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 […]

Not: The Art of Resistance, Holden Gallery, Manchester (19 January – 27 February 2015)  In Herman Melville’s novella Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853), the narrator recounts the story of Bartleby, a […]