Tony O’Connell says he can’t imagine separating his art from his beliefs and that he only really considered himself an artist once he’d come...

A Vision Takes Root: The Genesis of ‘The Waiting List’ In a world engulfed by a climate crisis, the need for creative, grassroots solutions has...

There are two artists at FACT this month, headlining the gallery’s 20th birthday celebrations. One is the extraordinarily extraverted Jenkin Van Zyl, whose film...

“We’re slipping on liquid skeletons“Squeletons.” The exhibition is centred around an intensely daft room, packed full of animatronics. Then there’s a backdrop of Tim Spooner’s...

County Road, Prescot High Street and the Chester Rows are palpably different places. Those differences in architecture, culture and purpose are blatant, but for...

“We’re slipping on liquid skeletons“Squeletons.” The exhibition is centred around an intensely daft room, packed full of animatronics. Then there’s a backdrop of Tim Spooner’s...

County Road, Prescot High Street and the Chester Rows are palpably different places. Those differences in architecture, culture and purpose are blatant, but for...

When we picture an exhibition, we fill it with artefacts, objects, and paintings, pushing their way into the space and making a home there,...

Earlier this year at LJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab, the British Art and Design Association (BADA) put an exhibition together of work by Fanchon Fröhlich,...

For most of our daily life we move around towns and cities unaware of the spaces we share with others. Residents and visitors alike,...

John Moores Painting Prize is, and will obviously continue to be, an essential part of the national calendar. It’s launched the career of household...

More of a celebration than an exhibition, Evocation gave the staff at Tate Liverpool a final chance to work together and share the practices...

As much as I’d like to think that it was a moment of epiphany, stood gazing pensively at a painting by Jasper Johns at...

The Widnes of Oz, a fantastically titled and utterly bizarre piece of found VHS footage, sees Dorothy (we don’t know the actor) signing in...

Mindfulness isn’t just the act of thinking deeply, it’s about being, in your entirety, with yourself, by connecting to both the concrete and transient...

Drawing is representative mark making. It can be a skilled craft, or a preliminary practice, and is often both. In the case of The...

Rob Davies’ semi-fictionalised landscapes are generous experiments. I was quite deeply connected to these watercolours,  These large scale, energetic watercolours on paper felt like –...

A flower show is a very, very, strange thing. They celebrate botany in incredibly old-fashioned ways, and the backbone of them is usually a...

“It’s refreshing to see Greek mythology combined with Tesco,” reads one comment in the guestbook. As well as reminder to always read the guest...

Rabbit Holes in the Playing Field represents Maeve Thompson’s relationship to place in an incredibly relatable way.  It’s not sad, or tinged with any sort...

Liverpool Biennial 2023 is, as Liverpool Biennial always is, unified. It’s unified by a common theme, dreamt up by curators, and fulfilled by artists....

Collaboration is key to maintaining a healthy arts practice, but it doesn’t always have to be the output. Andrew Small has been making site-specific...

There’s a huge revival of materials in this year’s biennials. Craft has become such a significant part of how artists tell stories that it's...

The Garden of Perfect Brightness, by Gordon Cheung, at The Atkinson in Southport is a perfectly realised vision, by an artist who responds to...

In 2022, Liverpool fans changed the political landscape of Europe. They held governments, police forces and billion pound industries to account. They did that....

I’ve had the same conversation a lot recently. It’s about whether the idea, the product, or the process of getting from one to the...

This small but playful exhibition at the Victoria Gallery & Museum is a beautiful introduction to the work of one of Liverpool’s best established...

University of Chester Art and Design Degree Show 2023Words, Hannah HarryPictures, Chris Millward The excitement of a degree show is seeing the potential of emerging...

Hot Bed Press 20:20 at Hazlehurst StudiosWords, Hannah HarryPictures, Jennie Harper Set up in 2009 to link with the similarly-named print workshop Red Hot Press,...

Unfurled: Encounters with Artists’ Books, Grosvenor MuseumWords, Hannah HarryPictures, Tim Daly What are artists’ books? How are they made? And how are they different to...

Dot-art offers tangible support to local artists, from exhibitions to sales support and advice. Their analogue photography studios are some of the best in...

Linda Stein’s story is harrowing and powerful, so naturally her collage is a reflection that. In 2001, she ran for an entire day away...

I’ve not had an excuse to see FACT’s upstairs gallery in use, but last month’s Liverpool Artists’ Network Slide Slam seemed pretty perfect. Billed as...

Cicely Mary Barker was an obsessive botanist as much as an illustrator. I might be missing the point of this exhibition at Lady Lever...

‘Public service announcement’ might not feel like the most ambitious end product of a major commission, but 1.5 Degrees by Sweat the Small Stuff...

When Ropes & Twines opened on Bold Street in 2018, they were clear about what they wanted to be. They were going to provide...

