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SV, Sex by Violence, the truth behind the Trauma will be taking over the new zuhause  gallery space in Gostins for the first week in July. Explicit content to be expected. The exhibition comprises of a series of 4 animated sculptures entitled SV, Sex by Violence. The works are a graphic depiction of the act of a…

The Silky scrum is a fictional works, none of the characters or events are based on specific individuals or occurrences. Barry was up early, it is a Sunday morning: his favourite day of the week: Rugby practice. He had his kit laid out by his girlfriend soon to become his wife. He went to the…

Superlambanana Lips has taken up residence in the far-reaching lands of Maghull. Nestling amongst prickly plant life she stands proudly at the entrance to the Lip Doctor, Liverpool Road South, gated at night to ensure that she doesn’t escape. To match the lip shaping and plumping service offered by Doctor Fab she has been adorned…

Response to Delirium (PTSD) Delirium was a pen and ink drawing exhibited in the Phantom Limb exhibition at the Victoria Museum and Gallery in 2016. The artist Nany Andrew created many works as a response to the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after a heart aneurysm. The image was used as a start point for a…

Alphabet Soup is the latest work of Liverpool based conceptual photographer: Emma Walker. Emma is a survivor of sexual assault, the intention of her artwork is to create a positive piece which will help other survivors come to terms with the traumas of rape. Alphabet Soup takes us through the emotions experienced after a sex…

Artist Sue Leach, a Lancashire lass ‘migrated’ to Liverpool to train as a nurse at the age of eighteen. She was drawn to Liverpool because of its artistic milieu. Although not intending to remain, fifty years later she is still a resident in what was the Toxteth deer park, the greenest and most interesting area…

Jennie Wishart shows us her artwork’ not wishy-washy. Born in Anglesey, North Wales she initially studied Fine Art at the then Sunderland Polytechnic. This was followed by further study at our very own John Moores University, Liverpool becoming her adopted home. She began a career teaching Art in secondary schools, this was brought to an…

The London Marathon, Women’s Urinals, are you taking the pis*? Feminism or fucked up thinking?   A two hundred person queue for the women’s toilets at the start line of the Virgin London Marathon ran this previous Sunday. Six months of training rolled into one day of nerves waiting for the queue to go down…

May Day Magic, spend the day re-discovering the art of colouring in. Claire McGorman brings us ‘Stuff from my head’, the latest adult colouring book to reach our shelves. Volume 1 allows time to unwind and de-stress, every black and white illustration has been hand drawn, the sophisticated patterns encompassing intricate details. We are taken…