Tirazh Garwood, who painted the lost Ravilious mural alongside husband Eric Ravilious, noted that opening speeches for Oliver Hill’s opulent art deco Midland Hotel on 12 July 1933 were, “amusing in the […]

Bluecoat Tercentenary Celebrated With 106 Previously Exhibited Artists On Public View 2017 marks Bluecoat’s tercentenary, making it the oldest building in Liverpool city centre and the UK’s first arts centre: quite […]

London – One Day Round Up Last week my burning desire to visit the new Tate Modern extension was, finally, indulged by a flash Virgin Trains seat sale. Since opening […]

I’ve written a review of Katrina Palmer’s solo exhibition The Necropolitan Line at Henry Moore Institute for The Double Negative. Read it here: http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2016/01/katrina-palmers-the-necropolitan-line-reviewed/

The camera silently glides across a row of glass panes. Piercing sunlight dances across these surfaces, accentuating layers of dirt and the passage of time. Glimpses of an overgrowing garden […]

My review of the latest Harris Museum and Art Gallery exhibition, A Green and Pleasant Land?: Rural Life in Art is now online on Corridor8. You can read it here. […]

Artist, illustrator, printmaker, performer: Jack Welsh discovers an exceptionally varied and prolific body of work spanning sixty years at Tate Liverpool’s Brătescu retrospective… What significance does the studio hold for […]

György Kepes: The New Landscape 15 April – 19 June 2015 Exhibition Research Centre, Liverpool John Moores University In 1951, Hungarian-born polymath György Kepes organised The New Landscape at The […]

History Is Now: 7 Artists Take On Britain Hayward Gallery, London / Tue 10 Feb 2015–Sun 26 Apr 2015 With campaigning for the 2015 General Election vigorously under way, three artists – […]

I’m delighted to say that I’ve been successful in securing a place on Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West’s critical writing programme. Having attended the first workshop two weeks ago, I’m […]