Bees: a Story of Survival is a visually stunning and immersive adventure that explores the epic tale of these incredible creatures and their essential relationship with the natural world.
In a unique partnership with the award-winning artist and sculptor Wolfgang Buttress, Bees: a Story of Survival is a beautiful harmony of art and science featuring cutting edge technology.
Using sculptural sound and light environments, the exhibition provides visitors with a real-time connection to bees within their natural habitat, revealing and expressing an ever changing picture of their activity.
Journey with us into their universe, from the tiny and fascinating anatomy of a single bee to the magic and wonder of bee colonies, the role bees play in the environment and the threats they face.
Paris Toxteth presents
An Exhibition of work by Liverpool based Artist and Animator, Lawrie Vause will be opening at The Egg Cafe from Monday 05.05.2025.
Showcasing Lawrie’s art in the form of paintings, hand printed posters and sculpted pieces.
On Thursday 8th May, a live screening of the artist’s films will be supported with live music accompaniment, presented at 7pm and 8pm.
Free at The Egg Cafe, top floor, 16-18 Newington, L1 4ED, just off Bold Street.The exhibition runs through to 16.06.2025.
Walker Art Gallery is proud to present Graham Crowley: I Paint Shadows, a new exhibition of works by Graham Crowley, winner of the 2023 John Moores Painting Prize. Opening 14 March 2025, this solo display offers visitors unprecedented insight into Crowley’s distinctive exploration of light and shadow through painting.
The exhibition marks a significant return to Walker Art Gallery for Crowley, who first entered the John Moores Painting Prize in 1976. Nearly five decades later, his 2023 Prize-winning painting ‘Light Industry’—now part of the gallery’s permanent collection—serves as a cornerstone for this comprehensive showcase of new works.
Through his signature style, Crowley investigates what he terms ‘sites of creativity’, from gardens to workplaces, using varied brushwork to create images that appear simultaneously familiar yet disrupted. His tonal approach builds layers of meaning, challenging viewers’ perceptions of everyday scenes through masterful manipulation of light and shadow.
‘National Treasures: Velázquez in Liverpool’ sees ‘The Rokeby Venus’ form the centrepiece of a new display.
The work is Diego Velázquez’s only surviving female nude and one of his most celebrated pieces. It will be shown in Walker Art Gallery alongside collections from National Museums Liverpool, both ancient and contemporary, exploring this iconic 17th century painting in an unexpected new way.
The display will challenge traditional readings of the painting by setting it alongside unexpected artworks by women and non-binary artists from our collection. These include Ethel Walker’s ‘The Spanish Gesture’, photographs by René Matic and Zanele Muholi, and Harriet Hosmer’s ‘Puck’.
The work is being loaned as part of the National Treasures programme celebrating the 200th birthday of the National Gallery in London. The programme will see twelve institutions across the UK loaned a different work from the National Gallery. For the duration of the displays, 35 million people – more than half the UK population – will be within an hour’s journey of a National Gallery masterpiece.
This exhibition will mark 250 years since the birth of JMW Turner, exploring both the artist’s own work and his enduring impact on later generations of artists. Turner: Always Contemporary will include National Museums Liverpool’s collection of Turner’s oil paintings, works on paper and prints, alongside modern and contemporary artworks that delve into themes of travel, landscape, and artistic experimentation. A number of important and influential loaned works will also feature.
It will offer fresh perspectives on Turner and his legacy, highlighting how he grappled with issues that remain relevant today: climate change, immigration, tourism, and the role of the artist. Alongside Turner’s works, visitors will encounter pieces by Claude Monet, Ethel Walker, Bridget Riley and many more, bringing together 250 years of art to examine Turner’s timeless appeal.
Generously supported by Lead Partner Quilter Cheviot and Lorraine and Steve Groves.
Join them at the Walker Art Gallery for a guided tour of their Pre-Raphaelite collection. The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of reactionary young men who came together in London in 1848 seeking a return to the principles of the early Renaissance.
Tour guides will reveal the captivating stories behind pieces produced by members of the Brotherhood and their circle, and how Liverpool artists embraced Pre-Raphaelitism.
Highlighted art includes work by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, Ford Madox Brown and work produced by Morris & Co.
Tours are on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 1:30pm | Sundays at 10:30am
Join artists from Blue Room, Bluecoat’s inclusive arts project supporting learning disabled and neurodivergent artists, for an explorative tour of our exhibition Bedrock.
Sun 22 Jun, 1-2pm & 3-4pm
Blue Room artists will lead an interactive gallery tour sharing their perspective on the exhibited works. The artists will bring to life the sensory experience of the gallery followed by a behind-the-scenes look at creative responses made in their supported studio at the Bluecoat.
Free, booking required.
Donations welcome.
Join Collective Encounters for the launch of Gender, Identity and Art: Breaking the Archetypal Mould, a brand new exhibition created by Women in Action*. Through powerful visual artworks, the exhibition explores shifting representations of gender, sexuality and womanhood, challenging traditional archetypes and celebrating diverse identities.
Come along to meet the artists, hear about the inspiration behind their work, and be part of a conversation about health, wellbeing, working conditions, LGBT+ identity and class struggle.
This exhibition is part of Radical Retrospectives: Looking back to look forward, Collective Encounters’ programme, celebrating and archiving 21 years of the organisations’ work across the Liverpool City Region.
*Trans women are and will always be welcome in our women’s groups. The same goes for non-binary, gender fluid and gender queer people who feel included by the term women.
Open Eye Gallery is proud to present an annual exhibition of new talent graduating from BA Photography and Social Practice (UCEN Manchester).
Photography and Social Practice course is delivered by UCEN Manchester and Open Eye Gallery. This year UCEN students are presenting four projects.
Malayeka Kousar is exploring the notion of home with its warm atmosphere. Micheal Davidson’s Unheard Frequencies project is about the connection between dogs with separation anxiety and music. Tyla Mchugh looks at the intersection between the character and the performer playing them. Emily Moran’s project is on different towns of Manchester.
They are delighted to be supporting new photographic talent at the beginning of their artistic careers.
Image by Tyla Mchugh
Join Bluecoat for a live performance in our galleries by Joanne Masding, who will read extracts from her first book, Body of Pieces, in a performance activated with props and staging.
Body of Pieces follows two female characters, The Surgeon and The Dancer, as they attempt to interact with a series of hard to grasp and vaguely defined objects, and one another, within the bowels of a fictional archive.
In the lawless space of a museum built out of written fiction, precious artefacts are eaten and melded with, body parts are carved up and ballooned outwards, and objects, artworks and children, are birthed, created and made real.
In this choreographed arrangement of extracts from the book Masding will test out ways of animating the voices and registers of the characters, objects and materials that speak through the text.
