Works by a multitude of fresh talent and grassroots artists will be showcased across the city
Liverpool’s much-loved Independents Biennial is back this year reaching new heights.
Launching Thursday June 5 at Port Sunlight Village, the artist-led festival will take over the city’s six boroughs, filling locations across Liverpool with art until September 14.
Since 1999, the biennial has centred around championing the grassroots artists of Liverpool, supporting new and emerging artists whilst applauding already established talent.
This year is no different as the event plans to showcase 65 artists across more than 120 locations in Liverpool, Wirral, Halton, St Helens, Sefton, and Knowsley.
The event is free to attend, with the artwork being displayed everywhere from high street spaces to galleries and studios - opening to the public on the 7 of June for a 14-week showcase.
The tickets to the launch festival in Port Sunlight Village are also free to book (secure your ticket here) and will feature artistic musical performances. Guests are encouraged to ‘expect the weird and the wonderful’ for this city-wide celebration.
Exhibitions to look out for:
Noel Jones and the 24 Hope Collective will showcase a dynamic digital dance installation, displayed in the windows of Liverpool’s 24 Hope Street. This immersive experience blends improvised choreography with technology to create a live canvas.
Independent artist Claire Beerjeraz will inhabit parts of Victoria Gallery and Museum to exhibit a collection of tapestries and clay sculptures, as well as performing a spoken word piece which examines the lasting impacts of colonialism and slavery and how these histories are displayed. In this exhibition, she searches for the human impact buried beneath the surface of museum walls.
Les Weston will show his first solo exhibition at the Belle Vale Shopping Centre. This artwork is a personal look towards his own childhood, unpicking his memories – more specifically of the Tower Blocks of Lee Park he grew up in. The brutalist architecture of the building is displayed in sculptures such as the one below.
Weston’s exhibition will display a range of mediums from audio to photography and archival film, with him even asking viewers to reflect and contribute songs and stories that shaped them as young people.
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