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Art & Creativity / 01 Jan 2013

Feature: Screen Kicks: Inprint Liverpool

For those already converted, this weekend’s Inprint indie print fair can’t come quickly enough. Last time around, the fair celebrated the best local and regional print art: with zines, prints, tees and mugs splashing The….

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Art & Creativity / 01 Jan 2013 / 2 comments

Feature: Inspiring Places: George’s Dock Building

My favourite Liverpool building is an outdoor sculpture gallery in the heart of the city. It’s home to some of the our best examples of 20th century sculpture and is, in itself, an architectural triumph…..

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Art & Creativity / 01 Jan 2013

Feature: Last Chance To See: 7 Exhibitions Closing This Month

The New Year spells the end for a number of long-running - and not-so-long-running - exhibitions in Liverpool. This is your last chance to see the following art in Liverpool…

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Art & Creativity / 12 Dec 2012

Feature: Love Your Galleries This Christmas

You know what SevenStreets loves to do between Christmas and New Year (if that walk to Moel Famau is rained off?) - go visit an art gallery. There’s something about their hushed, contemplative surroundings that….

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Art & Creativity / 11 Nov 2012 / 4 comments

Feature: So, Farewell then, Biennial…

Now, as the shutters are being pulled down on the Copperas Hill building, the Cunard and the Munro, and artworks across the city are being bubble wrapped, disassembled, packed away and posted back to the….

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Art & Creativity / 11 Nov 2012 / 7 comments

Feature: Designer in Wonderland

With Designival almost upon us, we thought we’d highlight one of our favourite city based designers, and one of Liverpool’s most likely to - Rowan Stocks Moore. With his bold reimaginings of Disney films, pulp….

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Art & Creativity / 11 Nov 2012

Feature: The 7 Things You Shouldn’t Miss This Biennial

This is your ten day warning. You have exactly that time to either a) concoct some sorry-ass excuse as to why you never found the time to immerse yourself in the Biennial, b) go make….

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Art & Creativity / 10 Oct 2012 / 3 comments

Feature: Celebrating Painting: John Moores Summit

“I’ve always found the cyclical nature of things to be incredibly life affirming,” says Sarah Pickstone of her work, Stevie Smith and the Willow, this year’s winner of the John Moores Painting Prize (she’s pictured….

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Art & Creativity / 09 Sep 2012

Feature: Random Acts: FACT On TV

This is a big deal. FACT (you know, that Liverpool-born culture lab most cities would die for) has been commissioned by Channel 4 to curate, with experimental animator Jacqui Davies, their new Random Acts series…..

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Art & Creativity / 09 Sep 2012 / 3 comments

Feature: The Art of Food: Exhibitions in Liverpool Cafes

The Biennial’s feast of art has highlighted a growing trend, says Sinead Nunes: cafes and restaurants are becoming art galleries.

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Art & Creativity / 09 Sep 2012 / 1 comment

Feature: Bird Sheet Music, for Long Night

Earlier this summer we helped put out a call for guitarists to play their part in the Biennial’s epic opener, a Crimson Grail. Now it falls upon us (almost literally) to put another call out….

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Art & Creativity / 09 Sep 2012 / 5 comments

Feature: Driftwood and Dolphins

Along the sand banks of the River Mersey, strange and wonderful creatures have started appearing on an almost daily basis. Drift wood sculptures of Dolphins, Sea Dragons, Mermaids and Octopuses created from whatever the tide….

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Art & Creativity / 08 Aug 2012 / 9 comments

Feature: Liverpool’s Still Got Game: How Liverpool Inspired ‘Wipeout’

In the first part of our look at the past, present and future of Liverpool’s games developers, we find out from former Psygnosis man Nick Burcombe how Liverpool inspired Wipeout.