Features:
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...
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...
Review: Rembrandt in Print, Lady Lever Art Gallery
The first thing I learn about Rembrandt in Print is that the artist’s full name is Rembrandt Harmenzoon Van Rinj. For some reason I...
Review: Keith Haring at Tate Liverpool
Keith Haring hasn’t ever had a solo show in the UK. Yet for some reason I feel a closeness to Haring that has been...
Review: Fearless Creatures, The Gallery
Review: Fearless Creatures
The Gallery, until July 7th
Words, Julia Johnson (Messy Lines)
Club kids, whether in photos, films or occasionally on the streets of London’s Soho,...
Review: Cross Pollination at The Atkinson
Review: Cross Pollination
The Atkinson, until March 2020
by Lorraine Bacchus
On one of the dreary, wet early June days I took myself off on the train...
Review: Rembrandt in Print
Rembrandt in Print
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Runs until 15 September 2019
Words, Moira Leonard
The first thing I learn about Rembrandt in Print is that the...
Review: Inspired by Alice, The Atkinson
Inspired by Alice
Gallery 3, The Atkinson, Southport, until 7th September 2019
Words, Samantha Browne
A pair of closed curtains mark the entrance to the Inspired by...
Review: Astronomy Photographer of the Year
Astronomy Photographer of the Year
World Museum
Words, Sophia Charuhas
Few sights are more awe-inspiring than the sight of a sky full of stars. The Royal Observatory...
Review: The Williamson Open, 2019
The Williamson Open has been happening in more or less the same format for over 90 years, but this was my first time so...
Review: Survey, Bluecoat – 12 years of Jerwood Visual Arts
Review: Survey, Bluecoat
12 years of Jerwood Visual Arts
Charting twelve years of Jerwood Visual Arts, Survey is a document of the changing creative industries.
In a...
Review: In Character, RIBA North
Review: In Character, RIBA North
Words, Lorraine Bacchus
One of the exhibitions currently on at RIBA North’s Albert Docks headquarters is a hybrid – a conceptual...
Review: 209 Women, Open Eye Gallery
As a toddler I loved pink, picking up anything in the shop, much to my Mums dismay, that was pink. As I got to...
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...
Featured Artist: Craig Easton
Craig Easton: I’m especially delighted when it is photographs in my own community that get recognised.
Featured Artist: Nina Edge, Nothing Welsh Streets
Nina Edge sheds a little light on what made Bluecoat so important to her, and explains how it enables potential.
Featured Artist: Marcus Dyer and Pilar Cortés for Threshold Festival
Marcus Dyer and Pilar Cortés
Interview, Patrick Kirk-Smith
Threshold Festival 2017 promises its usual explosion of art and music this weekend with its overwhelming events programme...
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...
Linda McCartney Retrospective opens this week at Walker Art Gallery
LINDA McCARTNEY RETROSPECTIVE
8 August – 1 November 2020, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
More than 250...
The Bluecoat story told in a new book
Bluecoat has been at the heart of Liverpool’s cultural life for three centuries. We’re delighted that a book telling its fascinating story...
National Museums Liverpool shortlisted for national award for lockdown activities
National Museums Liverpool has been shortlisted for the Kids in Museums Family Friendly Museum Award From Home, it was announced today
Kids in Museums...
Dawn Butler MP, First elected African-Caribbean female Government Minister, becomes Mandela8 Patron
Ahead of Mandela Day this coming Saturday, Liverpool charity, Mandela8 have announced Dawn Butler, MP for Brent Central, as their newest patron.
Artistic Director, Gemma Bodinetz announces departure from Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse
Artistic Director, Gemma Bodinetz announces departure from Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse
After 17 years as Artistic Director of the...
New dates announced for Independents Biennial
New dates announced for Independents Biennial
The next edition of Independents Biennial will be 20th March – 6th June...
Liverpool Biennial confirms new dates for 11th edition
LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL CONFIRMS NEW DATES FOR 11TH EDITION
The 11th edition of Liverpool Biennial, The Stomach and the Port, will take place...
Virtual Gallery Opens Its Doors to Celebrate Art in Schools!
Virtual Gallery Opens Its Doors to Celebrate Art in Schools!
dot-art Schools successfully launched...
International Slavery Museum’s curator awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres
International Slavery Museum’s curator awarded Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres
International Slavery Museum is delighted to announce...
Warrington Arts festival celebrates 10 years with competition revamp
Warrington Arts festival celebrates 10 years with competition revamp
Warrington Contemporary Open Competition is returning in 2020 to celebrate...
Tate announced 2021 Exhibition Highlights
Tate today announced highlights of its programme for 2021, including solo exhibitions of Philip Guston, Petrit Halilaj, Lubaina Himid, Yayoi Kusama, Paula Rego, Auguste Rodin and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The year...
Opening a door to the Arab world as Liverpool Arab Arts Festival goes digital
Opening a door to the Arab world as Liverpool Arab Arts Festival goes digital
A week to go until...
