Exhibitions

Shifting Horizons @ Digital Window Gallery

27 March - 31 March 2024

PLATFORM: ISSUE 6

26 March 2024

Events

Saturday Town: Launch Event

10 April 2024

Exhibitions

Coming Soon: Saturday Town

11 April - 18 May 2024

Past Events

PLATFORM: ZINE LAUNCH EVENT

21 March 2024

Home. Ukrainian Photography, UK Words: Tour

4 March - 28 February 2025

Exhibitions

Home: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words @ New Adelphi

4 March - 8 March 2024

Past Events

CREATIVE SOCIAL: IN THE ABSENCE OF FORMAL GROUND

2 March 2024

Exhibitions

We Feed The UK @ Exterior Walls

8 February - 31 March 2024

Past Events

Contrail Cirrus: the impact of aviation on climate change

7 March 2024

Exhibitions

Tree Story @ Liverpool ONE

16 February - 1 May 2024

Open Source #27: Saffron Lily – In The Absence of Formal Ground @ Digital Window Gallery

6 February - 31 March 2024

Past Events

Contemporary Photography from Ukraine: Symposium @University of Salford

4 March - 5 March 2024

Past Events

Is Anybody Listening? Symposium: Commissioning and Collecting Socially Engaged Photography

29 February 2024

Past Events

Different approaches: Artists working with scientists

15 February 2024

Events

LOOK Climate Lab 2024: All Events

18 January 2024

Exhibitions

Diesel & Dust @ Digital Window Gallery

18 January - 31 March 2024

Events

Tree Walks Of Sefton Park with Andrea Ku

21 January 2024

Past Events

Artists Remake the World by Vid Simoniti: Book Launch

31 January 2024

Past Events

Shift Liverpool Open Meeting

6 February 2024

Past Events

We Feed The UK Launch and LOOK Climate Lab 2024 Celebration

8 February 2024

Past Events

Cyanotype workshop with Melanie King

17 February 2024

Past Events

End of Empire: artist talk and discussion

22 February 2024

Past Events

Book Launch: What The Mine Gives, The Mine Takes

24 February 2024

Past Events

Local ecology in the post-industrial era: open discussion

14 March 2024

Past Events

Waterlands: creative writing workshop

23 March 2024

Past Events

Plant a seed. Seed sow and in conversation with Plot2Plate

16 March 2024

Past Events

Erosion: panel discussion

9 March 2024

Past Events

Waterlands: an evening of poetry and photographs

23 March 2024

Events

Force For Nature Exhibition

27 March - 28 March 2024

Voices of Nature: Interactive Performances

28 March 2024

Past Events

Sum of All Parts: Symposium

27 February 2024

Exhibitions Main Exhibition

LOOK Climate Lab 2024

18 January - 31 March 2024

Past Events

MA Socially engaged photography Open Day event

1 February 2023

Past Events

Tish: Special screening and Q&A

13 December 2023

Past Events

Book Launch: A Look At A New Perspective

23 November 2023

Events

Community workshops @ Ellesmere Port Library

6 November - 5 February 2024

Past Events

Book Launch: ‘544m’ By Kevin Crooks

30 November 2023

Past Exhibitions

Bernice Mulenga @ Open Eye Gallery Atrium Space

17 November - 17 December 2023

Past Events

Bernice Mulenga: Artist Talk

18 November 2023

Past Exhibitions

Local Roots @ The Atkinson

14 October 2023

Exhibitions

Community @ Ellesmere Port Library

26 October - 11 April 2024

Past Events

Critique Surgery for Socially Engaged Photographers

6 November 2023

Past Events

Deeds Not Words: panel discussion

12 October 2023

Past Exhibitions

Deeds Not Words @ Atrium Space

3 October - 22 October 2023

Ode To Our Space @ Digital Window Gallery

29 September - 23 December 2023

A Look At A New Perspective @ Digital Window Gallery

29 September - 23 December 2023

Past Events

Book Launch: Crow Dark Dawn

19 October 2023

Past Events

Exhibition Launch: A Place of Our Own

28 September 2023

Reflections

12 September - 22 December 2023

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British Journal of Photography Magazines
Craig Atkinson, Cafe Royal Books
OKIDO, the arts and science magazine

Independent Gallery Shop

Faithful OEG followers will know we have been mentioning our ‘independent book shop’ as often as we can (apologies!) but the team here is really quite proud of it. So proud, if fact that we thought a virtual tour would be a fantastic idea!

Without further ado…

As the only dedicated contemporary photographic gallery here in the dark and rain-soaked North, we think it is hugely important to point a torch towards local artists, be they established photographers or fresh out of university. If the work adds to the discussion about contemporary art, we stand firmly behind it and think it rightly deserves a place on our shelf or feature walls.

Section 2 is a completely different animal – this space is reserved only for independent publishers, such as MACK, and Fistful of Books. Expect more experimental, wacky and highly emotive projects not restrained by larger corporations in the forms of lovingly cloth-bound hardbacks and small edition zines. With such a range of massively differing titles, this is a good spot for a rummage through lesser-known names.

Browse through contemporary work from the likes of British Journal of Photography, Hotshoe, Aesthetica and fresh talent: Gravy Photographic. If your thirst for knowledge is left unquenched, there is always space on our theory shelf for the classics. From Susan Sontag to Friedrich Nietzsche, we have you covered.

Next, we have our local interest area; dedicated to established and up-and-coming local photographers or image-makers that turn their eye to UK soil. We have a wide variety of Craig Atkinson’s highly collectable publishing project: Café Royal Books alongside the work of Liverpool photographers Ken Grant, Dave Sinclair and more. All of this is only one part of our small-but-perfectly-formed independent shop!

Bright kids will love OKIDO, the arts and science magazine, and story-telling dice in our range for smaller hands. From shadow puppet theatres to 15ft concertina colouring books; we have the perfect gift to feed your child’s creativity.

Our cabinet is brimming with specialised, colourful analogue cameras and accessories (please ask about them!), featuring Lomography, Polaroid and DIY pinhole cameras. You are going to need film to feed, and luckily enough we have a whole stockpile of classics including Tri-X, Portra and Ilford HP5 amongst more rare and expired films to experiment with, such as special edition Impossible Polaroid film and turquoise tinted Lomo film.

Open Eye Gallery support and actively encourage artists of all ages and disciplines, and we endeavor to bring to our visitors a curated library of materials to do just that. Come in and have a look!

Visit our independent shop Tuesday-Sunday, 10:30am-5:30pm.
Students receive 10% off on presentation of a valid student card.

Written By Declan Connolly

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