Crack Pots At The End Of The Rainbow: Independents Eye
Top tipsy artist, collectively known as The Whores of Babylon, spontaneously paddled in Marc Quinn's Rainbow art piece at Cammell Laird at its launching...
St John’s Market, Review by Paul Tarpey (2002)
This seemed over-ambitious when I first heard about it, and seeing the site the week before re-inforced all fears about it. Well, it works...
Independents Biennial 2025 Evaluation
The Independents Biennial had a record breaking audience in 2025. The festival, which runs concurrently to Liverpool Biennial and provides a platform for the...
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10 things not to miss at Independents Biennial
The Independents Biennial, celebrating the art and artists living and working in Liverpool city-region, opens to the public on Saturday 7th June, with a...
Artist Call, Independents Biennial Art Markets
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Independents Biennial 2025 – First Programme Announcement
Independents Biennial 2025 will return to Liverpool City Region with 22 new artistic commissions, 64 artists and new work appearing across Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, Wirral and St Helens
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Independents Biennial 2025, Commission Guidance
Project Title: Independents Biennial 2025
Total commission amount (inclusive of time and materials): £500 - £4000
Festival dates: 7 June - 14 September 2025
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Independents Biennial 2025, Open Calls
Independents Biennial 2025, Open Calls
Context:
Independents Biennial is artist-led, and we want to make sure our artists still feel able to lead their own plans...
Independents Biennial 2024: Income support bursaries
Independents Biennial 2024: Income support bursaries
Artists are disproportionately in receipt of income support from DWP.
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Independents Biennial 2025: Volunteering
Independents Biennial 2025: Volunteering
Next years’ programme is bigger than before, and has a more directed set of visions.
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Independents Liverpool Biennial 2008
The Independents 08 strand of the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art is the art world equivalent of a festival fringe, an independent mix of...
Independents Liverpool Biennial 2008 Reading List
Independents Biennial 2008 produced several print editions, including artist publications and research works. Some are included as readable & downloadable PDFs below.
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Independents Liverpool Biennial 2008 Events / Venues
The 2008 event archive is incomplete. More details are available on the 2008 archive page, with scanned catalogues offering some information about the artists...
Independents Liverpool Biennial 2008 Artists
The 2008 artist archive is incomplete. Artists Brown – Nicholson and Solesvik to Z are missing details.
More details are available on the 2008 archive...
Independents Liverpool Biennial 2010
Independents Liverpool Biennial 2010
The Independents is one of the largest and most exciting contemporary visual arts festivals in the UK, with an exhibitions programme...
2010 Events / Venues
3345 Parr Street - 3345 Abstract Amigos - David Lach
3345 Abstract Amigos - David Lach
17 November - 5 December 2010Exhibition of Prints by abstract...
Independents Biennial 2010 Catalogue
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Thank you: All artists, curators, venues and sponsors who have made the Independents possible in 2010. The Independents Board: Theresia Cadwallader,...
2010 Artists
Andrew Brookfield
(b.1986, UK) Lives and works in Nottingham. Co-Founder and director of Backlit Gallery and studios. selected exhibitions ‘Ibid’ – Unit 3b, Sheffield’ 2010,...
Ingrid Solesvik
Ingrid Solesvik
http://solesvik.com
I have always painted what I see and have an affection for painting water and maritime motives, perhaps this comes from...
Benjamin Small
Benjamin Small
benjaminsmall.com
Benjamin Small a Liverpool born painter. Studied illustration at JMU liverpool, UCLAN preston and the BAUHAUS weimar germany.
(the archive for...
Roger Sinek
Roger Sinek
I’m from Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and started taking photographs when I was 11. I originally came to Liverpool to study architecture...
Crina Boros
Crina Boros
www.flickr.com/photos/absurdhorizon/
Transilvanian reporter living in London. Huge fan of travelling, photography, writing and philosophy. I believe that, without a sense of purpose,...
Matt Blackler
Matt Blackler
www.matt-blackler.com
Currently my work deals with process/the aesthetic of and the construction of histories.
(the archive for 2008 is incomplete. Please get...
Caroline Black
Caroline Black
Caroline Black's practice explores the value of a gesture, sentiment and value systems; her work explores this through actuations, film, sound...
