Fermented Flower (2021)

UK-based South Korean artists, Breakwater, confront the racist roots deeply embedded in the field of botany, which stem back to the Victorian era

by Breakwater of Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe

Breakwater Fermented Flower 2021 Image by Rob Battersby Installation view at FACT WEB RES

≈≈aaaaaahmaaaaaa≈≈ (2022)

In a new commission for FACT, Rae-Yen Song offers a glimpse into a world constructed from inherited memories of a distant maternal grandmother.

by Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊

Rae Yen Song aaaaaahmaaaaaa 2022 Installation view at FACT Image by Rob Battersby WEB RES30

Birthday Garden (2022)

Yaloo is an artist from South Korea who uses digital media and technology to create interactive artworks. In Birthday Garden, Yaloo invites us into an immersive underwater garden inspired by coming- of-age stories and symbols of Korean culture.

by Yaloo

FACT My Garden My Sanctuary July 2022 Rob Battersby 5

Metroscopes (2003)

The Metroscopes consist of 5 circular LED dot matrix displays each mounted on individual columns in Ropewalks Square. The public artwork was created by Clive Gillman when FACT opened in 2003, and was restored in 2023 in celebration of the building's 20th anniversary.

by Clive Gillman

Sculpture

Cosmotechnics: Rebeca Romero (2024)

Rebeca Romero explores diasporic identity, truth, and fiction in the digital age through sculpture, ceramics, sound, and video. Her work challenges Western views of history by blending pre-Columbian cultural elements with modern technology.

by Rebeca Romero

Rebeca Romero, Chrysalis (2024) in Cosmotechnics (2024) curated by Beatrice Zaidenberg. Installation view at FACT Liverpool. Photography by Rob Battersby

Chainmail 4 - Silent Knight (2025)

Amartey Golding is a British artist whose practice explores themes of masculinity, nationhood, violence and vulnerability. Since 2023, Amartey has been working with groups of imprisoned men at HMP Altcourse in Fazakerley to make a suit of armour, creating the latest piece in his ongoing Chainmail series.

by Amartey Golding

Sculpture

Alive in a world of car parks, armed with an air fryer and a fake baby (2026)

Ellie Hoskins combines sculpture, video, text and sound to create installations that blend personal memories, the excesses of internet culture and ordinary observations into immersive fictional worlds. Balancing humour with melancholy, her work finds unexpected emotion in the overlooked details of everyday contemporary life.

by Ellie Hoskins

Ellie Hoskins, Alive in a world of car parks, armed with an air fryer and a fake baby (2026). Installation view as part of group exhibition BRB at FACT Liverpool. Photography by Rob Battersby.

Tap Tap Tippety Tap (2026)

Tap Tap Tippety Tap follows a woman whose emotional vulnerability and transparency online transform her into a featureless lump to be harvested and sold at the surreal LLM (Large Language Model) Supermarket.

by Mrs Luva-Luva