Bluecoat Posters Explore our Collections
This collection of posters provides a snapshot of Bluecoat's arts programme over the past 50 years, from Yoko Ono's 1967 performance to Pierre Henry's Liverpool Mass, presented at the Metropolitan Cathedral as part of Bluecoat's tercentenary programme in 2017. The posters represent just some of those in our archive and we will be adding to this collection in the coming months. Comprising mainly posters for exhibitions in the gallery, others are also included representing performances and literature events and other aspects of our work. The collection also reflects developments in graphic design and the use of typefaces, colour and imagery over this period.
If you have any posters from Bluecoat events that you would be willing to share with us, we would love to add them to our archive if we do not already have a copy.

1967
Poster for Yoko Ono performance

1971
Poster for Lawrence Arthur exhibition

1971
Poster for Modern Primitive Painters exhibition

1972
Poster for Bruce Onobrakpeya exhibition

1972
Poster for Exhibition of Hanging Works of Art

1972
Poster for Stephen Collingbourne exhibition

1973
Poster for exhibition, Recent Sculpture by Afredo Queiroz-Ribeiro

1973
Poster for Christmas Exhibition, 1973

1974
Poster for David Cockayne exhibition

1974
Poster for David Saunders, Serial Works, 1968-73 exhibition

1974
Poster for Ian Carrick's Scuptural Extravaganza exhibition

1974
Poster for Barry Flanagan Exhibition

1974
Poster for Nick Wyndham Sculpture exhibition

1974
Poster for Peter Henry Emerson exhibition

1975
Poster for Bluecoat Christmas Exhibition, 1975

1975
Poster for exhibition, Aspects of Dockland by Edna Lumb

1975
Poster for exhibition, Patrick Caulfield Prints

1975
Poster for exhibition, The Gibbeting of Wm Jobling

1976
Poster for the exhibition, An Honest Patron: a Tribute to Sir Edward Marsh

1976
Poster for Christmas Exhibition, 1976

1976
Poster for Drawings exhibition

1977
Bluecoat Cavalcade, Golden Jubilee Exhibition poster

1977
Poster for the exhibition, Brian Johnson & Stan Dobbin: Recent drawings & paintings

1977
Poster for Variations exhibition by Enda Lumb

1977
Poster for exhibition, John Devane and John Monks: Recent Paintings

1977
Poster for Peter Bibby exhibition

1977
Poster for Simon Roodhouse and George Drought exhibition

1978
Poster for Art of The Invisible exhibition

1978
Poster for Artists Union exhibition

1978
Poster for Fred Wilde's exhibition, Yesterday’s World

1978
Poster for exhibition, Pam Holt, Tony Wells, Yvonne Gilbert: paintings & drawings

1978
State of Clay exhibition poster

1979
Poster for Camera - Early Photography exhibition

1979
Poster for Claude Rogers exhibition

1979
Poster for Clement McAleer exhibition

1979
Poster for exhibition, Phoenix: Women artists at work

1979
6 Cartoonists exhibition poster

1980
Poster for Clive Hickinbottom, Soccer Icons exhibition

1980
Fred Wilde, Lancashire Between The Wars exhibition poster

1980
Poster for Going Backwards, An Exhibition By Don McKinlay and Sam Walsh

1980
Graham Ashton, Family Sculpture exhibition poster

1980
Exhibition poster for Horse and Bamboo, The Home Made Circus - Prints by Bob Frith; and Janina Cebertowicz, Recent Work

