Since 2010, LJMU has hosted a biennial painting residency programme in partnership with the John Moores Painting Prize China, welcoming prize-winning artists from China to Liverpool to create new work in our Fine Art studios and exhibit their outcomes to the public. This initiative has fostered rich artistic exchange and dialogue across our art school, city, and between artists working in China and the UK.
The Learning to Talk Painting: Exploring Residency Models and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Contemporary Painting symposium aims to open this residency programme to a broader community of artists, educators, and researchers. Together, we will explore diverse residency models, examine best practices, and discuss the dissemination of artistic outcomes to local and broader publics.
A key focus will be the development of an expanded residency structure for 2027, envisioning collaborative opportunities for UK and Chinese artists to work side-by-side, share knowledge through the language of painting, and innovate new forms of practice-based research, artistic exchange and collaboration.
This is a hybrid event and will be available online via Teams! <----- Click here to join!
