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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...

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

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...

Montse Mosquera, Too Foreign (2021)

Montse Mosquera, Too Foreign (2021) https://youtu.be/BGxEFxflKSc Subtitles: 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...

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

Find out more about this project here 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...

Harriet Burns, Reflection (Final)

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)

Find out more about this project here The National Library of Argentina is the last known whereabouts of the infamous Book of Sand – a book about...

Montse Mosquera, Too Foreign (part 2)

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

Download the font files here(instructions below) Download Instructions: Mac: Download the font, and unzip the file.In the Font Book app, click the Add button in the Font Book toolbar,...

Emmer Winder, Social Prescription Pharmacy 2021

Find out about Emmer's full project here 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

View more work in progress, essays, and blogs from Elizabeth Challinor here View & comment on the original text here

New Podcast: Artist Hosts, Conversation #5: “Climbing walls & fireworks” (on Galleries)

View all podcasts here 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...

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

See more of Harriet Burns work here Download: In Conversation With GRACE and GEORGEDownload

Week 5 thoughts, Elizabeth Challinor

Read more of/about Elizabeth Challior's work here Comment & edit this article here 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’)

Listen to all podcasts here 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

See more of Jo Mary Watson's work here

woke up in the ‘am’, composed a beat – Harriet Burns

See more of Harriet Burns work here Comment & edit the document below here

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)

Find out more about Montse Mosquera & this project here >> These are drafts I made attempting to express the way I feel and tell my...

Out of context images (continued), Grace Collins & George Gibson

Find more work by Grace Collins & George Grace Gibson here 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

Find more work by Grace Collins & George Grace Gibson here 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,...

Matt Retallick Research Questionnaire 10: Grace Collins

Name: Grace CollinsLocation: St HelensWebsite: www.gracecollins.cargo.site 1. What is your relationship to Merseyside? I grew up in St Helens, moved away to London for uni & came back in 2020. 2....

My Joy by Annie Kamara, ROOT-ed on Joy

More about this projects & the artists here Annie Kamara, My Joy My Joy is my joyJoy is the gift has been given to us,feeling in the...

How Lucky Am I? by Fartun Abdulle, ROOT-ed on Joy

More about this projects & the artists here Fartun Abdulle, How Lucky Am I? You can tell when a new day is about to startBy how the...

All You Need is Joy by Tony O’Leary, ROOT-ed on Joy

More about this projects & the artists here Tony O'Leary, All You Need is Joy I thought this would be a great title for a songJoy all...

Joy by Pauline Cummins, ROOT-ed on Joy

More about this projects & the artists here Pauline Cummins, Joy Jazz beats repeat melodically.Saxophones float rhythmicallyCaptivating hearts, soothing the sensescomforting the soul. Dancing unseen.To soundtracks that...

Trompe l’oeil: Still Life of Books, Sarah Gilman – part 2

More on the artist & the project here 1. Trompe l'oeil vanitas with a skull and book after Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 2020, Oil on...

What a find, Grace Collins & George Gibson

More on this project & the artists here "Hello, so I found this, I’m still searching for more info on it and obviously it’s not...

Wood Water Rock, Feiyi Wen – (test prints – development)

More about the project & the artist here Prints on Munken Paper. Tests for Wood Water Rock

Otherhood Mixtapes, Sorrell Kerrison – Development (up to 09/04/21)

More about the project, and the artist here https://youtu.be/6ANESN06bRs https://youtu.be/SS6CyU8ed78 https://youtu.be/h3k4rK3_yKk

Matt Retallick Research Questionnaire 9: Kevin Crooks

Name: Kevin Crooks Location: St. Helens Website: www.kevincrooks.co.uk 1. What is your relationship to Merseyside? I grew up in St. Helens and currently live and work here. 2. How does Merseyside...

COVID AWARENESS, Harriet Burns

View more of Harriet Burns' work here COVID AWARENESS from Harriet on Vimeo.

‘Where are artists?’ – At ome’

Comment & edit here View & read more of Harriet Burns' work here

Week 2 Thoughts, Elizabeth Challinor

View original text here More writing by Elizabeth Challinor here I keep forgetting that weeks aren’t just Monday-Friday, and that Saturday and Sunday’s are available days...

Community Leaders

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Monday, 9_45pm.docx

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Splitting Time

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What about the ones who don’t actually call themselves artists?

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Who are artists? Week 2 (some)R&(less)D

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Social Prescription Pharmacy, Emmer Winder

St Helens Social Pharmacy is a project which invites everyone to share their personal mantra/ words/ phrases that help them through the continuing Covid19...

