PATRIC ROGERS
Winner of Liverpool Sculpture Prize 2026
Multidisciplinary artist working with folklore, public sculpture and contemporary myth.
Patric Rogers is a multidisciplinary artist based in Wirral, Merseyside, working across sculpture, film, painting, writing and installation. His practice explores folklore, place, psychogeography and the construction of contemporary myth.
“I am interested in artworks as myth machines: cultural devices that create the conditions for new stories, allowing communities to rethink who they are and how they relate to the places they call home.”
In 2026 he was awarded the Liverpool Sculpture Prize for SKALLI, a large-scale public sculpture installed at Liverpool Parish Church overlooking the Mersey. Reimagining the figure of the mer-being through the histories, textures and myths of Liverpool’s waterfront, SKALLI proposes a new folkloric icon for the city: something ancient, newly uncovered, and shaped by the place it now inhabits.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING
SKALLI
Public Sculpture, Liverpool Sculpture Prize, Liverpool
June 2026 - June 2027
Notes Upon and Estuary Entity
Collaborative Publication with John Reppion and Camille Smethwick
September 2026
Transmissions: Bridewell Studios and Gallery Residency (Material Matters)
Solo Exhibition of new works
November 2026
TRYST
Publication on sale now.
FEATURED PROJECT
SKALLI
Winner of Liverpool Sculpture Prize 2026
SKALLI is a new large-scale public sculpture commissioned as the winner of the Liverpool Sculpture Prize 2026. Installed at Liverpool Parish Church overlooking the Mersey, the work reimagines the city's maritime folklore through the figure of a contemporary mer-being. Neither mermaid nor monument in the traditional sense, SKALLI explores how myths emerge from place, community and collective imagination, proposing a new folkloric icon for Liverpool and its waterfront.
Installed opposite the Liver Building and overlooking the River Mersey, SKALLI will remain on public display for twelve months.
LATEST UPDATES
UPCOMING
TRANSMISSIONS
BRIDEWELL STUDIOS AND GALLERY RESIDENCY
I will be exhibiting a series of new works in my solo show as part of Transmissions.
Material Matters Collective will return to Liverpool’s Bridewell Gallery in autumn 2026 with TRANSMISSIONS — the collective’s first major collaboration since their critically acclaimed residency Into the Wyld at the Williamson Art Gallery in 2024.
TRANSMISSIONS will be an exploration of correspondences between the animate, inanimate and metaphysical. Across four interconnected exhibitions, each artist from Material Matters will use the historic fabric of the Bridewell complex to create new and challenging experiential contemporary art environments that invoke dialogue with the spaces and those who inhabit them — past, present and future.
SELECTED WORKS
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SKALLI
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A FALL AT THE EDGE OF SLEEP
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INTO THE WYLD
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HERE TO BECOME
