ART galleries tend to exhibit work on anonymous white walls.

But Liverpool’s Victoria Gallery and Museum, on Brownlow Hill, is a little different.

In its newest exhibition space, the wall is pillar box red.

It is the curved wall above the cafe area and is featuring work by new and established local artists, providing a much-needed extra exhibition space for the Liverpool arts community.

The first exhibition is by Liverpool’s Nick Jones, a computer specialist in Liverpool city centre by day but who, by night, paints using a variety of subjects including military, war, sci-fi, cartoons, pop and the natural world.

His work is described by the gallery as “bright and accessible but with a darker edge.”

It marks a change of pace for a gallery whose main collection consists of Old Masters and classical paintings. The new works, unusually for the gallery, will also be on sale.

Gallery spokesperson Sarah Stamper says: “People using our cafe will be able to sit with a coffee and enjoy the work.”

The red wall, she says, is perfect for the modern displays the gallery is expected to show and sets off Nick Jones’s paintings well.

His work is planned to be on display for two or three months when another local artist will take over.

“We want this to be a gallery for local artists, and we are finding some,” says Ms Stamper.

The series of exhibitions is titled appropriately enough, On The Red Wall.

Philip Key