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Visions of the Anthropocene: LOOK Climate Lab – Reviewed

06/02/2024

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...

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News: Liverpool Biennial Announces 2025 Curator

24/01/2024

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...

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Over the Rainbow: Richard Crooks’ Tokyo Dayz

24/01/2024

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...

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Abstract Thinking: Fanchon Fröhlich & Her Contemporaries – Reviewed

19/01/2024

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...

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Tim Spooner: A New Kind of Animal – Reviewed

12/01/2024

“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…...

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Radically Empowering:
Lizz Brady on Art & Mental Health

10/01/2024

“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,...

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The Big Interview: Portrait of Britain Winner Roxana Allison

08/01/2024

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… ...

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The Big Interview:
Tish Producer Jen Corcoran

18/12/2023

“Tish’s work was driven by her compassion and her feeling of injustice.” Jennifer Jasmine White speaks with Tish producer, Jen Corcoran… In one of the most powerful moments from Paul Sng’s new documentary...

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Monument Exhibition Review

14/12/2023

“Monument is concerned, ultimately, with architecture.” Mike Pinnington on a subtle and thoughtful group exhibition wrestling with the impact on our lives of the built environment… Monument, named for one of curator Gareth...

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