Matt Retallick Research Questionnaire 8: Sarah Gilman

Name: Sarah GilmanLocation: St HelensWebsite: www.sarahgilman.co.uk 1. What is your relationship to Merseyside? I moved to St Helens from Crewe in 2005 and have studied and...

Artsy people are weird, Harriet Burns

by Harriet Burns Follow her live work here

What’s the weirdest thing, Jo Mary Watson

by Jo Mary Watson & E.

Care Wildly, Jo Mary Watson

by Jo Mary Watson & E.

Matt Retallick Research Questionnaire 7: Luke Skiffington

Name: Luke Skiffington Location: Liverpool Website: www.lukeskiffington.com Instagram: @luke_skiffington 1. What is your relationship to Merseyside? We only moved here in summer 2019, so I’m still a tourist! I have some extended...

Matt Retallick Research Questionnaire 6: Elizabeth Challinor

Name: Elizabeth Challinor Location: Liverpool 1. What is your relationship to Merseyside? I was born in Liverpool, and have lived/worked here my whole life. I wanted to...

Artists Union England – Survey of Income Levels and Work Models for artists (with...

Following a year where artists and freelancers have been left behind in the frantic grabbing of emergency funds from the organisations that make up...

E.s favourite artist because he provided frames for her: Mark Simmonds

by Jo Mary Watson & E.

New Podcast: Artist Hosts, Conversation #1: “Complexity” (on Artists’ Pay)

Time is Money

I’m slightly treading water here. Self-preservation I think. How content1 are artists with being content2? 1 happy, fulfilled, satisfied2 subject matter, material I can only imagine I’ll...

A Brief (and inaccurate) History of Selling Art

It’s pretty impossible to talk about paying artists without referencing the art market – locally, nationally, internationally. And given that my job this week...

F*** you pay me

by Harriet Burns

Reference for Artists’ Pay – the focus of week 1’s writing for Independents Biennial...

Week 1: Artists’ Pay (introduction)

Week 1 thoughts, Elizabeth Challinor

by Elizabeth Challinor

What Happened This Morning

by Jo Mary Watson Wanted to do something productive and shareable for @indybiennial today. Even though this is not what I initially planned, nothing would fit better...

Matt Retallick Research Questionnaire 5: Emmer Winder

Name: Emmer Winder Location: Manchester Organisation: Just me! But business trades as NumberSix Website: www.emmerwinder.co.uk What is your relationship to Merseyside? This is quite a sensitive question without it meaning...

Matt Retallick: Going for a walk – an introduction to a method

As we mark the year anniversary of the first lockdown, I’m going for a walk. For a significant portion of the last twelve months,...

In Conversation With… (Introduction)

Matt Retallick Research Questionnaire 4: Alan Dunn

Name: Alan Dunn Location: Wirral Organisation: FOUR WORDS/cantaudio/Alternator Studio & Project Space (Birkenhead) Website: www.alandunn67.co.uk #alandunn67 1. What is your relationship to Merseyside? I was born in Glasgow but moved to Liverpool in 1995...

Matt Retallick Research Questionnaire 3: Jo Mary Watson

Name: Jo Mary Watson Location: Liverpool 1. What is your relationship to Merseyside? Liverpool is my partner’s homeport, and our daughter’s birthplace. 2. How does Merseyside impact or shape your...

Matt Retallick Research Questionnaire 2: Harriet Burns

Name: Harriet Burns Location: Allerton (South Liverpool) 1. What is your relationship to Merseyside? My mum was born here. I wasn’t. I have lived here since I was about...

Harriet Burns: Dear Diary (read & comment)

Matt Retallick Research Questionnaire 1: Patrick Kirk-Smith

Name: Patrick Kirk-Smith Location: Huyton Organisation: Art in Liverpool Website: www.artinliverpool.com 1. What is your relationship to Merseyside? I was born here, I grew up here, I have lived in on both...

Dad’s Project (ongoing)

My current portrait project looks at the small (but growing) number of families where fathers have chosen to be the main childcarer. While attitudes...

Chorlton Lockdown Portraits (Lockdown 3), Exhibition

The Chorlton Lockdown Portrait project started soon after the UK entered it’s first nationwide lockdown. Everything stopped overnight, and what we had always taken...

Chorlton Lockdown Portraits (Lockdown 2), Exhibition

The Chorlton Lockdown Portrait project started soon after the UK entered it’s first nationwide lockdown. Everything stopped overnight, and what we had always taken...

