Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Art exhibitions in Liverpool’s museums and art galleries and creative spaces
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Sound City To Return As 2 Day Festival in 2016; Pre Sale Registration Open Now
Liverpool Sound City have announced that they will return as a 2 day festival on 28th & 29th May 2016. The festival will return to Bramley Moore Docks after a successful first year on the waterfront site earlier this year. Sound City organisers say that their decision to make the festival a 2 day event rather than 3 day will allow them to bring a more ‘content-rich festival’. They have increased their artist budget in…
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Award Nominations For Liverpool Festivals Inc. Africa Oye, Threshold & Sound City
Boutique marketing and publicity agency, One Fell Swoop are pleased to announce Festival Award nominations for the three of their major clients – Threshold Festival, Africa Oyé and Sound City. One Fell Swoop director Dave McTague said: “We work with a range of festivals, and it’s great to see these fantastic organisations being recognised for the sterling job they do, year in year out.” Based in Static Gallery in Liverpool, One Fell Swoop provide everything from a full marketing service…
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Hey McFly! Back To The Future Exhibition At Constellations To Celebrate Future Day 21st October
21.10.2015 is the date Marty McFly and the Doc travelled to in the iconic Back to the Future. Join Twin Pines Creative Council at an an exhibition of art and installations to commemorate this date and celebrate this awesome trilogy. Taking place at Constellations – in the Baltic Triangle, Liverpool, the team from CPL Animate are joined by a host of other artists exhibiting their love of the film in print, animation and sculpture. You also have the chance to see…
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Tower of London Weeping Window Poppies Coming To Liverpool’s St George’s Hall From 7th November
The Weeping Window artwork on display at The Tower of London is coming to Liverpool in November. It is a section of ceramic artist Paul Cummins’ Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation which is a tribute to the fallen in World War One. It is made up of 888,246 poppies, each one representing a life lost in the conflict. It has attracted millions of visitors in London. Liverpool is one of only three locations to…
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Zanele Muholi – VUKANI/RISE Exhibition At The Open Eye Gallery
Open Eye Gallery present the first major presentation of Zanele Muholi’s work in the UK. Muholi is a South African photographer and visual activist whose work explores gender, race and sexuality, particularly in relation to South African society and political landscape. In 2009, Muholi wrote a thesis mapping the visual history of black lesbian identity and politics in post Apartheid South Africa as part of her MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University, Toronto. Since 2004…
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No Homers Club Presents Isla Nublar, A Jurassic Park Inspired Event and Art Exhibition Launch Night Friday 9th October
Following No Homers Club’s first sell out event inspired by everyone’s favourite sitcom, The Simpsons, they are back with an event of prehistoric proportions. The Jurassic Park inspired, Isla Nublar, launches 7pm Friday, October 9th. Teaming up again with the highly creative crew at Constellations, No Homers Club are creating an island experience influenced by the location of the Jurassic Park novel and film franchise. Once you enter through the famous gates, get ready to start…
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Threshold Festival Opens Submissions For 2016 Festival Of Music & Arts
Threshold Festival 2016 takes place on April 1,2 & 3rd in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. Musicians can apply through official partners Reverbnation here. Musicians, Artists & Performers can apply via Jotform here Deadline 15th December 2015.
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‘Follow’ Exhibition At FACT Featuring Work By Shia LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner And More; 10 December 2015 – 21 February 2016
In a world where we use Instagram ‘likes’ and Twitter ‘favs’ to assess who and what is important, and fame is just a click away; what impact is the internet really having on how we think about ourselves and those around us? On 10 December 2015, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool opens the doors to Follow, a major exhibition which will feature new work by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner, Cécile B. Evans, Debora Delmar, Candice…
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Budding Photographers Offered Analogue Photography Basics Course
Investing in online photography courses that are 6 weeks long is ideal for people who want to know more about using their camera and understand the basic principles of photography and darkroom processing. This 6 week short course is aimed at people who want to know more about using their camera and understand the basic principles of photography and darkroom processing. The course is £120 for 6 weeks and includes an extra 6 hours in…
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LIMF Unveils All-Star Acts For Routes Jukebox at Epstein Theatre 28th August
As part of the ‘Music Migrations’ themed Commissions, join the incredible Dave McCabe & the Ramifications, local chart toppers The Farm, along with Chris Difford of Squeeze for the Routes Jukebox live show. The show will retrace the key influencing records that came to Liverpool from the U.S. after World War II inspiring pioneering movements from the reknowned city of music. Musically directed by Grammy award-winning producer Steve Levine and presented by BBC Radio 2’s Janice Long, the event will welcome a plethora of legendary as well as emerging artists…
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No Homers Club Presents Isla Nublar – Jurassic Park Inspired Event At Constellations 9-11th October
