Classroom: Blue Room at Bluecoat Arts Centre
Students: Learning disabled and neurodivergent adults
Partners: Bluecoat Arts Centre and the Liverpool Telescope project
Blue Room is Bluecoat’s inclusive arts project for learning disabled and neurodivergent adults. The artists are encouraged to explore contemporary arts and heritage and to create and share their own work. In 2025, the Blue Room was studying different ways of seeing, using microscopes, telescopes, and more. The Schools' Observatory joined them to help the artists explore space with our network of telescopes and create art inspired by the universe.
Over two afternoons, TSO Director Andy helped the artists request their own observations and use false colour imaging to explore them. Andy helped them to learn about the objects they had observed, getting excited about their size, distance, and what they are made of. The artists then created their own works inspired by their observations and what they had learned about the objects.
The art was shared in a special exhibition as part of the British Science Festival in Liverpool in September 2025.
Work by Blue Room artists:
Some of the observations that inspired them:
