Who were the ‘British Chinese’ artists that emerged in the 1990s and early 2000s? What is their legacy today?
Explore these questions in a special film screening and talk. Curator and artist Kwong Lee will discuss his role at the Chinese Arts Centre and the important presence of British Chinese artists in Manchester and Liverpool. Filmmaker Rosa Fong will present her offbeat short films ‘Chinese for Beginners’ shown on Channel Four in 2002. This will be followed by an audience Q&A.
While looking back on the forgotten presence of these artists, this event will also look forward to a new era of East and South East Asian identity and artmaking.
Biographies
Kwong Lee
Kwong Lee is an artist, curator and contemporary arts producer. He was previously Director of Castlefield Gallery (2005-2016), producer at Factory International/Manchester International Festival, and is currently Director at Deptford X.
Rosa Fong
Rosa Fong is an award-winning filmmaker. Her films have garnered accolades from the British Film Institute, Arts Council of England and UK Film Council. She has directed programmes for BBC and Channel 4 television. Deconstructing Zoe, a feature length documentary was selected for the Hong Kong LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
Owen Owen Clayton Square store opened in November 1925. A Centenary Display celebrating this much loved and much missed department store is on the 3rd floor of Liverpool Central
Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool. The display will be there until end December 2025.
Calling fans of all ages! Join us on Saturday 8 November 2025 for a day of drop-in activities, creative workshops, talks, exhibition tours, games and music, celebrating the cultures, communities, and spaces of football.
Contribute to a collective banner, build a stadium using recycled materials, try drawing like an architect, and join a curator tour of the exhibition. Play some games, grab a matchday pie while they’re hot, and share your favourite matchday experiences through comics drawing, a memory wall, and conversations.
The festival day is organised as part of the latest exhibition at RIBA North + Tate Liverpool, Home Ground: the architecture of football. The exhibition runs 15 Oct 2025 until 25 January 2026.
The day runs from 10am to 5pm on Saturday 8 November 2025 at RIBA North + Tate Liverpool. Entry is free, and can be booked via Eventbrite.
Curator tours will also be running at the following times on the day:
– 10.30am to 11.15am
– 12pm to 12.45pm
– 2pm to 2.45pm
These curator tours are free, but must be booked in advance via the Eventbrite link.
More details of the scheduled activities for the day will be available on riba.org and the Eventbrite listing.
You’re invited to commemorate 200 years of the Liverpool School of Art at the Private View for Back to the Drawing Board: 200 Years of Art Education, an exhibition to showcase some of the known and lesser-known histories of art education in Liverpool.
The Private View will include small speeches from people associated with the School, drinks and light bites, a screening of Michael Swerdlow’s film Liverpool College of Art: Timelines, and a chance to explore the archive material in more depth.
16 Oct 17:00-19:00
LG and G FloorsMount Pleasant Campus Library29 Maryland StreetLiverpoolL1 9DE
The building is wheelchair accessible. Email archives@ljmu.ac.uk for all enquiries.
The exhibition will continue to run from 16 Oct – 19 Dec.
If you can’t make the event but are still interested in the Liverpool School of Art’s history, LJMU Special Collections & Archives manage the archival papers of the School which are available to browse here, and you can visit anything from our many collections by appointment anytime Mon-Fri 10:00-16:00.
The Liverpool School of Art, the second oldest School of Art in England and creative heart of this city, turns 200 years old in 2025! As part of the Being Human Festival and as one of the many celebrations for the School’s bicentenary, you’re invited to participate in making a huge map to identify the people and organisations which connect in any way, shape, form, or time to the School since its formation in 1825 – discovering the creative ecosystem of Liverpool’s art education history in the process.
This event will run concurrently with the exhibition Back to the Drawing Board: 200 Years of Art Education based in the same building, and will hopefully contribute to further exhibit work as part of the ongoing celebration activities.
- Fri 7 Nov 13:00-16:00
- Sat 15 Nov 11:00-14:00
Mount Pleasant Campus Library 29 Maryland StL1 9DE
All are welcome – you don’t have to have been a student at the Liverpool School of Art to attend! Light refreshments will be provided.
The building is wheelchair accessible, but please email archives@ljmu.ac.uk if you have any specific access questions or concerns.
If you can’t make the event but are still interested in the Liverpool School of Art’s history, LJMU Special Collections & Archives manage the archival papers of the School which are available to browse here, and you can visit anything from our many collections by appointment anytime Mon-Fri 10:00-16:00.
This event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 6 – 15 November 2025. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see https://www.beinghumanfestival.org/
Join our free activities where you can experiment with simple texture rubbing techniques to discover the unique patterns and surfaces of tree bark, leaves and other natural materials. Use your artworks to create your own woodland scenes. From busy insects and birds to leafy canopies and forest floors, we encourage you to celebrate the life that thrives in woodland environments.
