Caroline Gorick: After Hours – Reviewed

“As the midday sunshine streams through gallery windows, there is an almost tangible dread.” Mike Pinnington on finding the uncanny in the everyday subjects of Caroline Gorick’s After Hours…  There’s something about small...

ALL THAT REMAINS: A Curator’s Choice – Reviewed

How often do we really examine curatorial contributions – not simply to an exhibition, but to the care and display of collections? Mike Pinnington considers ALL THAT REMAINS: A Curator’s Choice at Victoria Gallery & Museum…...

The Weekender

Illness meant that we missed the window to publish our usual pick of the week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond, but its fashionably late sibling, The Weekender,...

My Life in the Biennial with Ghosts

“What would Liverpool be without it?” On the eve of Liverpool Biennial 2025, C James Fagan ponders his sometimes complex, on-going relationship with the UK’s largest festival of contemporary art… It’s a Biennial...

Stone Circles, Wailing Women and Respecting The Dead: URNA at London Design Biennale 2025

What if we brought back stone circles and burial mounds? If we started to build ceremonial sites with contemporary, sustainable materials for our loved ones and the generations to come? Laura Robertson recently visited Malta to...

“We’re the ones that care about the industry; the ones that want to change the world.” – Choose Your Own Adventure

“In a world that’s been gamified to within an inch of its life, maybe indulging in pixels, bits and bytes can be a subversive act.” Mike Pinnington on FACT Liverpool’s gaming symposium, Choose...

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Mike Pinnington on Vallisaari island, Helsinki. Photograph by Laura Robertson

Field Trip: Helsinki, Finland – Happiness and Cultural Guardians

Taking in climate change at Helsinki Biennial, diversity at the Ateneum, and visiting contrasting new galleries in an art school and bar toilets (!), Mike Pinnington’s return to Finland’s capital city is a timely reminder...

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God Unknown Records at 10

“I wanted to release music that I love, that really meant something. Something real.” This weekend sees God Unkinown Records mark a decade of releasing diverse, cutting-edge music from artists based all over...

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05/09/2019
Present Tense. Publish by The Double Negative, 2019.

Present Tense (2019) // Paperback // £14.99

Present Tense A decade since Liverpool EU Capital of Culture… What now?  Edited by Laura Robertson and Mike Pinnington ISBN 978-1-5272-4281-4 Published August 2019. Very limited edition run of 250 copies. Paperback, 96...