Open Eye Gallery

Photography for everyone, with everyone. Liverpool & online. Free, all welcome.

Open 10–5, Tue–Sun (except exhibition changeover times).

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

New exhibition!

Self-Defined. New Stories From Archives

Launch: 16 April, 6pm
RSVP: https://t.co/qJgTu53Gig

Exhibition continues: 17 April – 7 June. Free, all welcome!

[Arts City Liverpool @ArtsCityLpool]

A new exhibition has opened @OpenEyeGallery today

https://t.co/VZauJFnDHe

[Feeding Liverpool @feedinglpool]

Yesterday, we attended the launch of the Everyone Needs Food exhibition @OpenEyeGallery!

Developed as part of the ‘Supporting Households in Crisis’ research project, it is intended as a conversation starter around food insecurity.

We are proud to have supported this work!💚

[Feeding Liverpool @feedinglpool]

Last week, we attended the Sowing Kinship: People, Plants, Photos Exhibition at the @OpenEyeGallery as part of their LOOK Climate Lab 2026.

Keep an eye out for more upcoming events in this series 👀

Get involved in growing projects in your community 👉https://t.co/8IJCR9DVSd

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

We're grateful to be receiving a 5% uplift in our NPO funding for 26/27. Increased funding means we'll be able to develop socially engaged photography projects and keep supporting representation, empathy, equality and inclusivity through photography.

[Department for Culture, Media and Sport @DCMS]

£1.5 BILLION investment will keep the doors open at thousands of museums, libraries, arts venues, theatres and galleries across the UK

The funding will support capital projects and preserve the institutions that help tell our national story and bring communities together

https://t.co/1XR5NDIsxL

[Arts Council England, North @ace_thenorth]

Our Freedom: Then and Now exhibition opens at @southbankcentre on 25 March. Developed by @ArtsCentres & @OpenEyeGallery, it features images from 60 projects reflecting on what freedom meant in 1945 & how those ideas resonate today. #ACEsupported
https://t.co/XHdBnX2FTi

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

New exhibition: LOOK Climate Lab 2026

🌿 Launch: 22 January 2026 / 6–8pm / Open Eye Gallery

🌿 Exhibition continues: 23 January – 29 March

🌿 This year’s programme is focusing on gardens and how people connect with green spaces.

Learn more: https://t.co/rZ9Fe9meNJ

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

New exhibition: Liverpool City Region Photo Awards 2025

28 November 2025 – 11 January 2026, open Tuesday to Sunday, 10–5 (with a holiday break from 20 December to 1 January).

Free, all welcome!

[Liverpool City Region @LpoolCityRegion]

We're delighted to announce the finalists in this year's Liverpool City Region Photo Awards! 📸

Check out some of the pics from the 18 finalists shortlisted by an independent judging panel across six categories. 👀

They had to choose from more than 2,000 photos entered into the competition, which is part of the Combined Authority's Cultural Events Programme delivered by @OpenEyeGallery.

The winners will be revealed at an exhibition of the photography launching on November 27. 🖼️

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

Northern Perspective: celebrating the visual artists and organisations who are reshaping how Northern stories are shared, seen, and experienced.

Wed 12 Nov / 6–8pm / Open Eye Hub Wigan&Leigh

Book your free ticket: https://t.co/kIFeA4izki

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

Join us to celebrate Residents, a unique socially engaged project by photographer Ming De Nasty and the vibrant LGBTQIA+ community of Liverpool’s city centre!

8 Nov / 3–5pm / Open Eye Gallery

RSVP: https://t.co/hGePtzVMih

Co-commissioned by @HomotopiaFest

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

Matt Simpson Memorial Reading with Deryn Rees-Jones

30 Oct /6–8pm / Open Eye Gallery / free
RSVP: https://t.co/S74BRdRv2N

Exploring the complexities of memory and memorialisation, desire and the body, and poetry’s place in a hostile world.

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

Now open! 26 Sept–16 Nov, Tue–Sun, 10–5, free, all welcome.

📷 Firehawks (main gallery)
📷 Next Up (upstairs)
📷 New Borders of My Body (outside walls)
📷 50 Years of The Whitechapel Centre (atrium photography stands)

➡️ https://t.co/1Drzt0IwWJ

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

Deadline extended until 21 September!
Show us your work: https://t.co/B9kiSnSIrw

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

Are you based in the Liverpool City Region? Submit your photos for a chance to be featured in an exhibition at Open Eye Gallery and cash prizes!

➡️ https://t.co/ZPSV21p7vR

Categories: celebration, connection, futures, shared spaces, movement and care.
Closing date: 14 Sept 2025

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

Welcome to September's SEPN's Newsletter - https://t.co/VYdUfrhXXJ all things socially engaged photography from @fotonow @jo_gane @SalfordUni #stephenkingphotographer @photoworks_uk

[Culture Liverpool @CultureLPool]

#Boxing | 📻 Great to hear photographer Emma Case on @bbcmerseyside talking Unsung Heroes and Liverpool’s grassroots boxing as the city hosts the World Boxing Championships. 📸

Also joined by Jason Harborow, Chair of the Steering Group.

Listen back ➡️ https://t.co/EXcXsasYd6

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

Join us to celebrate the launch of Firehawks – a photography project by Stephen King, uncovering real life-experiences of children involved in firesetting behaviour.

Launch: 25 Sept / 6–8pm / Open Eye Gallery

RSVP: https://t.co/IF1ZiishWk

With thanks to @NlandFRS

[Liverpool City Council @lpoolcouncil]

📽️ | Cabinet Member for Culture @harrydoyle96 & photographer Emma Case spoke to us about Unsung Heroes, an exhibition @SGHLpool celebrating our grassroots boxing community - on until 20 September.

More info: https://t.co/3yDwexL7uw

@OpenEyeGallery @SGHLpool @CultureLPool

[Open Eye Gallery @OpenEyeGallery]

Unsung Heroes: Celebrating Liverpool’s Grassroots Boxing

Launch: Friday 29 Aug / 6–8pm / St George’s Hall – Stable Gallery

At a grassroots level, boxing is about far more than competition. These clubs offer safe spaces, structure, and support, especially for young people.

[Nine Arches Press @NineArchesPress]

Come to the Liverpool launch of HEDONISM by Chris McCabe. Joined by Jane Commane.
Poem readings and conversation, exploring the creative process of editing and sharing insights into how a #poetry book is made.
@OpenEyeGallery
Sunday 7th September, 2-4pm
https://t.co/uMSWke9ZAl