Be inspired by artworks in Tate’s collection that explore habitats, green spaces and natural forms. Check out Ai Weiwei’s Tree, Max Ernst’s Forest and Dove, Zoe Leonard’s Tree Fence, 6th St. (Close-up), Menashe Kadishman’s [title not known] and Tacita Dean’s Majesty for inspiration!
Our Learning Space is open every day for visiting families – a space to relax and create with art games, colouring-in, books, toys and more!
Marking Turner Prize-winning architecture collective Assemble’s new publication Building Collective, Alice Edgerly from Assemble will be in conversation with Hazel Tilley and Eleanor Lee from Granby Four Streets.
Assemble have transformed the definition of a successful young architecture practice by working on temporary, small-scale, community-based projects, often reusing sites and materials. Their projects range as widely as a brewery in rural Japan and a train depot in Arles, France. In 2015 they won the Turner Prize for their work with Granby Four Streets in Toxteth, Liverpool. For this project they worked closely with local residents to renovate derelict housing in the area.
Biographies
Assemble
Assemble are a London-based collective who work across the fields of art, design and architecture to create projects in tandem with the communities who use and inhabit them. Their architectural spaces and environments promote direct action and embrace a DIY sensibility.
Granby Four Streets
Granby Four Streets is an ongoing community-led project that aims to rebuild Granby in Toxteth. Once a lively and diverse community in Liverpool, the neighbourhood was nearly made derelict and fell into a state of disrepair. Starting from 2011, regeneration schemes brought these streets out of dereliction and back into use.
ABCL1 24 Newington, L1 4ED
6pm Thursday 2nd – 6pm Sunday 5th Oct 2025: 72 hour Interactive Collage Experience & art exhibition
8pm – Late Saturday 4th Oct 2025: ABCL1 closing event with; Art, music, video art & performance. Headline DJ @11pm. Nibbles & mxers provided BYOB
Since Covid ABCL1 has operated more as a private members club than a public gallery space. As our members moved on to bigger and better things we are putting on one last extravaganza over the first weekend in October. Artist Matt Kilp will be finishing his site specific collage installation & exhibiting some of his other work alongside the work of previous ABC members and other local artists. This show will run for 72h only & will be open to all souls around the clock, so you can come whenever suits you. On the final evening (Sat 4th) there will be an open bar with mixers and nibbles (byob) live music, performance and video art. If you would prefer a more relaxed experience feel free to come at any other time. We are operating an open door policy. Just come inside and up the stairs.
Contact: Matt Kilp jesuisgino@gmail.com for additional information
You’ll be buzzing with excitement with our bug-themed activities in our Learning Space this October half term! From dragonflies to beetles, take inspiration from the creepy crawlies in Tate’s collection to construct multi-coloured neon replicas of your favourite bugs. Use the materials from our pick ‘n’ mix recycled craft box to make a 3D model of your bug.
Check out John Hoskin’s Black Beetle, Louise Bourgeois’ Spider, Mark Wallinger’s King Edward and the Colorado Beetle, Yinka Shonibare’s Grain Weevil and Andy Warhol’s Happy Butterfly Day for inspiration!
Our Learning Space is open every day for visiting families- a space to relax and create with art games, colouring-in, books, toys and more!
Share your experience with us on social media using @tateliverpool and #TLfamilies.
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
As RIBA North’s Home Ground: The Architecture of Football display kicks off, we invite you to join Tate collection artist, Neville Gabie and Liverpool photographer Emma Case, as they discuss art, sport and the spaces we create for play.
You’ll learn about Gabie’s residency at Tate Liverpool at the turn of the millennium. and we’ll look back on his subsequent work in Liverpool and his reflections on the city today.
Gabie will discuss his ongoing archive, Grassroots and Tarmac, which explores diverse cultures by way of their shared obsession for football and reflect on his time as artist in residence at the 2012 London Olympics.
Case will discuss RED, a community archive project that she founded which shares Liverpool fan’s photos and stories. You’ll discover what’s next for The RED Caravan – the mini museum she designed to share those stories.
Away from football, explore her work across Liverpool and it’s diverse communities and learn how, through her photography, she captures a continually evolving sense of community in the city.
Biographies
Neville Gabie
Neville Gabie, is known for creating work that responds to people and places. He works across a range of media including sculpture, film and photography. Gabie was artist in residence at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park for the 2012 London Games. He has worked extensively with communities across Liverpool, including a residency at Tate Liverpool, 1999-2000 and the later Up In The Air project which ran over a number of years in Sheil Park. Gabie’s work is included in Tate, Arts Council Collections and The Olympic Museum.
Emma Case
Emma case is a photographer and film maker based in Liverpool. Alongside a successful commercial career, including commission from top fashion brands, Case has a deeply rooted social practice. She founded the Red Archive to share LFC fan’s photos and stories. She has worked extensively with communities across Liverpool and has been regularly exhibited at Open Eye Gallery, most recently with The Flowers Still Grow exhibition. Case regularly works with Tate Liverpool on a range of community arts-based projects.
