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Are You Living Comfortably? McCoy Wynne, 2021. Commissioned for Energy House by Open Eye Gallery and University of Salford Art Collection
Exhibition
LOOK Photo Biennial 2022: Climate
14 Jul 2022 – 4 Sep 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- 19 Mann Island
- Liverpool Waterfront
- Liverpool
- L31BP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The nearest bus station is at Liverpool ONE, but some buses drop off at the Pier Head, right next door to the gallery. Merseytravel has details of local bus services.
- By train We are 20 minutes walk from Lime Street station ' Liverpool's mainline railway station. James Street station, served by Wirral Line trains, is a two minute walk. Moorfields station, served by the Northern and Wirral Lines, is a five minute w
LOOK Photo Biennial returns in 2022 for the first time since 2019. The biannual photography festival takes place in venues across Liverpool and the North West with a focus on climate and environmental issues.
About
The LOOK Photo Biennial 2022 theme is ‘Climate’, building on from the six week long exploratory Climate Lab which took place between January and March 2022. The photography festival showcases how photography and visual art can communicate the climate emergency in accessible ways, transcending languages, borders and cultures.
LOOK 22 will take place across various sites including: RHS Gardens Bridgewater (Manchester), New Adelphi Gallery (University of Salford) and World of Glass (St Helens). LOOK will also exist in public spaces across the North West, such as charity shops across Chester and green spaces across the Liverpool City Region, highlighting climate prescient topics like textile recycling and environmental protection.
Exhibited in these spaces will be the project Are You Living Comfortably?, Steve McCoy and Stephanie Wynne’s ongoing collaborative photography project with University Salford Art Collection and Energy House. These images, data, and interactive elements offer suggestions and guidance on how we can make small, everyday changes to make our houses more energy efficient. Another project for which the Climate Lab was a testing ground was the collaboration between the artist Andrew Broadey, photographer Kevin Crooks and a group of Carmel College students. LOOK will see their visual research using archival imagery from the industrial North West speculate how images can guide us to navigate the ecological crisis.
Each biennial, LOOK also partners with local and international artists to explore variations on a theme. This year, LOOK will exhibit the project On The Ground: The Story of Trans-Nzoia Through The Trees, the work of a two month residency in the Kitale forest, Kenya, by photographer Frederick Dharshie Wissah. The photographs depict food and water insecurity alongside the local communities aiding in preservation and conservation.
The full list of LOOK Photo Biennial 2022: Climate artists and partners will be released in June.
