Imagine, in 1000 years time, if fidget spinners were the only surviving relics of human civilisation? Artist Sam Meech imagines a post-digital future inspired by apocalyptic fiction and lost industries, finds Joe Fenn… As the setting for an...
Ken Simons joined Tate as an Art Handler in London 43 years ago, and moved to Tate Liverpool for the gallery’s opening in 1988. Responsible for handling and installing the national collection of...
A superb online mental health resource, The Mind Map launches in Liverpool this week with an exhibition featuring collage, photography and drawing from Billy Childish, Jamie Reid, Comics Youth and more. Mind Map...
Merseyside photographer Pete Carr has been documenting life in Port Sunlight for the past year – capturing funny, honest images from inside residents’ homes, as a way to understand how tourists see this chocolate-box, Grade...
Iraqi writer Anoud (not her real name) is one contributor to Comma Press’s new anthology, Banthology: Stories from Unwanted Nations. Here, she explains the real life inspirations behind her short (and harrowing) tale,...
The first episode of Shezad Dawood’s Leviathan Cycle is a scattergun and fictional history lesson beset with schoolboy humour, nursery rhymes, shagging monkeys and Cthulhu-tinged mythology, finds Laura Robertson… “My height at the time put...
Wayne Burrows talks Freud, plurality and being “anti-conclusion” with artist Sophie Jung… Sophie Jung was born in Luxembourg, grew up in Switzerland, and currently lives and works in London. She studied at Rietveld...
Jack Welsh pays tribute to a trailblazing female artist who liberated paint from the canvas and challenged the 3D, traditional use of clay… Surprisingly, an octogenarian ceramicist produced one of the most dynamic new...
Mike Pinnington talks to artist Larry Achiampong about his residency at Tate Liverpool and some of the concepts and intellectual concerns – including science fiction, Pan Africanism, and a dire lack of representation in the...