Event type: Exhibition

All Out LGBT+ Photo Awards 2021

The third floor of Lush Liverpool Spa has become the host for the All Out LGBT+ Photo Awards 2021. 

The exhibition is open until September 30th and some of the space will be taken over by Homotopia, with a selection of local photographers displaying their work as part of the ongoing Visible and Safe Campaign for LGBTQIA people living in Liverpool.

Launched on May 17th, which is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia & Transphobia, All Out called for photographers to capture the LGBTQIA community across the world. Thousands of images were submitted from over 60 countries and now the final winners will be displayed in Liverpool.

The Homotopia corner is part of an ongoing project for visible queer art in the city. Following a recent spate of violent homophobic hate crimes in central Liverpool, the city council approached Homotopia and LCR Pride Foundation and asked them to put together a creative, community-led response. The project is ongoing and input is still very much welcomed

Exhibited photographs include work by here n queer collective, a street-art project focusing on claiming public spaces where hate crimes have occurred with Felix Mufti, Luke Bryant, Kolade T Ladipo, Franklin Dawson and Iesha Palmer, also exhibited is photographer Michael Parry, and model Frank Mason.

Local Community Evening, Thursday 23rd September

Between 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm on Thursday 23rd September, Lush Liverpool Spa and Homotopia will host a Community Evening on the third floor. Alongside local LGBTQ+ activists and grassroots groups, All Out Executive Director, Matt Beard will be there to give more insights into what they’re doing as a global movement for love and equality alongside some other fabulous guests.

Exhibition opening times:
Monday – Saturday: 10-5
Sunday: 11-5

Santerre painting on display

The Lady Lever Art Gallery is placing a painting featuring an enslaved African person at the front and centre of its displays.

The oil painting of Catherine-Marie Legendre, painted about 1705 and attributed to Jean Baptiste Santerre (1658-1717), is the only item from the gallery’s 18th century collection to depict a person of colour.

Following a period in conservation, the painting will be on display from 1 October 2021 in a new and more prominent position on gallery, acknowledging its context.

The Gallery will be inviting comment in order to begin a conversation with visitors about how problematic and disturbing works might be displayed in a way that ensures the collections are not seen and viewed through a single historic lens, but instead reflect multiple histories.

OUTPUT Open 5

The OUTPUT Open is a regular part of their gallery programming – an opportunity to present an overview of creativity in the region through the practices of a group of emerging artists.

This year, their selected artists have focused on work in the mediums of painting and video, so they have split the exhibition in two accordingly.

The OUTPUT Painting Open (Sept 18th – Oct 3rd) presents the work of Chris Oliver, Zahra Parwez, Harry Garner, Sian Cooper & Rob Davies. 

The OUTPUT Video Open (Oct 7th – Oct 24th) presents the work of Olayka McKay, Onyx Hinds, Colette McDonald & Cos Ahmet. 

These artists, who are all at different stages in their career, will showcase the breadth of skill and invention that our region’s art scene can provide in both traditional and new media. While the artists were not selected with any theme in mind, much of the work shares an interest in narrative and a strong sense of place. 

For those who are not yet comfortable returning to in-person exhibitions, they will be sharing all artwork online. See their website here.

Space Is The Place by Patric Rodgers &...

Space is the Place is Patric Rogers in collaboration with Angelo Madonna’s deeply personal memoir to his most sacred of spaces, Hilbre Island.

It is a cerebral exhibition project exploring the psychogeography of one of Wirral’s iconic landmarks. Space is the Place encourages the viewer to connect deeper to the environments and places around them and to explore how our connection to place is made through our experiences, dreams, memories and through the landscape itself.

The project began it’s life during the recent lock down period in the mind of its creator Patric Rogers. Patric spent many years during the summer months working on Hilbre Island.

Often alone he was left in the quiet of the island to explore it’s history, secrets and mysteries. For him the island became a teacher and a place of reflection and solace.

Our recent period of national difficulty has opened the doors for people to explore their surroundings with a new found appreciation and it is through the telling of the stories of the island, its history, mysteries, folklore, psychogeographic power and the people who are drawn to it that this exhibition aims to help others connect to their own spaces of reflection and solace.

In this multi part installation experience, Space is the Place encourages the viewer to consider their own sense of space and place exploring how, place, dreams, memories and landscape combine to create a deeper connection with the landscape.

“Space Is The Place” will take place Convenience Gallery, Bloom Building

Opening night: Friday, 17 September, 6.30pm-late

Exhibition Runs: 17 September – 1 October

Normal opening hours: 10am-5pm.

Location: Bloom Building and Coffee, CH41 5FQ

All donation based tickets funds are reinvested back into their current and future creative programming. This will support them in creating more opportunities for both people in the creative industry and the wider community. All their “In Cahoots” core programming is free to attend and donations are optional.

Rituals of Loneliness

Nurturing artistic practice is central to what FACT do. Every year, they invite artists, scientists, technologists, radical thinkers and Liverpool communities to develop their practice and showcase their work through residencies.

The exhibition is free and held FACT, 15 September-3 October, 12pm-10pm.

Throughout September and October 2021, in their galleries and online, they are showcasing the outcomes of our current artists-in-residence, who they have been supporting remotely during the pandemic.

Rituals of Loneliness is a collection of newly commissioned digital artworks by artists Shonagh Short, Linda Stupart and Ayesha Tan Jones, created in collaboration with a group of adults and young people from Liverpool.

Meeting and working together on Zoom, the group shared their personal tactics to defeat lockdown and celebrate the new rituals we all performed, from clapping on Thursdays, to fermenting and living room dancing.

The artworks reflect on the rituals that have made us feel more connected to the world around us during the past year of isolation. What have we done that has made us feel less lonely? What have we shared? What things did we choose to protect? What have we lost? What have we learnt?

Whose Land Is It?

Whose Land Is It? brings together three Australian artists approaching the idea of the landscape and the elements of it which may have previously escaped our attention.

The exhibition is free and held Open Eye Gallery, until 19 September, 11am-4pm (Wednesday-Sunday).

The drying riverbeds directly linked to climate change and land misuse and mismanagement by James Tylor, the materials and tokens gathered during Atong Atem’s walks through her local area and the feminist reading of the landscape as interpreted by Amanda Williams all help in establishing more engaged ways of reading the land, and understanding the impact the landscape has on us.

It is through these images that a sense of ownership or belonging can begin to form. Whose land is being photographed, how can we picture ourselves there, and who is the landscape for?