Puja Varia is part of the 1.5 Degrees project team working on Sweat The Small Stuff. In the blog below, Puja discusses the development of the project and how designers, […]
Rest (Is A Political Act)
Rest (Is A Political Act) is an ongoing research project by artist Niki Colclough. For our second Future Station event exploring care in the arts, we gathered to consider collective […]
Barely Visible 2023
Rowena Gander is an international performance artist who creates thought provoking solo performance works that question and negotiate themes of sexuality, power and objectification in women. This year, Rowena’s preparing […]
About My Other (and Other Things in Parentheses)
Norman Erikson Pasaribu was Essex Writers House x English PEN House international writer in residence, in partnership with us as part of English PEN’s year-long centenary programme Common Currency. Common […]
Owen Rutland 1.5 Degrees x Metal
The 1.5 Degrees project team are Liverpool John Moores University Graphic Design and Illustration students and staff who have joined us to explore how designers, illustrators and creative climate communication […]
Littlewoods Heritage Project: Grace Belcher
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
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 […]
CHANGE MAKERS
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 […]
“I learnt to distrust the normatives”: Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s Reading List
Back in 2020, we had a chat with our artist-in-residence and joint Jarman Award 2020 winner Andrea Luka Zimmerman: artist, filmmaker and cultural activist. Her work explores the common themes […]













