Features:
Review: Night at the Poseum… at World Museum
Review: Night at the Poseum… at World Museum
Words & Pictures, Julia Johnson
Ballroom culture...
Review: Ali Hunter’s Quarinteriors at Egg Cafe
Review: Ali Hunter’s Quarinteriors at Egg Cafe
Words, Kathryn Wainwright
In something of a departure...
Review: Future Ages Will Wonder, at FACT Liverpool
Review: Future Ages Will Wonder, at FACT Liverpool
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Future Ages Will Wonder...
Kiln Fired Ecologies: Evocations of Natural Forms in the Works of Halima Cassell and...
Kiln Fired Ecologies: Evocations of Natural Forms in the Works of Halima Cassell and Emma Rodgers
Words, Phoebe...
Review: Lucy McKenzie at Tate Liverpool
Lucy McKenzie has adopted and absorbed the essence of trompe l’oeil, and brought it bang up to date
Review: Night at the Poseum… at World Museum
Review: Night at the Poseum… at World Museum
Words & Pictures, Julia Johnson
Ballroom culture...
Review: Ali Hunter’s Quarinteriors at Egg Cafe
Review: Ali Hunter’s Quarinteriors at Egg Cafe
Words, Kathryn Wainwright
In something of a departure...
Review: Future Ages Will Wonder, at FACT Liverpool
Review: Future Ages Will Wonder, at FACT Liverpool
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Future Ages Will Wonder...
Kiln Fired Ecologies: Evocations of Natural Forms in the Works of Halima Cassell and...
Kiln Fired Ecologies: Evocations of Natural Forms in the Works of Halima Cassell and Emma Rodgers
Words, Phoebe...
Review: Lucy McKenzie at Tate Liverpool
Lucy McKenzie has adopted and absorbed the essence of trompe l’oeil, and brought it bang up to date
Review: Emily Speed: Flatland at Tate Liverpool
Emily Speed: Flatland at Tate LiverpoolWords, Lorraine Bacchus
During a conversation about the creative process, a poet friend of...
Review: Gold Maria Akanbi: BlackFest at The Royal Standard
Gold Maria Akanbi: BlackFest at The Royal Standard
Reading is incredibly powerful. You become part of an audience, listening...
Pause for Living, Roxy Topia & Paddy Gould; An exhibition at CBS Gallery &...
Two exhibitions, because they can. Two spaces I have meant to visit over and over and over again, and always failed, astounded...
Review: Uncertain Data: a brief meditation at FACT
Uncertain Data:a brief meditation at FACT
So, you know how mindfulness is a way to force yourself to relax?...
Review: Walter Sickert at Walker Art Gallery
I can’t help finding the Sickert exhibition a little bit funny, not because of its content, but because of its press. The...
Review: Space is The Place, Patric Rogers & Angelo Madonna at Convenience Gallery
I said it last month and I’ll say it again – Convenience are making spaces for artists to do more, to try...
Review: Very Public Art
Very Public Art feels right. You know? Like a listening project rather than a show and tell. It feels local, and relevant...
Review: Challenging Histories, International Slavery Museum
International Slavery Museum’s new collection display shares a mass of artworks collected over the last four years.
Collections displays...
Review: Jon Edgley, On the Bright Side at Convenience Gallery
When you woke up today, did you see the positives ahead of you, or worry about the next step you had to...
Review: One Day at a Time Boys, Dead Pigeon Gallery
It doesn’t remotely matter if you’ve got formal training as an artist in order to be one. What matters is an open...
Review: Jessica El Mal, Grounds for Concern (Liverpool Arab Arts Festival)
Review: Jessica El Mal, Grounds for Concern (Liverpool Arab Arts Festival)
Finally finding a chance to find Liverpool Arab...
Review: Lucian Freud & Louise Bourgeois at Tate Liverpool
Review: Lucian Freud & Louise Bourgeois at Tate Liverpool
Lucian Freud and Louise Bourgeois are two artists you can’t...
Review: Aliza Nisenbaum at Tate Liverpool
Review: Aliza Nisenbaum at Tate Liverpool
Travelling to Tate Liverpool on Tuesday 20th July 2021 to see a show...
Review: John Moores Painting Prize 2020
Review: John Moores Painting Prize 2020
John Moores Painting Prize 2020 holds on to its planned year in the...
Review: Public Service Announcement
Review: Public Service Announcement
Most artists ask themselves the question “what do I want to make work about?” When...
Review: Peace Doves by Peter Walker, at Liverpool Cathedral
Review: Peace Doves by Peter Walkerat Liverpool Cathedral
Words, Bryony Large (www.confessionsofanartjunkie.com)
Amongst the chaotic bustling...