Conversations with Painting is literally that. Artquest London’s 30/30 challenge’s prompts to artists, interpreted by to Mia Cathcart and Sophie Baskerville range from the...

The British Art & Design Association has been pushing for this exhibition for a long time, knowing the value of Fanchon Fröhlich, and seeking...

Exploring the purpose, use, and applications of materials is an urge most artists have throughout their life. That tactile need to explore the potential...

Kathryn Maple offers spaces to become lost in. If you are ever feeling disheartened by the state of British painting and seeking purpose in...

In what will likely be most visitors’ last memory of Tate Liverpool as itself, before Liverpool Biennial, and its major refurbishment this October, ‘JMW...

I was gutted to miss the launch of The Descendants at the Victoria Gallery & Museum, but I’m glad I did. Popping in on...

Laura McCann is a curator and artist based in Liverpool, whose latest initiative sees local artist Drink or Draw (aka Tony Winterbottom) exhibited at...

Review: Night at the Poseum… at World Museum Words & Pictures, Julia Johnson Ballroom culture started in the marginalised Black & Latinx LGBTQ+ communities of New...

Review: Ali Hunter’s Quarinteriors at Egg Cafe Words, Kathryn Wainwright In something of a departure from Ali Hunter’s usual work, Quarinteriors, drain the usual colour from...

Tony O’Connell says he can’t imagine separating his art from his beliefs and that he only really considered himself an artist once he’d come...

Joy Clarke and the Beauty in the OverlookedWords & Interview, Molly Kelland Whilst observing the LSAD 2022 Degree Show website, I came across previous LJMU...

Niamh Rowlands and The Real Housewives of Beverly HillsWords & Interview, Molly Kelland Wrexham born Fine Art graduate Niamh Rowlands is a painter and screen-printer...

Artist Will Pollock is currently based in Liverpool with a residency in CBS gallery, Baltic Triangle, showcasing the timeless craftsmanship of lino printing and...

Dead Pigeon Gallery Presents:Dockers - The ‘95 to ‘98 Liverpool LockoutDocumentary Photography Exhibition by Dave Sinclair 'In September 1995, 500 Mersey Dock and Harbour workers...

Featured Artist: Ashleigh Nugent, author of LOCKS, and Creative Director of RiseUp CIC Interview, Patrick Kirk-Smith In 2013 Ashleigh Nugent won the Commonword Memoir Competition for...

Q and A with Steve Des LandesWords, Carol Emmas Steve des Landes went from having a solo exhibition at the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead...

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 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 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, 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 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...

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 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 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, on their Independents Biennial collaboration Liverpool/St Helens-based artist Kate Hodgson believes in the power...

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 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 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 Interview by Joanie Magill, Independents Biennial Writer-in-Residence  Stephanie Carr’s exhibition, on the top floor of George Henry Lees former...

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: On Liverpool Biennial artist Mae-ling Lokko, and her pursuit of an answer to a global question Mae-ling Lokko, one of the headline...

“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 Gabrielle De La Puente on her grand plans for a space built by and for...

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 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 Why should we care about art?  To us readers of and contributors to an art magazine, the answer to...

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 at Bluecoat, 27th April – 24th June 2018 Bluecoat has long been a gallery which has paved the way for more...

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 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 the idle women institute, St Helens Heart of Glass, St Helens’ status quo busting culture commissioner, brings yet another year of perception...

Words & Interview, Eli Regan Interview with Holly Rowan Hesson whose installation ECHO is showing at Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington (29 September 2017 to 27...

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, Photographer ‘The La’s 1987’ – Rarities Album Release & Liverpool Exhibition runs: 15th September – 7th October 2017 The Florrie, 377 Mill St, Liverpool L8 4RF -- Words,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Various Venues, 24th-26th November 2017 Pictures, Jay Chow Liverpool Biennial­­ and Liverpool John Moores University presented a weekend...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 Pictures, Tony Knox Bluecoat, the UK's oldest arts centre turned 300 last week. To celebrate they launched Public View, an exhibition of...

Biennial artist and Tuner Prize winner, Mark Leckey, opens a new show at Walker Art Gallery on Friday 6th September 2016. The work has...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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) Ahead of Open Eye Gallery’s next major exhibition, exploring identity and networks and the influence social media...

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...

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...

Words by Alice Benbow Reality: - the status of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them; having...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fiona Compton, Saint Lucian-based artist announced as keynote speaker  International Slavery Museum has announced the launch of its 25th Slavery Remembrance Day commemoration with the...

A celebration of LGBTQ+ icon and music legend Holly Johnson, a bedazzling 1920s garment exhibition and an incredible collection of work by Black British...

UK premiere of stunning immersive art attraction takes place in Liverpool ahead of dates in Glasgow and Birmingham Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience is...

