Living in a different time: Polly Morgan
Ahead of her live taxidermy demonstration tonight at the Victoria Gallery, artist Polly Morgan talks to curator Laura Robertson… How does it feel to be working in the VGM, sharing gallery space with...
Studio Series: Jeremy Bailey
‘Famous new media artist’ Jeremy Bailey, in-between Liverpool and Toronto on a residency at FACT, invites us in to see where he works… Please describe your space. Probably just because I’m not always here,...
Light Night: Top Ten things to do this Friday
This Friday over 50 galleries, museums and venues open until late for the annual evening spectacle that is Light Night. We’ve chosen our top ten… Favela! @ The Royal Standard Gallery & Studios,...
Printing Sound: Local Music and Bluecoat’s Screen Print Studios
Lesley Taker offers an insider’s guide to the new (best friend of) Rock and Roll… Over the last couple of years, screen-printing has become the skill in the DIY music scene elevating screenprinted...
The Double Negative Launch Party Preview!
On the eve of The Double Negative launch party, we thought it best we gave you a heads up on what to expect… Everyone likes new stuff, right? For our money, you can’t...
Mary Shelley – Reviewed
An award winning theatre company provide an engrossing insight into the making of a monster… Dept, illegitimacy, suicide and moral panic; in Mary Shelley, theatre company Shared Experience have brought us kitchen sink...
Liverpool artist wins Sky Arts Futures Fund
Performance artist Laurence Payot, based at The Royal Standard Studios in Liverpool, has just won funding to launch an ambitious live-tv artwork called Backstaged. We caught up with Laurence to learn more about...
Studio Series: Juan Cruz
Juan Cruz, Director of Liverpool School of Art and Design (LSAD), invites us in for a look around his studio space… Please describe your space. It’s in the Bluecoat, which is a gallery and also an...
If Only…! The Festival…!
C James Fagan looks back at last weekend’s If Only Festival at the Bluecoat… The last weekend of April brought the conclusion of the Bluecoat’s current live art strand If Only…! The final act...