Review: Rui Matsunaga at The Atkinson
Review: Rui Matsunaga at The AtkinsonOpen until 5th June 2021
Words, Louise Heys
This free solo...
Review: Liverpool Biennial 2021 (part 2)
There’s one thing I want to find from Liverpool Biennial – I need to see if it is any closer to the people of the city it rests in.
Lockdown Treasures: The Baltic Triangle (Part 3)
Lockdown Treasures: The Baltic Triangle (Part 3)
Words & Images, Bryony Large
As we draw closer...
Lockdown Treasures: The City Centre (Part 2)
Lockdown Treasures: The City Centre (Part 2)
Words & Images, Bryony Large
On the verge of...
Review: Liverpool Biennial 2021
Larry Achiampong
The format we use on Art in Liverpool means that the title at the top of...
Liverpool Lockdown Treasures: The Waterfront (Part 1)
Liverpool Lockdown Treasures: The Waterfront (Part 1)
Words, Images & Trail by Bryony Large...
Review: High Viz, Dead Pigeon Gallery
High Viz, Dead Pigeon GalleryWords & images, Lorraine Bacchus
High Viz
Lockdown 2. It’s like...
Review: German Revolution Expressionist Prints at Lady Lever Art Gallery
German Revolution Expressionist Prints at Lady Lever Art Gallery until 28th February 2021 (check here for updates on restrictions & visiting times)
Review: The Time We Call our Own, Open Eye Gallery
The Time We Call our OwnOpen Eye Gallery until 23rd October
View the full exhibition in VR online here
Review: The Liverpool Nude – An Exhibition of Work from Merseyside’s Life Drawing Groups
The Liverpool Nude – An Exhibition of Work from Merseyside’s Life Drawing Groups
Words & Images: Lorraine Bacchus
Review: Don McCullin at Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool’s Don McCullin is perhaps the most challenging exhibition of recent years.
Review: Linda McCartney Retrospective, Walker Art Gallery
Review of Linda McCartney RetrospectiveWalker Art Gallery, until 1st November 2020
words by Lorraine Bacchus
From...
Review: Linda McCartney Retrospective
Linda McCartney RetrospectiveWalker Art Gallery, 8 August – 1 November 2020
Words, Remy Greasley
Linda McCartney...
Lockdown Walking To Another Place
Lockdown Walking To Another Placewords and images: Lorraine Bacchus
One of the inherent qualities of Antony Gormley’s iron men...
Review: Remedial Phantasmagoria: Frances Disley’s ‘Pattern Buffer’ at The Bluecoat
Pattern Buffer is Frances Disley’s retort to the elitist, and somewhat traditional, conventions of beauty
Review: Jonathan Baldock, Facecrime at Bluecoat
Review: Jonathan Baldock, Facecrimeat Bluecoat until 21st June 2020
Words by Remy Greasley
There isn’t a...
Review: Frances Disley, Pattern Buffer – Bluecoat
Review: Frances Disley, Pattern Buffer
Bluecoat
Words & Images, Sophia Charuhas
What do we do to feel better about ourselves? In her installation, Pattern Buffer, Frances Disley...
Review: An English Ladies Wardrobe
Review: An English Ladies Wardrobe
The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, L3 8EL
Until 1st March 2020
Words and pictures by Col O’Kell
An Enthralling Glimpse of the Liverpool...
Review: Medical Mavericks; a Tate Exchange from Alder Hey Hospital & Twin Vision
Medical Mavericks: Alder Hey Hospital & Twin Vision
Tate Exchange, until 29th February 2020
Review, Sophia Charuhas
At the beginning of the 19th century, Liverpool had the highest...
Dead Pigeon Gallery Presents: Dockers – The ’95 to -98 Liverpool Lockout
Dead Pigeon Gallery Presents:Dockers - The ‘95 to ‘98 Liverpool LockoutDocumentary Photography Exhibition by Dave Sinclair
'In September 1995,...
Featured Artist: Ashleigh Nugent, author of LOCKS, and Creative Director of RiseUp CIC
Featured Artist: Ashleigh Nugent, author of LOCKS, and Creative Director of RiseUp CIC
Interview,...
Q&A with Steve Des Landes
Q and A with Steve Des LandesWords, Carol Emmas
Steve des Landes went from having a solo exhibition at...
One Last Interview: Threshold Festival’s Jazamin Sinclair & Andy Minnis
One Last Interview
Threshold Festival's Andy Minnis (Festival Director and Visual Arts Organiser) & Jazamin Sinclair (Visual Arts Organiser)
Interview by Patrick Kirk-Smith (featured image: Illustrated...
In conversation with Alexis Teplin at Bluecoat.
In conversation with Alexis Treplin at Bluecoat
by Lorraine Bacchus
The fragmented, colourful and playful nature of Alexis Teplin’s exhibition at the Bluecoat is reminiscent of...
