Category Archives: art in liverpool

Craftivism

Merseyside Etsy Team: Paper House Hunting From the Archives – 2016: “On Saturday 18th June the Merseyside Etsy Team will be filling the city with craft and asking people to come #PaperHouseHunting with them in aid of the Whitechapel Centre. Using shared skills, team members will be creating papercut and origami houses bearing the hashtagsContinue reading “Craftivism”

Art in Liverpool: Re-View Textiles ‘Hospitality Reviewed’

From the Archives: Liverpool Independents Biennial 2012 ‘Hospitality Reviewed’ project and exhibition. Re-view Textiles is a group of artists who work with a variety of textiles and in diverse disciplines. meeting regularly to work together on exhibitions and events around Merseyside. The latest project is an exhibition at Liverpool’s Baltic Creative, based on the themeContinue reading “Art in Liverpool: Re-View Textiles ‘Hospitality Reviewed’”

Learning to teach crochet at Liverpool craft centre Abakhan

I first started teaching crochet in 2017 after I saw Abakhan’s call for tutors on Facebook. I had facilitated arts and crafts workshops before in my job at The Black-E Community Arts Charity, but thought ‘am I good enough to actually teach?’ Turns out the Managers at Abakhan thought it was worth taking a chanceContinue reading “Learning to teach crochet at Liverpool craft centre Abakhan”

Art in Liverpool: Re-View Textiles Bed-In

Liverpool re-views its dreams for peace with textiles  From the Archives: Post originally written by Amanda Jones for Beat City Images Blog in 2010 Beat City Images (Amanda Jones and Emma Gilmour) teamed up with Re-View Textiles last week for an interactive performance artwork at the Bluecoat Bed-In. There was a lot of fabrics, chats,Continue reading “Art in Liverpool: Re-View Textiles Bed-In”

Art in Liverpool: Through the Biennial with Judy Chicago

By Amanda Jones  From the Archives: This piece was originally written in November 2012. (please see end of post for further note) Artists, students, and art lovers gathered in a very warm Black-E gallery in November eagerly waiting to hear from prominent feminist artist, writer and activist Judy Chicago. This was her second visit toContinue reading “Art in Liverpool: Through the Biennial with Judy Chicago”