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Tate Liverpool + RIBA North Exhibition

Lucy McKenzie

20 October 2021 – 13 March 2022

Free with ticket for Members

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Lucy McKenzie, Untitled 1997

Lucy McKenzie, Untitled 1997  © Lucy McKenzie. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Cabinet London

Expert painter, collaborator and creator of high fashion. Do not miss Lucy McKenzie

Join us for the first UK retrospective of Glasgow-born, Brussels-based artist Lucy McKenzie (b. 1977). The exhibition brings together over 80 works dating from 1997 to the present. Visitors can enjoy large-scale architectural paintings, illusionistic trompe l’oeil works, as well as fashion and design.

The exhibition highlights themes that have interested the artist throughout her career such as the iconography of international sport, the representation of women, gender politics, music subcultures and post-war muralism.

A skillful painter, McKenzie is known for her use of the trompe l’oeil technique; paintings that are so convincingly real they literally “deceive the eye”. Take a closer look at Quodlibet XIII (Janette Murray) 2010 and you’ll discover the pin board, with attached map, knitting pattern, and wool is in fact, a painting.

McKenzie collaborates with other creatives regularly. Through her collaborations, she challenges the notion of authorship by pointing to the strength of collective actions. McKenzie founded Atelier E.B. with Scottish designer Beca Lipscombe which has operated as a fashion label since 2011. Street Vitrine III Constellation 2020 produced by Atelier E.B. highlights the artistic skill involved in window dressing. This is further investigated in works like Rebecca 2019 which questions some people’s perception of ‘window dressing’ as a talent that requires little skill.

Lucy McKenzie, May of Teck 2010

Lucy McKenzie, May of Teck 2010 © Collection Charles Asprey © Lucy McKenzie. Photo courtesy of the artist; Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin/New York

Lucy McKenzie Fountain and Portrait of Mannequin

Lucy McKenzie Fountain and Portrait of Mannequin 2019. Collection Nicoletta Fiorucci Russo, London. Courtesy the artist and Cabinet, London

Tate Liverpool is located on the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool. There is level access to the gallery via the main revolving doors and two side doors.

The exhibition is on the 4th floor of the building.

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Tate Liverpool + RIBA North

Mann Island
Liverpool L3 1BP
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Dates

20 October 2021 – 13 March 2022

  • Advance booking is recommended ​
  • All visitors including Members need to book a ticket
  • This ticket includes access to the collection

With additional support from

The Lucy McKenzie Exhibition Supporters Group

Supported by

Liverpool City Council

University of Liverpol

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