Interview: Liz Magic Laser; Real Work at FACT
Interview: Liz Magic Laser
One half of FACT’s latest exhibition, Real Work, open until 6th October 2019
Real Work is an exploration of incredibly personal, and...
In Conversation: Terry McDonald, marking 20 years of Mother & Child at the Women’s...
IN CONVERSATION: Terry McDonald, Sculptor
Marking 20 years since the inauguration of his Mother & Child sculpture outside the Women’s Hospital
Words and images, Lorraine Bacchus
The...
Featured Artist: Richie Moment – LightNight 2019 commission
Featured Artist: Richie Moment
interview ahead of his 2019 LightNight commission at St George’s Hall
Ahead of this year’s LightNight, we’re trying to get to grips...
Feature: Casey Orr on her latest project with Alternator Studios – Translating The Street
Translating the street – The Hive, Birkenhead
Casey Orr on her latest project with Alternator Studios
Translating the street has been a project I’ve wanted to...
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 conversation
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...
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Stephanie Carr
Conversations with Independents Biennial artists: Stephanie Carr
Interview by Joanie Magill, Independents Biennial Writer-in-Residence
Stephanie Carr’s exhibition, on the top floor of George Henry Lees former...
Featured Artist: John Moores Painting Prize artist, Pete Clarke
John Moores Painting Prize artist, Pete Clarke
on finding the right place to work, and the right artists to work with
Getting Longlisted for the John...
Building new futures: Liverpool Biennial artist Mae-ling Lokko
Building new futures:
On Liverpool Biennial artist Mae-ling Lokko, and her pursuit of an answer to a global question
Mae-ling Lokko, one of the headline...
Feature: “Photie-Man” How Tom Wood made a name for himself
“Photie-Man”
How Tom Wood made a name for himself
There’s something about the Wirral peninsula that must burrow deep inside the minds of artists who live...
OUTPUT Gallery: Liverpool’s latest, loyalest, addition to the gallery scene
OUTPUT Gallery: Liverpool’s latest, loyalest, addition to the gallery scene
Gabrielle De La Puente on her grand plans for a
space built by and for...
Measuring Your Contemporary Conditions: An Interview with Taus Makhacheva
Measuring Your Contemporary Conditions: An Interview with Taus Makhacheva
Interview by Joanie Magill
Ahead of her commission for Liverpool Biennial 2018, Taus Makhacheva talks about the...
Featured Artist: Marilyn Tippet, book artist
Featured Artist: Marilyn Tippet
In 2015 there was an email circulated between local artists, asking us to head to a meeting at Liverpool Central Library...
Guest publication: Messy Lines: Why I Write
Guest publication:
Messy Lines: Why I Write
Why should we care about art? To us readers of and contributors to an art magazine, the answer to...
(P)review: Fact at 15
FACT at 15
on the building, it's history and its director
FACT opened its doors in 2003, and in the fifteen years since has solidly cemented...
Featured Artist: Emma Smith, Euphonia
Featured Artist: Emma Smith: Euphonia
at Bluecoat, 27th April – 24th June 2018
Bluecoat has long been a gallery which has paved the way for more...
Feature: Ken’s show, in Ken’s words
Ken’s show, in Ken’s words
Tate Liverpool are celebrating turning 30 with an exhibition by their longest serving member of staff, Ken Simon’s. The exhibition...
Featured Artist: Peter Davis
Featured Artist: Peter Davis
Zeitgeist is open until 28th April, at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Interview, Patrick Kirk-Smith
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure...
Featured Artist: idle women
Featured Artist: idle women
the idle women institute, St Helens
Heart of Glass, St Helens’ status quo busting culture commissioner, brings yet another year of perception...
Featured Artist: Holly Rowan Hesson at Pyramid Arts Centre
Words & Interview, Eli Regan
Interview with Holly Rowan Hesson whose installation ECHO is showing at Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington (29 September 2017 to 27...
FEATURE: Capstan’s Bazaar
Last Sunday was the third Capstan's Bazaar at the new Baltic Market. Independent Liverpool have naturally been behind everything and help get the whole...
Featured Artist: Jake Summerton, photographing The Las
Featured Artist: Jake Summerton, Photographer
‘The La’s 1987’ – Rarities Album Release & Liverpool Exhibition runs:
15th September – 7th October 2017
The Florrie, 377 Mill St, Liverpool L8 4RF
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Words,...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Julie Dodd
Julie Dodd
Ahead of this weekend’s Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we’re bringing you a series of to-the-point interviews with some of...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Anna Yevtukh-Squire
Anna Yevtukh-Squire
Ahead of this weekend’s Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we’re bringing you a series of to-the-point interviews with some of...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Wendy Williams
Wendy Williams (SCI Artists)
Ahead of this weekend’s Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we’re bringing you a series of to-the-point interviews with...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Marilyn Tippett
Marilyn Tippett (North West Book Artists)
Ahead of this weekend’s Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we’re bringing you a series of to-the-point...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Kate Bernstein
Kate Bernstein
Ahead of this weekend’s Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we’re bringing you a series of to-the-point interviews with some of...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Linda Parr
Linda Parr
Ahead of this weekend’s Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we’re bringing you a series of to-the-point interviews with some of...