Joel Bird
Joel Bird
www.joelbird.com
Paintings, sculpture and sound. I use expressionist and formalist ideas to represent our struggles to include thoughts to a natural order....
Stephanie Ballantine
Stephanie Ballantine
www.stephanieballantine.co.uk
Stephanie Ballantine explores notions of systems and structures within different environments, she is interested in sculptural objects that interrupt patterns in...
Katriona Beales
Katriona Beales
www.katrionabeales.com
Mixed media visual artist based at the Bluecoat.
(the archive for 2008 is incomplete. Please get in touch if you have...
Nicole Bartos
Nicole Bartos
www.gallery4allarts.com
Preoccupied with the philosophical and spiritual side of art, I create and curate as a means towards therapy/healing, growth and expression...
Stephen Ball
Stephen Ball
www.dontthinktwicecollective.blogspot.com
Stephen Ball, founder of Merseyside based arts collective, Dont Think Twice.
(the archive for 2008 is incomplete. Please get in touch...
Paula Baines
Paula Baines
I am a recent graduate from Liverpool Hope University. My current work involves degenerating photographs through a repeated reproduction process -...
Richard Ashworth
Richard Ashworth
Make visual images for a sensory world.
Make thinking images for a thinking world.
(the archive for 2008 is incomplete. Please get...
Steven Ashton
Steven Ashton
Artist and Musician based in the North West. Interested in changing states of structure through time, in the fixed and the...
Peter Appleton
Peter Appleton
http://hopestreetproject.blogspot.com/
Appleton is an artist and musician. He is currently a Reader in Creative Technology at Liverpool John Moores University
(the archive...
Becs Andrews
Becs Andrews
www.becsandrews.com
Becs creates environments for all kinds of live performance. Originally training as a film-maker, she incorporates ideas that use light, illusion,...
Charlotte Andrew
Charlotte Andrew
I am a New Zealander who originally trained and worked as a nurse. Following on from this I had a family...
Agata Alcaniz
Agata Alcaniz
www.agataalcaniz.net
Environmental Performance is a project that explores the human impact on our environment. Environmental Performance @ Liverpool European Capital of Culture...
Gillian Adams
Gillian Adams
A recent graduate of Wirral Art School, my degree work focused on mental health awareness. To promote the recognition, and acknowledgment...
Mike Absalom
Mike Absalom
www.mikeabsalom.com
Mike Absalom is an Irish painter and printmaker. He was born in England and educated and brought up both there and...
100%Scouse
100%Scouse
www.facebook.com (Scouse Stew)
I derive from the word lobscouse meaning a meat stew which was commonly eaten by seamen. Lobscouse was a dish...
Mandy Romero
Mandy Romero
"You And Me - Self-Portraits For Your Entertainment"
Transgender Live Art as it appears in the Pool
Mandy will be appearing in a number of...
Marc Paetzold
Susanne Roewer & Marc Paetzold
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE Blueprints
BLACK SUN
Diese Ausstellung ist die vierte gemeinsame Ausstellung von Susanne Roewer und Marc Pätzold. Nach...
Susanne Roewer
Susanne Roewer & Marc Paetzold
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE Blueprints
BLACK SUN
Diese Ausstellung ist die vierte gemeinsame Ausstellung von Susanne Roewer und Marc Pätzold. Nach...
Richard Cardew
Jill Rock & Richard Cardew
"Another Vacant Space" Blueprints
Blueprint for a universe
BLUEPRINT FOR A UNIVERSE
Confronting the limitations of our fractured consciousness the mirrored interior of...
Arthur Roberts
Arthur Roberts
Artist/curator promoting geometric abstract painting at the Loop Gallery
Loop Gallery is presenting a geometric abstract painting exhibition, titled Ratio.
The exhibition will visually demonstrate...
Jill Rock
Jill Rock & Richard Cardew
"Another Vacant Space" Blueprints
Blueprint for a universe
BLUEPRINT FOR A UNIVERSE
Confronting the limitations of our fractured consciousness the mirrored interior of...
Reynolds
Reynolds
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE
Reynolds (USA)
PUKI
The Puki Salon, DAAD Studio 4, Berlin, Germany
1995:
Paintings, Galerie Seghaier, Vienna, Austria
1993:
Consecrated Hostess: Etchings and Paintings, Leeward Community College,...
Ruby Lynn Reyner
Ruby Lynn Reyner
MUSEUM MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE
Adam Nankervis presents and initiates THE INTERNATIONAL RUBY LYNN REYNER FAN CLUB
Ruby Lynn Reyner is a performance artist,Andy...
Andrew Reyner
Andrew Reyner
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE
GEORGE W ON IPANEMA
Andrew Reyner is a NYC/Brazilian psychiatrist who's work examines the dialogue of American myth and exile...
Carlyle Reedy
Carlyle Reedy
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE Blueprints
CARLYLE REEDY is a poet, performance artist and collagist/painter. She has performed her work at prestigious venues, notably...
Alicia Prowse
Alicia Prowse
"Natural Succession"
Mapping urban wastelands to investigate their ecological value and their potential for ‘experiencing wildlife’
"Natural Succession" is a process led art and ecology...
Richard Proffitt
Richard Proffitt
Artist working in Liverpool & Manchester
Working with painting, drawing, photography and sound installation.
Materials common in paintings include, human hair, flowers, leaves, dirt, oil,...
Angela Presnail
Angela Presnail
"Handle With Care" 5 cardboard bow sculptures with drawings and text
Angela Presnail is currently on the M.A. Fine Art programme at UCLAN. Her...
Deb Prado
Deb Prado
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE Blueprints
EINSTEIN'S EYE colloboration Willoughby Sharp and Pam Seymour Smith
Deb Prado is a Brazilian visual artist based in new...
Edmund Piper
Edmund Piper
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE Blueprints
art-agency STADT
Edmund Piper's art-agency is known the world over as tenacious and highly skilled investigator. It combines traditional...
Leo Paradisi
Leo Paradisi "Flagging Down Mayday"
London Biennale Pollination
“FLAG”
Inch 94,5 X 25,2
Digital print on pvc banner
From the series:
“Matrixes”
A photographic work as origin: test prints upon which...
Amanda Oliphant
Amanda Oliphant
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE Blueprints
Amanda Oliphant
Three dimensional sculptural forms and wall based relief’s concerned with evolution and the continuity of life forms...
Sharon Mutch
Sharon Mutch
Feminae in Vitro (Women within Glass) Untitled Series 2006
Feminae in Vitro (Women within Glass) Untitled Series 2006
My work seeks to explore the cultural,...
Matthias Movarek
Matthias Movarek
participant of "Temporary Berlin Collective" curated by Edmund Piper (www.piper.at)
Matthias Moravek is a Berlin based painter. His work deals basically with the presence...
Kerry Morrison
Kerry Morrison
"Natural Succession"
Mapping urban wastelands to investigate their ecological value and their potential for ‘experiencing wildlife’
“Natural Succession” is a process led art and ecology...
Matthias Moravek
Matthias Moravek
Participant of the show "temporary berlin collective" at museum man space curated by E. Piper
Matthias Moravek
Matthias Moravek is a Berlin based painter. His...
Nicole Mollett
Nicole Mollett
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE
Looking Glass
Nicole Mollett is a sculptor and performance,multi media artist whos prolific works and curated exhibitions have spanned UK...
Aaron Miller
Aaron Miller
Transvoyeur Liverpool and New York Exhibitions Programme 2006
Website:
www.aaronmmiller.com
M.A.H., 2003, Media Study and Computer Music, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Miller is an artist specializing...
Stephan Fowlkes
Stephan Fowlkes
Transvoyeur Liverpool and New York Exhibitions Programme 2006
Website:
www.stephanfowlkes.com
Fowlkes was born in New York City in 1970. He graduated Bennington College in 1993 and...
Mary Fitz
Mary Fitz
fotopaintingvideosculpture
Mary Fitz is a contemporary visual artist working with photography, painting and video. She has worked mostly on longterm art projects in the...
Daniela Eheman
Daniela Eheman
participant of "Temporary Berlin Collective" curated by Edmund Piper (www.piper.at)
Daniela Ehemann : Last Exhibitions (Selection)
2006 Caracas, „Side Seing“, invited by the French Embassy
Frankfurt,...
Dominik Eggerman
Dominik Eggerman
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE Blueprints
BLAU
Dominik Eggerman (Eggerman) studies painting at UDK in Berlin Germany.
