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The Bluecoat

The Bluecoat

Exhibition

Plotting the Course

6 Nov 2024-1 Feb 2025

Exhibition

Tomorrow's Music Yesterday

15 Nov-31 Dec 2024

Upcoming

Talks & Events
Festive Wreath Workshop
24 Nov 2024, 1-3pm
Talks & Events
Collage Your Christmas Cards
28 Nov 2024, 6-7pm
Talks & Events
Christmas Print Party
30 Nov 2024
Talks & Events
Gingerbread Party People Trail
30 Nov 2024
Talks & Events
Makers and Shakers: A Creative Christmas Disco
1 Dec 2024
Exhibition
The Year That Was
3 Dec-21 Dec 2024
Talks & Events
Bluecoat Arts Market
7 Dec 2024, 11am-4pm

Past

Talks & Events
From the Grooves of Vinyl: A Tribute to Philip Jeck
16 Nov 2024
Talks & Events
Introduction to UV Screen Printing
9 Nov 2024
Talks & Events
Young People's Print Club: Drypoint Pop Portraiture
9 Nov 2024
Talks & Events
Lowry Lounge 2024
2 Nov 2024
Talks & Events
Liverpool Irish Festival: Stolen - Film Screening and Q&A
2 Nov 2024
Talks & Events
Liverpool Irish Festival: In Each Other's Shelter We Survive
2 Nov 2024
Talks & Events
Halloween Print Party
26 Oct 2024
Talks & Events
Printmaking for Beginners
24 Oct-7 Nov 2024
Talks & Events
Dead Ink Books: Modern Gothic launch with Lauren Archer & Alyssa Lloyd
23 Oct 2024
Talks & Events
Makers and Shakers: A Creative Family Disco - Halloween Special
20 Oct 2024
Talks & Events
Young People's Print Club
12 Oct 2024
Talks & Events
Introduction to Multi-Colour Lino Cut
5 Oct 2024
Talks & Events
Liverpool Artists Book Fair
5 Oct-6 Oct 2024
Talks & Events
Autumn Wreath Workshop
29 Sep 2024
Exhibition
A LUSH Liverpool Takeover with Blue Room and Friends
29 Sep 2024
Exhibition
Tess Gilmartin: Flowers in the Window
28 Sep-29 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Introduction to UV Screen Printing
21 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Baby Book Club
19 Sep-24 Oct 2024
Talks & Events
Loop Me In
19 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Screening: Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage), 1973
15 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Heritage Open Days: Heritage Tours with Bryan Biggs
12 Sep-14 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Heritage Open Days: The Bluecoat's Cultural Web
12 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
La Feria: REWIND, Ephemeral Ensemble
12 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Heritage Open Days: Connecting Liverpool Institution Enslavement
10 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Heritage Family Weekend
7 Sep-8 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Heritage Family Weekend
7 Sep-8 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Heritage Open Days: Open Studios
7 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
100 Years of Creativity - Drypoint Etching Workshop
7 Sep 2024
Exhibition
Young Blue Room at the Bluecoat
7 Sep-29 Sep 2024
Exhibition
Windows Through Time: A Garden Trail by Young Blue Room
7 Sep-3 Nov 2024
Exhibition
Young Blue Room at the Bluecoat
7 Sep-3 Nov 2024
Talks & Events
Complete Monoprinting
31 Aug 2024
Talks & Events
Back to School Print Party