Liverpool Book Art Fair: Mike Clements
Mike Clements (Marches Book Art Group)
Ahead of this weekend's Liverpool Book Art Fair at Liverpool Central Library we're bringing you a series of to-the-point...
Featured Artist: Andrew Marr: Strokes of Colour at Corke Art Gallery
Andrew Marr: Strokes of Colour at Corke Art Gallery: Andrew Marr’s first public exhibition, tells two stories, one intentional, one not.
Featured Artist: Christopher Kline: O.K. The Musical at Tate Liverpool
Featured Artist: Christopher Kline: O.K. The Musical at Tate Liverpool
throughout April, with performances on 29th & 30th April
Interview, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Christopher Kline, whose musical has...
In Photos: The People’s Mardi Gras, Krewe Liverpool
On 7th February 2020, Laura Brownhill and Mellowtone transformed Sefton Park Palm House into a one night only surreal masquerade ball inspired by the...
In Pictures: Design & Empire, Liverpool Biennial & LJMU
In Pictures: Design & Empire, Liverpool Biennial & LJMU
Various Venues, 24th-26th November 2017
Pictures, Jay Chow
Liverpool Biennial and Liverpool John Moores University presented a weekend...
IN PICTURES: Happy Halloween from The Lantern Company
Lantern Company brought its legendary Halloween Lantern Carnival to the city last night.
Illuminated giant beasts, skeletons and ghostly dancing apparitions, deathly street bands and...
In Pictures: Emily Speed, Architectural Review at Bluecoat
Emily Speed, Architectural Review at Bluecoat
Pictures: Ilona Walker
Abacus has been rethinking Bluecoat's main gallery as a space where children can completely take over the...
In Pictures: LIMF
Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) 2017
Pictures, Tony Knox
LIMF 2017 was a huge success, as always, but for whatever reason Art in Liverpool always keeps...
In Pictures: Africa Oyé 2017: Record breaking festival of African culture
Africa Oyé 2017: A record breaking festival of African culture
Photos, Christelle Marris
2017 saw Africa Oyé completely shatter its attendance records, and the start of...
In Pictures: Viewing St George’s Hall minton tiled floor
In Pictures
St George's Hall: Minton Tiled Floor
Pictures, Thomas Ava (instagram here)
During the Easter break, St George's Hall lifted up their day-to-day flooring to reveal...
In Pictures: Encounters: Liverpool Biennial at Bury Art Museum
Encounters: Liverpool Biennial at Bury Art Museum
Last week, Liverpool Biennial set off on another road trip; this time to Bury. Throughout 2017, Biennial 2016...
In Pictures: Threshold Festival 2017
We sent Tony Knox down to the Baltic Triangle last weekend to capture the heart and soul of Threshold Festival 2017.
In Pictures: Bluecoat, Public View: 106 Artists from 50 Years
In Pictures
Bluecoat, Public View
Pictures, Tony Knox
Bluecoat, the UK's oldest arts centre turned 300 last week. To celebrate they launched Public View, an exhibition of...
Preview: Mark Leckey’s FEELINTHECAT at Walker Art Gallery
Biennial artist and Tuner Prize winner, Mark Leckey, opens a new show at Walker Art Gallery on Friday 6th September 2016. The work has...
In Pictures: Liverpool Biennial 2016 at Cains Brewery
A look inside Cains Brewery for Day 1 of Liverpool Biennial 2016. The exhibition is a wild mix of substance and subject, from some of the most geographically diverse artists that the Biennial has to offer.
In Pictures: Liverpool Biennial 2016 Launch
Split into episodes and scattered around Liverpool, this installment of Liverpool Biennial has so far proven to be almost impossible to sum up. Tony Know shares his excellent photographs of the first day of this exciting project, ready just in time for minds to made up and plans to be made. Liverpool Biennial 2016 opens tomorrow (July 9th) so be sure to get your thinking hat on, read our numerous reviews and previews, and find the exhibition to kick off your Biennial.
In Pictures: Lady Lever South End Galleries Re-open
The Lady Lever Art Gallery opens its new South End galleries on Good Friday, 25 March 2016 following a £2.8m major development project, part funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. We took a tour of the galleries and can show you a few photos to whet your appetite.
