But Does it Speak? is a new season featuring artists and writers who use poetry, fiction, experimental writing and speech to establish and alter visual worlds.
Join Bluecoat for three film screenings in the gallery, workshops, events and more.
Stay tuned as they announce the incredible artists they’re working with this season.
Bluecoat are excited to host Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad from The White Pube, for an in conversation event with Liverpool-based artist Frances Disley, to discuss their debut novel Poor Artists.
Event by Dead Ink Bookshop
Tickets: £5
A new exhibition arrives at the Coffee Stop Cafe, in St Mary’s Market from January – March 2025.
The Art of Oesophageal Cancer is an exhibition of drawings by Ann Wood @annorthernlass that were created during her experience of treatment and recovery of Oesophageal Cancer in 2018.
A selection of drawings that use coloured pencil and fineliner are taken from a book published by Ann that explores her journey and aims to raise awareness of the symptoms and risk factors that can indicate Oesophageal Cancer.
The exhibition will open during less survivable cancers week and will run during February which is Oesophageal Cancer Awareness Month.
The exhibition is open during market trading hours, Monday – Saturday 9am-5pm and is situated behind the Coffee Stop Cafe in St Mary’s Market WA10 1AR.
This exhibition is delivered by Platform Studios.
Subterranean Elevator has been conceived by artist Di Mainstone, and developed with a team of inter-disciplinary specialists. The installation invites intrepid visitors to explore the inner worlds of soil and the subconscious mind.
On entering a dark, elevator-shaped environment, they will feel a soft earth-like substance beneath their feet, where they can stand, sit, or nestle. As the elevator commences its ‘descent’, subterranean tourists will experience mesmerising sounds and projected visuals, creating the sensation of sinking deep into the earth.
Mainstone has coined the term “Subnosis” to describe this hypnotic journey, in which surreal subterranean creatures flourish amongst fleeting thoughts, tickled by roots and intersected by neural pathways that lead us into an interior universe. In this place of collective contemplation, we are invited to remember our connection to all living and nonliving things here on our precious planet.
The artwork aims to deepen our understanding of biodiversity loss and engage with the emotional landscape of the climate emergency.
This is for young people aged 11 (if they are in year 7) up to and including 18, who live in St Helens.
The event is held at the YMCA St Helens Youth Hub at the end of college street near the town centre.
The event lasts 2 hours.
Through art in the Tate Collection, The Plant that Stowed Away traces the connections between the trading history of cities like Liverpool and the global movements of plants and people.
This display is inspired by the Weeds of Wallasey series by Wirral-born photographer Chris Shaw which highlights the battle between nature and the post-industrial landscape of the area where he grew up.
The Plant that Stowed Away builds on the narratives in Shaw’s imagery, drawing attention to the extraction and shipping of plants and other products of trade. It highlights how urban and natural environments have been changed by industrialisation, colonisation, and migration.
The display includes collage by French modernist Henri Matisse, the Afro-futurist photography of Cristina de Middel, Turner Prize-nominated artist Delanie Le Bas’s textile work and Kader Attia’s caustic film exploring our relationship with oil and sugar.
Image Credit: Henri Matisse, The Dancer 1949. Tate.
Set your intentions for the year ahead by creating a collage-based vision board before the New Moon on 29th January. The New Moon marks the start of the lunar cycle and is often associated with new beginnings, renewal, growth, and transformation. It’s considered the best time to reflect, plan, and focus on your intentions.
They’ll provide second-hand materials such as magazines, newspapers, strips of fabric, string, and ribbon. To make your vision board unique to you, please bring inspirational imagery suited to your intentions for 2025. This could be in the form of photographs, tickets, or postcards.
Come solo or with friends. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with others and pin down your hopes and dreams for the future.
Please note, the building will be closed to the public from 5pm. Please ring the doorbell on the right-hand side of the main entrance, and a member of staff will welcome you in.
Thurs 16 Jan, 6pm
Free, booking required
“Future Retrospective” is an art exhibition that explores how our future is intricately woven into the fabric of the past.
This unique event brings together a diverse collection of artworks spanning multiple mediums and disciplines, all unified by a common theme: the profound impact of historical moments and cultural heritage on contemporary creativity and societal evolution.
Gill Smith is a Liverpool based illustrator, working mostly in children’s books. This exhibition brings together work created for published picture books, children’s fiction and personal projects over the last 5 years.
For as long as she can remember, she has loved to draw people, capturing their expressions and mannerisms. Illustrating stories allows her into a character’s mind, to see the world through their eyes. She is inspired by everyday life, finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.
She graduated with an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from Cambridge school of Art in 2019. Previously Gill worked as a primary teacher, community artist and as a designer and maker. Her work has been short listed for The Klaus Flugge Prize for Illustration 2023 and longlisted for The Yoto Carnegie Prize for picture books.
The Liverpool Collection 2024
28th November 2024 – 8th February 2025
An exhibition featuring dot-art Members.
The heart and the history of Liverpool comes to dot-art. Closing out 2024 and welcoming in the new year; this exhibition features art that reflects the beauty and diversity of the city and it’s surrounding region.
Offering art that is both rooted in history and alive with modern perspectives and practices, highlighting the well-loved and hidden gems alike, this exhibition reveals Liverpool through the eyes of 25 dot-art Artist Members. This is a unique opportunity to showcase their Artist Members; while their group shows often feature a select few, this exhibition highlights a diverse cross-section of artists they support — local, affordable, and committed to developing and showcasing their work in their home city.
Longstanding member Susan Finch is a storyteller through her art, she uses motifs that create drama and nostalgia against the backdrop of her home city. New member Joao Coelho who is St. Helens based, creates detailed dioramas inspired by the history and architecture around him, capturing time worn facades and the rust, graffiti and urban decay that comes with them.
Frank Leung is an extremely skilled portraitist and has developed a series of street scenes of buskers and residents of Liverpool. The city’s landmarks are hidden in the background, while these bright and lively characters entertain you in the foreground.
Joseph Venning recently completed a live painting for the Beyond Van Gogh experience at ACC Liverpool. Utilising the iconic modern artist’s style, he created a portrait of Van Gogh painting the Liverpool skyline. From this exhibition, Joseph has developed an incredible painted collage of Liverpool landmarks with a twist of Van Gogh’s infamous blue swirling sky, suspended stars and crescent moon.
Ali Barker is showing work from her dot-art x Everyman Artist Residency last year. Over 6 months Barker spent time with the staff, watched productions and toured the Everyman and Playhouse Theatres. Here, she shows the façade of the iconic Hope Street based Everyman theatre as well as the interior of the Playhouse, looking up to the Radio City Tower.
They want to enable everyone to enrich their lives through art, whether that is through our Art Classes, Artist Membership or buying affordable art. You can help us with this goal by giving the gift of art! Prints start from £35, and we have vouchers for any budget available to gift for the art lover in your life.
Their longstanding Creative Courses are live now with fantastic venues and amazing artist tutors. Art Course Vouchers make thoughtful gifts for those looking to give creative experiences rather than material items that may go unused.
All artworks are for sale.
Join them for the Private View of the exhibition on Thursday 21st November from 5pm-7pm.
All welcome, but please register here: theliverpoolcollection24.
The dot-art Gallery can be found at 14 Queen Avenue, Castle Street, Liverpool, L2 4TX (just 5 minutes’ walk from Liverpool One).
Opening times: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am-6pm
The exhibition runs 28th November 2024 – 8th February 2025.