September 22nd 2023 - February 24th 2024 [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down='2'] Berlin-based artist Helene Appel creates images that straddle the threshold between realism, sculpture, and abstraction. Appel paints ordinary materials from everyday life, working in a 1:1 scale. [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down='2'] Appel’s...
2nd September - 28th October [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down='2'] Life Line exhibits two photography series set along the West Kirby waterfront. Employing magical realism and unique printing techniques, Cooper’s photographs place their inhabitants in a dreamlike world. [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down='2'] Cooper began...
12th August - 16th September [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down='2'] Wirral Society of Arts (WSA) has a long history of association with the Williamson, and have held exhibitions in the gallery every year since 1951. This legacy continues for 2023 with the latest iteration of...
1st July- 26th August [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down='2'] Rob Davies is a Wirral-based artist who paints large-scale watercolour landscapes. His initial inspiration is the notion of a romantic "sublime". Davies’s artworks are eclectic, but mainly combine elements from semi-industrial and semi-wild environments into landscapes...
1st June - 1st July [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down='2'] The Liverpool City Region Photo Awards were created by Open Eye Gallery and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to celebrate the culture, creativity and vibrancy across our city region, to make some noise about the...
9th June - 29th July [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down='2'] Harold Hewitt creates life-scale immersive pictures of the world we're all familiar with. His images are of local scenes, but sometimes a narrative emerges that he didn't expect - perhaps referencing history, religion, poetry, art...
Pop-up exhibition: Friday 12 May, all day Celebration event: 6 – 8.30pm [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down='2'] ‘observers&makers’ is a pop-up exhibition that showcases the work of nine practice-based PhD researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University who are affiliated with the Postgraduate Arts and Humanities Centre (PAHC),...
11th - 27th May [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down='2'] Students from Wirral Met have been holding their Degree Shows at the Williamson Art Gallery for a total of 30 years. This year’s show carries on the tradition by continuing to showcase the latest emerging talent...
April 26th - May 27th [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down='2'] Williamson Art Gallery & Museum is proud to be involved in Home, organised by Open Eye Gallery. Part of EuroFestival, which is taking over Liverpool in the lead up to The Eurovision Song Contest. [vc_separator type='transparent'...
March 1st - April 8th [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='8' down='2'] Birkenhead Park was built during a time of rapid industrial and economic growth in Birkenhead. Although the town is very different today, Birkenhead Park is largely unchanged. As per the original vision of its creators,...