TOPOPHOBIA’s final weekend at the Bluecoat  – over 13,000 visitors have seen the exhibition in Liverpool.  It’s sad to see it end here but we are really looking forward to seeing it installed at Spacex in the west country and Louise K Wilson’s new work commissioned for TOPOPHOBIA at Spacex.

TOPOPHOBIA attracted a great deal of attention as it opened at the Bluecoat in Liverpool on Friday 3 March 2012.  Rich new works by Uta Kogelsberger, Almut Rink, and Louise K Wilson and the huge shift in architectural scale meant a stunning new experience of the expanded exhibition.  In addition to all of this Emily Speed’s unhomely commission, Panoply, for TOPOPHOBIA at the Bluecoat had insinuated itself into the valuting ceiling of the gallery’s corridor.  From time to time during the evening disturbing little glimpses of naked twitching legs, or hanging hair, were visible poking through small window cuts in the high structure.

The TOPOPHOBIA preview was also the moment chosen to introduce and celebrate the arrival of the Bluecoat’s new chief executive Mary Cloake, former director of Arts Council Ireland.

TOPOPHOBIA OPENS AT THE BLUECOAT – REVIEWS

See the Guardian online Art and Design mention and image.

TOPOPHOBIA’s themes have also prompted an essay by C James Fagan on the Double Negative website along with a review by Linda Pittwood.

See www.sevenstreets.com for the latest review.

And another strong review at www.manchestersalon.org.uk and Emily Speed interviewed on her TOPOPHOBIA commission for the Bluecoat.

Stephen Clarke reviews TOPOPHOBIA through the language of photography for Redeye.

Anneka French has just published the final review of TOPOPHOBIA at the Bluecoat for an Interface platform for critical writing.