30/11/2017
Courtesy Maria Kulikovska

“A one-woman imperial gesture…” In Profile: Maria Kulikovska

How would you feel if soldiers used your sculptures as target practice, during an occupation of your home country? Tom Emery meets Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska during a residency in Liverpool, and finds out...

27/11/2017
Ko Sin Tung (Hong Kong), 24 Tubes 24 (2015), as exhibited in Polyrhythmia

Culture Diary w/c 27-11-2017

Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the North of England and the rest of the UK – and most of it’s free! Monday – Talk: How...

24/11/2017
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Mary Reid Kelley And Patrick Kelley: We Are Ghosts

Lauren Barnes, Assistant Curator at Tate Liverpool, tells us how the cartoon-like characters, bawdy sense of humour, and handmade props and sets of artists Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley correct, complicate and retell existing narratives…...

24/11/2017
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“Abandoned and neglected memorials”: Mccoy Wynne’s The Other Self

In an essay by Julia García Hernández, photographers Stephen McCoy and Stephanie Wynne are seen to channel obsolete trig points and ruins in barren landscapes… The project Triangulation is made up of two types of picture: a...

23/11/2017
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The Geopolitics Of The Humble Christmas Pud & Other Highlights From Design & Empire [Working Title]

We take a look at four artists converging this weekend for an ambitious Liverpool Biennial-led programme: people whose ideas jab and nudge at the power structures and politics left over from the former...

22/11/2017
Before Summer Ends (Avant la fin de l'été)

Culture Diary w/c 20-11-2017

Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the North of England and the rest of the UK – and most of it’s free! Monday — Manifesto (2017)...

22/11/2017
Ceramica: Nojan wireframe.

“The design object should also be a piece of art”: Architecture Meets Ceramics At RIBA North

Liam Peacock speaks to two of the designers testing the limits of pottery, porcelain and glass in RIBA North’s new exhibition Cerámica – and discovers how their cutting-edge production techniques could bring about a more sustainable future… RIBA North,...

08/11/2017
AND A 123 22 September 2017 — 5 November 2017 Artists: Nina Chua, Noel Clueit, Russell Hill, Maeve Rendle, David Rickard, Oliver Tirré and Lisa Watts

“It playfully suggests the potential magic of everyday objects…” AND A 123 – Reviewed

Jack Welsh finds mundane objects imbued with drama at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester… Lisa Watts is kneeling on the floor, slicing wine gums on a small plywood box. She pops them in her mouth before...