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What is Science Fiction for? | Nalo Hopkinson

14/10/2022

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...

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Opinion: Who are you calling insignificant?

07/10/2022

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...

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Thrill and Dread: The Poetics of Ruins

03/10/2022

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...

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Colour and Manipulation: Grey Crawford’s Chroma

29/09/2022

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… ...

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Refractive Pool: Contemporary Painting in Liverpool – Reviewed

23/09/2022

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...

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“The Folklore is Seriously Spooky”
Adam Scovell: On Nettles

09/05/2022

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...

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Radical Landscapes:
Routes and Roots

06/05/2022

“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…...

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Lucy McKenzie, Animals and Beggars

11/03/2022

“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...

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“Fresh and energising.” Light Sensitive Area Ahead – Reviewed

09/02/2022

“It remains a powerful and nuanced visual language.” Mike Pinnington explores Gareth Kemp’s Light Sensitive Area Ahead, a new body of work in conversation with the past, present and future of abstract art…...

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