News & Reading

“I went from taking pictures for aesthetic value to taking pictures with a purpose and meaning behind them”: Andy Yates in Tracks 02

Leading visual arts organisations publish 4 recommendations to safeguard the UK’s visual arts and artists

Take part in a photo project celebrating the vibrant LGBTQIA+ community of Liverpool

Applications for the Gallery Assistant voluntary position have reopened

Getting it right/Getting it wrong: Socially Engaged Art and Ethics

7 books on war, individual, society, and resistance from our independent bookshop

The Return Of Spellow Library

Poetry events at Open Eye Gallery: 2025 programme

TreeStory goes to Wigan and Leigh

Intervention and Renewal: Tilt essay by Johannes Pretorius

UCEN Photography students exhibit work at Manchester Victoria station

Snapshot of life within six Liverpool City Region community groups to be told in new photographic project

New art project with University of Salford, RHS Garden Bridgewater and Open Eye Gallery

Open Eye Gallery is taking part in National Lottery Open Week

5 books on queer culture from our independent bookshop

Welcome to the Pleasuredome

In-Conversation with Kirsty MacKay now available on our youtube-channel

International Exchange Residency with Eda Emirdağ / Montag Residency

Socially Engaged Photography Network 2025 Survey Results

Tell us your thoughts on accessibility

A Spotlight On Les Monaghan

Open Eye Gallery is a finalist for Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards: Art Organisation of the Year and Environment Award!

How can socially engaged photography benefit community gardening?

Crossing Sectors #5: professional development programme for lens-based artists, creative producers and curators

A Spotlight on Miriam Flüchter: Reflecting on the past and looking to the future

Christmas Gift Selection from our independent bookshop

TreeStory project received Heritage Interpretation Award

Work with us: Network Coordinator

Marriage (In)Equality Panel Discussion now available on our YouTube-channel

Childhood Is a Garden: Interview With Miriam Fluchter

Announcing the Theme and Participating Artists for Liverpool Biennial 2025

Study with us: Collaborative Doctoral Award with Birmingham City University

A Spotlight On Photovoice

God Loves a Fretter – a writing piece by Severin Domela

A Spotlight On… Paula Keenan and Picturing Eccles

Open Call: Shape of the Wind

6 books celebrating LGBTQIA+ communities and artists from our independent bookshop

Prescot Photography Club: How photography united local community

Introducing Tracks

Open Eye Gallery and Fire it Up Fund are proud to support 8 young photographers

A Sensory Journey Through Sound and Silence: The Conductor by Mishka Henner – Review by Lizzie King

A Spotlight On… New Langdales

Reflecting on Creative Neighbourhoods

9 books on fashion, diversity and self-expression from our independent bookshop

Open Eye Gallery’s creative producer is the finalist for the Northern Cultural Education Awards 2024

LAF & Open Eye Gallery Photography Competition

Our Public Complaints Policy has been updated

Sharing art with local communities: Open Eye Gallery will be a partner in a new collaborative touring programme

Sam Parker Reflects on LOOK Climate Lab 2024

Call for Eccles residents to be a part of historic Eccles project

AI and art in working with the topic of climate change

8 books about art and climate from our independent bookshop

Women in Uniform – A Spotlight On… Shy Burhan

Nature and indigenous representations in contemporary Brazilian photography

Open Eye Gallery became a member of Fair Employment Charter

Suzanne St Clare and Chester Traders: videos

Art as Experimental Politics: a Review of Vid Simoniti’s Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto

Capturing Communities’: A Conversation with Emerging Photographer Zak Bennett

Industrial history and slow pace of life by Joe Dixey

Snail, soil, oak: Towards sustainable collaboration with nonhumans by Anneka French

People, Places, Postcards

Open Eye Gallery is shortlisted for LCR Culture and Creativity Award

A fire in the belly: Liz Wewiora on Tish Murtha

STOCKING FILM-ERS

Places to see photography in Liverpool

Drag Kings of Manchester by Christine Beckett: review

A Place of Our Own: Review of Suzanne St Clare and Chester Traders

Ensuring Lost Voices are heard

Open Eye Gallery is partnering with #WeFeedTheUK

an oasis in a concrete jungle a pop up exhibition about older peoples experiences and reflections of the covid 19 pandemic

A Spotlight on… Eva Jonas

Essential Analogue Photography Kit

Threads of Change: Unravelling Sustainability as a Social Tapestry in the Gallery Space

A Spotlight On… Faye Héran

Liverpool Arts and Culture Race Equality Manifesto Statement

Home. Poems inspired by photographs from Ukraine

Open Eye Gallery’s new curator Max Gorbatskyi announced as co-curator for the Ukrainian pavilion, Venice Biennale 2024.

HOW DO WE CO-AUTHOR CULTURE?

Open Eye Gallery Welcomes New Curator, Max Gorbatskyi

Arts & Creativity Community Impact Award-2023

Elena Subach’s Chairs, and The Absurdist Symptoms of The Ukrainian War

A Spotlight On the County Road Residency, with Lucy Hunter, Sarah Weights and Tricia Grant-Hanlon

At Home: a special edition of Open Eye Gallery’s in-house magazine TILT

Home Book

Home From Home: Ukrainian curators and photographers join UK poets to talk about home in a film

Home Trails App

People and Places by Andreea Mate

Poetry events at Open Eye Gallery and in the Liverpool City Region during EuroFestival

Callout For New Photography Criticism

Photo Ethics with Open Eye Gallery: What is the Role of Social Documentary Ethics in 2023?

Mishka Henner appointed as first artist-in-residence at Energy House 2.0

Open Eye Gallery will be one of the venues for Liverpool Biennial

PICTURING HIGH STREETS: PUBLIC’S WINNING IMAGES OF THE HIGH STREET GO ON OUTDOOR DISPLAY IN PRESCOT

Open Eye Gallery’s Head of Exhibitions Mariama Attah is moving to a new position

LOOK Photo Biennial 2022: Climate. Corridor8 review

3 Sector Care Awards-2023

Craig Easton: Challenging the Stigma Surrounding Northern Communities by Dani Haigh

We are shortlisted!

Photography projects at The Life Rooms Bootle

The World through SONY’s lens by Open Eye Gallery volunteer Aditi Shah

Projects

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