Globular washed intricate blue horizon.
Event Title blueprints
Nina Edge
Nina Edge
Nothing is Private
Previously shown globally and as seen in the Independent of Liverpool Biennial with ;
1999 The Traceless Tour
2002 Nothing Is Fireproof
2004 The...
Monica De Miranda
Monica De Miranda
New Geographies
My work reflects how globalisation is profoundly
transforming our perception of the world and it is
provoking a new experience of history, place...
William Curwen
William Curwen
Museum MAN "Another vacant Space" - Blueprints
CULTURE TO GO : Will Curwen Liverpool England
Will Curwen is the man who after years of denial...
PJ Cobbs
PJ Cobbs
Transvoyeur Liverpool and New York Exhibitions Programme 2006
Website:
www.pjcobbsarts.com
Self-taught art, specializing on fibre art.
Born & raised in London, England, moved to America yonks ago....
Martin Clark RM
Martin Clark RM
Constructed images from film and television memories.
The work suspends disbelief, as the images could be documentary portraits rather than constructed scenes. The...
Lorraine Clark
Lorraine Clark
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE Blueprints
BLUEPRINTS II BERLIN
I have had the pleasure of visiting Lorraine Clarke’s Tottenham studio while some of the work...
Peter Chan
Peter Chan
The Apiarist (Beekeeper)
Explorations of the citys environment. The environment is not merely the physical nature of a place, but is communicated in many...
Catherine Butters
Catherine Butters
"Map/guide"
The new map/guide was created by Catherine Butters www.zebracrossing.net and her artwork design was published by Hillfoot Studios www.hillfootstudios.com
This new colourful map/guide to...
Sigal Avni
Sigal Avni
Gene Culture
B&W; direct photographs of a mother and her adult daughter and digital imaging, sharp coulors and two dimensional, highly-stylised backgrounds act as...
Simon Bendi
Simon Bendi
negative minstrels, white oomanists - six black folk, six white folk, same difference
a set of 12 high quality digital prints in an edition...
Ara Azad
Ara Azad
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE Blueprints
Ara Azad (LEBANON)
Ara Azad is a graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, (D5), and...
Johanna Berger
Johanna Berger
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE
BUTTERFLY HOUSE
Brazilian artsist Johanna Berger-
"My piece involves audio, which ideally should come out of headphones, on
the wall, next to...
Norbert Bisky
Norbert Bisky
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE Blueprints
IDOLS
Born in Leipzig in 1970 and now based in Berlin, Norbert Bisky grew up during the waning years...
Chris Borkowski
Chris Borkowski
Transvoyeur Liverpool and New York Exhibitions Programme 2006
Chris Borkowski
Website:
www.chrisborkowski.com
Chris Borkowski is a digital media maker living in Brooklyn NY. He received his BA...
Guy Brett
Guy Brett
Museum MAN "Another vacant Space" - Blueprints
OBITUARY
OBITUARY
Guy Brett is a London-based art critic, curator and lecturer on art. He published widely in the...
Neal Brown
Neal Brown
Museum MAN ANOTHER VACANT SPACE Blueprints
NEW RELIGIOUS ART
Neal Brown was curator of ‘To the Glory of God: New Religious Art,’ presented at St...
Lara Allen
Lara Allen
A graduate of Master in Fine Art from Yale University in 2005. Allen’s work is childish. Not innocent, or simple, or naive, or,...
Àgata Alcañiz
Àgata Alcañiz
Transvoyeur Liverpool/New York
Àgata Alcañiz is an artist from Barcelona based in Manchester. Originally she studied on a four year Graphic Design course at...
Reece Jones
Reece Jones
Born in Botswana and lives in London. Completed a Master at the Royal Academy in 2001. Recently had a solo exhibition at Rockwell,...
Robert Howie-Smith
Robert Howie-Smith
44 Duke Street- open daily The Photo and Darkroom Gallery 4-8pm The project building will initially house and then rotate exhibits of work...
Mick Green
Mick Green
A mixed show of Creative LETS members’ works, including paintings, photography, installation, fashion design, calligraphy and more. Daily, 10am – 5pm 18 September...
