Bluecoat
(
www.bluecoatartscentre.com)
With a history dating back to 1907, the Bluecoat in Liverpool is Britain’s
oldest arts centre and it will reopen in the autumn of 2007 after a stunning
redevelopment. LUP is starting its collaboration with the Bluecoat in 2007 with the
republication of Art in a City, to be followed in 2008 by Art in a City Revisited.
Bluecoat exhibition catalogues will also feature in this exciting new collaboration.
FACT
(
www.fact.co.uk)
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool is the UK’s leading
organization for the development, support and exhibition of film, video and new
media art. LUP is at the beginning of a major collaboration with FACT that has so far
involved the joint publication of Mark Lewis (2006) and The Ghosts of Songs: The Film
Art of the Black Audio Film Collective (2007), both published in association with major
FACT exhibitions. LUP also acts as exclusive distributor of books published by FACT
on its own account.
Open Eye Gallery
(
www.openeye.org.uk)
Open Eye Gallery first opened in Liverpool in 1977. Promoting the practice, enjoyment
and understanding of photography, Open Eye is a significant cultural player in the
north-west of England. LUP first collaboration with Open Eye is The Water’s Edge (2007),
published in association with a photographic commission and exhibition of photographs
by Michelle Sank. Further collaborations are being planned.
National Museums Liverpool
(
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk)
LUP’s relationship with National Museums Liverpool (NML) has now spanned two decades,
and has involved working with the Merseyside Maritime Museum, The Walker Art Gallery
and World Museum Liverpool. Recent collaborative publications including Transatlantic
Slavery: Against Human Dignity (2005) and The Herculaneum Pottery: Liverpool’s
Forgotten Glory (2005).
Public Monuments and Sculpture Association
(
www.pmsa.org.uk)
LUP publishes the acclaimed Public Sculpture of Britain series with
the PMSA. This unique publishing venture aims to catalogue public
sculpture from the classic to the contemporary throughout Britain.
The first volume in the series Public Sculpture of Liverpool was published
in 1997 and since then there have been eight further volumes, the latest being
Public Sculpture of Staffordshire & the Black Country. LUP also publishes Sculpture
Journal, Britain’s foremost scholarly journal devoted to sculpture, on behalf of the PMSA.
Tate Liverpool
(
www.tate.org.uk)
The Tate Liverpool Critical Forum series began publication in 1993
and its remit is to focus attention on the dynamic construction of art
histories as stimulated by the act of exhibiting. Recent titles in the
series include Art–Money–Parties and Summer of Love. Outside the series,
LUP and Tate Liverpool also collaborated on Testing the Water: Young People
and Galleries (2000) and the exhibition catalogue Centre of the Creative
Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde (2007).
INDEX/LITERATURE NORTH WEST
(
www.literaturenorthwest.co.uk)
LUP has been a member of INDEX/Literature North West since the inception of
INDEX in 2003. Supported by the Creative Industries Development Service (CIDS)
and Arts Council England North West, LNW and INDEX bring together the
region’s creative businesses, including photography publishers, innovative
local magazines, graphic novel houses, academic publishers. Among the other
members are Carcanet, Manchester University Press, Flux Magazine and Dewi
Lewis Publishing.
