In our visit to his home studio in North London, Liverpool-born artist Ryan McClelland reflects on his slow, painstaking practice: carving, printing and layering disparate images of British culture – from Myspace mirror selfies,...
Illness meant that we missed publishing our usual pick of the week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond this Monday, but its fashionably late sibling, The Weekender, makes...
It’s been a while since we went away. Now back in the saddle, we thought it was high time we cast our eye across exhibitions gracing Liverpool this autumn – as well as...
“A low voice. A chant, or a prayer, a rumour. A sound not meant to be heard. Things not to be said.” In murmur, a multi-disciplinary exhibition of film, sound, light and text,...
“New mediums gave rise to considerations of how painting and painters might respond.” A trio of works demonstrate that painting’s engagement with photography and film continues to reverberate, finds Mike Pinnington… Prior to...
Reckoning with uncertain times, a group exhibition taking its name from a century old movement is a tonic, says Mike Pinnington… Z – A – U – M. ZAUM. With its roots in...
The great American road trip – the frontier and its trappings – serve as departure point for artist Ed Ruscha, and this tightly focused exhibition of his works, finds Mike Pinnington… In 1956,...
“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...
We know that they are melting, never to return. We know that they are so intrinsic to Icelandic culture that there is grief around their loss; a funeral was held for Okjokull, Iceland’s first glacier to disappear, and which once covered six square miles of deep ice. Kristján Maack is one of those grieving for...