Jorunn Haugse
Jorunn Haugse
Born and lives in Norway. Completed a BA Fine Art at Birmingham University in
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Roderick Harris
Roderick Harris
Completed MA Fine Art at the Royal College in 2000. Exhibitions include David Risley, Keith Talent and Zwemmer in London, and the Bergamo...
Beth Harland
Beth Harland
Studied at the RCA, London and Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. Awarded a scholarship to the British School in Rome, exhibiting there and...
Helena Goldwater
Helena Goldwater
Helena Goldwater (UK) – the genre of botanical painting has long been associated with the commerce of flowers, the growth of science over...
Steve Gent
Steve Gent
32 Seel Street- open daily 2-8pm Urban This gallery shows a presentation of urban artworks, including the showcase of Static – Wednesday 22...
Paul Gatenby
Paul Gatenby
Part of the show Journeys Liverpool-based artist, Paul Gatenby, specialises in painting human subjects. He paints in a fluid, impressionistic style and in...
Barbara Galt
Barbara Galt
I enjoy both sculpture and painting using various media. I feel sometimes it is better to let the materials use you rather than...
Laird Galbraith
Laird Galbraith
AUTOBIOGRAPHOBIA Anton Chekhov had what he described as ‘autobiographobia’- a horror of self-exposure. It is not only the famous who are the subject/victims...
Claire Freeman
Claire Freeman
My work often incorporates materials and objects which possess a history; remnants of what once existed. I am intrigued by the mystery found...
Stephan Fowlkes
Stephan Fowlkes
Born in New York, Stephan Fowlkes studied at Bennington College (1993) and the Lacost Schools of Arts in France (1994). He then followed...
Kofi Fosu
Kofi Fosu
A painter, writer and philosopher. Kofi Fosu was born in Accra, Ghana in a town called Osu. He migrated to the United States...
David Weiss
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Peter Fischli & David Weiss (Switzerland) – Fischli/Weiss’s interest in ‘the ordinary’ is given form in their flower portraits; colourful...
Ben Deakin
Ben Deakin
Lives in London. Studied at Kingston University. Had solo exhibitions at The Barn Gallery and St Martins College in Cumbria and the Old...
Lauren Cornell
Lauren Cornell & Astria Suparak
ELUSIVE QUALITY Film programme curated by Lauren Cornell and Astria Suparak. In its Report, the 9/11 Commission points to four...
Matt Barker
“Over the past two years I have developed a more rugged approach to my work using different marks made by pen and ink as...
Lynda Roberts
Lynda studied textile at the Glasgow School of art, worked in design studios in Canada before teaching art in Wirral.
Through travel and an observation...
Dennis Spicer
“I go out into the landscape and bring bits of it back into the studio to paint. There, they join other bits of nature...
Daniel Meakin
Daniel Meakin is a freelance artist painter and has been executing and selling work for over 30 years.
After 20 years living in Barcelona, Meakin recently...
Louise Waller
Louise graduated from Liverpool Hope University in 2003 with a BA (Hons) in 3D Design and continued to develop her creative practice by taking...
Carol Emmas
I am a Wirral-based artist who works with acrylic, oil paint, mixed-media and photography. My aim is to interpret landscapes through ephemeral emotion rather than literal representation.
Photographically,...
Carole Dawber
I intuitively operate in an experimental way using different resources to allow the work to evolve organically. Usually supported within linked themes, they often overlap or emerge...
Dan O’Dempsey
Dan O’Dempsey’s practice is broad and eclectic with interests in public engagement, collaboration, Taoism and mindfulness at its core. As a neurodivergent person with...
Chiz Turnross
I’ve been, messing with materials, with art stuff and other stuffs, with sound and music’s. For a long time now, looking under things, having...
Danny May
Danny May graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a BA(hons) in Fine Art in the mid-1990s. He currently lives and works in Wales....
Ben Lloyd
Ben Lloyd graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Liverpool School of Art in 1997, after which he worked in community arts...
Vicki Lucas le Bon
Vicki Lucas le Bon is a visual artist living in Liverpool whose practice includes painting and drawing, ceramics, collage and installation.
The basis of much...
Anna Ketskemety
Ketskemety explicitly uses the photograph as source material, raising questions about authenticity, objectivity, capture and permanence. Her paintings are sometimes subtly sculptural, freeing them...
