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On Tuesday the 25th of October this workshop was held at BBC Radio Merseyside as part of the ‘Up for Arts’ program and was well attended by a vibrant group of individuals. The participant were asked a series of questions where they were to note down some answers or to sketch an image as a…

My Photo Album is a Fuel publication comprising of a collection of Photographs of Emin from birth to present day. This is printed to appear as a photo Album similar to one own by her Mother. This was a mass market album with palm trees and a sunset on the cover, conman place in mid-seventies…

Frisson Comics publish A Misty Morning for their horror edition: A misty Sunday Morning Up early, out early, with the dog on his leash at eight o’clock on a Sunday morning. Raincoat on, sauntering through the thick mist on this post-Halloween, or as the locals call it: Mischief Night, morning. This is my most trusted…

Radio Merseyside Performance Space – Hanover Street, Liverpool Tuesday 25th October 1.00-1.30pm Free to Participate Alison Little is a North-West based artist who has worked on numerous commissions across the UK and Western Europe including Go Superlambana, Go Penguin and others such as the Horse Parade in Cheltenham. Holding workshops is key to her practice…

For the second year running Unit 51 will host the exhibition of World Mental Health day celebrations, this year fittingly entitles ‘Respect’. The private view was held on Friday the 7th of October, officially opened by Liverpool’ home grown internationally celebrated artists: The Singh Twins. Liverpool Mental Health Consortium did the city proud with a…

  Garston does Culture It was all happening at East Street Arts in Garston Last Friday 8 Artists. 8 short Hours. 80 meter square exhibition space. The paint was squeezed to the very bottom of tubes, spray enamels were exhausted and creative sparks bounced off the walls of Liverpool’ newest Arts venue, one artist even…

Mark Leckey brings the fiction of the virtual works to an oversized reality in three-dimensional form with Zoo Logic. Mark Leckey, the Birkenhead Boy and one-time Turner Prize winner has brought a colossal, larger than life form of Felix the Cat to the upper level of the Walker Gallery. Although his academic life, the gateway…

Tracey Emin’s ‘My Bed’ comes to Tate Liverpool Tracey Emin, one of Britain’s leading female artists, characterised for making biographical artworks, brought ‘My Bed’ to Tate Liverpool last week. Tension mounted over a year since the announcement was made that it was to come the North of England for the first time; there was a…

  Who were the Bloomsberries? The ‘Bloomsberries’ were a group of artists, writers, civil servants and many others who shared similar philosophies and made up what is termed ‘The Bloomsbury Group’. Many of them had met at Cambridge when studying there during the early years of the Twentieth Century. They would meet to discuss ideas…