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Marie-Anne McQuay
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Curator, other things. she/her
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Birds may also be involved
Still from ‘Seven Starling’, 2025. A short video by Anthony Shapland which colleges footage of starlings mimicking artificial sounds. Image is of a starling turned away from us with the background colour of pale green / yellow also washed over the bird.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Guest curating solo exhibition by Welsh artist, founder of g39 and award winning debut novelist (#Granta ‘A Room Above a Shop’) @anthonyshapland.bsky.social for Tŷ Pawb summer 2026 is such a treat www.typawb.wales/ty-pawb-anno...
A white man in pink cap and blue shirt and denim shorts stands in the doorway of a pink edged brown wooden hut. Through the window and doorway pale blue sky and sea is visible. The sun is brilliant and the man turns towards us in the shadow of the door.
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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To avoid saying the title out loud I pushed my phone across the librarian’s desk when asking if I could reserve this
A screen shot of an email. The text is as follows: Reserved book - slags Sefton Park Library Hi Marie-Anne The above book is now awaiting collection at Sefton Park library. Hope to see you soon. Kind Regards Sarah
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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“After all…why not?” I muttered to myself, “Why shouldn’t I buy 3 books including the new @suchmayer.bsky.social”
Book case close up. Books stacked upright, spine visible. Close up on Peninsula Press titles by Emily Labarge (orange cover), Sarah Schulman (black cover) and So Mayer (black cover). In the background books by Anthony Shapland, Octavia Butler, Rebecca May Johnson, Daisy Lafarge and Jeff Young.
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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They decided not to go with the alternative title of ‘For God’s sake not now! Go away! Stop it. Yes you can have a biscuit! No I don’t know how long I’ll be.’
A very sweet picture book entitled ‘Mummy works from home’.
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Morning after the night before 🎃
Badly carved pumpkin (wonky face) sitting out in the rain in the morning next to 3 burnt out tea lights. Doorstep is made of terracotta tiles. Damp autumn leaves are piled up by the step.
November 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Small Trick or Treaters were immaculately polite. I dressed up as a middle aged former goth arts worker which I also do every other day of the year.
48 year old white woman with black hair going grey. Red lipstick. Against a brown door. She’s just finished a contract at a major arts festival and looks tired but is happy.
November 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Last night started off as teens without costumes after sweets (genuinely delighted to oblige). And then tiny witches, super heroes and surprisingly realistic yet small chainsaw killers. My favourite night of the year.
A glowing pumpkin - smiling face with eyebrows next to a lit candle. On terracotta coloured tiled doorstep with door ajar. Light on inside. A Liverpool Biennial 2025 tote back (cream & pink) hanging on the stairs. Huge pile of autumn leaves I should really sweep up in front of the door. It’s night time on Halloween.
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Happy Halloween
Pale horse judging you in a dark coat standing face on like a human in a green field. Sky is grey & cloudy. Is this an omen? Come closer. The horse would like to whisper in your ear.
October 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Cat head waiting for petting. Full info on ALT x
A view looking down on a large adorable cat head with long whiskers. She’s tabby with a white face. Looking down at the road. She’s waiting outside her house to be let in which is an OUTRAGE. Not mine but I love to stop and chat with her.
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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For @cmsdengl.bsky.social and everyone who was concerned. Nala the St Michael’s Station Cat has returned after 6 weeks of going missing. Best start to a Monday
Adorable and unrepentant tabby cat - browns & blacks - seen from the side looking away. On a brick pattern floor in a yellow shelter. She’d been in some guy’s flat for 6 weeks before being located and picked up by her owner. She has a home. Just loves the station. Less so humans but fair.
October 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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The St Michael’s Station (South Liverpool) cat 🐈 has gone missing. She has a real home but would hang out at the station most days. She didn’t even like people that much but we all miss her. Trying every platform to help find her.
Picture of an adorable young female tabby cat. Browns, dark brown with a little white mouth. Sitting on a table (that she probably wasn’t meant to be on) in front of a vase of flowers. Her name is Nala otherwise known as The Station Cat and she’s gone missing.