Cos Ahmet & Gary Finnegan
Cos Ahmet and Gary Finnegan have been collaborating since 2020. Both artists share an interest in the moving image. Cos is best known for...
Emily Salinas
Emily Salinas is a graphic designer and is also training to be a sign painter. Her personal practice is focussed on making art that...
Abbie Bradshaw
Instagram: @abbiebradshaw___artist
Website: https://abbiebradshawart.wixsite.com/abbiebradshaw
Anna Jane Houghton
Website: @annajanehoughton
Maeve Thompson
Website: @7maeve7
Kelly Stubbs
Melody Carey Art is a project centred around a fictional autobiography written by Kelly Stubbs. Kelly didn’t have the understanding she needed to come...
Stephanie Trujillo
Stephanie Trujillo is a multidisciplinary emerging artist exploring her Peruvian-German- American heritage as an estranged person based in Liverpool through painting, collages, and spoken...
David Ballantyne
My creative practise generally involves working with paint, mixed media, and collage, however, the work for this exhibition was created as part of a...
John Elcock
John Elcock is a visual artist based in Liverpool. His work explores symbolism, birds and aspects of the divine in a multidisciplinary practice centred...
Silvia Battista
Dr Silvia Battista is a performance artist and senior lecturer at Liverpool Hope University.
Her work investigates perception and identity; with all the processes, discourses...
Patric Rogers
Patric Rogers is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist and filmmaker based on the Wirral.
Frequently focusing on the hidden nature of the self, both internal and...
Angelo Madonna
Angelo Madonna is a multidisciplinary artist and teacher originally from Southern Italy, now based in Liverpool. He was formally trained in nautical science and...
Helen Lydon
Website: https://www.instagram.com/mindsreimagined/
Daniel Halsall
Daniel Halsall is a painter who creates modern minimalist figurative paintings that draw on Modern day themes on technology, vector glyphs, computer data, and...
Luke George
Luke George is an abstract painter based in Liverpool, currently studying for his MFA (Painting) at Manchester School of Art. Luke’s large-scale painted works...
Ali Barker
Music is a major influence on my work. I create visual representations of music and sound in colour, inspired by my experiences of the phenomenon...
Elisa Sallis
Website: @leeleepants
Xanthe Tilzey
Xanthe’s practice combines painting, sculpture, and textiles to create sensual and suggestive works, attempting to articulate her fascination with complex power dynamics through feminine...
Sian Hughes
Sian is based in North Wales, where she has her studio.
A key driving force is the exploration of material – currently the translucent properties...
Elizabeth Challinor
Elizabeth Challinor is an (occasional) artist and curator from Liverpool, whose work focuses a lot on communication, language, and highlighting the importance of process...
Richard Meaghan
Richard Meaghan is a contemporary painter who has exhibited nationally and internationally. He has won prizes for his work and his paintings are in...
Freddy Francké
Francké’s practice revolves around researching identity and heritage and using his internal experience as a guide for self-discovery. He creates works based on this...
Max Mallender
Max Mallender is an artist based in Liverpool, UK. He is represented by the contemporary gallery Artbase in Wiesbaden, Germany, and has exhibited extensively...
Josie Jenkins
Josie Jenkins is an artist based in Liverpool, UK. She studied for her BA Hons in Fine Art (Painting) at Norwich School of Art...
Emma Case
Emma Case is a photographer specialising in projects that explore home, memory and place. Focusing particularly on nostalgia and the ‘everyday’, Emma is interested...
John McDonald
Liverpool City of Music: The Buskers
Back when I was a bit younger, in the late sixties, I used my family’s box brownie and took...
Andrew Small
I am primarily interested in the relationship between art and design and its functions in our shared spaces, working predominantly on site-specific projects. I have...
Fiona Stirling
Fiona Stirling is an artist and mother. Since beginning her PhD, she has been researching into the impact of time and space on the...
Adam Cain
Artist and producer, Adam Cain, works across disciplines, primarily focussed on games art, and lectures at the School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan...
Call to artists and venues: Independents Biennial 2023: 10 June – 17 September
Deadline: 21st May 2023
Independents Biennial 2023 is calling on all artists, makers, performers, and producers, to submit events towards a combined programme of visual...
Montse Mosquera, Too Foreign (2021)
Montse Mosquera, Too Foreign (2021)
https://youtu.be/BGxEFxflKSc
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Living in another country is one of the most enriching experiences you can have.When you leave, your memory will remain...