1980
Paddy Shanahan, Merseyside Portraits exhibition poster

1980
Terence Clarke, Representational Paintings exhibition poster

1980
Poster for Poetry Subscription Series 1980/1981

1981
David Taborn: Paintings and Drawings 1979 - 1981, exhibition poster

1981
Poster for Harry Hoodless, Douglas Wilson, Paintings exhibition

1981
Poster for Mick Kelly and Chris Prewett, Paintings exhibition

1981
Poster for North West Illustrators exhibition

1981
Poster for Peter Mousdale, Songs and Journeys exhibition

1981
Poster for Stephen Farthing, The Construction of a Monument exhibition

1982
Poster for Bluecoat Invitational exhibition

1982
Poster for Denis Masi exhibition, 1 CONSTRUCTION+

1982
Poster for exhibition, Graham Crowley and Tim Jones, Paintings

1982
Poster for Mike Knowles Paintings and drawings exhibition

1982
Poster for exhibition, Urban Kisses: 7 New York Artists

1983
Poster for exhibition, Between Ourselves: recent work by Don Mckinlay and Sam Walsh

1983
Poster for Brian McGeogh, Hearts and Minds exhibition

1983
Poster for Max Eastley, Sound Sculptures exhibition and Whirled Music performances

1983
Poster for Mike Lawson exhibition

1983
Poster for New Work: 9 Artists on Merseyside exhibition

1984
Poster for Prescote at the Bluecoat exhibition

1984
Poster for Anthony Davies, Urban Portrait 84; and Etching at the Bluecoat exhibition

1984
Poster for Bluecoat Invitational exhibition

1984
Poster for Ivor Abrahams: The Garden Image exhibition

1984
Poster for Sculpture in a Garden exhibitions

1984
Poster for Small Works exhibition

1985
Front of two-sided poster for the exhibition, Grapus: The Floating Image

1985
Reverse of two-sided poster for the exhibition, Grapus: The Floating Image

1986
Poster for Open Spaces weekend

1986
Poster for Punchlines exhibition

1986
Poster for Tony Hayward: Sculpture 1975-86 exhibition

1987
Poster for an Evening of Music and Poetry with Adrian Henri

1987
Poster for Holly Warburton's Palladia installation at the Oratory

1987
Poster for Liverpool/Cologne Arts Exchange exhibition at Merseyside Maritime Museum

1987
Poster for Liverpool/Cologne Arts Exchange exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery

1987
Poster for Liverpool/Cologne Arts Exchange exhibition at Mercury Court

1987
Poster for Modern Chinese Prints exhibition

1987
Poster for The Art of Adrian Henri, 1955-1985 exhibition

1988
Poster for two exhibitions of paintings by David Mabb and Pam Skelton

1988
Poster for Joolz poetry event

1988
Poster for exhibition, Alali: Sculpture by Sokari Douglas Camp

1988
Poster for The Last Poets at Bluecoat

1989
Poster for Four Legs To Fly exhibition from BBK, Cologne

1989
Poster for John Heartfield exhibition

1989
Poster for Keith Khan: Soucouyan exhibition

1983
Poster for Power Plays exhibition

1989
Poster for Perestroika in the Avant Garde programme

1990
Poster for In A New Light exhibition

1990
Poster for Let The Canvas Come to Life with Dark Faces exhibition

1990
Poster for New Sculpture exhibition

1991
Poster for Chawal ki Chadder performance

1991
Poster for video programme, Video Art, 1976-1990: The German Contribution

1992
Poster for Doris Lessing reading

1992
Poster for three exhibitions: Robert D. Clark, John Plowman, and Cross-Section

1993
Poster for jazz poetry conversation event

1993
Poster for the exhibitions, Mal Dean 1941-1974: Cartoons, Illustrations, Drawings & Paintings; and Jazz by Tony Phillips

