What are some good art galleries in Liverpool?

dot-art, Arena Studios & Gallery and The Royal Standard are good places to start if you want to see and buy work directly from local artists. Open Eye Gallery, Bluecoat and FACT are worth knowing for the city's wider contemporary art scene.

Where can I buy good art pieces in Liverpool?

Directly from galleries like dot-art, at the Liverpool Art Fair, from artists themselves, or through a service like Personal Curator if you want advice on what to choose.

Is buying art a good investment?

Treat it as something you want to live with, not a financial investment. Some work appreciates, most doesn't, and nobody can reliably predict which.

Do you sell art directly?

Shuffle runs exhibitions and Personal Curator, a curation service. See those pages for how to buy through us directly.

liverpool’s art galleries, and where to actually buy art

A guide to where to see and buy original art in Liverpool, from the people who put pop-up exhibitions on across the city.

this isn’t an exhaustive list

It’s the places we’d point a friend to first. If you’d rather skip the research and have someone find the right piece for you, that’s what Personal Curator is for.

galleries and places worth knowing

An independent Liverpool gallery and online shop running since 2006, showing and selling work from local artists with prices starting around £25, plus a framing service. dot-art.co.uk
One of the North West’s longest-running artist studio groups, with regular open studios and exhibitions in the Elevator Building on Parliament Street. arenastudiosandgallery.com
A long-running artist studios and exhibition space with a well-established legacy in the city’s independent art scene.
National Museums Liverpool’s main collection: not a selling gallery, but a free, reliable way to get your eye in before you buy anything.
An annual fair at the Royal Liver Building, organised with dot-art, with work from hundreds of artists at a range of prices and a large section under £250. details via dot-art
Three of Liverpool’s best-known contemporary galleries. Not primarily selling galleries, but worth knowing for context on what’s happening in the city.

Vacant property activated as a Shuffle art space (4)

FAQs

dot-art, Arena Studios & Gallery and The Royal Standard are good places to start if you want to see and buy work directly from local artists. Open Eye Gallery, Bluecoat and FACT are worth knowing for the city’s wider contemporary art scene.
Directly from galleries like dot-art, at the Liverpool Art Fair, from artists themselves, or through a service like Personal Curator if you want advice on what to choose.
Treat it as something you want to live with, not a financial investment. Some work appreciates, most doesn’t, and nobody can reliably predict which.
Shuffle runs exhibitions and Personal Curator, a curation service. See those pages for how to buy through us directly.