A new exhibition featuring artwork by Jim Moir has launched at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight. From garden birds to seabirds, Dawn to Dusk: Birds celebrates the magic and majesty of many of the UK’s most-loved feathered friends, inviting us to appreciate their brilliance and importance through the ... Read More...
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This winter, Tate Liverpool will present the first UK retrospective of Glasgow-born, Brussels-based artist Lucy McKenzie (b. 1977). The exhibition brings together approximately 80 works dating from 1997 to the present, including large scale architectural paintings, illusionistic tromp l’oeil works, as well as fashion and design. McKenzie’s body of work defies easy ... Read More...
Image credit: Jules Lister Two hundred artists and over 250 new works of art created by Liverpool and UK based artists will flood the Liverpool City Region when the Independents’ Biennial gets underway next month. Special commissions will take place in St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, Knowsley and Liverpool during the four-month festival which ... Read More...
Liverpool's International Slavery Museum has used £50,000 of National Lottery funding to help it acquire its first painting. ‘Am Not I A Man and a Brother’ depicts an African slave bound in chains and set against the backdrop of a Caribbean sugar plantation. Dating from around 1800, the painting is based on ... Read More...
Review: 'Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919 – 1933' and 'Aleksandra Mir: Space Tapestry Faraway Missions' Written by Matthew Smith Tate Liverpool is hosting two new exhibitions that chart the evolution of German society in the interwar period and explore the possibilities of space travel. Through the work of two artists who documented, detailed ... Read More...