21/01/2016

Stage designer and visual artist Becs Andrews died earlier this month, aged just aged 37. Laura Robertson recalls a fiercely talented and charismatic individual who gained widespread acclaim for a prolific, richly imagined...
06/01/2016

Laura Harris visits a fantastic collaborative resource for artists at a former print works in central Newcastle… Something exciting is happening at BALTIC 39. In a collaboration between Northumbria University, Newcastle City Council...
03/04/2014

Don’t know where to start at the GI? Don’t panic! Emma Sumner picks her highlights… Hailed by Adrian Searle as “the UK’s best visual arts festival”, the pressure is on for what will...
06/12/2013

Lauren Velvick questions her own beliefs, history and identity during a visit to Castlefield Gallery’s latest exhibition… Can conservatism ever be a radical stance? Pil & Galia Kollectiv return to Castlefield this winter with...
08/02/2013

Liverpool Art Prize shortlist to be announced This Tuesday (12 February) will see the Liverpool Art Prize announce their 2013 shortlist. Grafted from a (very) long list of 52 nominees, including last year’s...
24/05/2012

We talk to some of the most promising LJMU Fine Art graduates, exhibiting their final shows tonight at the Art & Design Academy… MATTHEW WEIR (pictured, above) Letters from Berlin, a multi-media installation on...
16/10/2011

Hi! We are Mike Pinnington and Laura Robertson, co-founders. We’ve been publishing The Double Negative magazine since 2011: contemporary, independent arts and culture criticism (online & occasional print) from Liverpool. We’re very...