In Pictures: Glam Up North at Museum of Liverpool
Words by Sinéad Nunes, Features Editor. Images courtesy NML
Acclaimed portrait and fashion photographer John Rankin Wadell presents It's Glam Up North: Curated by Rankin...
In Pictures: Geoff Owens’ Futuretrospective
Images by Ryan Garry
"I have always had an interest in art since childhood; graduating from drawing with crayons on walls at my parents' house...
In Pictures: Blacksmithing and Sketching at Lark Lane Artworks
Images by Ryan Garry
This Summer at Lark Lane Artworks in Aigburth, Alex Corina is holding a series of events under the umbrella of Summer...
Picasso’s Study for Temptation of St Anthony at the Walker Art Gallery
Images by Ryan Garry
The Walker Art Gallery has acquired a drawing by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, which...
In Pictures: Build Your Own at FACT
Words and images by Ryan Garry
How much difference can one man make? How much difference can one machine make?
e-NABLE began in 2011 as a...
In Pictures: Africa Oye 2015
Images by Ryan Gary
Forecasters predicted a rainy weekend, but the sun was out for another year of the best tunes and positive vibes all the...
In Pictures: LJMU Fine Art & Design Degree Show 2015
Images by Ryan Garry, Words by Sinead Nunes, Editor
It's that time of year again - Degree Show season! And it was all happening last...
What You Missed on Light Night
Images by Ryan Garry
On Friday, thousands of people took to the streets of Liverpool for the sixth annual LightNight, the one-night arts and culture...
In Pictures: The Critter Shed and Draw + Code at 92 Degrees Coffee
Images by Ryan Garry, words by Sinead Nunes, Editor
For those of you who aren't familiar with Liverpool's cool new coffee hang out, it's the...
In Pictures: GIT Award 2015
Words Sinead Nunes, Editor. Images by Chris Flack
This year's GIT Award was tinged with a note of sadness: as All We Are accepted the...
L8 Unseen at Museum of Liverpool
Images by Ryan Garry
Challenging common preconceptions by revealing hidden stories from the people who live, work or have a passion for the area, L8 Unseen...
In Pictures: LEAP Dance Festival 2015
Images by Chris Flack
From Arno Schuitemaker and Mitchell-lee van Rooij's I is an Other to Depwofondis by choeographer Max Diakok, LEAP 2015 has brought...
In Pictures: Alex Corina’s The Art & Craft of Politics
Images by Ryan Garry
Using art to explore the impact of austerity, Alex Corina has created a series of new works prompted by five years of the Cameron...
In Pictures: External Machines at The Royal Standard
Words by Sinead Nunes, Images by Ryan Garry
The Royal Standard's latest offering takes as its starting point the building itself, using architectural elements of...
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...
So was it the Best, or the Worst of Times?
Both Sides Now: It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst of Times? is a cross-continental exhibition which brings together artists from China, Hong Kong and the UK.
Simeon Barclay: Jolly Lament in Four Movements Concerning A Hamlet By The Sea
Words by Jack Welsh
In today’s fast-paced digital society, what role does the humble postcard play? As people increasingly use smartphones and apps such as Facebook...
Open 1 at Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery
Words by Ruth White
Open 1 is the first in a series of three annual open submission exhibitions, this years’ theme being based around ideas...
A Small View of A Small Group of Idiots Ruining It for Everyone Else
Words by Kyle Nathan Brown
On entering A Small View exhibition place, dimly lit only by the lights from the corridor outside, one is confronted by...
Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots
Words by Laura Harris
Portrait and a Dream (1953) is a haunting and unfamiliar end to Tate Liverpool’s new Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots (until 18...
So You Want to be a Writer?
Words by Sinead Nunes, Editor
Cultural commentator, budding critic or aspiring writer? Whatever you call yourself, the one thing troubling every wordsmith is how to...
Applications Now Open: Critical Writing Bursary & Workshop Programme
Deadline: 23 February 2015 at 5pm
Attention all Writers & Cultural Commentators!
Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West (CVAN NW) is offering 25 writers the opportunity...
Knowsley announces illuminating plans to start its year as the Liverpool City Region Borough...
Knowsley announces illuminating plans to start its year as the Liverpool City Region Borough of Culture
On 1 January...
Knowsley appeals for couples married at St. Chad’s Church to come forward
Knowsley appeals for couples married at St. Chad’s Church to come forward
On Valentine’s Day...
Wirral students explore “Fresh Perspectives” on art at Lady Lever
Fresh Perspectives, the exhibition of inspiring artworks from students of five Wirral secondary schools, returns this January for its fifth, bi-annual outing.
Suba Das appointed as new Creative Director at Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse
Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust (LMTT) has today announced that SUBA DAS will be their new Creative Director, helping shape its artistic...
The Bluecoat to receive £155,194 from third round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund
The Bluecoat is among 925 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the Culture Recovery FundThis award will keep...
Winter Arts Market Returns To Liverpool Cathedral 3-4 Dec 2021
Enjoy festive shopping from local, independent traders this December when the Open Culture Winter Arts Markets returns to the Grade I listed...
First statue of “fifth’ Beatle in Liverpool a step closer to reality
First statue of “fifth’ Beatle in Liverpool a step closer to reality
Music manager Brian Epstein is immortalised in...
New flag design urges Liverpool women to reach for the stars
Open Call for artists to design the next installation
The latest in a series of artist-designed flags is now...
Bluecoat announce details of 2022 Suki Chan exhibition, CONSCIOUS
In Spring 2022 the Bluecoat, Liverpool will present the largest overview to date of Suki Chan’s multi-platform project CONSCIOUS
Southport Contemporary Arts Network calls for Creativity on Prescription
The Southport Contemporary Arts network opened The ArtHouse on Eastbank Street in 2012, providing a permanent space for showcasing local artists
Baltic Creative & Transform Lives Company celebrate Kickstart success
Following its partnership with Transform Lives Company (TLC), Baltic Creative Community Interest Company (CIC) has helped to generate 26 jobs for previously...
The 12 artworks for Liverpool’s River of Light have been revealed
The 12 artworks which will transform Liverpool’s waterfront this month as part of River of Light have been revealed.
LGBTQIA+ inclusive ‘Genderland Festival’ embraces Liverpool
A two-week long festival of drag events, talking circles, cabaret and more kicks off this week!
Supported by Arts...
The Owl & The Pussy-cat launch Knowsley Borough of Culture
Most people are very familiar with The Owl & the Pussy-Cat poem that tells the tale of two animals setting off to...
Asif Khan Studio, Sir David Adjaye OBE, Mariam Kamara and artist Theaster Gates set...
Today, National Museums Liverpool has announced a collaboration between architects Asif Khan Studio, Sir David Adjaye OBE, Mariam Kamara and artist Theaster...
Liverpool Irish Festival returns to celebrate the city’s links with Ireland
Live audiences return to Liverpool Irish Festival this October as the Festival arrives at venues across the city. With a theme of ‘exchange’...
New transport attraction for Birkenhead
National Museums Liverpool to partner Wirral Council on development as part of Town Deal
National Museums Liverpool (NML) has shared...
New images released of coming soon De Morgan exhibition at Lady Lever Art Gallery
A stunning collection of ceramic objects by the Victorian, pre-eminent ceramic designer, William De Morgan, is opening at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in...
FACT Announces New Major Exhibition For Autumn
This Autumn, FACT opens a major new exhibition of works by nine UK and international artists. Opening on 28 October, Future Ages Will...
National Museums Liverpool announce Black History Month programme
National Museums Liverpool has announced a number of not-to-be-missed events taking place across its museums and galleries to mark Black History Month.
Highlights...
National Trust reopens Liverpool photographers’ 1950s ‘time capsule’ home and studio
After having to close its doors in March 2020 due to the pandemic, the National Trust is reopening one of Liverpool city...
LGBTQIA+ inclusive ‘Genderland Festival’ coming to Liverpool
A two-week long festival of drag events, talking circles, cabaret and more is set to rock the city.
Supported by funding from...
House of Memories Launches New Online Training Course
Launched to coincide with World Alzheimer’s Month this September, in-person workshops are also returning
House of Memories, the world leading museum-led dementia...
Sumuyya Khader’s ‘Always Black Never Blue’ to show at the Bluecoat in October
The Bluecoat is delighted to present Sumuyya Khader’s solo exhibition, Always Black Never Blue. Her work reflects on contemporary life in Liverpool,...
Transatlantic Slavery and Legacies in Museums Forum
A new national forum with a focus on Transatlantic Slavery and Legacies in Museums launched on 23rd August 2021, to coincide with...
Bob Marley statue to be unveiled in Liverpool for Positive Vibration Festival
Bob Marley statue to be unveiled in Liverpool
Positive Vibration Festival have commissioned a 7ft tall statue of cultural...
Nature-inspired creative workshops in the North West this Autumn
Writer and creative practitioner Bernadette McBride is offering a range of nature-inspired creative writing workshops, sound walks and day retreats this Autumn...
Bluecoat celebrates the past, present and future of their creative community
As part of a new programme centred around the Bluecoat’s cultural legacies, a new exhibition, A Creative Community, will launch on 8th September...
Neil Buchanan joins judging panel in National Museums Liverpool’s lockdown children’s competition
My Home is my Museum winners announcedLiverpool has announced the winners of its award-winning, My Homeis My Museum children’s competition.
Launched during the first national lockdown when children...
Year 4 students from St Anne’s Catholic Primary School respond to Independents Biennial 2021
The following texts are short articles written by year 5 students from St Anne’s Catholic Primary School in Wavertree responding to the...
Liverpool locations are getting new artistic additions thanks to an inspiring cultural campaign
Some Liverpool locations are getting new artistic additions thanks to an inspiring cultural campaign.
Very Public Art will see...
Turner Prize returns to Tate Liverpool as part of exciting 2022 programme
Tate Liverpool today announced that it will host the Turner Prize in 2022, marking a return to the city for one of...
St Helens community unveils two new murals created by internationally renowned street artists Nomad...
Internationally-acclaimed street artist duo Nomad Clan and residents in Parr, St Helens have unveiled two murals this week inspired by the area’s...
Homotopia and LCR Pride send a message to the city
Liverpool is set to use its cultural credentials to send out the message that homophobia, transphobia and biphobia have no place in...
Deborah Roberts to show at the Bluecoat, Liverpool October 2021
The Bluecoat, Liverpool is delighted to be hosting a major exhibition by award-winning US based artist Deborah Roberts (Austin, Texas, 1962). The...
Tate Liverpool presents new commission Emily Speed: Flatland
This autumn, Tate Liverpool will present a new film installation by artist Emily Speed as the inaugural Art North West commission. Flatland uses set...
Stunning sculpture celebrates historic horsepower on Liverpool Plinth
A stunning sculpture celebrating the horse power behind Liverpool’s and England’s historic waterways is the latest to adorn The Liverpool Plinth.
Everyday heroes honoured in Warrington bus station art
Everyday heroes honoured in Warrington bus station art
A visionary young artist has created a buzz around Warrington with...
Liverpool Without Walls fund to support new outdoor festivals
Liverpool Without Walls is back – with a mission to create brand new outdoor festivals and events in the city.
Tate Liverpool will present first UK retrospective of Lucy McKenzie
This winter, Tate Liverpool will present the first UK retrospective of Glasgow-born, Brussels-based artist Lucy McKenzie (b. 1977). The exhibition brings together...
Review: Night at the Poseum… at World Museum
Review: Night at the Poseum… at World Museum
Words & Pictures, Julia Johnson
Ballroom culture...
Review: Ali Hunter’s Quarinteriors at Egg Cafe
Review: Ali Hunter’s Quarinteriors at Egg Cafe
Words, Kathryn Wainwright
In something of a departure...
Review: Future Ages Will Wonder, at FACT Liverpool
Review: Future Ages Will Wonder, at FACT Liverpool
Words, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Future Ages Will Wonder...
Kiln Fired Ecologies: Evocations of Natural Forms in the Works of Halima Cassell and...
Kiln Fired Ecologies: Evocations of Natural Forms in the Works of Halima Cassell and Emma Rodgers
Words, Phoebe...
Review: Lucy McKenzie at Tate Liverpool
Lucy McKenzie has adopted and absorbed the essence of trompe l’oeil, and brought it bang up to date
Art in Liverpool, issue #25, November 2021 – Editorial
We’re printing this the day before the COP26 summit, and there’s been a lot of news this week on how international organisations...
Review: Emily Speed: Flatland at Tate Liverpool
Emily Speed: Flatland at Tate LiverpoolWords, Lorraine Bacchus
During a conversation about the creative process, a poet friend of...
Review: Gold Maria Akanbi: BlackFest at The Royal Standard
Gold Maria Akanbi: BlackFest at The Royal Standard
Reading is incredibly powerful. You become part of an audience, listening...
Pause for Living, Roxy Topia & Paddy Gould; An exhibition at CBS Gallery &...
Two exhibitions, because they can. Two spaces I have meant to visit over and over and over again, and always failed, astounded...
Review: Uncertain Data: a brief meditation at FACT
Uncertain Data:a brief meditation at FACT
So, you know how mindfulness is a way to force yourself to relax?...
Review: Walter Sickert at Walker Art Gallery
I can’t help finding the Sickert exhibition a little bit funny, not because of its content, but because of its press. The...
Review: Space is The Place, Patric Rogers & Angelo Madonna at Convenience Gallery
I said it last month and I’ll say it again – Convenience are making spaces for artists to do more, to try...
The Self and Text: The Importance of Language Within Confessional Artwork, by Madeline Girling-Jones
Madeline Girling-Jones was awarded one of Art in Liverpool’s Publication Awards in partnership with Liverpool Hope University. This is a shortened version...
The Self and Text: The Importance of Language Within Confessional Artwork, by Madeline Girling-Jones...
Madeline Girling-Jones was awarded one of Art in Liverpool’s Publication Awards in partnership with Liverpool Hope University. You can read a shortened...
Art in Liverpool, issue #25 – Editorial
The relationships between culture and horticulture are fairly fluid, but the way the worlds operate has always been closely tied.
Emily Fairchild, Private Press: An Exploration of Medieval Influence in the Private Press Movement
An Exploration of Medieval Influence in the Private Press Movement, by Emily FairchildEmily Fairchild was awarded one of Art in Liverpool’s Publication...
Review: Very Public Art
Very Public Art feels right. You know? Like a listening project rather than a show and tell. It feels local, and relevant...
Review: Challenging Histories, International Slavery Museum
International Slavery Museum’s new collection display shares a mass of artworks collected over the last four years.
Collections displays...
Review: Jon Edgley, On the Bright Side at Convenience Gallery
When you woke up today, did you see the positives ahead of you, or worry about the next step you had to...
Review: One Day at a Time Boys, Dead Pigeon Gallery
It doesn’t remotely matter if you’ve got formal training as an artist in order to be one. What matters is an open...
Art in Liverpool, issue #24 – Editorial
Collaboration is tough. It’s a revolving series of compromises, and requires mutual understanding, and the ability of all parties to listen to...
Art in Liverpool issue #23, August 2021 – Editorial
This is the first issue we’ve printed since the start of the pandemic. I don’t really know where to start on explaining...
Independents Biennial 2021, in hindsight
Independents Biennial 2021, in hindsight
I’ve never enjoyed a project more than this year’s Independents Biennial. I’ve also never...
Critical (on Funding)
Critical (on Funding)
Artists in the North West of England make less than the national average for artists, who...
Review: Jessica El Mal, Grounds for Concern (Liverpool Arab Arts Festival)
Review: Jessica El Mal, Grounds for Concern (Liverpool Arab Arts Festival)
Finally finding a chance to find Liverpool Arab...
Review: Lucian Freud & Louise Bourgeois at Tate Liverpool
Review: Lucian Freud & Louise Bourgeois at Tate Liverpool
Lucian Freud and Louise Bourgeois are two artists you can’t...
Review: Aliza Nisenbaum at Tate Liverpool
Review: Aliza Nisenbaum at Tate Liverpool
Travelling to Tate Liverpool on Tuesday 20th July 2021 to see a show...
Review: John Moores Painting Prize 2020
Review: John Moores Painting Prize 2020
John Moores Painting Prize 2020 holds on to its planned year in the...
Review: Public Service Announcement
Review: Public Service Announcement
Most artists ask themselves the question “what do I want to make work about?” When...
Review: Peace Doves by Peter Walker, at Liverpool Cathedral
Review: Peace Doves by Peter Walkerat Liverpool Cathedral
Words, Bryony Large (www.confessionsofanartjunkie.com)
Amongst the chaotic bustling...
Review: Rui Matsunaga at The Atkinson
Review: Rui Matsunaga at The AtkinsonOpen until 5th June 2021
Words, Louise Heys
This free solo...
Review: Liverpool Biennial 2021 (part 2)
There’s one thing I want to find from Liverpool Biennial – I need to see if it is any closer to the people of the city it rests in.
Lockdown Treasures: The Baltic Triangle (Part 3)
Lockdown Treasures: The Baltic Triangle (Part 3)
Words & Images, Bryony Large
As we draw closer...
Lockdown Treasures: The City Centre (Part 2)
Lockdown Treasures: The City Centre (Part 2)
Words & Images, Bryony Large
On the verge of...
Review: Liverpool Biennial 2021
Larry Achiampong
The format we use on Art in Liverpool means that the title at the top of...
Dead Pigeon Gallery Presents: Dockers – The ’95 to -98 Liverpool Lockout
Dead Pigeon Gallery Presents:Dockers - The ‘95 to ‘98 Liverpool LockoutDocumentary Photography Exhibition by Dave Sinclair
'In September 1995,...
Liverpool Lockdown Treasures: The Waterfront (Part 1)
Liverpool Lockdown Treasures: The Waterfront (Part 1)
Words, Images & Trail by Bryony Large...
Review: High Viz, Dead Pigeon Gallery
High Viz, Dead Pigeon GalleryWords & images, Lorraine Bacchus
High Viz
Lockdown 2. It’s like...
Featured Artist: Ashleigh Nugent, author of LOCKS, and Creative Director of RiseUp CIC
Featured Artist: Ashleigh Nugent, author of LOCKS, and Creative Director of RiseUp CIC
Interview,...
Review: German Revolution Expressionist Prints at Lady Lever Art Gallery
German Revolution Expressionist Prints at Lady Lever Art Gallery until 28th February 2021 (check here for updates on restrictions & visiting times)