Feiyi Wen: Wood, Water, Rock (final test submission)
See all tests for this work here, with explanations of the project's origins
Responses to ROOT-ed on Joy
Responses to ROOT-ed on Joy(Fauziya Johnson & Amber Akaunu from ROOT-ed published a series of poems on Joy for Independents Biennial 2021. Their purpose...
Pierce Starre, Scrutiny
Pierce Starre has been in residence with Metal Liverpool for Independents Biennial since 2020. This commission is Scrutiny, a video performance exploring personal experiences...
Sufea Mohamad Noor, Stop Asian Hate
Sufea Mohamad Noor has been researching the development of diversity and inclusion (D&I) terminologies since the beginning of her career. In 2020 Independents biennial,...
Jay Hampton, Weeds Wanted (citizen science data project now live)
Jay Hampton begun Independents Biennial with a recipe for foraged Dandelion Lemonade.
The project has evolved into Weeds Wanted, a region wide citizen science experiment...
In Conversation: Emmer Winder / Elizabeth Challinor
Emmer Winder is an artist from St Helens now working in Manchester from the Rogue Artist Studios. With 20 years background in conceptual art,...
In Conversation: Fiona Stirling / Elizabeth Challinor
Fiona Stirling is an artist and mother. Since beginning her PhD, she has been researching the impact of time and space on the paintings...
In conversation: Alan Dunn / Phaedra Hardstaff / Steve Hardstaff / The Singh Twins / Elizabeth Challinor
FOUR WORDS: WIRRAL is a continuation of Alan Dunn’s series that began on the Liverpool Media Wall working with Metal in 2016. This new...
In Conversation: Grace Collins / George Gibson / Elizabeth Challinor
Grace Collins is an artist from St Helens who researches how people work together and documents collaborations to create new artworks. This interest led...
In Conversation: Jay Hampton / Elizabeth Challinor
Jay Hampton is a working-class citizen Sciartist from Liverpool with a BSc Earth & Ocean Sciences and Zoology from the University of Liverpool and...
In Conversation: Kevin Crooks / Callan Waldron-Hall / Elizabeth Challinor
Kevin Crooks is a St.Helens based photographic artist and Deutsche Bank Award recipient, and also the Head of Photography at Carmel College. Kevin’s work...
In Conversation: Montse Mosquera / Elizabeth Challinor
Montse Mosquera is a Spanish graphic designer based in Liverpool who explores multiple disciplines, and has a passion for the exploration of her self-image...
In Conversation: ROOT-ed / Elizabeth Challinor
ROOT-ed (Revolution Of Our Time) is a self-published zine and social platform, that aims to promote, support, represent and inspire creative people of colour...
In Conversation: Sam Venables / Elizabeth Challinor
Sam Venables is an artist whose work explores fandom, advertising and ideas around what makes something feel ‘local’ to a place. The things we...
In Conversation: Sorrell Kerrison / Elizabeth Challinor
Sorrell Kerrison is an artist working in many different mediums, including film, sound, and print. Sorrell is most known for her complex fauvist style...
In Conversation: Stephanie Fry / Elizabeth Challinor
Stephanie Fry is a Billinge-based artist, using a variety of traditional and non-traditional techniques to create artworks focusing on themes of place, history and...
Artist Host, Conversation (Final)
Artist Host Conversation- Elizabeth Challinor
Elizabeth ChallinorJo Mary WatsonHarriet BurnsMatt Retallick
Elizabeth: So yeah. I wanna ask like general questions and we can just sort of...
Grace Collins & George Gibson, The Book of Sand
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The National Library of Argentina is the last known whereabouts of the infamous Book of Sand – a book about a...
Jo Mary Watson, Reflection
In the following reflection I am using the words “Motherhood” and “Parenthood” to talk about the focus I have set on my work for...
Elizabeth Challinor, In Conversation With IB21. Reflection (final)
In Conversation With IB21 (a title I started off with, and never actually used) is a project focusing on the artists featured in Independents...
Merseyside: State of Independence? – Matt Retallick
Merseyside: State of Independence?Matt Retallick
This short piece is written at the end of Independents Biennial ’21. It does not aim to provide answers but...
