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IN CONVERSATION: KIRSTY MACKAY – THE MAGIC MONEY TREE

10 October 2024

Exhibitions

The Magic Money Tree @ Atrium Space

12 September - 13 October 2024

Exhibitions

Open Source #30: Brothers by Jonathan Cochrane @ Digital Window Gallery

12 September - 27 October 2024

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Social Lens: Celebrating Creative Collaborations @ Exterior Walls

12 September - 4 October 2024

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Launch event: The Flowers Still Grow

12 September 2024

Exhibitions

Coming soon: The Flowers Still Grow

13 September - 27 October 2024

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Reading Round @ Open Eye Gallery

16 September 2024

Exhibitions

Picturing Eccles @ Eccles shopping Centre windows and Eccles Library

6 September - 19 October 2024

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Open Call: Shape of the Wind

1 August - 20 August 2024

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COLLAGE AND DRAW Workshop

25 August 2024

Past Events

COLLAGE AND DRAW Workshop

11 August 2024

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PHOTOWALK AND POETRY Workshop

24 August 2024

Exhibitions

Home: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words @ Edinburgh Art Festival

2 August - 5 October 2024

Projects

Share your community gardening story: tips for zine-making

1 July 2024

Exhibitions Past Exhibitions

Blast Sheets by Max Boardman @ Digital Window Gallery

28 June - 1 September 2024

Past Exhibitions

Crossing Sectors 2024 @ Digital Window Gallery

2 July - 31 July 2024

Events

Four Poets

24 October 2024

Projects

Open Eye Gallery and RHS

1 January 2023

Past Events

WORKSHOP: Photo Album of the Irish

28 June 2024

Past Events

Launching LOOK Photo Biennial 2024: Beyond Sight

27 June 2024

LOOK Photo Biennial 2024: Beyond Sight

28 June - 1 September 2024

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FIRE IT UP FUND FUNDEES ANNOUNCED

13 June 2024

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LAF X OPEN EYE GALLERY: PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION LAUNCH

4 June 2024

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Home Tour @ Rochdale

6 June - 12 July 2024

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Photography Workshop: Birkenhead

30 June 2024

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Photography Workshop: St Helens

23 June 2024

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Photography Workshop: Runcorn

16 June 2024

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Photography Workshop: Liverpool City Centre

15 June 2024

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Photography Workshop: Bootle

9 June 2024

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Photography Workshop: Huyton

1 June 2024

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Everyone is Moving – Your Journeys, Your Neighbourhoods @ Atrium Space

4 June - 30 June 2024

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European Poetry Festival : Liverpool Camarade

6 July 2024

Bonds / Ripples

29 May - 9 June 2024

Exhibitions

JOURNEY TO EDEN @ DIGITAL WINDOW GALLERY

6 May - 12 May 2024

Past Events

Webinar: Socially Engaged Photography

22 May 2024

Past Events

MARRIAGE (IN)EQUALITY IN UKRAINE. Screening and a panel discussion

9 May 2024

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Casey Orr artist talk and SEPN North West meet-up

18 May 2024

Past Events

Poetry reading: Coast to Coast to Coast

11 May 2024

Exhibitions

National Pavilion of Ukraine @ Venice Biennale

20 April - 24 November 2024

Exhibitions

Open Source 28: Sam Patton – Room to Breathe @ Digital Window Gallery

10 April - 18 May 2024

Exhibitions

Forward, Together @ Wigan & Leigh Archives, Leigh Town Hall

23 March - 28 September 2024

Past Exhibitions

As She Likes It: Christine Beckett @ The Rainbow Tea Rooms, Chester

1 March - 30 June 2024

Exhibitions

Shifting Horizons @ Digital Window Gallery

27 March - 31 March 2024

PLATFORM: ISSUE 6

26 March 2024

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Saturday Town: Launch Event

10 April 2024

Exhibitions

Saturday Town

11 April - 19 May 2024

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PLATFORM: ZINE LAUNCH EVENT

21 March 2024

Home. Ukrainian Photography, UK Words: Tour

4 March - 28 February 2025

Exhibitions

Home: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words @ New Adelphi

4 March - 8 March 2024

Past Events

CREATIVE SOCIAL: IN THE ABSENCE OF FORMAL GROUND

2 March 2024

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Sean and Harley on the Pier Head, 2022. Photo by Sam Batley

Introducing Tracks

Tracks is a series of case-study-style publications looking at the professional and personal development of an individual. Published by Open Eye Gallery, Tracks considers where an individual and the gallery have intersected or continue to intersect; a record of shared values, learning and impact.

Tracks 01 features Sam Batley and his journey of overcoming self-doubt and using photography for creative self-expression.

Photography felt much different, like I had entered a different kind of dialogue with myself and the world. – Sam Batley

I arrived in Liverpool on the 2nd of September 2019, with a bag. Feeling scared mixed into a nervous sense of relief I walked over to the dock from Liverpool One Bus Station to have a look at the water. I’d been falling for years and finally landed. PJ Smith met me shortly after, the recovery lead at Damien John Kelly house, a recovery living centre for men in Wavertree that bases recovery around the arts, sport and culture. I was their new resident, this is the pivot point of my life, the boundary between before and after. One side addiction, the other recovery. Creativity is the thread that has joined them together. 

TRACKS 01 – READ ON ISSUU

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