Sat 26 Sep 2026 - Sun 3 Jan 2027
This touring exhibition by Becky Beasley transforms the gallery with a large green linoleum artwork covers the gallery floor, and features hand-cut lake silhouettes, with adjustable ‘conversation’ or ‘kissing’ benches providing a place to sit and rest. Pastel pink curtain sculptures hang in the shape of the letters, H, S and P – an acronym for Highly Sensitive Person.
Echoing Beasley’s fascination with interiors, small ceramic works sit discreetly on a series of ‘lake’ tables, mirroring the floor designs, and groups of existing and new photographic works occupy elongated oak shelves.
The exhibition includes a four-part video portrait of an imaginary figure – a merging of American novelist and short story writer, Bernard Malamud, and the artist’s father.
The work explores milestones in life through its four discreet chapters: work, family, chosen family and dying. The film is narrated by British actor, Russell Tovey.
Free entry
As part of Becky Beasley's exhibition at the Bluecoat, we are delighted to present a selection of works by three Studio Me artists: Tony Carroll, Tess Gilmartin and Tom Rooney. Click here to read more about Studio Me in A Gentle Man (Part II) (1975-2029).
"There are notes given by this exhibition, on how to own and disown being labelled a gentle man. How to understand a label of Highly Sensitive Person, and how that differs from an anxious person, or how the two intersect. But mostly, it’s a secure assertion that being gentle and unintentionally affecting your world is acceptable; no matter how lonely that might be."
Read Art in Liverpool's review of our current exhibition, A Gentle Man (Part II) (1975-2029) by Becky Beasley.