About Tate Liverpool
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Collection Displays and Exhibitions
Tate Liverpool presents displays of work from the Tate collection alongside special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. The special exhibition programme, presented on the Gallery’s fourth floor, brings together works from national and international collections, both public and private.
Since the gallery opened in 1988, Tate Liverpool has presented over 150 different exhibitions and collection displays of work by hundreds of different artists, some seen for the first time in the UK at Tate Liverpool. Major exhibitions in the past five years include Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture (2002-03), Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era (2005), Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People (2006-7), Peter Blake: A Retrospective (2007) and The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China (2007). Tate Liverpool continues to play an active role in the Liverpool Biennial.
Tate Liverpool has an established reputation for working with, and touring exhibitions to international institutions as far afield as France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, United States, Canada, Ireland, Korea, Austria, Italy and Japan, as well as other institutions within the UK.
Learning at Tate Liverpool
A key part of Tate Liverpool’s work is delivered by the Learning team. Through a varied programme of activities for a wide range of audiences, the Learning team broaden participation and engagement whilst increasing knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts. Tate Learning organise activities and events for groups that include schools, communities, young people and families, as well as gallery visitors. While many activities take place at the Gallery, Tate Liverpool also delivers outreach programmes in school and community settings across the city and region.
Since April 2007 over 61,000 people have visited Tate Liverpool to engage in an education activity, while over 10,000 people have participated in outreach projects beyond the Gallery walls.
As part of the Liverpool Arts and Regeneration Consortium (LARC) Tate Liverpool is playing a major part in new government initiatives for young people: Creative Apprenticeships and Find Your Talent.
Working
at Tate Liverpool
More than 70 people work at Tate Liverpool in a wide variety of roles. For details of all Tate Liverpool vacancies, see Working at Tate.
Tate Liverpool is a member of LARC (Liverpool Arts Regeneration Consortium), a partnership of eight of the leading cultural organisations in Liverpool set up to help ensure that the cultural sector plays a significant role in the regeneration of the Liverpool City Region.
