SPACE TO LET ✨ We have a bright and spacious office space available to let, perfect for a small creative business. The office overlooks our beautiful Garden, perfect for outdoor meetings and coffee breaks in the Summer. Find out more: https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/join-our-community

See Just Browsing this weekend before we close for the restock! ✨ Our Galleries will be closed from Mon 5 - Fri 9 Jan whilst we add new work from David Shrigley, Laura Aquilina, and Jade de Montserrat to the exhibition, reopening on Sat 10 Jan. Open until Sun 4 Jan, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

New Year, new art in the gallery! We're excited to welcome three more artists to our current exhibition Just Browsing. Join us for a collage social to set your intentions for the year, and pick up something new to read at Liverpool Book Market. Find out more: https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/

Happy New Year from the Bluecoat! 🥂✨

As we get ready to welcome a new year, we’re reflecting on 2025 at the Bluecoat, a year of inspiring art, fascinating events and transformative projects. Read our highlights in the blog: https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/news/2025-blog Thank you for being part of what we do 💙

2025 has been a busy year for Blue Room! In the last 12 months, they've featured in exhibitions, led exhibition tours, published books, and much more! This is only a snippet of some of the incredible work they’ve done this year. Find out more: https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/news/2025-blog

Last summer, we were thrilled to welcome Liverpool Biennial back to our Gallery, featuring work from Alice Rekab, Amy Claire Mills, Petros Moris, Amber Akaunu, Odur Ronald and ChihChung Chang 張致中 Read our full 2025 recap here: https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/news/2025-blog

We're open ✨✨✨ Looking for some free things to do this weekend? Stop by our Gallery to see two incredible exhibitions, Just Browsing and We Dream of Our Freedom. Our current season invites you to experience art in new ways, through feeling, wearing, using and creating. Open 11am-5pm. Free entry.

Continuing our look back at 2025 to when we hosted two incredible exhibitions, 'The Moveable Scene of the Page' by Joanne Masding, and 'Long-Covid and the Culture of Disbelief' by Rowena Harris. Read our full 2025 recap: https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/news/2025-blog

Season's Greetings from the Bluecoat ✨

We're delighted to share that Blue Room recently won 'D'Oscar' for Best Animation at a film festival organised by the Head Way Arts for their film 'Mission to Mars' 🚀 Our friend Father Christmas even stopped by to present the award at Blue Room's annual festive party. https://ow.ly/8NIA50XNgbe

As 2025 draws to a close, we're looking back at some of the highlights from the past 12 months at the Bluecoat. We kicked things off with 'But Does It Speak?', which featured three films by Jennifer Lee Tsai, Farah Al Qasimi & Abi Palmer. https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/news/2025-blog

Ben Saunders is a queer, trans masc ceramicist, events producer and exhibition curator based in Manchester. His work focuses on community building within the queer and trans masc communities, exploring themes surrounding intimacy, pleasure, sex and the trans body.

Lewis Prosser is an absurdist basketmaker, artist, and curator based in Wales, whose work explores themes of regional identity, cultural exchange, and public ceremony. He uses heritage craft techniques, performance, and basketry to trace relationships between objects, people and place.

EXHIBITION RESTOCK 👀 We're excited to let you know we're welcoming three new artists to our exhibition Just Browsing in the new year! This 'restock' is a play on retail stores restocking shelves, and will include work from Laura Aquilina, Jade de Montserrat and David Shrigley.

Our opening hours may look a little different over the next few weeks. Please make sure to check our website if you're joining us over the Christmas holidays. Stop by our Galleries to see our free exhibitions, or enjoy a tasty lunch and hot coffee from our Cafe. https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/

New film ✨ Hear from our Senior Curator Adam Lewis-Smythe as he discusses our current exhibition Just Browsing, and go behind the scenes of Lou Miller's We Dream of Our Freedom, and discover how local school children helped shape the work in the Gallery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmZT...

Sufea Mohamad Noor is an artist, curator and fundraiser from Liverpool, who is interested in social history and understanding materials. Her work is about making connections with people and materials. She uses recycled, repurposed materials and explores the relationship they have with past owners.

Lou Miller's 'We Dream of Our Freedom' was created in collaboration with local school children, and explores what freedom meant to them. They explored their individual ideas of what freedom meant, and touched on subjects including equality, care, education, creativity, and the right to be heard.

Bloom Makers Market returns to the Bluecoat this December ✨ Across a full weekend, they'll feature a range of handmade and artisan gifts from jewellery, candles, prints, cards, homewares from a fantastic selection of local creatives and makers. Sat 21 & Sun 22 Dec, 11am-4pm. Free entry.

Ivy Kalungi’s ‘The Hair Shop’ explores Black-owned hair salons, and features interviews with those who visit the salons, and includes objects and materials that you’d find in a typical hair salon. See this film as part of our exhibition, Just Browsing. Open Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

Many of the artists featured in our exhibition 'Just Browsing' use traditional, craft-based techniques in their practices to pay homage to the places they call home. 👇👇👇👇👇

A reminder to those of you in Liverpool and nearby that this is tomorrow, at @thebluecoat.bsky.social. I have maybe one joke, and a witticism, but it's not all grumbling! Come through: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/whatson/rilc...