1993
Poster for exhibition ...Cigarettes, Flowers and Videotape: Multi-media installations by Tony Oursler

1994
Poster for two exhibitions, Virtual Duality: a Migrant Song, by Nina Edge, and The Sound of Science by Peter Beeton

1994
Poster for On Location: Site specific artworks in Liverpool City Centre

1994
Poster for Somewhere in Particular exhibition

1995
Poster for Video Positive festival

1996
Poster for Live From The Vinyl Junkyard live art commissions

1996
Poster for Peter Kennard's Unwords exhibition

1997
Poster for Linton Kwesi Johnson performance

1997
Poster for Mixing It live art commissions

1997
Poster for Reformat performance

1997
Poster for Video Positive 97, Escaping Gravity

1998
Poster for exhibition, Alex Laing: Brookside Photographs

1998
Poster for Atomic Lip spoken word event

1998
Poster for Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison: Casting a Green Net exhibition

1999
Poster for James Williams Trio performance

1999
Poster for Janet Hodgson: History Lesson exhibition

1999
Poster for June Tabor concert

1999
Poster for Conrad Atkinson: Mining Culture exhibition

2000
Poster for Eight Days a Week programme

2000
Poster for Mana Bozho Drum Orchestra performance

2000
Poster for Martin Creed's Martincreedworks exhibition

2001
Poster for exhibition by Andrew Mania, Penny McCarthy and Imran Qureshi

2001
Poster for Beck's Futures 2 exhibition

2001
Poster for Bluecoat Connect exhibition

2001
Poster for exhibition, Look Out! Art-Society-Politics

2001
Poster for Marion Coutts exhibition

2002
Poster for 2002 DaDaFest

2002
Poster for Manual exhibition by Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller

2002
Poster for Shen Yuan exhibition

2002
Poster for Wong Hoy Cheong exhibition

2003
Poster for Civilia exhibition

2003
Poster for From A Distance exhibition

2003
Poster for Hammertown exhibition

2003
Poster for national skiffle conference, Here's The Way We Play It, and concert

2003
Poster for exhibition, Senseless - Art/Bodies/Misfits

2004
Poster for Dinesh Allirajah's A Manner of Speaking performance

2004
Poster for exhibition by Susan Philipsz and Paul Rooney, Let Us Take You There

2004
Poster for 2004 Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival

2004
Poster for 2004 live art programme, Liverpool Live

2004
Poster for exhibition, Put Your Hands Where We Can See Them

2004
Poster for exhibition, Susan Hefuna: XCultural Codes

2004
Poster for exhibition, ZK: Drawings from Cologne

2008
Poster for 2008 Chapter & Verse literature festival

2008
Poster for Made Up The Translocalmotion project

2008
Poster for 2008 Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival

2008
Poster for 2008 live art programme, Liverpool Live

2009
Alternative version of poster for 4x4 exhibitions

2009
Poster for 4x4 exhibitions

2009
Recruitment poster for Angie Hiesel's Twins performance

2009
Poster for Artists' Book Fair

2009
Poster for 2009 Chapter & Verse literature festival

2009
Poster for 2009 DaDaFest

2009
Poster for Slow Magic exhibition

2009
Poster for exhibition, The End of the Line/Attitudes in Drawing

2009
Poster for Under The Volcano: An Exhibition for Malcolm Lowry

2017
Poster for Captain Beefheart Weekend

2017
Poster for Pierre Henry's Liverpool Mass

2013
Poster for exhibition, A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker

2013
Poster for The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things exhibition

2013
Poster for Portfolio NW exhibition

2003
Poster for Paul Du Noyer in conversation event

2013
Poster for One Night In Istanbul literature event

2013
Poster for Northern Elements event

2013
Poster for The Day of the Dead of Night event

2013
Poster for a bookbinding course

2013
Poster for exhibition, 3am: wonder, paranoia, and the restless night

2012
Poster for exhibition, Tophobia: A Fear of Place

2012
June Events 2012 poster

2012
July Events 2012 poster

2012
August Events 2012 poster

2011
September 2011 Events poster

2011
Democratic Promenade exhibition poster

2010
Bed-In at the Bluecoat

2008
Poster for Next Up exhibition

2010
Poster for Arabicity exhibition

2010
Poster for 2010 Chapter & Verse literature festival

2010
Poster for Four Corners exhibition

2010
Poster for Gary Younge talk, Who are we and should it matter in the 21st century?

2010
Poster for Liverpool Biennial 2010 exhibition, Touched

2010
Poster for Living Sketchbook event

2010
Poster for the exhibition, Sonia Boyce: Like Love Parts One and Two; and Action

2010
Poster for Mark Anstee's installation, Removed and Destroyed Without Warning

2010
Poster for Underwater exhibition

2011
Poster for Jyll Bradley's exhibition, Airports for the Lights, Shadows and Particles

2011
Poster for Patricia Duncker event at the Chapter & Verse literature festival

2011
Poster for 2011 Chapter & Verse literature festival

2011
Save the date poster for 2011 Chapter & Verse festival

2011
Poster for Democratic Promenade exhibition

2011
Poster for Gina Czarnecki exhibition

2011
Poster for Honky Tonk exhibition

2011
Poster for 2011 Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival

1972
Captain Beefheart exhibition artwork for poster

1972
Poster for A Concept of Multiples exhibition

1973
Poster for Derek Boshier exhibition, Documentation and Work 1959-72

1973
Poster for exhibition, Contemporary Art of Africa, Caribbean and Liverpool

1974
Poster for Images of War exhibition

1974
Poster for Ovidu Maitec sculpture exhibition

1975
Poster for Lawrence Arthur exhibition, Light Relief

1980
Poster for Jean Cocteau exhibition

1980
Poster for exhibition, Duncan Grant: Designer

1982
Poster for Cover Versions exhibition at Southampton Art Gallery

1981
Poster for Women's Images of Men Exhibition

1981
Poster for Contemporary British Tapestry exhibition

1983
Poster for exhibition, Derek Boshier: Selected drawings 1960-82

1983
Poster for Marc Camille Chaimowicz exhibition, Past Imperfect

1985
Poster for Black Skin Bluecoat exhibition

1987
Poster for Gavin Jantjes exhibition, Korabra

1989
Poster for John Heartfield exhibition

1993
Poster for Bashir Makhoul exhibition, Al-Hejara

1994
Poster for Ann Whitehurst, On the Map Exhibition

1995
Poster for Chila Kumari Burman's exhibition, 28 Positions in 34 Years

1975
Poster for Ernst Barlach Graphic Works Exhibition

2019
Poster for Studio Me exhibition at Bluecoat

2019
Poster for Jade Montserrat, Instituting Care exhibition at Bluecoat

2019