After the sell out Simpsons exhibition, No Homers Club are teaming up again with the highly creative crew at Constellations for an island experience influenced by the Jurassic Park novel and film franchise. Music From…. Sex Hands Channeling their paleontological hero Ross Gellar for a special Isla Nublar set, cult Manchester band, Sex Hands, are renowned for their wild sets and raucous songs about the sitcom Friends. Organ Freeman High energy and high kicking, Organ…
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New FACT Exhibition: Lesions in the Landscape by Shona Illingworth 17 September – 22 November 2015
Lesions in the Landscape by UK/Danish artist Shona Illingworth is a powerful multi-screen installation, exploring the impact of amnesia and the erasure of individual and cultural memory. Revealing the devastating effects of amnesia on one woman and the striking parallels with the sudden evacuation of the inhabitants of St Kilda in the North Atlantic in 1930, the work examines the profound effect and wider implications of memory loss on identity, space and the capacity to imagine the future. Lesions in the Landscape opens at FACT (Foundation…
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Live Music Line-up Announced For Above The Beaten Track Festival Next Month At The Bluecoat
Liverpool’s grassroots celebration, Above the Beaten Track returns to the Bluecoat for its eighth year next month and has just announced a selection of artists for this year’s festival. The event celebrates the best in grass-roots live music, DJs, artists, traders, makers and audio-visual extravaganzas. This year will see the debut performance from The Blue Soul. These beat modernists are the new project of songwriter Nick Ellis: soulful and bluesy – with a Scouse filter…
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Liverpool World Mental Health Day 2015 Art Exhibition Announced – “Dignity in Mental Health”
Liverpool will celebrate World Mental Health Day on Saturday 10th October with a programme of events more extensive and varied than those offered in any other city in the UK. The activities range from music, performance and debates to film, training, advice and information. Now in its 6th year and organised by Liverpool Mental Health Consortium, one of the most popular events in our World Mental Health Day programme has proved to be the art…
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Albino Mosquito, The Disadvantages of Time Travel At FACT 14th-19th July
The Disadvantages of Time Travel is an installation by creative visual technologists Albino Mosquito, offering a unique interactive audience experience using mind control. Open daily 10.30am – 5.30pm The audio and visual experience of the narrative film The Disadvantages of Time Travel will be driven by the viewer’s brain waves and emotional response to what appears on the screen, resulting in each visitor seeing a different version of the film, with every scene varying from person to…
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‘Ou Topos’ A Collection of Work By London Based Graphic Designer Ruben Martinho At Golden Square Coffee 25th June
Ruben Martinho is an analog collage artist hailing from Portugal and residing in London. Ruben has amassed a body of collage work tapping into his childhood nostalgia, his affection for space and the limits of surrealism for inspiration. His work is enchanting to say the least and has the capabilities to swallow you whole. For his private show ‘Ou topos’ Ruben together with Alex Smith have put together this exhibition showing some of his best…
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Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots At Tate 30th June – 18th October
Jackson Pollock is widely considered to be one of the most influential and provocative American artists of the twentieth century. Pollock famously pioneered action painting, a process that saw him drip paint on canvases resting on the studio floor. Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots at Tate Liverpool is the first exhibition in more than 30 years to explore the artist’s black pourings, a lesser known but extremely influential part of his practice. The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to…
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'No Homers Club'; A Simpsons Inspired Multidisciplinary Art Weekend At Constellations 17th-19th April
The ‘No Homers Club’ exhibition will be bringing together artists with a common love for the The Simpsons TV show. It is a Multidisciplinary Exhibition which means you can expect more than just your regular art show, so on top of artists and their work here’s a sneak preview of what else they have in store for the weekend: Friday: Launch, Art, Food & Drink, Simpson’s inspired music (courtesy of Organ Freeman). Saturday: Bespoke Screen Printing Workshop by…
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Tricia Porter: Liverpool Photographs 1972-74 The Bluecoat, Liverpool Saturday 4 April – Sunday 5 July, 2015
When young London photographer Tricia Porter arrived in seventies Toxteth she was warned off by the locals. Undeterred, Tricia gained unprecedented access to the residents’ homes resulting in this evocative portrayal of everyday life. The exhibition forms part of the LOOK/15 festival. Also showing under the Bluecoat’s historic roofs are Xavier Ribas’ Nitrate and Tabitha Jussa’sMemorandum of Understanding. Tricia Porter: Liverpool Photographs 1972-74 The Bluecoat, Liverpool Saturday 4 April – Sunday 5 July, 2015 Open…
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Threshold V; Day Three Roundup
The last day of Threshold V seemed a little subdued at first. Perhaps folks were getting over the riotous shenanigans of the previous night, or maybe it was the bitingly windy weather. I had put aside the afternoon session for a suitably restrained look at the static art on show at the festival in The Craft Beer venue. I thought the exhibition, ‘Contrasting Geometries’, had some vital contemporary art and sculpture on show, and that the sophisticated way the…
