Artist of the Month: Michael Lacey
Meet our Artist of the Month, a man as adept at painting and collage as he is at comics … It’s not often that an artist fesses up to being influenced by their...
Unsettle @ Metal, Liverpool Biennial 2012
Jon Davies finds HIVE in scintillating form in a recreation of the Pendle witch trials at Metal… Whenever the HIVE team are involved in a large scale audiovisual project in Liverpool you know...
Guest, Unexpected
Chinese journalist Joe Zhu on his remarkable embodiment of the theme at this year’s Biennial… Heading back to my hometown, here I am at Amsterdam airport with 2 hours waiting for transport. I’m...
Random Acts: Artists Interventions into Broadcast
Linda Pittwood finds that, despite the pervasive and ubiquitous internet, TV remains a powerful medium for the message … Dangerous Games is a powerful new video artwork by Marina Abramovic, and is a complete...
Ming Wong’s Making Chinatown – Reviewed
Themes can occasionally become obstacles for artists and their work. How would Ming Wong fair? The line between parody and pastiche can sometimes appear a very thin one indeed, blurry at best. And...
FAR @ The Playhouse – Reviewed
C James Fagan was taken on a journey of discovery by FAR… I’ll open with an admission. Until very recently I was unaware that this event was happening. It’s only through a stroke...
Painting – A Dialogue
Linda Pittwood considers the talks, discussions and tours at the Walker Art Gallery on contemporary painting, as part of this weekend’s John Moores Painting Prize summit … Artist Patrick Heron wrote in 1963: “Painting still has a...
Liverpool and Cologne: Non-Identical Twins
Bryan Biggs, artist and Artistic Director at the Bluecoat, reflects on Liverpool’s ongoing cultural links with Cologne following a recent visit to the Rhine city… Under the title Eight Days A Week, the...
Response @ Fallout Factory – Reviewed
Adam Scovell finds reasons to be optimistic about the Independents Biennial at Fallout Factory… There’s a wealth of independent shows and projects around this year’s Liverpool Biennial. With the official festival itself being...