Marie-Anne McQuay is to curate the 2025 edition of Liverpool Biennial it was announced yesterday. The appointment breaks with recent tradition, which has tended to see curators living and operating away from the...
Artist Richard Crooks translates his phenomenological wanderings into dynamic colourful collage. Here, Stephen Clarke, curator of Crooks’ current show, finds parallels in the making of his work with the odyssey undertaken by Dorothy...
With two exhibitions in quick succession, Liverpool-based artist Fanchon Fröhlich has been subject to much recent recuperation. The latest show, at the Victoria Gallery & Museum, places her in conversation with her peers and...
“In A New Kind of Animal can be discerned the travails and obstacles of life that we all come up against and endure.” Mike Pinnington tries to make sense of Tim Spooner’s Bluecoat show…...
“My girlfriend told me I should open my own gallery someday.” With plans for a new arts space in Liverpool and a crowdfunder launched to help get things off to a flying start,...
Winning this year’s Portrait of Britain award for her images of Manchester’s community superheroes, photographer Roxana Allison tells us what she’s learned about trust, ethics, and what, of course, makes an award-winning portrait… ...
“Tish’s work was driven by her compassion and her feeling of injustice.” Jennifer Jasmine White speaks with Tish producer, Jen Corcoran… In one of the most powerful moments from Paul Sng’s new documentary...
“Monument is concerned, ultimately, with architecture.” Mike Pinnington on a subtle and thoughtful group exhibition wrestling with the impact on our lives of the built environment… Monument, named for one of curator Gareth...
Earlier this year, the Structurally F–cked report revealed damning evidence of artists’ pay and conditions. At a panel discussion during Middlesbrough Art Week, Mike Pinnington heard how the hard work is only just...