October 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Another young vampire fails to survive autumn. Make sure you top up their feeders.
Cut out vampire wings in pale pink with orange border. The size did a small child. Lying discarded on the road covered in autumn leaves.
October 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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When you’ve been to work (the station) on the worst day ever (it’s raining) so you decide to go home (sit on the bins).
Adorable tabby cat - different shades of brown next to two of Liverpool’s iconic purple bins. It’s raining and the pavement is wet. There’s a wall with railings and then new build flares behind. Cat is seen from the back about to leap up onto bins.
June 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Berry Street x
Stoneware tiles in the shape of a bottle and a can set into a grey pavement. Tiles are red, white, black, green and lighter colours. They contain images of seagulls, plants and cars. The sun is shining and a silhouette of a lamppost can be seen. Artist: Kara Chin for LB2025.
June 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Earlier. If I could spend my day with her in the shelter I would x
Tabby cat / Nala (she/her) curled on a bright yellow MerseyRail metal seat inside a yellow shelter on a railway platform. Cat faces away from camera most likely snoozing. Leg of passenger is in shot and brick floor and greenery behind the shelter. She is in a favourite sun spot.
June 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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My self care this week
Tabby cat - light & dark brown- crouched in concentration on a bright purple Liverpool bin. They are drinking rain water off the bin with such focus. Seen through railings. Hint of a car park.
June 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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An excellent night. Also us possibly terrifying the teenagers who’d come out to have a quiet smoke.
Dark and light blue dusk. Outline of dark trees and bushes. A tiny silhouette of a bat shaped bat is visible. Most of the picture is sky. Night is falling.
May 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Naked Pringles
A non-copyright infringing snack in a Pringle-like Shape. Yellow curved stacked crisps against a red background on a series of small shiny plastic bags. Called ‘Stacks’. Probably 8-10 packets would fit in a Pringle tube. On a shelf in Home Bargains.
May 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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I managed to stroke the Station Cat today. I love her desire for proximity while also intensely disliking actually being too near people
Adorable tabby cat in hunched loaf mode. Light and dark brown. Seen from the side. On a brown slatted bench that sits on tiles. Lots of greenery around - this is a very lush station concourse. She’s next to a man in a blue suit and white trainers. She’s close but not too close. Facing away from him. She may be fuming.
April 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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YEEEESSS!! I shouted out loud into the garden to the possible surprise of my neighbours as Bird of the Day came up
Screen shot of Merlin Bird ID App. Birds heard: cropped off Goldfinch. Ring-necked Parakeet. European Robin. Common Woodpigeon (no judgement, just in the name). Eurasian Blackcap - YOUR BIRD OF THE DAY! highlighted. Dunnock.
April 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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We all deserve nice things
Lobster - dark grey with curved claws - at Liverpool’s World Museum Aquarium. Peeping out from under a rock & hugging a green and blue plastic toy that looks a bit like a Rubik’s Cube. I honestly think they’d be faster than me at one. Small stones on bottom of tank.
April 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Loki the Trickster God & their new activity book is giving me precious time to finish a (late) catalogue essay @louiestowell.bsky.social Shout out also to @samwetherell.bsky.social - their book on Liverpool in the background 🔎 is being quoted in the (late) essay
Girl in striped top & blue denim with blue cap. At a table. Reading Loki A Bad God’s Guide to Unruly Activities by Louie Stowell. In background many many other books.
April 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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I did a litter pick (usual cans & crisps) and M(11) did a Pokémon walk.
Bin bag full of vans with green rim. Litter picker in shot too. Out of focus there’s wild garlic in the bushes too.
March 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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The @fofg.bsky.social out planting today. For everyone and @everyheron.bsky.social
People in high vis & fleeces gardening at a distance. In a green space with lake & reeds in front. Blue sky above framed by trees. Pale pink blossom trees in bloom creating an arch over a path. A heron at a distance, side view. White, dark grey, pale grey, yellow beak. Seen through bushes. Heron in the middle of the reeds & water is intent on catching a fish. Purple flowers possibly clover against grass. A clump of bee heaven.
March 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM