Features:
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...
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...
Review: Secret Art of Survival: Creativity and Ingenuity of British Far East prisoners of...
Review: Secret Art of Survival: Creativity and Ingenuity of British Far East prisoners of war, 1942-1945
- Victoria Gallery & Museum
Words, Remy Greasley
Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore;...
Review From Kirkby With Love – Portraits Celebrating Local Communities by Philip Garrett
Review - From Kirkby With Love – Portraits Celebrating Local Communities by Philip Garrett
Words by Lorraine Bacchus
Photos by Sherriff
“Painting is more than just a...
Review: Visual Rights – Open Eye Gallery
Visual Rights, Open Eye Gallery - Corinne Silva’s Garden State rethinks territory. It’s a challenge to many things, but primarily to how we as individuals think about ownership.
Review: Away Day – Bath Society of Arts, at Edtions Ltd.
Bath Society of Arts - There was an enticing opportunity the other evening to talk to some printmakers about the many ways in which they achieve their images...
Review: John Moores Prize Winners, Walker Art Gallery
John Moores Prize Winners, The Walker Art Gallery - To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the competition...
Review: The View from the Top of a Pyramid – Jacqui Hallum at...
The View from the Top of a Pyramid – Jacqui Hallum
The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
12 October 2019 - 26 April 2020
Words and pictures by...
Review: Nisyros, Vivian’s Bed, Tate Liverpool
Nisyros, Vivian’s Bed, Tate Liverpool - The perfect antidote to grey Winter days has come to Liverpool from Guatemala in the form of Vivian Suter’s exuberant artworks
Review: Theaster Gates at Tate Liverpool
Review: Theaster Gates at Tate Liverpool - Theaster Gates retreated to the anonymity of Maine on the north-eastern coast of the United States for some much needed rest and relaxation
Review: LOOK Photo Biennial 2019
LOOK Photo Biennial
Various venues, until 22nd December 2019
Words, Carol Emmas
Images, courtesy of Open Eye Gallery
In the 1960s, American writer and critic Clement Greenberg said,...
Review: We The Youth – Tate Liverpool
We The Youth - Keith Haring's New York Nightlife
Words & Images, Michelle Pratt
Author and DJ Dave Haslam fluently guided an audience through a condensed...
Review: This Is What I Came Here to Do – The Tapestry
Review of “This Is What I Came Here To Do”, The Tapestry.
words and photos by Lorraine Bacchus
For this weekend only 12th & 13th October,...
Review: Nothing Dead Here – Dead Pigeon Gallery at 189 Oakfield Road
Review: Dead Pigeon Gallery, 189 Oakfield Road
by appointment until December
Words, Laura Brown
How do you deal with it when something bad happens where you live?...
Review: Drawing on Nature – Taki Katei’s Japan
Review: Drawing on Nature – Taki Katei’s Japan
Words, Col O’Kell
Pictures, Col O’Kell and courtesy of World Museum
You’ll draw plenty of pleasure from this excellent...
Review: Who Wants to Live Forever, Tate Exchange
Who Wants to Live Forever
Tate Exchange
Words, Sophia Charuhas
What if you could significantly contribute to groundbreaking scientific research for generations, but would not know about...
Review: Christian Furr, a Retrospective
Christian Furr, a Retrospective
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Words, Carol Emmas
Generally speaking with an artist there is a certain contemporary signature style attached to their work...
Review: Nahem Shoa: Black Presence, The Atkinson
Review of Nahem Shoa: Black Presence, The Atkinson, Southport.
Words by Lorraine Bacchus
It was something of a lilliputian experience walking into this exhibition – the...
Review: A Little Painting Show: Dead Pigeon Gallery
Review: A Little Painting Show: Dead Pigeon Gallery
at Dan Carden Constituency Office, Anfield
Words, Lorraine Bacchus
Photos, Josie Jenkins
The title and location of this exhibition is...
Review: Something Borrowed, Something New, VG&M
Review: Something Borrow, Something New
at Victoria Gallery & Museum until 19th October 2019
Words, Sophia Charuhas
When Salford-based artist Ian Irvine was asked to respond to...
Review: Westwood, at The Atkinson
Westwood
The Atkinson, Southport, 21 September 2019 – 28 March 2020
Words, Samantha Browne
“Westwood” at The Atkinson in Southport was two years in the planning and...
Review: Coast to Coast to Coast
Review of Coast to Coast to Coast, September 2019
Words: Lorraine Bacchus
Photos: Ron Davies
A recent event hosted by Open Eye Gallery was one of those...
Review: First Women, Anita Corbin at St George’s Hall
Review: First Women, Anita Corbin at St George's Hall
until 31st August
"Since the world began, men and women have held up the sky between them,...
Review: As Seen on Screen, Walker Art Gallery
As Seen on Screen – Walker Art Gallery
31 May – 18 August 2019
Words, Leyla Gurr
Images, Gareth Jones
Cinema, and the many adornments that come with...
Review: Shezad Dawood at Bluecoat
Shezad Dawood – Leviathan
Bluecoat
06 July – 13 October 2019
Words, Leyla Gurr
Images, Rob Battersby
I had only seen stills of Shezad Dawood's film series 'Leviathan' before...
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...
New short film by Caroline Smith creatively explores St Helens high street and its...
https://youtu.be/uf2rX6WLtPA
A film, Running On Fumes, by Caroline Smith in collaboration with ten young people and set...
Artists commissions at the heart of new Bluecoat Hub
Harold Offeh. Image credit Alex O’Brien
Harold Offeh, Babak Ganjei and Sumuyya Khader are among artists selected to...
Threshold Festival back for one last time this weekend
Ahead of the final Threshold Festival of Music & Arts, organisers have released the full line-up for the hybrid event taking place on...
Young creatives take over billboards across Liverpool with Tate Collective
YOUNG CREATIVES TAKE OVER BILLBOARDS ACROSS LIVERPOOL WITH TATE COLLECTIVE
From 7 April, Tate...
Culture Commons launch the Creative Workforce Pledge ahead of May’s Metro Mayoral Elections
Culture Commons launch the Creative Workforce Pledge ahead of May’s Metro Mayoral Elections
Culture...
LightNight presses ‘Play’ for 2021, with #LoveLightNight crowdfunder
Liverpool’s LightNight presses ‘Play’ for 2021
Open Culture launches crowdfunder to support arts festival return
Artists Union England & Independents Biennial launch a new survey on work models for...
Following a year where artists and freelancers have been left behind in the frantic grabbing of emergency...
BlackFest to shine the spotlight on powerhouse women of Liverpool in ‘HerStory’
Liverpool's Black Arts organisation, BlackFest, will be showcasing oral histories and accounts from Merseyside's 'powerhouse women' who have a 'HerStory' to share.
AND Festival resurfaces for 2021
AND Festival resurfaces for 2021, taking you on an extraordinary journey responding to the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey. The programme...
New Walker Art Gallery exhibition showcases creative talent of North West makers
Claire Curneen - Baroque and Berserk, hand-built of porcelain
45cm wide x 145cm long x 50cm high. Photo © Dewi Tannatt Lloyd
Artist Hosts get to work on presenting the inner workings of northern culture
Independents Biennial has commissioned four Artist Hosts to work on new ways of documenting festival outcomes, and festival methods. The project aims...
Independents Biennial launches on Saturday – FULL programme here
Independents Biennial20 March - 6 June 2021www.independentsbiennial.com
Montse Mosqeura, Film Still from Too Foreign, 2021
Plans for first statue of a black woman to be installed in St George’s...
Plans for first statue of a black woman to be installed in city gem
Mary Seacole, c. Mary...
How Irish Language Shaped Scouse
How Irish Language Shaped Scouse
“‘Ter rar wack’ is usually regarded as a rather...
AND Festival Resurfaces for 2021
ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES FESTIVAL 2021Festival of new cinema, digital culture and artThu 27 May – Sun 11 July 2021 Manchester Ship Canal &...
Bluecoat to explore colonial legacies in new arts project with local young people
Bluecoat’s mercantile maritime origins and colonial legacies to be explored in new arts project involving local young people
John Moores Painting Prize shortlist announced
John Moores Painting Prize shortlist announced
Five extraordinary paintings are in with a chance of winning the coveted £25,000 first prize Paintings by Robbie Bushe, Michele Fletcher, Steph Goodger, Stephen...
BlackFest open applications for range of multi-arts projects inc. playwriting, hip-hop and more
Liverpool's Black Arts organisation, BlackFest, have launched a host of new and exciting projects and courses with the aim of supporting learning and encouraging dialogue...
Open Calls: Historic England, Picturing England’s High Streets, Chester
Chester has been selected as one of six sites to participate in Historic England’s three-year project ‘Picturing England’s High Street’.
Liverpool Arts Bar Website Launch Week Programme
Liverpool Arts Bar Website Launch Week Announced
Inspiring creative hotspot announces week of programming for new website from 7th...
Liverpool City Region schools to benefit from University’s partnership with arts initiative
Liverpool City Region schools to benefit from University’s partnership with arts initiative
Edge Hill University has joined forces with...
Bluecoat to be redeveloped in major new scheme
Liverpool’s oldest city centre building to be redeveloped in major new scheme.
Images Courtesy of Architectural Emporium
Threshold announce final festival outing with FREE hybrid event
Threshold Festival returns with a free hybrid event for their final outing – Threshold X.The team at Threshold Festival have released the...
National Museums Liverpool has announced a project to transform the city’s waterfront as part...
National Museums Liverpool (NML) has announced a project to transform the city’s waterfront as part of plans for a ‘decade of change'
House of Memories to launch first UK community-curated dual-language digital collection for Liverpool-Yemeni community
National Museums Liverpool (NML) has secured funding to deliver an intergenerational project in the Yemeni community of Liverpool to help young people support their parents and grandparents to connect with their cultural heritage.
From film noir to filing your taxes: University of Liverpool announce brand new line-up...
The University of Liverpool Continuing Education (CE) team are delighted to announce a new programme of short courses, seminars and workshops starting this month.
Bluecoat premiers new film by Kiara Mohamed
Kiara Mohamed’s new film The Lives We Lead (2020), commissioned by Bluecoat as part of a new ongoing programme focused on Liverpool City Region...
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum introduces a newly commissioned film from Brigitte Jurack, Concentration
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum introduces a newly commissioned film from Brigitte Jurack, Concentration
https://youtu.be/73P4RQmvHtQ
Famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings return to Lady Lever Art Gallery (a picture story)
Three famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings have returned home to the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, after being on temporary loan to...
Liverpool Biennial & Culture Liverpool Announce New Public Artwork by Nathan Coley
Installation view: From Here, 2020, by Nathan Coley, St George’s Dock Pumping Station, Mann Island, Liverpool © Photography by Mark McNulty.
Tell it Like it is: Interview with Laura Robertson & Ian Clegg
Tell it Like it isInterview with Laura Robertson & Ian Clegg
L- A City Through its People opens 2nd...
Independents Biennial announce programme dates, and first wave of artists for 2021
Independents Biennial20 March - 6 June 2021
The Independents Biennial will return in 2021, celebrating the art and artists...
Bluecoat to host Liverpool-based artists’ exhibition programme, opening with Josie Jenkins and Kiara Mohamed
Bluecoat to host Liverpool-based artists’ exhibition programme, opening with Josie Jenkins and Kiara Mohamed
Bluecoat is delighted to launch...
Undo Things Done: Wales in Venice artist Sean Edwards opens next month at Bluecoat
This winter, Bluecoat brings 2020 Turner Bursary artist Sean Edwards’ Wales in Venice solo show Undo Things Done to Liverpool. The artist’s...
The Story of Liverpool Through Its Trees – Get Involved!
The Story of Liverpool Through Its Trees – Get Involved!
dot-art & Open Eye Gallery & Liverpool City Council...
New Film Shows Bluecoat from a Bee’s Eye View
New Film Shows Bluecoat from a Bee’s Eye View
In a brand new film, Andrea Ku Bluecoat’s Gardener in...
Thirteen visual arts organisations join Plus Tate Network
THIRTEEN VISUAL ARTS ORGANISATIONS JOIN PLUS TATE NETWORK, WITH FOCUS ON COMMUNITY, INNOVATION AND INTERNATIONALISM
The Plus Tate Network...
Refractive Pool THE BOOK. Help make it happen
Refractive Pool is a project exploring contemporary painting in the Liverpool area through events, exhibitions, print, and an...
Baltic Creative CIC & Transform Lives Company join forces to help secure new jobs...
Baltic Creative CIC & Transform Lives Company join forces to help secure new jobs for the creative and digital sector
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)
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...
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
Digital Exhibition: Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: June Furlong
EXHIBITION: JUNE FURLONGEXHIBITION DATES: 3rd June 2020 - OngoingVENUE: Williamson Art Gallery & Museum (see full exhibition here)
Today...
Digital Exhibition: Bridewell Studios: RE-FORM, Wirral Met BA Fine Art 2nd Year Exhibition
“make changes in (something, especially an institution or practice) in order to improve it.”
Digital Festival: Africa Oyé Archive
With Africa Oyé 2020 cancelled, take a look back at Africa Oye over the years below. Some of Liverpool's best photographers have...
Digital Exhibition: Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: Wirral Met – 25th Annual BA (Hons)...
25th Annual BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show
As we settle in to social distancing and the temporary closure...
Digital Exhibition: Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: The Williamson Open 2020
Welcome to the online edition of the Williamson Open Art & Photography Exhibition 2020
Hosting an exhibition online, rather...
Digital Gallery: dot-art: Pixel
Exhibition Details: Pixel, dot-art Gallery
dot-art’s exhibition Pixel showcases the works of four contemporary artists from the North West,...
Digital Gallery: Victoria Gallery & Museum: Audubon Gallery
Victoria Gallery & Museum: Audubon GalleryPermanent DisplayLocation: Gallery 8, first floor
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was a nineteenth-century wildlife...
Digital Gallery: Victoria Gallery & Museum: Here or Roundabout: Local scenes by Allan P....
Here or Roundabout: Local scenes by Allan P. Tankard
Location: Gallery 4, first floor
This exhibition...
Digital Gallery: Victoria Gallery & Museum: Secret Art of Survival – Creativity and ingenuity...
Secret Art of Survival - Creativity and ingenuity of British Far East prisoners of war, 1942 - 194525 October 2019 - 20...
Digital Exhibition: Victoria Gallery & Museum: The Errant Muse
The Errant Muse16 November 2019 - 2 May 2020
Location: Gallery 1, first floor
Exhibition information:
Digital Gallery: Victoria Gallery & Museum: From Near and Far
From Near and FarLocation: Tate Hall Museum, second floor
A display of pottery and porcelain from the VG&M collection...
Digital Gallery: Victoria Gallery & Museum: Watercolours from the VG&M Collection
Victoria Gallery & Museum, Watercolours from the VG&M Collection
Digital Exhibition: Discordia (Originally at The Hope Street Theatre)
Discordia, The Hope Street Theatre, 2018
Digital Gallery: Bluecoat Display Centre: Alice McKenzie – In The Window
Bluecoat Display Centre, Alice McKenzie - In The Window
Digital Gallery: Bluecoat Display Centre: Limited Editions
Bluecoat Display Centre, Limited Editions
until 23rd May 2020
Digital Gallery: Dead Pigeon Gallery at 189 Oakfield Rd
Current show: In A Little Terraced House Oct 2019 - March 2020
189 Oakfield Rd, Liverpool 4 0UF
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...
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...
Review: Secret Art of Survival: Creativity and Ingenuity of British Far East prisoners of...
Review: Secret Art of Survival: Creativity and Ingenuity of British Far East prisoners of war, 1942-1945
- Victoria Gallery & Museum
Words, Remy Greasley
Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore;...
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...
Review From Kirkby With Love – Portraits Celebrating Local Communities by Philip Garrett
Review - From Kirkby With Love – Portraits Celebrating Local Communities by Philip Garrett
Words by Lorraine Bacchus
Photos by Sherriff
“Painting is more than just a...