Bryan Biggs

Bryan Biggs is Director of Cultural Legacies at Liverpool’s contemporary arts centre, the Bluecoat, where he has curated exhibitions and events, working with artists at the intersection of visual art, literature, performance and popular music, for four decades. His current focus is on exploring echoes of the Bluecoat’s heritage – as an arts centre housed in a former charity school building founded in Liverpool’s colonial era – in the present. He has edited/coedited many publications including Trophies of Empire (1994), Independent Practices: Representation, Location and History in Contemporary Visual Art (2000), Liverpool City of Radicals (2011), and Bluecoat, Liverpool: The UK’s first arts centre (2020), and has contributed to many other books, exhibition catalogues and periodicals including Third Text and Bidoun. He has participated in many discursive events around visual and popular culture and in 2022 convened the British Art Network conference, Perspectives on a decentred decade. He has an Honorary Doctorate from University of Liverpool. A fine art graduate, he continues his art practice including making a drawing every day.