Wirral
The New Light Prize
Williamson Art Gallery are proud to host the launch of the New Light Prize exhibition 23/24. Established in 2010, the New Light charity celebrates and promotes Northern art, supporting both well-known and emerging artists by offering some of the region’s best awards and opportunities with the biennial New Light Prize Exhibition. It provides Northern artists...
UNEARTHED Exhibition at the LAKE gallery
UNEARTHED showcases a collection of vibrant and intuitive landscape paintings by Liverpool artist Hilary Dron and London-based painter Tamara Williams. Hilary’s award-winning work has been receiving much-deserved attention recently and we are looking forward to showing a brand new collection of paintings, inspired by her recent residency in County Mayo, Ireland. Tamara has exhibited widely...
Life Line: Photographs by Jonathan Cooper
Life Line exhibits two photography series set along the West Kirby waterfront. Employing magical realism and unique printing techniques, Cooper’s photographs place their inhabitants in a dreamlike world. Cooper began this series when the old West Kirby promenade still existed, and these photographs also track the development of the new flood defence wall. During the...
Sunday Serenades 2023: Gwilym Jones
After huge demand, we’re delighted that the Sunday Serenades are returning for 2023! Gwilym Jones is quickly becoming one of the most in-demand drummers on the U.K. jazz scene, boasting a career playing with some of the best and brightest international jazz talent. Gwilym’s melodic and musical approach to the drum set has seen him...
Peaky Blinders in Port Sunlight
Discover a special exhibition of costumes from Peaky Blinders, the hit TV show which was partly filmed in Port Sunlight. Set inside the magnificent Bridge Cottage, the exhibition gives you the chance to see an intimate display of six costumes including a dress worn by Helen McCrory as Polly Gray and a suit worn by...
Summer Family Workshops: Bring Apollo to life In Lego with Richard Negus
Get even more out of your visit to Apollo Remastered with these out-of-this-world workshops for children and young people. There’s a variety of sessions covering all kinds of activities, so there’s sure to be something you’ll love! Suitable for adults as well as children, the whole family can visit Apollo Remastered and build something new....
Between Two Rivers Exhibition at The LAKE Gallery
With thousands of visitors arriving in the area for the upcoming Open Golf Championship, a new exhibition at The LAKE gallery in West Kirby celebrates all things Wirral. Between Two Rivers exhibition features work from seven local artists who all take inspiration from our beautiful peninsula. With Anna Clark, Clare Flinn, Fiona Philipps, Marianthi Lainas,...
Rob Davies – Watercolours
Rob Davies is a Wirral-based artist who paints large-scale watercolour landscapes. His initial inspiration is the notion of a romantic “sublime”. Davies’s artworks are eclectic, but mainly combine elements from semi-industrial and semi-wild environments into landscapes that hover somewhere between real locations and science fiction. The paintings, using a variety of media from watercolour to...
Sunday Serenades 2023: Ruben Fox Quartet
After huge demand, we’re delighted that the Sunday Serenades are returning for 2023! A rising star on the UK and US jazz scene, saxophonist Ruben Fox has already performed with legends including Wynton Marsalis, Jon Batiste, Roy Hargrove and Barry Harris, as well as other upcoming artists of his generation such as Reuben James and...
Close Readings: Against Ageism with Simon(e) Van Saarloos
Close Readings forms a shared moment to explore research with writers over the course of a weekend, with hard conversation, softer discussions and grounding practices for collective work. What are the ways that chronological time maps our lives, moving us through categories of ‘childhood’, ‘youth’, ‘adult’, ‘middle age’, ‘old’, and finally ‘too old, to…’ ?...