Collective Matters

To go alongside our exhibition Collective Matters, Open Eye Gallery hosted a series of public and interactive events both online and offline. The exhibition brings together a series of socially engaged projects centring around photography and lens based media, which have been developed in partnership with Open Eye Gallery over the past two to three years.

Collective Matters reflects ideas of what we love, what inspires us, what frustrates us, and ultimately what makes us human. With this, we want to know what matters to you. We welcome you to engage with our programme of interactive sessions, pop-up showcases, talks and workshops. In this respect, this show is not the final product, but simply part of the journey. We explore, we learn and we share. With this comes growth for our communities, our artists, for us as a gallery and for you, our audience. Collectively, we are community.

See the timeline of events and explore each below:

15 October – Collective Matters: Late Night Opening

16 October – Holding The Baby: Banner making workshop

22 October – Meet and Greet: Gallery tour 

25 – 31 October – ‘The Mutual Manifesto’ Instagram takeover by GLOW

27 October – Zine Making Workshop with GLOW 

28 October – Mutual Respect Manifesto Zine Launch

6 November – One Day at a Time Boys: Introductory talk and workshop

11 November – Today, Tomorrow and Somewhere in between

18 November – Firehawks: A new research project exploring children who set fire by Stephen King

18 – 20 November – Lisa Creagh: Holding Time, launch event on 19 November

24 November – Who’s Left Behind? Part 1: Liverpool Cares and MA SEP graduate Vilija Skubute

25 November – Who’s Left Behind? Part 2: Tadhg Devlin, staff from Community Integrated Care, and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in association with Liverpool SURF group.

4 December and 11 December – Joseph Lee: Mindful Photo Workshop