Manchester gallery opens textile archive show tracing mill-town design
A new exhibition reconnects industrial pattern books with contemporary British makers.
Liverpool Biennial artists respond to the living port city
Works sit in warehouses, ferries and streets that still move goods.
This year’s Liverpool Biennial leans into the city’s working waterfront, placing installations where logistics and leisure already collide.
The strongest pieces refuse postcard nostalgia and talk instead about labour, migration and weather.
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