VISITORS to the city’s Victoria Gallery and Museum will be able to “worship” a new exhibition created by the artist-in-residence.

Liverpool-born Tony Phillips is working on his first exhibition at the gallery, entitled Shrine to the Twentieth Century.

Still work in progress, the exhibition will feature three dramatic installations.

The first of which, pictured right, is already completed using old computers, radios and amp meters to look at electricity.

Mr Phillips, who grew up in Toxteth, said: “I had the idea that objects were very great and sacred and powerful in the 20th century.

“I wanted to look at the idea of worship because of the strange way we view these objects and how important they’re become.”

His elaborate shrine, which explores power, colourfully depicts women using vacuum cleaners and hairdryers.

He said: “We couldn’t live without electricity and just as in the past when civilisations looked to steel, iron or water as power, we look to electricity.”

Using artefacts from the gallery’s own collection, Mr Phillips is hoping visitors will explore consumerism, capitalism and history, through his work.

Over the next few weeks, he will create two further installations, one exploring nuclear power and the third creating a shrine to engine parts.