How Soon is Now – The Strange Case of RA Walden’s Ghost Clock
How can we learn to see the artificiality of time for what it is? Mike Pinnington considers the work of RA Walden, an artist bringing new perspectives to the fragility of the body...
Culture Diary w/c 18-03-2024
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Last Chance To See: Limits and Demonstrations @ Bridewell Studios & Gallery – FREE An exhibition...
Visions of the Anthropocene: LOOK Climate Lab – Reviewed
In an age of images, how can photography respond to environmental catastrophe – both impending and historical? An exhibition at Open Eye Gallery wrestles with the question… How can we use photography to...
News: Liverpool Biennial Announces 2025 Curator
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...
Over the Rainbow: Richard Crooks’ Tokyo Dayz
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...
Abstract Thinking: Fanchon Fröhlich & Her Contemporaries – Reviewed
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...
Tim Spooner: A New Kind of Animal – Reviewed
“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…...
Field Trip: Helsinki, Finland – Happiness and Cultural Guardians
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...
Radically Empowering:
Lizz Brady on Art & Mental Health
“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,...