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:
Metal Liverpool: Ruth Dillon: Revisited
Bootle Town Hall: MA Graduate Residency & Exhibition Space
Bridewell Studios & Gallery: Drawing (Paper) Show, Drawing Ponies
The Royal Standard: TRS Open Crits
Old International Social Club: Ghost Art School: The Right Map: In Search of Swallows and Amazons
BIRCH Studio & Gallery: Common Thread
Victoria Gallery & Museum: Brigitte Jurack: Rising Darkness, Floor Mosaic Workshops
The Royal Standard: Studio Open Day
Hilbre Island: Gillian Dyson: Performance
Hilbre Island: Dr Joanna Leah & Orla Bates: GULP (Performance)
Current exhibitions:
Cass Art: Threads & Fibres, Re-View Textile
Hilbre Island: Amanda Oliphant: Exhibition
BIRCH Studio & Gallery: Breadcrumbs
Everyman Theatre: Art at The Ev: Samantha Madgwick
ArtHouse Gallery: Southport Contemporary Arts Summer Open Exhibition: Free
Metal Liverpool: Ruth Dillon: Revisited
Cornerstone Gallery: Regolith: Recent artwork by Arthur Roberts and Barbara Jones
Bridewell Studios & Gallery: The Drawing (Paper) Show 2025
Kirkby Gallery: Letting in the Light: Book Art Exhibition
Make. North Docks: Leah Foulkes
Kirkby Gallery: Society of Wood Engravers 87th Annual Exhibition
Hazlehurst Studios: The Art Collection of John Bond
Royal Liver Building: Liverpool Art Fair 2025
The Hatch: Vivienne Netherwood: My Wirral
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: Artist A & Artist B: The Long Haul
Rathbone Studio: Louise Waller & Janet Holmes: Diversity in Clay
Northern Lights: Vincent Lavell: These Fragments
Boys’ Brigade Building: Patric Rogers: A Fall at the Edge of Sleep
The Old Fire Station: Emma Rodgers, Johnny Vegas, Jacob Chan, James Lawler, Peter Hayes & Max Eugeni: BOOM
The World of Glass: Jacques Verkade & Callan Waldron Hall: New Age Memorial Service
Liverpool Central Library: Alan Dunn: ZERO PLAN (2025)
dot-art: Bread & Roses
The World of Glass: Arts in Libraries x Independents Biennial 2025
Dark Earth Records: Amelia Warbis: Oil and Leather
Open Eye Gallery: Elodie Horsewell: Let Me In // Let Me Out
Bombed Out Church: Amy Flynn: Technofossils : I
Dark Earth Records: Mark Titchner: Total Fears
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: Ben Youdan: Mask
Bombed Out Church: Tony Phillips: 20th Century Chapel
Bluecoat: Tony Phillips: Above Us Only Sky?
The Tapestry: Daniel William O'Dempsey: North X NorthWest
Bluecoat: Tracing the Independents Biennial
Bluecoat Display Centre: Endangered Craft
Daniel Meakin Studio: Daniel Meakin: Open Studio
