Independents Biennial is a festival of contemporary art, running every two years across Merseyside. Independents Biennial 2025 is now live. For full information on current events, exhibitions and opening hours, see individual listings below.
Next up:
Hilbre Island: Watermark Collective: Performance
BIRCH Studio & Gallery: Gee Collins & William Lang: SOMEHOW (Private View)
Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre: Ruairí Valentine and Tom Chachewitz: CALL THE CATTLE HOME, workshop
Rathbone Studio: Louise Waller & Janet Holmes: Diversity in Clay (Launch Event)
Dibbinsdale Nature Reserve: Rod Dillon; Arts Pilgrimage: Our Lady Liverwort of Brotherton Park and Dibbinsdale
Hamilton Vault Studios: Landlines Studio: Exploring Natural Pigments Workshop
Rudy’s Pizza, Castle Street: dot-art Artist Social
Victoria Gallery & Museum: Brigitte Jurack: Rising Darkness, Floor Mosaic Workshops
Metal Liverpool: Ruth Dillon: Revisited
Bootle Town Hall: MA Graduate Residency & Exhibition Space
Current exhibitions:
BIRCH Studio & Gallery: Gee Collins & William Lang: SOMEHOW
Cass Art: Threads & Fibres, Re-View Textile
Everyman Theatre: Art at The Ev: Samantha Madgwick
ArtHouse Gallery: Southport Contemporary Arts Summer Open Exhibition: Free
Cornerstone Gallery: Regolith: Recent artwork by Arthur Roberts and Barbara Jones
Kirkby Gallery: Letting in the Light: Book Art Exhibition
Kirkby Gallery: Society of Wood Engravers 87th Annual Exhibition
Hazlehurst Studios: The Art Collection of John Bond
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: Artist A & Artist B: The Long Haul
Northern Lights: Vincent Lavell: These Fragments
24 Hope Street: 24 Hope Street Collective: Improvised Hope
The World of Glass: Arts in Libraries x Independents Biennial 2025
Nettle Café: Rod Dillon: Our Lady Liverwort
The Stables, Port Sunlight: Ghost Art School: The Right Map: Unstable
Open Eye Gallery: Elodie Horsewell: Let Me In // Let Me Out
The Old Fire Station: Emma Rodgers, Johnny Vegas, Jacob Chan, James Lawler, Peter Hayes & Max Eugeni: BOOM
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: Ben Youdan: Mask
The Tapestry: Daniel William O'Dempsey: North X NorthWest
Dark Earth Records: Amelia Warbis: Oil and Leather
Daniel Meakin Studio: Daniel Meakin: Open Studio
Liverpool Central Library: Alan Dunn: ZERO PLAN (2025)
Dark Earth Records: Mark Titchner: Total Fears
dot-art: Bread & Roses
Bombed Out Church: Amy Flynn: Technofossils : I
Bombed Out Church: Tony Phillips: 20th Century Chapel
Bluecoat: Tony Phillips: Above Us Only Sky?
Bluecoat: Tracing the Independents Biennial
Victoria Gallery & Museum: Claire Beerjeraz
Victoria Gallery & Museum: Brigitte Jurack: Rising Darkness
The World of Glass: Jacques Verkade & Callan Waldron Hall: New Age Memorial Service
