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Painting The Mersey in 17 Canvases
The last time I wrote about an event organised by the Liverpool artist and poet, Maria Isakova Bennett, was in September 2019, in those pre-pandemic times…
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A Liverpool Temple in the Present Perfect Progressive Tense
It felt like being in the opening sequence of a Scandi-Noir TV series – driving in the dark into a badly lit, empty industrial street, closed…
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Arguing About Art
My friend has gone off to get her train. I still have over an hour before mine back to Liverpool. I don’t know Manchester very well, having only…
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A Day Trip to Leeds
I took myself off to Leeds recently, my first time there and part of a post-lockdown plan to visit new places. The atrocious traffic on the way…
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Of Barnacles and Statues
In all the time I have spent walking Crosby Beach in the company of Antony Gormley’s iron men, I hadn’t noticed that a few of the…
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Italy in London
In between the lockdowns and the tiers I managed a day trip to London a few months ago, meeting up with a couple of friends to…
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Cherry Picker Sheltering from the Rain
It looks here as if I haven’t written anything for months, so I thought I’d add this link to a piece I wrote for Art in…
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Sand, Sisyphus and Sculpture
On Crosby Beach there is a tractor driver whose job it is to scoop up the sand that has encroached on the coastal paths and deposit…
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Transit of Venus
Amongst the many historic Liverpool “firsts” listed on the towering wall in the city’s Central Library are the words “Transit of Venus”. I wasn’t entirely sure…
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Yorkshire Sculpture International
The approach by road to the Hepworth Wakefield goes through an unpromising industrial area. But once there and you start up the walkway to this 2017 Museum of…
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Finding a way through the hype
One of the critical thinking tasks we were set at Art College was to write a review of an artwork that was the antithesis of what…
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Exploring the arts in Liverpool
Trying to keep up with all the cultural events in and around Merseyside is almost a full-time job; a dream of a job, one might say. There…