Chorlton Lockdown Portraits (Lockdown 1), Exhibition

The Chorlton Lockdown Portrait project started soon after the UK entered it’s first nationwide lockdown. Everything stopped overnight, and what we had always taken...

Trompe l’oeil (films)

For images from this project, see HERE https://youtu.be/DUGTcsxlQ_Q https://youtu.be/Lo_ctHHbBOw https://youtu.be/OHFlhMCtps8

Motherhood – image #1

Out of context images

Grace Collins & George Gibson, 2021

Dear Diary 01/03/2021

01/03/2021 ‘Live Essays’ across different platforms: audience, artists, producers etc. will have access to, to create a series of new writings to educate ourselves (as...

Jay Hampton: Weeds Wanted An investigation into rewilding in Liverpool (starting footage)

Jay Hampton: Bio & Background

I am a working-class citizen SciArtist from Liverpool with a BSc Earth & Ocean Sciences and Zoology from the University of Liverpool and MA Art...

Stephanie Fry, Threads of History (Film)

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Sufea Mohamad Noor, poster #1

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Feiyi Wen, Wood Water Rock (background)

The second chapter of the work: Wood, Water, Rock is a continuing exploration of interpretations of landscapes from different cultural perspectives with an emphasis...

Feiyi Wen, Under The Yuzu Tree (background)

I am looking into the idea on how we understand concepts of emotions such as pathos through a cross-cultural context. Using the Greek notion...

Dandelion Lemonade, Jay Hampton

Dandelion Lemonade Only 3% of UK wildflower meadows are left. Embrace the weeds. Let your garden overgrow. A weed is a flower in the wrong...

Sam Venables, Bio

Interests include but not limited to: Fandom, display mechanisms, signwriting, mass production, shopfitting/ shopfitters, roadside attractions, abandoned places, homemade substitutes, multi-packs, wear dated carpets, unofficial...

Photographs from Bonanza, Sam Venables

The following images are taken from a film by Sam Venables, commissioned by Independents Biennial in partnership with Open Eye Gallery. You can see...

Film stills from Bonanza, Sam Venables

The following images are stills from a film by Sam Venables, commissioned by Independents Biennial in partnership with Open Eye Gallery. You can see...

Pierce Starre, Banquet Invitation

Pierce Starre has no authority to command the Lord Chamberlain to send this invitation so instead personally invites Anyone to the performance titled "Empty";...

Too Foreign, part #1

TOO FOREIGN Living in another country can be one of the most stimulating and enriching experiences someone can have. They will never be the same...

Stephanie Fry, Bunker

Fiona Stirling, Sketchbook #1

In studying the impact of time and space on her painting practice Fiona Stirling made up two terms ‘painting ad hoc’ and ‘inbetweener painting’....

Avoid HaHa, Provocation #1: Ready when you are …

Ready when you are … For Independents Biennial 2021 Avoid HaHa collective is presenting a series of free laboratories where artists and performers can try...

Mark Simmonds, update #1

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ROOT-ed on Joy, pt.1

ROOT-ed has decided to dedicate their page to Joy. In these particular circumstances, it's important to look at the positive aspect in life and...

Human Libraries — Soft Sanctuary Online, Bella Milroy

This recipe is part of Soft Sanctuary Online — a programme of live events, written essays, recipes, film and podcasts. Featuring exclusively disabled artists, Soft...

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Sarah Gilman, Reading List

When these paintings are eventually able to be displayed in a library setting, books on the subject of still-life painting (particularly 17th century still-life)...

Sarah Gilman, Trompe l’oeil after Gijsbrechts

This project consists of a series of four oil paintings on canvas. It is an investigation into reproduction and appropriation in painting, looking primarily...

Kevin Crooks Instagram Takeover, February 2021 @indybiennial

@indybiennial is hosting artist takeovers, in the lead up to, and during the festival programme, 20th March - 6th June Kevin Crooks opened this programme...

(View) Kevin Crooks, Thatto Heath Project

Details HERE Head back to the main project page for updates & events HERE

(Previews) FOUR WORDS: WIRRAL

FOUR WORDS: WIRRAL will be launched in full Tuesday 4th May HERE FOUR WORDS: WIRRAL is a continuation of Alan Dunn’s series that began on the Liverpool...

ABOUT: Emmer Winder, Social Pharmacy

St Helens Social Pharmacy is a project which invites everyone to share their personal mantra/ words/ phrases that help them through the continuing Covid19 pandemic. It is hoped that these statements will heal those that read them, causing a therapeutic, shared sense of community.

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