This #MuseumShopSunday, we're excited to launch two new products in the Bluecoat Shop ✨ We commissioned artist Ellie Hoskins to design a new range of t-shirts. We also have a new ceramic decoration featuring a hand-drawn design of our building. Shop now: https://shop.thebluecoat.org.uk/

Christmas is right around the corner, and we're really getting into the festive spirit here at the Bluecoat ✨ We've got a month full of free exhibitions, creative markets, and family-friendly storytelling with Father Christmas! Find out more: https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/

"It’s a beautiful exhibition that breaks down walls in a really kind way." Head to Art in Liverpool's website to read a new review of Lou Miller's 'We Dream of Our Freedom'. https://www.artinliverpool.com/features-old-posts-archive/reviews/review-lou-miller-we-dream-of-our-freedom-at-bluecoat/

Garth Gratrix’s ‘Shy Girl’ is a series of custom-made beach towels featuring various motifs referencing British seaside towns and LGBTQ+ identity. They’re titled using the names of the paint colours, purposely selected for their innuendo-like names such as ‘Nice Tan, Mermaid Cheeks’.

We're pleased to announce that Chris Brown has joined the Bluecoat Trading Board as a Trustee. Chris brings with him over 35 years experience in the leisure and tourism industry, specialising in marketing, management and branding. https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/news/chris-brown-joins-board

"If you walked into the Bluecoat this winter, you would almost definitely leave thinking the art world was a safe space for you and that you were part of it." Huge thanks to Art in Liverpool for the lovely review of Just Browsing 💙 Read the full review here: www.artinliverpool.com/features-old...

We dream of our freedom, Lou Miller @thebluecoat.bsky.social Liverpool

Ffion Evans is a Welsh artist who makes large textile work which invites us to move closer and feel the materials. She experiments with texture, scent, and form to connect viewers with materials and everyday objects.

Shop local this Christmas ✨ At the Bluecoat, we've got plenty of thoughtful, unique gifts for your family and friends. Browse our new Bluecoat Gift Guide on our website and pick up the perfect gifts for your loved ones today. www.thebluecoat.org.uk/christmas

Lou Miller is a banner maker, textile artist, and activist based in Manchester, UK. Her work is often created out of collaborative workshops and partnerships with grassroots groups, trade unions, and artists.

Have you visited Lou Miller's exhibition yet? 'We Dream of Our Freedom' has transformed our Gallery into a community studio. Stop by this weekend and design your own postcards inspired by Miller's banners and leave your own message of freedom. Open Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

We're currently redeveloping our upstairs 'bistro' into an exciting new event space. Here's a sneak peek of the progress so far 👀

'Tis the season to get creative at the Bluecoat 🎄🎁 Join us for a series of workshops this Christmas and give something truly unique to your friends and family, or enjoy a family-friendly storytelling show with Father Christmas. Visit our website to find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/christmas

Bruce Asbestos' work combines painting, sculpture and performance, and blurs the lines between high fashion, fine art and popular culture. 👀👕 His designs ‘Hooboo’ and ‘Octopus’are now featured on two t-shirts available to buy from our exhibition Just Browsing. Open Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

🎉 Huge congratulations to our member Bluecoat for winning the Innovation in Social Value award at Liverpool Chamber's Innovation in Business Awards 2025! This is a brilliant recognition of the vital role arts centres like Bluecoat play in driving social change and community impact. Well deserved! 👏

NOW OPEN 👋 Stop by our Gallery to explore two brand new exhibitions, 'Just Browsing' and 'We Dream of Our Freedom'. Just Browsing reimagines the Gallery as a retail space, featuring tactile artworks that can be touched, used, worn, and bought. We Dream of Our Freedom was created by artist (...)

Lowry Lounge returns this weekend, book your tickets today! 📖 Since 2009 we've been celebrating the life and work of local writer Malcolm Lowry, and this year's celebration will explore his early years spent in the Wirral.

We’re thrilled to announce that Bluecoat has won the Liverpool Chamber Innovation in Business Award for Innovation in Social Value! The Bluecoat has been at the centre of arts and creativity in Liverpool for almost 100 years, and our commitment to innovation and entrepreneurialism allows us (...)

We're pleased to announce that Maureen Royce and Eddie Berg have been appointed as the new Co-Chairs of our Board. Read our new blog to find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/news/t...

SPACE TO LET ✨ This spacious and bright office is perfect for a small creative business. There is plenty of room for four desks, suited for a four-person team or two organisations of two people. Find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/our-communit...

We're delighted to be shortlisted as a finalist for Cafe of the Year at the Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards 2025. The awards celebrate the people, places and experiences powering a visitor economy worth £6.25 billion. Find out more: liverpoolcityregiondp.com/2025/10/16/l...

Bluecoat Arts Market returns this December! ✨✨✨ We’re opening our Garden and Sandon rooms to local artists, makers, and creatives. The market will feature a wide range of locally crafted, handmade goods, celebrating the creativity of our community.

JUST BROWSING: Chester Tenneson 👕🔤✨ Chester Tenneson’s work is interested in the nature of institutional language and behaviour, drawing influence from archives, signage, written rules, taxonomies and tropes of advertising to create painting, writing, performance, sculpture and print.

Recently, visitors to the British Science Festival 2025 in Liverpool were invited to @thebluecoat.bsky.social where they could step into the future of medicine at the AI Puzzle Lab with @liverpooluni.bsky.social 🤖 @britsciassoc.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/new...

We're thrilled to share that we've received funding from The Health Lottery Foundation to support the development of Young Blue Room, our new inclusive arts programme with learning disabled young people aged 14-25. Find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/news/h...

JUST BROWSING: Daniel Sean Kelly 🫖🏺📝 Daniel Sean Kelly uses analogue media to express the ideas of a brain developed under digital conditions, through drawings and ceramics. Some of his interests include; being a body in real and imagined space and objects that misbehave or communicate unreliably.

JUST BROWSING: Ben Saunders 🏺📖✨ Ben Saunders is a queer, trans-masc ceramicist, events producer and exhibition curator based in Manchester. His work focuses on community building, and explores themes surrounding intimacy, pleasure, sex and the trans body.