What’s On: Summer at Hamilton Vault Studios

Learn all about our Summer 2026 programme. As always, events are free to attend.

Dot To Dot - an Illustration and Animation degree show

Private View: Thursday 4th June

6pm - 8pm, free entry

Join us for the opening of Dot To Dot - an Illustration and Animation degree show, from BA (Hons) Illustration with Animation students at Wirral Met.

This exhibition is across both HVS and Birch Studios and Gallery, based at 1 Hamilton Square.

Gallery open to the public Friday 5th June - Tuesday 9th June, 11am - 3pm

Closing event, Wednesday 10th June, 5pm - 8pm

Signal from the Noise

Private View: Friday 26th June, 6pm - 8pm

Open: Saturday 27th June - Sunday 28th June, 11am - 5pm

Then open by appointment until Saturday, 4th July

* Appointment slots are now closed

Signal From The Noise brings together new work by Liverpool-based painter Luke Skiffington and Manchester-based sculptor Jeffrey Knopf — two artists whose practices share a fascination with instability, transformation, and the space where digital and physical realities blur.

Working across painting, sculpture, and 3D fabrication, Skiffington and Knopf create hybrid forms that move between the familiar and the obscure. Faces, anatomical fragments, and eroded surfaces emerge through processes of layering, scanning, and reconstruction — images that feel at once recognisable and estranged.

Knopf's sculptures draw on the ruptures and glitches inherent to digital fabrication, while Skiffington's paintings build shifting, layered images suspended between states. Together, they explore the threshold where precision meets chance, drawing from CGI animation, art history, found objects, photography, and drawing to reflect on how images and memories are constructed, distorted, and continually remade.