Marie-Anne McQuay is to curate the 2025 edition of Liverpool Biennial it was announced yesterday. The appointment breaks with recent tradition, which has tended to see curators living and operating away from the...
Artist Richard Crooks translates his phenomenological wanderings into dynamic colourful collage. Here, Stephen Clarke, curator of Crooks’ current show, finds parallels in the making of his work with the odyssey undertaken by Dorothy...
With two exhibitions in quick succession, Liverpool-based artist Fanchon Fröhlich has been subject to much recent recuperation. The latest show, at the Victoria Gallery & Museum, places her in conversation with her peers and...
“In A New Kind of Animal can be discerned the travails and obstacles of life that we all come up against and endure.” Mike Pinnington tries to make sense of Tim Spooner’s Bluecoat show…...
Taking in climate change at Helsinki Biennial, diversity at the Ateneum, and visiting contrasting new galleries in an art school and bar toilets (!), Mike Pinnington’s return to Finland’s capital city is a timely reminder...
“My girlfriend told me I should open my own gallery someday.” With plans for a new arts space in Liverpool and a crowdfunder launched to help get things off to a flying start,...
Winning this year’s Portrait of Britain award for her images of Manchester’s community superheroes, photographer Roxana Allison tells us what she’s learned about trust, ethics, and what, of course, makes an award-winning portrait… ...