I’ll Tell You Later | Until 1 November 2025 | Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
I’ll Tell You Later is an exhibition showcasing the work of Happy Snappers, a photography group made up of both Deaf and British Sign Language users. It explores the relationship between the Deaf experience and the hearing world.
The world is set up for hearing people. So for every interaction, whether that’s a GP appointment, a train journey or a visit to your local art gallery, the lack of access is a constant, exhausting battle and a recurring message ‘You do not belong here’.
This exhibition was about breaking down that barrier and to reclaim a narrative. To transfer the power and the ownership by connecting the two worlds, sharing the group’s personal stories and to create a Deaf space.
If you can’t visit, you can have a look at a brilliant flashmob by the Happy Snappers and Liverpool Rock Choir and read a reflection piece by photographer Pete Carr, who learnt he was deaf at the exhibition.
Residents | Saturday 8 November | 3pm – 5pm | Open Eye Gallery | RSVP
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.
Ming has been taking portraits of the members of Liverpool’s LGBTQIA+ community and discussing how the centre of the city feels to them. These portraits will be exhibited around Liverpool, on MerseyRail stations and on photography stands in Open Eye Gallery’s atrium.
LGBTQIA+ people have long gathered in the city centre for safety, community, and self-expression. Residents aims to honour that culture by making their presence visible via public artworks.
Northern Perspective Artist Talks | Wednesday 12 November 2025 | 6 – 8pm | Open Eye Hub Wigan & Leigh
Northern Perspective is an evening dedicated to celebrating the visual artists and organisations who are reshaping how Northern stories are shared, seen, and experienced, telling those stories on their own terms, rooted in lived experience and shared culture.
From photography and film to socially engaged practice, northern artists are amplifying perspectives that matter: stories of place, belonging, and what it means to live and create in the North today.
Artist Talk: Plants, Migration, Cultivation – Yan Wang Preston In-conversation With Caroline Edge | Wednesday 19 November | 12pm – 1pm | University of Salford
Dr Yan Wang Preston is a multi-award-winning visual artist and photographer who is passionate about the natural world and our positions within it. She is currently Artist in Residence at RHS Garden Bridgewater in partnership with University of Salford Art Collection and Open Eye Gallery.
She has completed many challenging projects, which have been internationally and critically acclaimed, including photographing the entire 6,211km Yangtze River in China at 100m intervals for Mother River, and walking to and photographing the same heart-shaped rhododendron bush on the South Pennine Moors every other day over an entire year for With Love. From an Invader.
Yan will explore themes of migration and cultivation in conversation with Dr Caroline Edge, Co-Programme Leader of Photography.
Categories: 2025 | Arts & Culture | Galleries & Exhibitions