31 Aug 2024
Talks & Events
Introduction to UV Screen Printing
17 Aug 2024
Talks & Events
Introduction to Copper Sulphate Etching
10 Aug 2024
Talks & Events
Summer Botanical Cyanotype Workshop
3 Aug 2024
Exhibition (online)
Future, Before it Happens by Stine Marie Jacobsen and Liverpool Biennial Summer Workshops
28 Jul-29 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Future, Before it Happens by Stine Marie Jacobsen and Liverpool Biennial Summer Workshops
28 Jul-24 Aug 2024
Talks & Events
Introduction to UV Screenprinting
27 Jul 2024
Exhibition
Paddy Gould and Roxy Topia: Let Your Ideas Come Back As Children
21 Jul-3 Nov 2024
Talks & Events
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival: Janette Ayachi: Exploring Heritage Through Poetry
17 Jul 2024
Talks & Events
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival: At Home In Gaza and London - Film Screening
15 Jul 2024
Talks & Events
Still Life Drawing in the Garden
11 Jul 2024
Talks & Events
The Art of Screen Printing - 4 Week Course
4 Jul-25 Jul 2024
Talks & Events
Botanical Summer Print Party
29 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
Duets: Poetry and Music with Jennifer Lee Tsai and Xiaoxiao Hou
23 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
Japanese Stab Stitch Bookbinding
15 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
Coptic Stitch Bookbinding
15 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
Duets: Poetry Readings with Jennifer Lee Tsai and Joey Chin
15 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
Taylor Swift Family Friendly Screen Printing Workshop
15 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
Taylor Swift Screen Printing Workshop
8 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
The Thief of Bagdad: Film Screening and Q+A
6 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
Dead Ink Books: The History of Goth with John Robb & Roger Hill
6 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
Introduction to Copper-Sulphate Etching
1 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
Printmaking for Beginners
23 May-6 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
Salena Godden: Love, Grief and Fury
11 May 2024
Talks & Events
Danny Morrison: The Dirty War
9 May 2024
Exhibition
Michelle Williams Gamaker: Our Mountains Are Painted on Glass
3 May-30 Jun 2024
Exhibition
Dahong Hongxuan Wang
3 May-30 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
Live Performances from Ka Baird, Rosie Terry Toogood & Dialect, and Ancient Plastix
29 Apr 2024
Talks & Events
Under the Apple Tree: A Creative Workshop with Storytelling
27 Apr 2024
Talks & Events
Liverpool Print Fair
20 Apr-21 Apr 2024
Talks & Events
Earth Day Print Party
13 Apr 2024
Talks & Events
Introduction to Multi-Colour Lino Cut
13 Apr 2024
Exhibition
Tess Gilmartin: Horse Big
16 Mar-14 Apr 2024
Talks & Events
Baby Book Club
22 Feb-28 Mar 2024
Talks & Events
Lunar New Year Makers + Shakers
18 Feb 2024
Talks & Events
Introduction to Copper-Sulphate Etching
17 Feb 2024
Talks & Events
Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy
17 Feb 2024
Exhibition
Season Launch: The Lives of Artists
8 Feb 2024
Exhibition
Ottman Said: Liverpool Waterfront
8 Feb-10 Mar 2024
Exhibition
Babak Ganjei: Thanks for Having Me
8 Feb-14 Apr 2024
Exhibition
Joshua Clague: and it feels like i just got home
8 Feb-14 Apr 2024
Talks & Events
Family Workshop: Collagraph Creatures
21 Jan 2024
2023
Exhibition
Tim Spooner: A New Kind of Animal
6 Oct 2023-21 Jan 2024
Exhibition
Seen and Heard - Adventures in Art and Dementia
17 Jun-8 Oct 2023
Exhibition
Liverpool Biennial - uMoya: The sacred Return of Lost Things
10 Jun-17 Sep 2023
Exhibition
The Bluecoat and The Biennial
10 Jun-17 Sep 2023
Exhibition
Tony Phillips, Above Us Only Sky
10 Jun 2023-1 Jan 2024
Exhibition
Dialogues
1 May-14 May 2023
Talks & Events
Introduction to Etching Workshop
11 Jan 2023
2022
Exhibition
Plotting the Course
19 Oct 2022-26 Mar 2023
Exhibition
breathe, spirit and life 呼吸、靈魂與生命
8 Oct 2022-29 Jan 2023
Exhibition
The Bluecoat's Looked After Children
13 Jul-9 Oct 2022
Exhibition
Are You Messin'?
3 Jul-18 Sep 2022
Exhibition
The Bluecoat's Colonial Legacies
23 Mar-29 May 2022
Exhibition
Suki Chan: CONSCIOUS
12 Mar-12 Jun 2022
Exhibition
Where the Arts Belong: Making Sense (Of It All)
12 Mar-12 Jun 2022
Exhibition
Bruce Asbestos: OK! Cherub!
22 Feb-5 Jun 2022
2021
Exhibition
A Civic Role
8 Dec 2021-31 Jan 2022
Exhibition
Rosa Johan Uddoh: Practice Makes Perfects
15 Oct 2021-23 Jan 2022
Exhibition
Deborah Roberts: A look inside
15 Oct 2021-23 Jan 2022
Exhibition
Sumuyya Khader: Always Black Never Blue
15 Oct 2021-23 Jan 2022
Exhibition
A Creative Community
8 Sep-31 Oct 2021
Exhibition
Tony Phillips: 12 Decades
9 Jun-29 Aug 2021
Exhibition
Liverpool Biennial
20 Mar-6 Jun 2021
Exhibition
Liverpool Biennial: The Stomach and the Port
20 Mar-5 Sep 2021
Exhibition
Kiara Mohamed: The Lives we Lead
20 Jan-28 Feb 2021
2020
Exhibition
Josie Jenkins : Assembled Worlds
5 Dec 2020-10 Jan 2021
Exhibition
Sadia Pineda Hameed
5 Dec 2020-21 Feb 2021
Exhibition
Sean Edwards : Undo Things Undone
5 Dec 2020-21 Feb 2021
Exhibition
Celebrating Liverpool's Black Artis ts, Sumuyya Khader
6 Oct-25 Oct 2020
Exhibition
Jonathan Baldock: Facecrime
30 Jul-1 Nov 2020
Exhibition
Frances Disley: Pattern Buffer
30 Jul-1 Nov 2020
Exhibition
Tony Phillips : 12 Decades
11 Jun-30 Jul 2020
Exhibition
New Art Bluecoat
13 Mar-1 Nov 2020
Exhibition
Frances Disley
13 Mar-21 Jun 2020
Exhibition
Jonathan Baldock
13 Mar-21 Jun 2020
2019
Exhibition
Alexis Teplin : It's My Pleasure to Participate
26 Oct 2019-23 Feb 2020
Exhibition
New Art Bluecoat
6 Jul-31 Dec 2019
Exhibition
Grace Ndiritu: The Ark
6 Jul-13 Oct 2019
Exhibition
Shezad Dawood: Leviathan
6 Jul-13 Oct 2019
Exhibition
New Art Bluecoat
13 Apr-23 Jun 2019
Exhibition
Survey
13 Apr-23 Jun 2019
Exhibition
Moving Dialogues
6 Apr 2019
Exhibition
Under the Rose with Serena Korda
30 Mar 2019
Exhibition
Serena Korda: Under the Rose
13 Mar-28 Jul 2019
Exhibition
Artists Talk: Nurrachmat Widyasenna
31 Jan 2019
Exhibition
Symposium: What is Art School?
19 Jan 2019
2018
Exhibition
Vulnerable Society Reading Group
13 Dec 2018
Exhibition
Blue Room at Ten
1 Dec 2018-10 Mar 2019
Exhibition
Joshua Henderson & Veronica Watson: Studio Me
17 Nov 2018-10 Mar 2019
Exhibition
Jade Montserrat : Instituting Care
17 Nov 2018-10 Mar 2019
Exhibition
Matthew Cornford and John Beck: The Art Schools of North West England
17 Nov 2018-10 Mar 2019
Exhibition
Serena Korda : The Bell Tree
8 Sep 2018-28 Jul 2019
Exhibition
Liverpool Biennial 2018 at Bluecoat Six artists showing at Bluecoat
14 Jul-28 Oct 2018
Exhibition
Artist's Talk: Serena Korda
22 Jun 2018
Exhibition
Workshop with Serena Korda
21 Jun 2018
Exhibition
Future Dancer: Lucy Suggate Worksho
10 May 2018
Exhibition
OK Future - Lucy Suggate & Connor S
10 May 2018
Exhibition
Euphonia Unpacked
27 Apr 2018
Exhibition
Emma Smith : Euphonia
27 Apr-24 Jun 2018
2017
Exhibition
In the Peaceful Dome
13 Oct 2017-8 Apr 2018
Exhibition
Abacus
21 Jul-1 Oct 2017
Exhibition
Larissa Sansour: In the Future, They Ate From the Finest Porcelain
6 May-24 Jun 2017
Exhibition
Public View
4 Feb-23 Apr 2017
Exhibition
Art at the Heart of Bluecoat
28 Jan-9 Apr 2017
2016
Exhibition
Auto Agents
26 Nov 2016-15 Jan 2017
Exhibition
Keith Piper : Unearthing the Banker's Bones
28 Oct 2016-22 Jan 2017
Exhibition
Adham Faramawy
28 Oct 2016-22 Jan 2017
Exhibition
Liverpool Biennial 2016 | New Contemporaries
9 Jul-16 Oct 2016
Exhibition
Liverpool Biennial 2016 | Dennis McNulty : Homo Gestalt
9 Jul-16 Oct 2016
Exhibition
Double Act : Art and Comedy
9 Apr-19 Jun 2016
Exhibition
MELISSA GORDON : FALLIBLE SPACE
23 Jan-13 Mar 2016
Exhibition
LEFT HAND TO BACK OF HEAD, OBJECT HELD AGAINST RIGHT THIGH
23 Jan-28 Mar 2016
2015
Exhibition
Niamh O’Malley
9 Oct 2015-10 Jan 2016
Exhibition
RESOURCE
18 Jul-27 Sep 2015
Exhibition
Tabitha Jussa : Memorandum of Understanding
11 Apr-5 Jul 2015
Exhibition
Xavier Ribas : Nitrate
11 Apr-5 Jul 2015
Exhibition
Tricia Porter : Liverpool Photographs 1972-74
2 Apr-5 Jul 2015
Exhibition
Listening
24 Jan-29 Mar 2015
2014
Exhibition
DaDaFest International 2014 : Art of the Lived Experiment
8 Nov 2014-11 Jan 2015
Exhibition
James McNeill Whistler
5 Jul-26 Oct 2014
Exhibition
LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL 2014 : THE UK BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART
5 Jul-26 Oct 2014
Exhibition
THE NEGLIGENT EYE
8 Mar-15 Jun 2014
2013
Exhibition
EDWARD CHELL : SOFT ESTATE
6 Dec 2013-23 Feb 2014
Exhibition
3 am : wonder, paranoia and the restless night
28 Sep-24 Nov 2013
Exhibition
Portfolio NW
26 Jul-15 Sep 2013
Exhibition
Claire Weetman : Vide Installation
26 Jul-15 Sep 2013
Exhibition
I exist (in some Way)
18 May-14 Jul 2013
Exhibition
Sander / Weegee : Selections from the Side Photographic Collection
18 May-14 Jul 2013
Exhibition
THE UNIVERSAL ADDRESSABILITY OF DUMB THINGS, CURATED BY MARK LECKEY
16 Feb-14 Apr 2013
2012
Exhibition
A UNIVERSAL ARCHIVE : WILLIAM KENTRIDGE AS PRINTMAKER
7 Dec 2012-3 Feb 2013
Exhibition
Information to come
3 Sep-31 Oct 2012
Exhibition
DaDaFest
13 Jul-2 Sep 2012
Exhibition
Anne Desmet : Olympic Metamorphones
21 Jun-11 Jul 2012
Exhibition
Galapagos Artists' talk
23 May 2012-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Galápagos
4 May-1 Jul 2012
Exhibition
Louise K Wilson
29 Mar 2012-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
topophobia
3 Mar-22 Apr 2012
2011
Exhibition
Gina Czarnecki
9 Dec 2011-19 Feb 2012
Exhibition
Democratic Promenade
30 Sep-27 Nov 2011
Exhibition
HONKY TONK
22 Jul-18 Sep 2011
Exhibition
CONFINED
13 May-10 Jul 2011
2010
Exhibition
Mark Anstee : Removed and Destroyed Without Warning
10 Dec 2010-13 Feb 2011
Exhibition
Boxed-off Visual Art Exhibition : Underwater
10 Dec 2010-13 Feb 2011
Exhibition
Bed-In at the Bluecoat
1 Oct-9 Dec 2010
Exhibition
ARABICITY : SUCH A NEAR EAST
2 Jul-5 Sep 2010
Exhibition
Global Studio
9 Apr-20 Jun 2010
Exhibition
Sonia Boyce : Like Love – Part Two
30 Jan-28 Mar 2010
Exhibition
RECLAIM YOUR SPACE
1 Jan-21 Feb 2010
2009
Exhibition
Janek Schaefer : Sound Art
5 Dec 2009-17 Jan 2010
Exhibition
UNDER THE VOLCANO
25 Sep-22 Nov 2009
Exhibition
Slow Magic
31 Jul-9 Sep 2009
Exhibition
The End of the Line : Attitudes in Drawing
22 May-19 Jul 2009
Exhibition
4x4. Four galleries, four exhibitions.
6 Mar-10 May 2009
2008
Exhibition
Next Up : Liverpool Art Now
12 Dec 2008-15 Feb 2009
Exhibition
Liverpool Biennial International 08: MADE UP
20 Sep-30 Nov 2008
Exhibition
New Ends, Old Beginnings
12 Jul-3 Sep 2008
Exhibition
Alec Finlay, Janet Hodgson, Hew Locke, Paul Morrison
15 Mar-4 May 2008
2007
Exhibition
Bluecoat Printmakers
15 Mar-24 Mar 2007
2006
Exhibition
Humberto Velez : The Welcoming
30 Sep-25 Nov 2006
2005
Exhibition
TEMPORARY CLOSURE
1 Feb 2005-31 Oct 2006
2004
Exhibition
Put Your Hands Where We Can See Them
14 Feb-27 Mar 2004
2003
Exhibition
Mariele Neudecker : BETWEEN US
30 Aug-18 Oct 2003
Exhibition
VEIL
5 Jul-16 Aug 2003
Exhibition
civilia
24 May-28 Jun 2003
Exhibition
hammertown
8 Feb-19 Mar 2003
2002
Exhibition
YOU ARE HERE
18 Sep-21 Sep 2002
Exhibition
LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL / INTERNATIONAL 2002
14 Sep-24 Nov 2002
Exhibition
WONG HOY CHEONG
20 Jul-31 Aug 2002
Exhibition
SHELF LIFE
25 May-6 Jul 2002
Exhibition
NEVILLE GABIE: PLAYING AWAY
25 May-6 Jul 2002
Exhibition
SUMER EREK: UPSIDE DOWN HOUSE
29 Apr-18 May 2002
Exhibition
PADRAIG TIMONEY
8 Apr-18 May 2002
2001
Exhibition
SHEN YUAN
14 Dec 2001-2 Feb 2002
Exhibition
Volker Eichelmann
19 Oct-1 Dec 2001
Exhibition
Protoacademy
22 Sep-13 Oct 2001
2000
Exhibition
Now Then
1 Jan 2000-4 May 2007
Exhibition
Now Then.
1 Jan 2000-4 May 2007
Exhibition
TEMPORARY CLOSURE
1 Jan 2000-14 Mar 2008
Exhibition
Closed for refurbishment
1 Jan 2000-28 Feb 2007
Exhibition
Now playing
1 Jan 2000-17 May 2003
Exhibition
from a distance
1 Jan 2000-1 Feb 2003
Exhibition
BECK'S FUTURES 2
1 Jan 2000-15 Sep 2001

Artists represented

Joshua Clague

British

Artists shown

Jonathan Baldock

British, b. 1980

Suki Chan

British, b. 1977

Michelle Williams Gamaker

British, b. 1979

Rosa Johan Uddoh

Deborah Roberts

American, b. 1962

Tim Spooner

British, b. 1984

Accessibility & facilities

Step-free access
Accessible toilet
Baby changing facilities
Book shop
Cafe

Nearby

Cosmotechnics
FACT Liverpool
until 26 Jan
Harun Farocki: In Comparison
Tate Liverpool + RIBA North
until 12 Jan

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