“The Impact of Motherhood on being an Artist” (very short) Booklist, Jo Mary Watson
“The Impact of Motherhood on being an Artist” (very short) Booklist
“Feminist Art and the Maternal”Andrea Liss
“Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution”Adrienne Rich
“100...
Grace Collins & George Gibson, Book of Sand (Prototypes)
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The National Library of Argentina is the last known whereabouts of the infamous Book of Sand – a book about...
Emmer Winder, Posters
Emmer Winder's Social Prescription Pharmacy was produced to a commission funded by St Helens Arts in Libraries in collaboration with Independents Biennial.
Her advice has...
Mark Simmonds, […] Font Download
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Emmer Winder, Social Prescription Pharmacy 2021
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This post is produced by Emmer Winder, from images at the end of a year recording conversations and...
Mothman #4
Mothman issue for Poster Edition
ROAD Studios’ Director Tony Knox will be collaborating with ROAD members and guest artists to produce the latest issue of...
FOUR WORDS: WIRRAL launches today
www.fourwordswirral.com
Some of Wirral’s contemporary folklore and social history can now be explored in a new community project which sees artists condense the stories of...
Week 6 Thoughts, Elizabeth Challinor
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New Podcast: Artist Hosts, Conversation #5: “Climbing walls & fireworks” (on Galleries)
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Harriet Burns, Elizabeth Challinor Jo Mary Watson and Matt Retallick (Independents Biennial 2021 Artist Hosts) and Patrick Kirk-Smith (IB Director) attempting...
Week 6 Notes – Spaces part 2, Galleries (hand written notes and appalling automatic transcription)
The hand written notes below are the result of limited capacity to stare at a screen this week. An attempt to automatically transcribe them...
Matt Retallick: State of Independence
Brief musings on independence v collective, another prompt for discussion.
In my recent walks around Liverpool, independence has been on my mind. What does it...
In Conversation With GRACE and GEORGE, Harriet Burns
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Week 5 thoughts, Elizabeth Challinor
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19/04
It’s week 5, and we’re either talking about social media (as a continuation...
Week 4/5 (base texts)
Week 4/5 bled out of week 3, and didn't have a particularly clear theme. Our podcasts focused on social media, and our writing stumbled...
New Podcast: Artist Hosts, Conversation #4: “Caterpillar” (on ‘Studios / Social Media’)
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Harriet Burns, Elizabeth Challinor Jo Mary Watson and Matt Retallick (Independents Biennial 2021 Artist Hosts) and Patrick Kirk-Smith (IB Director)...
Scrapbook, inspired by talks with others (part 1), Jo Mary Watson
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woke up in the ‘am’, composed a beat – Harriet Burns
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Matt Retallick Research Questionnaire 12: Montse Mosquera
Name: Montse Mosquera
Location: St Helens / Liverpool
Website: montsemosquera.com
1. What is your relationship to Merseyside?
Four years ago I moved to Liverpool for university but as...
Too Foreign, Montse Mosquera – updates (12/04/21)
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These are drafts I made attempting to express the way I feel and tell my...
Out of context images (continued), Grace Collins & George Gibson
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Book on to their latest workshop, 28th April, here
"Still not sure what's missing in...
“I think I’ve got the cover […]”, Grace Collins & George Gibson
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Book on to their latest workshop, 28th April, here
"I think I've got the cover,...
Matt Retallick: Social Media – a prompt for a podcast
This short post is a prompt for a podcast we are recording this week. It does not intend to answer any questions but lay...
New Podcast: Artist Hosts, Conversation #3: “Unknown Visibility” (on ‘Where are artists?’)
Harriet Burns, Elizabeth Challinor Jo Mary Watson and Matt Retallick (Independents Biennial 2021 Artist Hosts) and Patrick Kirk-Smith (IB Director) attempting to stumble around...
Matt Retallick Research Questionnaire 11: Sorrell Kerrison
Name: Sorrell Chrystal Kerrison (SorrellCK)
Location: Mossley Hill, Liverpool
Website: www.sorrellkerrison.co.uk
1. What is your relationship to Merseyside?
I live in Mossley Hill. I used to visit from...
State of the Studios Report
Over the last twelve months, we've been working with studios to understand the issues they have faced during the pandemic. In almost every case,...
