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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2015 in Review

Both the Gallery and our office will remain closed throughout the Christmas & New Year period.

The office will re-open Monday 4 January 2016

The Gallery will re-open Friday 15 January 2016

Thank you for all your support in 2015, we look forward to welcoming you in the New Year! Our full programme for 2016 will be announced in January, sign up to our e-newsletter and be the first to find out.

2015 in Review

In January Robert Heinecken: Lessons in Posing Subjects drew to a close.  The exhibition focused on the Polaroids Heinecken took between 1976 and 1982 with a SX-70 camera. Curated by Devrim Bayar, the show was produced in partnership with Wiels (Brussels, Belgium) and Fri Art (Freiburg, Switserland).

Metamorphosis of Japan After the War reflected on the turbulent period that followed WWII, exhibiting over 100 black and white photographs by 11 leading post-war Japanese photographers, including Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe and Ken Domon. The exhibition was organised by The Japan Foundation. Photography critic Sean O’Hagan reviewed the exhibition and named the show one of the best in 2015.

In May, with the support of the Brian Mercer Charitable Trust, we presented the first of three annual exhibitions to show the most compelling work received through our on-going call for Exhibition SubmissionsOpen 1. Photographers Helen Marshall, Louis Quail, Deborah Kelly, Sonal Kantaria and Richard Ross presented work thematically grouped around ideas of social portraiture.

Also in May, internationally renowned photogeapher John Davies selected 70 prints from Open Eye Gallery’s extensive collection of over 16,000 photographs for Out of the Archivewhich was exhibited at Kirkby Gallery. Together, the selected works illustrated a personal and collective expression of our local and national culture from the 1930s to the present day.

In July we said goodbye to Artistic Director Lorenzo Fusi and welcomed Executive Director Sarah Fisher to Open Eye Gallery’s team.

In September, supported by Homotopia and Dr. Martens we opened Zanele Muholi: VUKANI/RISE. Muholi’s work explores gender, race and sexuality, particularly in relation to South African society and political landscape. The exhibition at Open Eye Gallery was the first major presentation of Muholi’s work in the UK. You can watch video interviews Zanele Muholi on our YouTube channel.

In December,  in collaboration with Curios Minds and SLiCE, we presented Curious Gallery: An Exhibition Designed by Children. The artworks were produced by students from Liverpool and the Wirral in response to a previous exhibition, Metamorphosis of Japan After the War, then developed through a series of workshops on writing and local post-war history. Read student Jess German’s experience of taking part in Curious Gallery on our blog.

Rounding off the year in style we hosted our first ever Festive Photo Fayre which included an independent photobook market, practical workshops, portrait sittings and an exhibition, Cascading Relevant Information, curated by local studio CBS!

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