Killing The Kilogram: Le Grand K – Reviewed
On May 20th of 2019, the scientific community bid adieu to a weighty artefact affectionately known as Le Grand K. On the same day, World Metrology Day, a new book was launched. Nina...
What Goes Around Comes Around. Everything I Have Is Yours – Reviewed
Post-internet generations have grown up with access to literally millions of songs. But, asks Angela Tait, what happens to those tracks not yet digitised? She explores a new exhibition whose scope is to...
Hi, How Are You? A conversation with Broken Grey Wires
“Anything is possible!” Mike Pinnington catches up with Lizz Brady for the latest in a series of conversations about her ongoing Broken Grey Wires project… Founded in 2014, Broken Grey Wires – ‘a ground-breaking...
“Energise, organise and optimise.” REAL WORK – Reviewed
A pair of new shows seeking to give voice to “those who typically remain unheard” is strangely lacking, finds Mike Pinnington… FACT Liverpool’s Gallery 1: A man speeds along on the back of...
The Death of America: David Lynch’s My Head is Disconnected – Reviewed
David Lynch – the director of films exploring America’s dark underbelly – is revealed in exhibition, My Head Is Disconnected, to be equally adept at rendering that nation’s ills in paint, finds Lee Ashworth… My...
“We’ve got to hold artists close.” The Big Interview: Helen Legg
The Director of Tate Liverpool, Helen Legg, speaks to Mike Pinnington about the venue’s search for North West artists, and her first twelve months in post… Helen Legg arrived at Tate Liverpool in interesting...
Binding Social Fibres: Public – You & Me
An experimental public programme at AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent has Laura Robertson thinking about what programming for and with the public really means… Strand I: To question (unravel) Rebecca Davies and Selina Oakes’s multifaceted...
“There’s a panic in me.” The Big Interview: Don McCullin
Earlier this year, Don McCullin was given a career retrospective at Tate Britain. With the show coming to Liverpool, Mike Pinnington talks to the iconic photographer about his life’s work… Searching, slightly lost,...
Introducing: Short Supply
Angela Tait speaks to two graduates in Salford who – sick of waiting for opportunities to come to them – are launching their own exhibition, prizes and membership for artists… As educators, we spend...