OUTPUT gallery

This time on OUTPUT Gallery's podcast, Gabrielle is in conversation with Leo Fitzmaurice about his work 'Circus Goes Around' (2020), a video over a decade in the making. We discuss his current postal exhibition with OUTPUT alongside his wider practice, his experiences as a young artist and how the art scene in Liverpool has changed over the course of his career.

In our latest episode, we talk to Mali Draper and Dan Waine about their latest project for OUTPUT - an exploration of a dreamlike, fragmented narrative which encompasses a postal exhibition, a sound walk in Princes Park and a series of online resources related to sound design.

In the first episode of 2021, we speak to artist Donal Moloney about his postal exhibition with OUTPUT, a large-scale abstracted drawing which has been divided into 100 smaller images. We discuss the art scene in his hometown of Cork, his experiences in Liverpool, his long-standing love of painting, his career as an educator and how this impacts his artistic practice. 

OUTPUT gallery works exclusively with creatives from or based in Merseyside. In the latest episode of our podcast, we speak to current exhibitor Jon Edgley about his December with us, which sees us working in new ways. In the first ever OUTPUT installation, Edgley takes over the facade of the building with his own illustrated To Let signs as he examines the figure of the landlord. As well as that, Edgley's show launches OUTPUT's first postal exhibition as we move forward through the pandemic in a new way. Jon Edgley (b. 1996, Wirral) graduated from Liverpool John Moores University in 2018 and is currently based in Liverpool. We chat through all of this on the episode plus his love of drawing and his research process behind producing new work.

You can find the transcription for this episode on: outputgallery.com/podcast

OUTPUT gallery works exclusively with creatives from or based in Merseyside. In the latest episode, we speak to Nick Smith about his beginnings with art education, his practice as a whole, and his current show here at the space. For the exhibition, Smith is exhibiting his 2020 split screen video ‘Where Were You When It Was Shit?’ This is alongside a series of photo works titled 'In The North West It Rains And It Rains And It Rains.' These pieces examine the artist’s youth growing up in Merseyside from 1974-1996, a turbulent period for the region in a show that calls into questions whether history might be on the verge of repeating itself, given the current state of politics and welfare in the UK.

OUTPUT gallery works exclusively with creatives from or based in Merseyside. For this episode, we speak to Amrit and Rabindra Singh who are known in the arts as The Singh Twins. Two of Merseyside's most iconic artists, we are excited to have them in the gallery where they'll be exhibiting 'THE MAKING OF LIVERPOOL,' a 13 minute animation about the city's history. In this conversation, we discuss their background with art, the problems they faced with education, their inspirations, processes, and the work they're exhibiting at OUTPUT. 

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Host: Gabrielle de la Puente

OUTPUT gallery works exclusively with creatives from or based in Merseyside. For this episode, we speak to Chila Kumari Singh Burman (b. Bootle, 1957). The first half of this conversation looks at her relationship to the city, her education between Southport, Leeds and the Slade School of Art, and her family's ice cream van. Then, we discuss her exhibition at OUTPUT gallery and each of the films she has included in a showreel of moving image work from her Dad acting in 'Kamla' to montages of ice cream iconography and artwork that seeks to readdress the image of South Asian women. Her exhibition is on from August 6-30, but if you cannot make it down to the space or you are shielding, we hope this podcast allows you to engage with Burman's work and ideas from afar. 

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Host: Gabrielle de la Puente

In this episode of the OUTPUT gallery podcast, we interview freelance illustrator Lo Tierney. For their exhibition at OUTPUT, titled ‘Spectrum,’ the artist presented portraits of autistic people, including a self- portrait of the artist themselves. 'Spectrum’ is an ongoing body of work that aims to bring people together and start a conversation between people with autism and allies. ‘What advice would you give on coping with autism? And what makes a good autism ally?' There is space in the show where visitors can contribute their thoughts, which will be gathered and formulated into illustrations and a zine.

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Host: Gabrielle de la Puente

OUTPUT gallery works exclusively with creatives from or based in Merseyside. In this episode, we interview exhibitor Joseph Cotgrave and learn about his relationship with art, the exhibition he did at OUTPUT and the thinking behind it. Earlier this year, Cotgrave transformed the space into a nightclub with sculptures, music, a smoke machine and sticky floors. He wanted to use the exhibition as a way of opening up conversations around the culture of the gay scene, chem sex, and the stigma surrounding HIV.

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Host: Gabrielle de la Puente

OUTPUT gallery works exclusively with creatives from or based in Merseyside. Established in April 2018, it has worked hard to raise the profile of local artists and provide exhibition opportunities for its scene. In response to lockdown and the potential for less visitors to shows now that the gallery has re-opened, OUTPUT's Gallery Manager Gabrielle de la Puente has began a podcast series to allow audiences to continue engaging with artists and their ideas even if they are not able to make it down to the space. Following on from this initial episode on our Origin Story, the OUTPUT gallery podcast will be a series of interviews with exhibitors on their work, process, exhibition at the gallery, and also their experience of being part of the art scene in Merseyside. 

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The Origin Story explains in detail how OUTPUT came to be: from the manager's background in criticism running The White Pube to Invisible Wind Factory's hopes of injecting some lively temporary projects in the Ropewalks area of Liverpool. The podcast covers how the space's local remit was decided, it's funding journey, and what it hopes to be in the future.

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Host: Gabrielle de la Puente