Liverpool Cathedral is set to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2024 with a unique exhibition by the legendary British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor. Renowned for...

16 unseen photographs of musicians from Liverpool’s bustling 1960s Merseybeat era will go on display this June, as Beyond the Beat (29 June to 3 November) at Museum of...

Ron’s Place has been written about more than nearly any visual art project in Merseyside for as long as I can remember, but it...

In the Window Installation for Pride in Liverpool showcases the work of local ceramic artist Simon Dredge, as part of the celebrations for Liverpool...

Weird FuturesBluecoat, LiverpoolSunday 21st July – Sunday 29th September, 2024 This summer, the Bluecoat launches Weird Futures; a season of exhibitions and workshops that asks audiences...

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Dip into Pride Bath at Museum of Liverpool The “Dip In To Pride Bath”, first exhibited in the lead up to Pride 2023, is now...

Touring exhibition Craig Easton: Is Anybody Listening? opens at Birkenhead’s Williamson Art Gallery & Museum on 26th January 2024. Commissioned by the University of Salford Art Collection and...

LOOK Climate Lab is a biennial programme exploring how photography can be a relevant and powerful medium for talking about climate change. Once again...

The country's biggest celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture has announced its festival dates for this summer in Liverpool. Following record breaking attendances...

Bluecoat will bring new work by the four artists to its Liverpool galleries as part of an ambitious series of exhibitions and events. In February...

Tate Liverpool has announced Gilbert-Ash as the main contractor for a major reimagining of the landmark gallery on Royal Albert Dock. This £29.75 million redevelopment will...

Tate Liverpool has announced plans to present two new installations at the start of 2024. RESOLVE Collective are working with community-focused spaces across Liverpool...

A virtual, female pig has appeared on top of Barclays’ Canary Wharf HQ, two Tesco stores in London and Liverpool, DEFRA and other locations...

Photography lovers and visitors to one of Liverpool’s Lime Street Station can view an exhibition of stunning British landscape photography in January. Winning and commended...

A group of young people from Greater Manchester have been inspired to think more about activism and to challenge the UK’s damaging industrial food...

England’s first interactive art studio has opened in Liverpool, offering visitors the chance to create their own masterpieces by splashing, squirting, splattering and shooting...

A new mural, 'Welcome Home' by Jo Peel, was unveiled in Huyton Village this week.Produced by Heart of Glass and commissioned by Knowsley Council,...

Liverpool based arts organisation DaDa return this month with a staple of their programme, the popular Cabaret night adding warmth and joy to the cold...

The fear of losing your legacy is devastatingly acute. In 21st century Britain, where art collecting, and conservation are on the decline, and museum...

Jacaranda Records set to open Liverpool’s first Japanese-inspired vinyl listening bar this week Jacaranda Records is reopening its original record store and Liverpool’s first vinyl...

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today announced the launch of Long Life, Low Energy: Designing for a Circular Economy at its Mann Island...

New York design firm Yellow Studio, has unveiled their new installation, ‘United by Music’ at River of Light - Liverpool’s outdoor illuminated gallery. The installation pays tribute to...

Tate Liverpool is opening at Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) North, Mann Island from 27 October with a programme designed for families at...

packaging including Cantina Goccia’s paper wine bottles. The move is part of Liverpool Philharmonic’s commitment to minimise its overall environmental impact and reduce its carbon footprint. The concert...

With just weeks to go until one of the country's biggest festivals of Indian Arts and Culture takes over Liverpool, Milap have revealed the full...

Iconic designs by Vivienne Westwood, Mary Quant and Laura Ashley are being showcased in a new display celebrating costume, jewellery and decorative objects made by...

National Museums Liverpool has announced a series of exhibitions across their venues that will challenge audiences to think about how they view the natural...

Paul Curtis hopes his latest piece can encourage the next generation to go for the dreams. Paul Curtis has created more than 200 public works...

On Sunday October 15th, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall will play host to one of Latin America's most important musical exports - Illapu. True Chilean emmisaries, Illapu...

Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery will host a display of works by artist Nahem Shoa from 6 October 2023 to 31 March 2024, in an...

Dig Vinyl - Wirral Location Announcement Liverpool independent record shop, Dig Vinyl, is thrilled to announce its latest expansion with the addition of a new...

Edge Hill University has been selected as one of five flagship hubs for this year’s Being Human festival, exploring the concept of hospitality in...

Eurovision magic will be sprinkled across this year’s River of Light with installations dedicated to reliving those unforgettable two weeks in May. Globally acclaimed designer...

Building on the achievements of the last 35 years, Tate Liverpool is preparing to temporarily close to embark on a bold capital project to...

An allotment-sized living artwork called The Waiting List was guerrilla-planted by volunteers at a disused Tesco-owned site in Litherland, just north of Liverpool, this morning in...