Reading Ruscha
“This exhibition is a road trip, with Ruscha as the driver.” Stephen Clarke rides shotgun through Tate Liverpool’s Artist Rooms: Ed Ruscha… The text-based artwork, ARTISTS WHO DO BOOKS (1976), acts as the...
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Culture Diary w/c 30-06-2025
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Exhibitions Continue: @ The Atkinson, Southport – FREE A trio of shows currently grace Southport’s Atkinson. The Magic of...
Simulacra and the City:
Stephen Clarke’s New York 1995–1996
Askance tales of a storied city, New York 1995–1996 is photographer Stephen Clarke’s record of a “brief moment” that nevertheless offers up a multi-lens cultural reckoning… It’s the city that never sleeps; the...
Tribes of England: David Wright
Training his lens on a plethora of subcultures, photographer David Wright’s Tribes of England captures those enjoying the liberation of choice… In an infamous exchange, Lady Susan Hussey – a British noblewoman who served as...
Too Good To Hide: Tony Hayes
“He takes up the invitation to look, but also takes possession without payment – a visual act of shoplifting.” Curator Stephen Clarke on Too Good To Hide, a new exhibition of photography currently on display at Chester’s...
As She Likes It: Christine Beckett
“The exhibition attempts to draw comparison with gender discourse in a historical context.” Curator Stephen Clarke introduces As She Likes It: Christine Beckett, a new photography exhibition foregrounding Drag Kings… Rosalind is a girl who gets...
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...
Up Deva! Strange Visitors In Town
“Tt became apparent that these photographs of Pompeii could stand in for Chester.” Stephen Clarke on Up Deva!, an exhibition drawing inspiration from sources as varied as past glories, Frankie Howerd comedy, Up...
Lost, Found, Given ~ Stored, Shown, Seen: Artists’ Responses to the West Cheshire Museums’ Collections – Reviewed
“Where does historical examination end and artistic response begin?” Hannah Harry considers an exhibition juxtaposing West Cheshire Museums’ collection with contemporary artists’ responses… The question of how curation affects our way of seeing...