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Walker Art Gallery unveils new contemporary works
Works by artists including Michael Landy, Shaqúelle Whyte and Ebun Sodipo have gone on show in the Walker Art Gallery’s reopened contemporary galleries. The gallery spaces have undergone a refurbishment and rehang with the addition of 11 new acquisitions from the National Museums Liverpool collection. Among them is Landy’s huge 2013 kinetic sculpture Multi-Saint (above) which is inspired by Christian iconography and brings together five martyred saints - Catherine, Lucy, Pete
Liverpool galleries to mark Julia Carter Preston centenary
The centenary of the birth of acclaimed Liverpool ceramicist Julia Carter Preston will be celebrated with a series of exhibitions at Liverpool galleries this autumn. The Bluecoat, Bluecoat Display Centre, Walker Art Gallery, Victoria Gallery & Museum and Liverpool Hope University will all showcase the work of the late artist who was best known for her ‘sgraffito’ (scratched) style of pottery design. The programme of events - titled Julia Carter Preston, Ceramicist – starts on
Liverpool Art Fair 2026 showcases record number of artists
Liverpool Art Fair has returned to the Royal Liver Building – and the 2026 event is the largest to date. The annual celebration of the region’s artists showcases work by 245 different painters, sculptors, printmakers and creatives from today, June 12, to July 26. Entrance to the fair is free and all work is for sale, with prices starting at just £25 and with a large selection for £250 or under. The fair, now in its 12th year, is run by Liverpool’s dot-art which is marking its
Wirral Open Studio Tour 2026 showcases work of almost 100 artists
Wirral artists are throwing open their studios and workspaces to visitors this weekend. Almost 100 artists are taking part in the 16th edition of the Wirral Open Studio Tour which runs on Friday and Saturday, June 13-14. A room in a former greengrocer’s in New Brighton, an old fire station in Port Sunlight, a former lifeboat station at Hoylake and a Georgian townhouse in Hamilton Square are among around 50 locations along the free, self-guided route. Studios, workshops and di
Reflections of Liverpool exhibition is a candid snapshot of the past
When Bob Howells died in 1999, he left his grandson Steven a couple of cameras along with a tin of film negatives and glass slides. Little can he have imagined that nearly 30 years later the images on those rolls would be blown up and on display in an exhibition on the Liverpool waterfront. Reflections of Liverpool: The Howells' Family Album, which runs at the Museum of Liverpool until September, captures his young family at home and play - and Bob Howells' colleagues at Camp
Liverpool's Unity theatre explores its radical history and tradition
Liverpool’s Unity Theatre is exploring its own radical history this spring in a Heritage Lottery-funded programme of events. A Radical Re-imagining encompasses theatre, music, art, workshops, talks and panel discussions and community events and includes a special archival exhibition at Liverpool John Moores University’s Mount Pleasant Campus Library. And the celebratory season will culminate in a specially devised new production, Stage Left, at the Hope Place theatre on June
Exhibition finds a home at St George's Hall
Themes around migration, displacement and transition are explored in a new exhibition at St George’s Hall. Liverpool art collective Home and Away Workshops' exhibition runs until May 31 in the historic landmark’s heritage centre foyer. Home and Away presents works that offer multiple interpretations of home, not as a fixed location, but as something embodied, remembered, imagined - and continually re-made. It features a diverse range of mixed-media work from a variety of arti
May Morris in the spotlight at Lady Lever Art Gallery
Lady Lever Art Gallery is shining a spotlight on the life and work of May Morris in an exhibition dedicated to the pioneering artist, artisan and designer. May Morris: Crafting a Legacy runs at the Port Sunlight gallery until November 1. The Arts and Crafts champion has been overshadowed by her famous father William Morris, but this exhibition – developed in partnership with the William Morris Society and which brings together examples of her work loaned from organisations in
Open Eye's Self-Defined exhibition explores lives led under Soviet rule
Artists from Central and Eastern Europe explore their own families’ complex stories along with historical archives in a new exhibition at Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery. Self-Defined: New Stories from Archives, which opens today and runs until June 7, features the work of contemporary artists from countries which were occupied or influenced by the former Soviet Union, including Ukraine, Poland, Germany and Latvia along with ethnic Crimean Tartar communities. The work explores i
Akomfrah installation comes to the Walker Art Gallery this summer
The Walker Art Gallery is set to present Sir John Akomfrah’s acclaimed Venice Biennale commission Listening All Night to The Rain this summer. Three of the major film and sound work’s eight ‘Canto’ (movement) sections will be on show at the William Brown Street venue from May 16 to August 31 as part of a UK tour. Canto I will transform the Victorian gallery’s neoclassical exterior with images and voices from the Global Majority displayed on the building’s imposing portico. In
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