson Art Gallery
by Lorraine Bacchus
One of the most challenging aspects of being an artist is putting the work out...
Double Act: Art and Comedy at the MAC, Belfast
I hopped on a plane to Belfast to visit Double Act: Art and Comedy. The exhibition, curated by David Campbell and Mark Durden, is twinned with an exhibition of the same name at Bluecoat. It shows a different story entirely to the one I visited on School Lane, Liverpool.
Season’s Greetings and some notices from ArtinLiverpool
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Wonderful Arty New Year.
Interview with The (Still Anonymous) Daily Sketcher
"The idea of the project has always been to try bring a little cheerfulness into the world. I have found that more and more we're isolated in society and just wanted to try create a thread of happiness within it."
