“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,...
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… ...
“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...
“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...
Earlier this year, the Structurally F–cked report revealed damning evidence of artists’ pay and conditions. At a panel discussion during Middlesbrough Art Week, Mike Pinnington heard how the hard work is only just...
With the dust settling on Liverpool Biennial 2023 – a year marking 25 years of the festival – Addae G reflects on his spiritual encounters with this latest iteration… With the resonance of three days...
“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...
As FACT celebrates its 20th birthday, Laura Marie Brown looks back at one of the arts organisation’s definitive projects: when artists from around the world trained residents in Liverpool’s high rise flats to...
It’s been eighteen months since Yorkshire’s creative arts organisation IOU took over a backpackers’ hostel in the Upper Calder Valley. What happened next, for holidaymakers and artists alike? Laura Robertson stayed overnight to...