Artists Blog

Over the past year, Grace Belcher has been working as a Digital Archivist intern from Metal at Edge Hill Station, Liverpool. After completing her work with the extensive (analogue) archives, […]

Intimacy is incredible but also challenging. We can sometimes feel we are not doing it right or measuring up. Often we are navigating intimacy in the only ways we can […]

Metal Presents – The Space In-between from Metalculture on Vimeo. The Space In – Between, curated by Kate Marsh and arts organisation Metal, took place on 6th September 2018 at […]

Earlier this month, we had a chat with our current artist-in-residence and joint Jarman Award 2020 winner Andrea Luka Zimmerman: artist, filmmaker and cultural activist. Her work explores the common […]

Erotic Dance for Self is a short practice-led research project that experiments with erotically charged movement from my perspective as a lesbian dance practitioner. I was inspired to undertake this […]

Metal Liverpool’s artist-in-residence, Bill Posters, discusses Eco-Bot.Net – a new online intervention launched on various social media platforms during the COP26 Climate Talks held in Glasgow, UK, challenging disinformation online […]

Tim Burrows is the English PEN x Essex Writers House writer in residence, in partnership with Metal as part of English PEN’s year-long centenary programme Common Currency. ‘Everywhere in Essex, […]

Imagine these two scenes: scene 1, a steam train departed in the 19th century at an inconvenient time slot, carrying workers and other passengers from ‘low classes’ in basic carriages […]