Paint-Thing: The Cornerstone Gallery, Creative Campus, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool

Building on (a contemporary) phantasmagoria’s successful run at Tension Fine Art, London in 2024 and in Liverpool in 2025, (a contemporary) phantasmagoria 3: Paint-Thing will extend its range and ambition for the prestigious Cornerstone Gallery at Liverpool Hope University's renowned Creative Campus.

‘Paint-Thing’ focuses on a contemporary clashing and commingling of both picture plane and sculptural object. Since the 1960s, the discrete disciplines of painting and sculpture have courted and contradicted, seduced and denied each other. The artists in Paint-Thing re-engage with this tryst between two and three dimensions, rendering it, as Walter Benjamin might, as a site of complex disruptions, antagonisms and mutations informed by disparate ideas from the history of art and the (de)materiality of the life we are living now.

Curated by John Bunker and Ken Turner