The Art Writer’s Responsibility to Readability
In the first of a series on the nature of modern criticism, artist and blogger Darren Murphy looks at the responsibility of the writer to readability… We’ve all done it; gone to an...
Building up curiosity: the LJMU Fine Art MA
What do you look for in an MA? Conversation, critique, contact time and inspirational tutors, say artists studying and teaching Fine Art at LJMU … Wandering around the new labyrinthine project spaces at...
The Treachery of Images
In this essay, Nathan Richardson muses on facts and the impressions of facts, with specific reference to Fournier’s The Funeral of Shelley… During my education, the Walker Art Gallery was often patronised as a suitable...
NOTICE: Bill Drummond’s last performance of The17
Jen Allanson swallows her nerves and puts her trust in artist and musician Bill Drummond. What exactly is The17, and what has she got herself into? On Saturday I became a lifetime member...
The Big Interview:
Antony Hudek
Heard about the great new gallery space dedicated to the research of exhibitions? ERC curator Antony Hudek shows us round … The Exhibition Research Centre (ERC), nestled within Liverpool School of Art and...
Let’s Talk About Sex:
Keywords Lecture at Tate Liverpool
For 2014′s Keywords exhibition, Tate Liverpool and Iniva have programmed a year long series of accompanying lectures… In 1976, Raymond Williams’ book, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, was published. In it,...
Liverpool Art Prize 2013: Laurence Payot
Ahead of the Liverpool Art Prize 2013 opening tonight at the Albert Dock, we speak to shortlisted artist Laurence Payot … Laurence Payot is an artist who works with installation, intervention and performance. She...
Liverpool Art Prize 2013: Tabitha Moses
Ahead of the Liverpool Art Prize 2013 opening this Thursday, we speak to shortlisted artist and Bridewell Studios member Tabitha Moses … An artist best described as a “collector, a rag and bone...
Liverpool Art Prize 2013: Kevin Hunt
In the second of our profiles focusing on the artists shortlisted for Liverpool Art Prize 2013, we speak to The Royal Standard Studio member Kevin Hunt… Making ‘sculpture using found, redundant objects, particularly...