Liverpool Reawakened
Andrew Foulds assesses the state of the Liverpool Art Scene post Capital of Culture. Is it all doom-and-gloom or a mere blip in the continued renaissance of Liverpool as an art city? In...
The Big Interview: Ceri Hand
On the eve of Ceri Hand’s final show in Liverpool, Andrew Foulds caught up with the gallerist to find out her thoughts on the future of Liverpool, its artist practitioners and the importance...
The Living and The Dead: Paintings and Sculpture – Previewed
This Friday, The Walker opens its doors to one of ‘Liverpool’s Sons’… Friday sees the Walker Art Gallery play host to the first major retrospective of the works of Liverpool born artist, John...
Alice in Wonderland at Tate – Reviewed
Rachael Jones pursues the white rabbit into the gallery and comes up smiling… 2012 marks 150 years since Lewis Carroll (or Charles Dodgson, if you prefer) thought up Alice in Wonderland on a...
The Stars Our Destination?
Marking FACT’s Republic of The Moon exhibition, C. James Fagan ponders our appetite for the future as envisioned by previous generations… The opening of Arthur C Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, tells the...
Radical Futures
Lesley Taker looks back at our Summers of Discontent and asks: how did the city’s art scene embrace the anarchic power of 100 years of Liverpool Radicalism? Liverpool is one of Britian’s most...
Republic of The Moon – Reviewed
Does FACT’s new exhibition have the right stuff, or were we left howling at the moon? Our fascination with the moon is as old as time itself. Unlike the life-giving sun, our relationship...
The Voyages of Sinbad The Sailor – Reviewed
Against our better judgement, we headed to the Unity Theatre in hope of a Christmas miracle – the panto we can all enjoy! We’re self-confessed panto-phobes (we just made the word up now,...
Gina Czarnecki Retrospective – Reviewed
Emma Sumner finds evidence of life at The Bluecoat’s winter blockbuster… The current exhibition at The Bluecoat is a retrospective of multidisciplinary artist Gina Czarnecki. Exhibiting internationally, you may be familiar with her...