This December, 25 artists, curated by Tobais Ferguson, working with Artist-Led St Helens, present an ambitious group exhibition in one of the most ambitious...

Turner: Always Contemporary is a contentious title, but the effort that goes into proving it is what makes this exhibition of Turner and his...

Ken Horton’s constructivist painting merges abstract with figurative painting. The artist, whose contemporaries have captured the imagination of the city for half a century,...

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing prize is a beautiful celebration of drawing at Williamson Art Gallery and Museum if for no reason other than its...

‘Transforming the food system for climate, nature and justice’, the pledge of a UK and Netherlands based charity that aims to change and reform...

You know when you’re just proud of something? That rubs off. There are open exhibitions for all disciplines, but they’re typically mixed media and shown...

I adore this time of year. It’s freezing, and the boiler’s having hissy fits, but there’s something magical about wrapping up and heading out...

Come follow the star (and map) to journey around a new Christmas Creative Trail from Birkenhead Market to Hamilton Square and beyond.Born out of...

Your guide to artist-focused Christmas markets (and Christmas shopping) in Liverpool & Merseyside, December 2025 We will absolutely miss out dates and events in this...

Linny Venables’ trademark application of saturated colours lends itself perfectly to the subject of sweets and sweet making, and the journey of the project...

Open Eye Gallery jointly run the MA in Socially Engaged Photography course at the University of Salford. Every year, a handful of graduates come...

Bassam Issa Al-Sabah is interloping as a worldbuilder, with enough self-awareness to remain critical of algorithm-based worldbuilding, but just the right amount of naivety...

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech feel like pretty daunting subjects. This project follows the 80th anniversary of VJ/VE day too. Initially, it feels...

When I was about 14, I started a small fire in a school cabin during a maths lesson. It wasn’t intentional. I was trying...

Hill Station, still standing today, is a town with a purpose. In 1899 the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine sent Ronald Ross to Freetown,...

The modest gallery at Elevator Studios is becoming a useful resource for local artists, and the latest exhibition here proves the importance of giving...

With absolute conviction and comfort, somebody else’s mother jumped out at me from behind a mirror, wearing a huge wicker mask, while her child...

Without interpretation panels in galleries, no one knows what you’re doing. An A4 sheet, pritsticked to the wall, looks neat, costs next to nothing, and...

Not everyone talks with their neighbours these days, although occasionally someone will bring the conversation to you.  Annibal was like that.  He liked to...

For Made on Merseyside 2, Kirkby Gallery have commissioned a new documentary about the making of Letter to Brezhnev, one of the most enduring...

Is something for everyone always a good thing? John Moores Painting Prize clearly thinks so, but it does make it difficult to do the...

Throughout October, Liverpool Irish Festival is bringing Liverpool’s Irish links into clear view, and their exhibition programme is a big part of that this...

Doom-scrolling versus doom-scrolling and isolation fighting fear. The new work at FACT by resident artists, Helen Flanagan and Gavin Gayagoy, will leave you traumatised,...

This was, and will probably remain, the biggest Independents Biennial since it began. In artist numbers, venue numbers, funding and audience numbers. That meant...

Degradation and decay, if they’re not the intent, are pretty awful things, but if you’re in a good enough mood it can be quite...

I think I’m going to feel like I’m cheating writing this, because nearly all of it’s been said, and language used to explore the...

I’m not sure what’s more exciting about DuoVision’s retrospective of 90s queer club culture; the culture itself or the process of its documentation. It’s...

Two immersive film exhibitions opened at FACT in February. ‘Free to Choose’ by Bahar Noorizadeh, and ‘Safe Zone’ by Christopher Kulendran. They are equally...

In a continuation of the Williamson’s bold steps into more ambitious contemporary programming, Di Mainstone’s Subterranean Elevator creates an immersive, sensory space for play,...

In the centre of the main room at Bridewell Studios & Gallery, is a table, set for two, with plates reading “Skyes-Picot 1916”. It...

Britain has been a passionate leader in global plant collection for about as long as Britain has existed. It’s a spill-off of empire, and...

I can’t start to explain how quickly this year is running. It’s just sprinting along and I’m caught on its laces. Somehow, I’m meant...

It’s not remotely easy to judge what you’re going to see at an open. By nature, it is a mixed bag, of mixed quality,...

Rachel Brewster set up Little Vintage Photography in 2014. Ten years on, it was time for a new beginning, and new surroundings, so the...

Bluecoat’s latest programme, ‘But Does it Speak?’ might be quiet, but its not subdued. There is so much purpose in an exhibition programme that...

In September last year, we were exploring ways to make what we do more accessible to parents. Galleries across the region are having conversations...

Last year, Material Matters took over Birkenhead’s Williamson Art Gallery & Museum. Of everything I’ve seen at that gallery over the last ten years,...

Ruth Molliet’s FOFO (Fear of Finding Out) is immersive in a few different ways. Firstly, it is physically immersive. You are literally forced through...

A language I can call my own / Their meaning lost and still, unknown. The playful, whimsical portrayal of puppetry in Farah Al Qasimi’s Everybody...

Into The Mystic by Vincent Kelly at the Egg Café is a striking adventure in colour, documenting the artists’ travels around Mexico and North...