Art in Motion is your chance to enjoy art as you navigate the city of Liverpool. A new collaboration between Liverpool Biennial and Liverpool BID Company, in 2020 three artists are producing work inspired by the city's iconic Coat of Arms. The first artist to be commissioned is Gordon Cheung whose works will appear in unexpected locations across the Commercial District, inviting visitors and commuters to collect them within the fabric of everyday life.

A painter whose work explores themes of urban environment and history, Cheung has responded to Liverpool’s storied past and dynamic present by creating a series of ‘glitch’ based artworks inspired by the flowers and birds which appear in the Liverpool Coat of Arms.

From 20 January 2020, look out for Cheung’s artworks for a limited time on Arriva bus tickets, inside their buses and on takeaway coffee cups at the following local businesses:

Baby E Coffee & Deli • Bloom & Bean • Bold Street Coffee • Cafe Lucaya • Espresso Café (at Bluecoat) • Esquires Coffee • Hemingway’s Café • The Red Berry Club • Rococo Coffee House • Rope & Twines • Thoughtfully Café

The artworks will appear on Arriva bus routes 26 and 27, which travel through the Commercial District. 

A number of other exciting outlets and locations will gradually be unveiled across the city over the course of the project.

Follow the journey with #LiverpoolAIM and via liverpoolartinmotion.com.

Image: Gordon Cheung, Untitled, 2019. Image courtesy the artist and Cristea Roberts Gallery

Gordon Cheung (b. 1975, London, UK) is of Hong Kong origin and lives and works in London. Cheung’s multi-media artworks capture the hallucinations between the virtual and actual realities of a globalised world. Spray paint, oil, acrylic, pastels, stock listings and ink collide in his works to form techno-sublime vistas. Cheung graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2001 and his work has been exhibited internationally as well as featured in the largest and most ambitious survey of recent developments in art from the UK; The British Art Show 6 (2005) and The John Moores Painting 24 (2006). Cheung's works are held in international collections including the Hirshhorn Museum, ASU Art Museum, and Knoxville Art Museum in the USA, and The New Art Gallery Walsall and Whitworth Museum, in the UK.