Tate Liverpool is working with Tiber Young Producers – a group of young producers, artists and curators aged 14-18 on an audio-visual installation and exhibition that will be the first in the new Tiber building on Lodge Lane. The exhibition, Tiber Young Producers: Through Our Lens, which combines photomontage, photography and film, will launch on Thursday 25 September and will run until 1 October.
Tate Liverpool worked with the Tiber Young Producers to explore the history, culture and wisdom of different generations in the L8 postcode, through oral history, archive research and photography to create their own artworks.
Supported by artist Mark Murphy, the Tiber Young Producers have created photomontage works drawn from their own photography, inspired by the archives of photographer Leroy Cooper and Liverpool Black Archive Hub founder Michelle Peterkin Walker, to reflect the past, present and future of L8.
Some of these new artworks will remain in the new Tiber building, leaving a legacy of the work between Tate and Tiber in L8, joining the mural co-created with Neil Keating which was installed in April and is a permanent feature welcoming visitors.
Quotes from Tiber Young Producers:
Jasmin Kosmos said: “This project has allowed our voices as young people to flourish and allowed us to turn the adversities faced by the young people of Toxteth into a positive, creative space. It’s allowed us to show our vulnerability and use it for the better.”
Amira Taher said: “Through Tiber we have turned our diversity into a strength and our exhibition showcases what young people are capable of and what we can build together.”
Daisymay Austin said: “Working with Tiber has shown me creativity can unite a diverse community, turning individual stories into a shared story”
The Tiber Young Producers developed their ideas for this project over the summer of 2025, working with a number of people from the L8 community, including Jerome Griffin, the ‘Scouse Ghetto Gourmet’, to explore its food, history, and cultures. Their work questions the narratives and ownership of histories, foregrounding the importance of visibility, local archives and who tells the stories of communities.
Stef Bradley, Curator of Learning, Tate Liverpool, said: We are proud to see what Tiber Young Producers have achieved with Through Our Lens. It has been truly inspiring to see this group rise to the challenge of an even more ambitious project in their third year working with Tate, taking their producer skills to ambitious new heights for this beautiful show close to home at Tiber.
“The Young people’s decision to connect with inspiring elders within their community to share stories over a meal brought so much inspiration for the group, opening up some rich discussion exploring their place in their community as a new generation of creatives carving their own paths.”
Emma Case, Lead Artist and Tate Learning Producer, said: “As a photographer, so much of my understanding and sense of place comes from being able to explore the world through my camera. This project has been such a wonderful experience to watch our young producers, with such depth and curiosity, explore their local area and their relationship with Toxteth through their own lens.”
Tate Liverpool has been working with the Tiber Young Producers for more than 3 years and their 2024 project The Threads That Bind Us won the Community Cohesion Award at this year’s Liverpool City Region Culture & Creativity Awards.
Tiber Young Producers: Through Our Lens is open to the public on the following dates:
Friday 26 September 17:00 – 19:00
Monday 29 September 17:00 – 19:00
Tuesday 30 September 17:00 – 19:00
Wednesday 1 October 17:00 – 19:00