TATE Liverpool celebrated the opening of the Turner Prize exhibition with a party at the A Foundation’s Greenland Street gallery, following the schedule of private viewings.

The four shortlisted artists were expected at the gathering which gave the gallery, in the Baltic Triangle, the chance to show off its own autumn commissions.

These include large-scale skateboard installation – drum ‘n’ basin by US collective Simparch – a 40ft pipe and swimming pool-shaped basin that the public can use.

The artist says that, through motion, the skaters “create a unique spectacle and rhythmic soundtrack within the space”.

Chicago artist Catherine Sullivan says her Triangle of Need is a multi-video installation “weaving a story of evolution, class, wealth and poverty, and inequality and injustice in the global economy”.

Brian Griffiths’s The Only Living (or Your Lonely Saucer Eyes) has been created in the furnace section of the gallery, and is described as a playful sculptural work.

Finally, Mustafa Hulusi unveils a series of colourful large-scale paintings, collectively entitled Cennet Bahcesi, which means “the heavenly garden” in Turkish.

All the commissions will run until April 20.

Greenland Street was launched last September by arts collective the A Foundation.

The gallery consists of three former industrial warehouses, transformed into 2,500 sq m of exhibition space.