Event type: Exhibition

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”

NOW EXTENDED TO 1ST NOVEMBER

An inspiring exhibition showcasing the work of the Happy Snappers, a Wirral-based photography group made up of both Deaf and BSL users. 

I’ll Tell You Later explores the relationship between the Deaf experience and the hearing world. It sheds light on the barriers D/deaf individuals face, while showing the Happy Snappers as a powerful example of how inclusive, supportive communities can break down these obstacles. Through their work, the group highlights the importance of creating a more inclusive society that benefits everyone.

This exhibition is an opportunity to engage in meaningful conversation through the lens of photography.

Happy Snappers are a group of friends who are both Deaf and BSL users. They get together and enjoy life outside and explore some of the Wirral’s hidden locations and beautiful scenery, and capture these locations on camera. They are not a professional photography group but share the same love of meeting people, socialising and having fun. 

Emma Case is a socially engaged photographer working with local communities focusing on projects that often explore home, identity, memory and place. Emma is interested in building real relationships over time and working collectively, often looking at social issues and their impact but through the lens of changing the narrative through storytelling. Emma is fluent in British Sign Language and has worked with the Deaf community for over 20 years; from support worker with SignHealth to Actress with Deafinitely Theatre. Emma is extremely passionate about accessibility for Deaf audiences and artists within cultural spaces.

I’ll Tell You Later is part of Photo Here, a programme of socially engaged photographic residencies and exhibitions commissioned by Liverpool City Region Combined Authority as part of this year’s Cultural Events Programme. Developed by Open Eye Gallery in collaboration with each of six local authorities: Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral.