Category: Exhibition Reviews

2024 NGV Triennial Review: My Top Ten

  Okay. I’ll admit it. The term ‘biennale’ was entirely unbeknownst to me before I studied my MA in Curating Contemporary Art.    Venice Biennale. The Whitney Biennial. Liverpool Biennial.    Yes, I had heard of these events, but I had never truly understood what they were, their significance, or what exactly they encompassed.  Turns […]

Exhibition Review: Time by Rone, Flinders Street Station

  Its 1953. Rows of women rush to complete the seams on their final garments. As thread spins rapidly around the cogs and the whirring of sewing machines echo through the room, chatter of prospective weekend activities disperse. Its 16.57 on a Friday, and there is a shared determination amongst the workers to get the […]

Exhibition Review: Carla Zampatti at the Powerhouse, Sydney

  I’m going to be honest, writing about fashion is a little out of my depth – while my BA was in Art & Design History,  discussions surrounding fashion design were minimal. HOWEVER. This exhibition was so beautiful, so elegant and so well-structured that I need to give it a go. To my dearest fashion […]

Conversations with Tamar Hemmes: Lucy McKenzie at Tate Liverpool

Quodlibet XLI, 2014 [oil paint on canvas]   I can’t believe I forgot to upload this one! This is my review of Tate Liverpool’s 2021 Lucy McKenzie Exhibition for Issue 118 of Bido Lito! I also had the fabulous opportunity to interview Tamar Hemmes, an Assistant Curator at Tate Liverpool, and get her thoughts on […]

My First Article in Print!

Oh. My. WORD I may have possibly…just possibly…hit the biggest milestone of my arts writing career yet! MY WRITING HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN PRINT BAABBYYYY!!! A publication actually chose a piece of writing that I, me, moi, Bryony, yours truly… wrote?!?! I am shook, to say the least. Earlier this year I took part in […]

Celebrating our NHS Heroes: Aliza Nisenbaum at Tate Liverpool

I recently took part in Bido Lito!’s Bylines Writers Programme, which aims to develop young culture writers of the future! As part of the course, I was granted the opportunity to write a review on an exhibition of my choice which can be read here…   Sonder: the realisation that each random passerby is living […]

Reviewing the Prettiest Installation in Liverpool

Art in Liverpool very kindly offered me the opportunity to attend the Press Event of Peter Walker’s installation, Peace Doves, in the Liverpool Cathedral, where I was able to interview the artist himself and the Dean of Liverpool. Read the full review here…   Amongst the chaotic bustling of Concert Square, the jam-packed queues circulating […]