‘Love Not Fear’ project calls for creatives’ hopes and visions of the new world
'Love Not Fear' project calls for creatives' hopes and visions of the new world
‘LOVE NOT FEAR’ is an...
dot-art Schools goes virtual
DOT- ART SCHOOLS GOES VIRTUAL!
dot-art Schools is delighted to announce that this year’s annual inter-school art exhibition will...
Browse The Atkinson’s Fine Art Collection Online
Browse The Atkinson’s Fine Art Collection Online
The Atkinson’s fine art collection has almost three thousand works of art...
Positive Vibration – Festival of Reggae Postponed Until 2021
Due to the disruption caused by Covid-19, the UK’s award-winning festival of reggae, Positive Vibration, has been postponed until 11 + 12...
A month-long celebration of refugee arts and culture has started as part of National...
A month-long celebration of refugee arts and culture has started as part of National Refugee Week.
Festival 31 has launched this...
Our response to Black Lives Matter
Our society is broken when Black children are left out of sport because of their race. Our society is broken when those children grow up being told there are no real jobs in art and finding out that, for them more than anyone else, that’s true.
New film by Kiara Mohamed reflects on the lessons we are learning from the...
Kiara Mohamed: Home
New film by Liverpool artist reflects on the lessons we are learning from the Coronavirus crisis
Mandela8 recruit Liverpool historian to head up Community Heritage Project in L8
Mandela8 are pleased to announce that Laurence Westgaph has been appointed as their new Community Heritage Project Manager.
The...
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival connects digitally for 2020
The annual cultural festival returns 9-18 July
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erEKt2SH-1s
2019 highlights reel
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival,...
Victoria Gallery & Museum and Granby Workshop to form inspiring new gallery installation
Victoria Gallery & Museum and Granby Workshop to form inspiring new gallery installation
Architectural ceramics by Liverpool’s Granby Workshop will form...
Artists around the world are creating their own resilience with #artistsupportpledge
Starting on Instagram with a beautifully simple idea from Wirral born artist Matthew Burrows, the hashtag has allowed artists to create a...
Experience culture at home with the University of Liverpool
Experience culture at home
The University of Liverpool’s new online hub of fascinating free cultural activities, apps and blogs...
FACT awards £15,000 of grants to northern artists to support creation o new digital...
FACT AWARDS £15,000 OF GRANTS TO NORTHERN ARTISTS TO SUPPORT CREATION OF NEW DIGITAL WORK
FACT announce the 10...
Homotopia commissions 13 LGBTQIA artists to unveil new work between May and July
Queer Art AlwaysHomotopia commissions 13 LGBTQIA artists to unveil new work between May and July
13 new artworks, created...
Art in Liverpool launch new Digital Exhibitions
Art in Liverpool launch new Digital Exhibitions
Art in Liverpool have launched a new section of the website dedicated...
Watch: Liverpool Artists’ Network Zoom meeting, 5th May 2020
Liverpool Artists' Network
National Museums Liverpool collaborates with immersive creative studio Draw & Code to bring a...
Tell us your Museum stories!
National Museums Liverpool collaborates with immersive creative studio Draw & Code to bring a...
Celebrate LightNight arts festival at ‘Home’ on Friday 15th May
Celebrating LightNight at ‘Home’
Friday 15 May will be an evening to champion Liverpool’s artistic and creative talent
Bluecoat Display Centre turn donated work into vouchers for Merseyside’s frontline workers
a way to say thank you.....
Bluecoat Display Centre were given a generous donation by a friend of the...
Writing on the Wall presents a new digital writing and literary festival for our...
Writing on the Wall presents a new digital writing and literary festival for our times: WoWFEST LOCKDOWN, featuring Noam Chomsky, Nikesh Shukla, Irvine Welsh,...
Voting Open for Liverpool SOUP Community Crowd Funding
In Spite of Lockdown, Community Spirit is Thriving
Liverpool SOUP has traditionally hosted ‘in person’ events which bring people...
Film focused on job hunting & the benefits system awarded New Creatives North funding
Artist, Illustrator and Animator Cath Garvey has been awarded one of the New Creatives North grants from BBC and Arts Council England....
Call out to Warrington communities to take part in national creative online festival
Residents, community groups and arts practitioners across the borough are being urged to take part in a national initiative to inspire creativity...
MDI launch Virtual Studio – online movement and dance workshops
MDI have launched a Virtual Studio on YouTube, since temporarily closing their home on Hope Street.
The YouTube...
50+ artists to receive support in Liverpool City Region-wide commissioning programme
50+ artists to receive support in Liverpool City Region-wide commissioning programme
51 artists have been selected to receive funding...
dot-art Launch NEW Online Art Classes
dot-art Launch NEW Online Art Classes
Brilliant things can happen in times of uncertainty and as we all face...
Restore the Bucket Fountain to Public Ownership: NEW PETITION
The Friends of the Piazza (Bucket) Fountain have been so successful with their first petition to Save the Bucket Fountain that they...
Last Chance to Vote – dot-art Schools 2020 Public vote closes Tuesday!
A public vote to find Liverpool City Region’s best young artists opened on Saturday 28th March and continues until 28th April 2020....
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...
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
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...
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...