Sarah Feinstein on Leeds Art Gallery’s current exhibition of drawing, The Wisdom Tree, from artist Charmaine Watkiss: an ‘exquisite’ ode to Caribbean women and their histories, remembrance and endurance… The Wisdom Tree, curated...
What do we think about when we think about Science Fiction? What is it for? Here, in an excerpt from Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination, author Nalo Hopkinson explores… What is...
It was with grim interest (and practically open-mouthed) that this week we read that the Telegraph had lazily declared Liverpool, more or less, a cultural backwater, in an article written under the artificial...
For as long as he can remember, Mike Pinnington has been visiting one particular artwork again and again. Here, with reference to a painting by Louis Daguerre, he considers our obsession with ruins...
More than forty years since Grey Crawford began his darkroom experiments that seem to anticipate digital aesthetics, the world is finally catching up and giving the conceptual artist his due, says Wayne Burrows… ...
Taking the temperature of contemporary painting in Liverpool, Refractive Pool features a plethora of styles. Leah Binns investigates the Walker Art Gallery’s current exhibition… Situated upstairs in Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery, an institution...
Adam Scovell’s latest novel, Nettles, tells the tale of a boy – relentlessly bullied at secondary school – who takes refuge in nearby marshland. As with his previous works, Nettles is punctuated and...
“A nuanced and diverse expression of landscape art.” In an essay excerpted from Tate Liverpool’s Radical Landscapes exhibition catalogue, journalist and writer Anita Sethi explores how identity is shaped by our relationship to place…...
“I perceive myself to be inhabiting a place that is more than the installation alone.” In our third text in response to Lucy McKenzie’s retrospective exhibition at Tate Liverpool, artist Roy Claire Potter...