The Big Interview: Karen Newman
Sarah Creed caught up with Karen Newman, curator at the newly relocated Open Eye Gallery, to talk about the highly anticipated next exhibition, Infra… The Double Negative: You have been the curator of...
No Vacancy at Wolstenholme Creative Space
A second exhibition from Young Pines, imagining a natural disaster in Liverpool, proves the Mercy interns are no flash-in-the-pan… Tomorrow sees the second artistic project come to fruition from the arts and literature...
Robots and Avatars – Previewed
A new exhibition opens at FACT on Friday promising to provide a glimpse into our near futures. Just don’t be disappointed if there are no kitchen droids on display. If the previous...
Topophobia at the Bluecoat – Reviewed
Linda Pittwood gets that anxious feeling, but was it for all the right reasons? A man stands by some trees with blood smeared down his face. He is looking away from you. You...
Charline von Heyl: Now or Else
Come with us as we take a guided tour around Tate Liverpool’s latest exhibition, as seen through the eyes of the artist… It seems to us Tate Liverpool’s current artist in residence is...
Artist of the Month:
Hannah Bitowski
Hannah Bitowski’s artwork is beautiful. It is deceptively loose and smudgy, almost childlike in its depictions of bearded and tattooed ladies, Mexican wrestlers, pagan icons. Look harder and her drawings, stitch-work and prints...
My Five New Friends – Reviewed
Linda Pitwood on an exhibition blurring the lines between Facebook friends, stalkers, and stalkees…. There are, in effect, two exhibitions currently showing in The Royal Standard’s unheated but perfectly formed gallery space. One...
Mark Leckey: Work and Leisure
We chat to the Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey about northerness, infamy and the Liverpool Biennial… Mark Leckey is not really ready to be interviewed. Sleeves rolled up and kneeling on the...
Painting’s Not Dead: Charline von Heyl
There’s a new exhibition opening at Tate Liverpool this week, and shhh, it features a living painter… It’s fitting perhaps that in the lead-up to this year’s John Moores Painting Prize, Tate Liverpool...