Event type: Exhibition

CO-LABOURING WITH SOIL grew out of a collaboration between artist Imayna Caceres, Squash and Liverpool Biennial 2025. Imayna (Peru / Austria), is a transdisciplinary artist and writer interested in what we can learn from plants, animals, and other Earth beings by paying attention, caring for and living with them. After first visiting Squash in September 2024, Imayna came back in July 2025 during Liverpool Biennial for a clay workshop in the Squash garden. The sculptures made with community members were inspired by the artist’s commission Underground Flourishings (2025).

If you look closely at the different clay sculptures, you may see how the forms are also inspired by plants and flowers found on Windsor Street, as well as spontaneous conversations that took place both on the day of and leading up to the workshop. The clay sculptures will eventually erode and return to the Earth, as an offering, in keeping with the ecosystemic cycles and elemental forces that have underpinned the project and are shared interests between the artist and Squash. 

From this spring equinox (Saturday 21st March*) to autumn equinox (Wednesday 23rd September) we invite you to come and see the clay sculptures and relax in the Grapes Community Garden. If you look closely, you may see how the forms are also inspired by plants and flowers found on Windsor Street, as well as spontaneous conversations that took place both on the day of and leading up to the workshop. The clay sculptures will eventually erode and return to the Earth, as an offering, in keeping with the ecosystemic cycles and elemental forces that have underpinned the project and are shared interests between the artist and Squash. 

With special thanks to Imayna Caceres, Jackie Swanson (Squash Horticulture Lead), Clare Owens (Squash Artistic Director), Marie-Anne McQuay (Liverpool Biennial 2025 Curator), James Harper (Liverpool Biennial Programme Manager), Attila Olah (Altar Pottery), Squash gardeners and cooks, all collaborators and all the elements and teachings of Cosmos and Community.

Imayna Caceres’ 2025 project was commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and produced in collaboration with Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art, with support from Catherine Petitgas

*Come and see the sculptures on Saturday 21st March during the Spring Treasures event. There will be a guided walk from Squash, meeting at 1pm. After this you can visit the garden during the weekly drop-in garden sessions 10.30-12.30 each Wednesday morning. The Grapes Community Garden is located on Windsor Street next door to Toxteth TV. Message admin@squashliverpool.co.uk for more information.

 

 

The exhibition brings together creative, community-driven, and research-informed pieces exploring the many ways data can become narrative—how stories are shaped, shared, and sometimes silenced.

Alongside the exhibition, they are hosting a series of free creative workshops at Mount Pleasant Library, each led by LJMU academics whose work engages with community storytelling, social change, and reflective practice.

The exhibition will be held at Mount Pleasant Campus Library, Liverpool John Moores University , 29 Maryland Street , Liverpool L1 9DE

Located in the Ground Floor foyer and Lower Ground Floor of the Mount Pleasant Library

The exhibition is free and open Monday – Friday 8.45am-7pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-4pm.

 

 

Two artists explore how light transforms space into something felt as much as seen

With Clare Maria Wood and Alistair Tucker.Clare’s new landscape and seascape paintings all have a wonderful glow, their surfaces layered with acrylic glazes, gold and silver leaf, hand-painted collage, and drawing.

Alistair’s work investigates how weather—wind, rain, and cloud— continually reshapes the land. He is particularly renowned for his beautiful etchings and a selection of these sit alongside his atmospheric watercolour paintings.

The exhibition opens on Thursday 5^th March and runs until Saturday 4^th April.

Opening times: Thurs – Sat, 10am – 4pm

 

Join us for a conversation with Turner-prize winning artist Helen Cammock and Jane Rolo, founding member and former co-director of London based visual arts publisher Book Works. Cammock and Rolo collaborated on the publication of Moveable Bridge (2017), an artist book focused on the multi-layered history of Hull.

In this talk, Cammock and Rolo will share their experience of making artist books, including Cammock’s latest book I Will Keep My Soul (2023), considering design and materiality alongside themes and audiences.

The conversation is related to the ARTIST ROOMS: Ed Ruscha display at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, which features artist books from the 1960s and 1970s.

Biographies

Helen Cammock

Helen Cammock is a multi-disciplinary artist based in North Wales. Her practice spans film, photography, print, text, song and performance, engaging with historical and contemporary narratives of power and resistance. Moving across time and geography, her works often layer multiple voices and perspectives to explore the cyclical nature of histories through poetic, visual and aural assemblage. She is the winner of the 2017 Max Mara Art Prize for Women and was jointly awarded the Turner Prize in 2019.

Jane Rolo

Jane Rolo is a publisher, editor and curator. Trained as a bookbinder, she co-founded Book Works, a London-based arts organisation with a focus on artist books. Rolo served as a co-director of Book Works (1984-2019) and collaborated with numerous artists on publications, exhibitions and events, including Helen Cammock, Sophia Al-Maria, Jeremy Deller, Mark Dion, and Ruth Ewan. She currently works as an advisor on various publishing projects and supports students with the development of their reading skills.

Accessibility

Tate Liverpool is temporarily located at RIBA North, Mann Island, a short distance (425m) along Liverpool’s iconic waterfront. There is step free access to the main entrance. There is a lift to the first floor gallery, or alternatively you can take the stairs.

• Toilets are located on the first floor
• The nearest Changing Places toilet is located at the Museum of Liverpool
• Ear defenders are available to borrow. Please ask a Visitor Engagement Assistant

Additional seating is also available. Please ask a member of staff if you require assistance. To help plan your visit to Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, have a look at our visual story. It includes photographs and information of what you can expect from a visit to the gallery.

For more information before your visit:

Email visiting.liverpool@tate.org.uk

The Portrait Paradox brings together portraits from the Williamson’s collection and Liverpool-based artist Adrian Jeans’ portrait-based sculpture, drawing, photography and video.

Jeans says: “Influenced by the Williamson’s fascinating art collection, I have been inspired by an under-acknowledged progressiveness in portraiture.

At its best it challenges the norms of the time and The Portrait Paradox will show how I and others have taken portraiture beyond a simplistic paradigm and used it to explore our wider humanity”