Artists of the Material Matters collective will return to Liverpool’s Bridewell Gallery in autumn 2026 with TRANSMISSIONS – the next major collaboration since their critically-acclaimed residency Into the Wyld at the Williamson Art Gallery in 2024.

TRANSMISSIONS will be an exploration of correspondences between the animate, inanimate and the metaphysical. Across four interconnected exhibitions, each artist of Material Materials will use the historic fabric of the Bridewell complex to create new and challenging experiential contemporary art environments to invoke dialogue with the spaces and those who inhabit it – past, present and future.

TRANSMISSIONS is conceived as an anthology of experimental art in four episodes:

03 Oct – 11 Oct | Silvia Battista will exhibit DEEP TIME
16 Oct – 25 Oct | John Elcock will exhibit PNEUMA
30 Oct – 08 Nov | Angelo Madonna will exhibit PASSAGES
13 Nov – 22 Nov | Patric Rogers will exhibit VESSELS

John will be presenting new work in an immersive exhibition based on the soul (‘pneuma‘) as a meditation on its relationship with the spirit reflected in the first verse of the Magnificat.

The programme will include gallery tours by Material Matters artists, an exhibition bookshop selling new titles published by the collective, plus signed artists’ editions. A reading area will also be available.

At the close of the exhibition a Long Table discussion event with the artists will occur, check out socials for booking details nearer the time.

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Bridewell Studios & Gallery, Liverpool, UK 3 October – 22 November 2026
Preview night: Friday 2 October Exhibition opens Sat 3rd October

Bridewell Studios & Gallery, 101 Prescot Street, Liverpool, L7 8UL UK
Admission free.

Open each day 10:00am-5:00pm or by appointment