The LAKE gallery in West Kirby is showcasing the work of four exciting, contemporary abstract artists in its latest exhibition.
The Shape of Things runs from March 30 to May 6 and will feature work from Christine Evans, Derek King, Sherilyn Halligan and Annie Luke Turner.
The Grange Road venue is a new artist-led space, opened in September 2022, which hosts a changing programme of exhibitions of fine arts and contemporary crafts by established and emerging artists.
The gallery is open from 10am-4pm, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
This is the first public exhibition by The Rubber Glove. RG began making work during lockdown, creating a confusing but nostalgic set of digital collages and animations combining familiar faces of light entertainment gone by with those of a more identifiable modern iconography. The exhibition, presented in conjunction with Dead Pigeon Gallery, is like nothing ever hosted by the venue before and is a visual cocktail of satirical comment on popular culture past and present.
All selections have now been made for the Williamson Open Art & Photography Exhibition 2023, the 60th edition of the exhibition
Every year since 1962, barring 2021 due to the pandemic, the Williamson Open has aimed to reflect the current active visual arts scene in Wirral. It’s open to artists and photographers who have connections with Wirral through birth, education, residency or occupation. Work in all media is accepted.
This year’s exhibition promises to be another showcase of the fascinating and diverse visual arts being created locally.
The exhibition runs 5th April – 29th April 2023 (closed Good Friday 7th April) in Galleries 1&2. For full visiting information check their Visit Us page.
Apollo Remastered at Birkenhead’s Williamson Art Gallery & Museum will showcase spectacular images from Andy Saunders’ extraordinary bestselling book on a never-before-seen scale.
The original NASA photographic film from the Apollo missions is some of the most important and valuable film in existence. It is securely stored in a frozen vault at Johnson Space Center, Houston. It never leaves the building – in fact, the film rarely leaves the freezer.
The images it contains include the most significant moments in our history, as humankind left the confines of our home planet for the first time and set foot on another world.
For half a century, almost every image of the Moon landings publicly available was produced from a lower-quality copy of these originals. Until now…
Bluecoat Display Centre’s spotlight exhibition for March features Merseyside-based and internationally acclaimed sculptor Emma Rodgers.
Emma’s display celebrates nature and the start of Spring and includes a range of ceramic and bronze pieces including ‘Flora’ (left), ‘Fauna’ (right), peacocks, and a charm of hummingbirds.
Join us for an informal Meet the Maker event with Emma on Saturday 11 March between 2pm – 4pm, and Friends of the Bdc will receive a 10% discount on all purchases.
A selection of Emma’s pieces are available to purchase from our online shop.
LuYang Arcade Liverpool transforms the gallery into a retro-futuristic arcade composed of games, avatars and environments inspired by anime, sci-fi, Buddhism and neuroscience.
Motorcycle racing simulators, Space Invader joy-con towers and dance mat stations transport you to entertaining and thought-provoking worlds.
Through gameplay, the artist invites you to explore the idea of “living on the internet” and to abandon binary ideas of “identity, nationality, gender – even your existence as a human being”.
Ashley Holmes is a multidisciplinary artist based in Sheffield, working across sound, video, radio broadcasts and performance.
His work brings together themes of collective memory, ownership and belonging with a specific focus on the nuances and unique authority of music from the Caribbean.
Ashley has been in residence at FACT over the past 9 months, as part of the 2022 Jerwood Arts / FACT Fellowship. During this time, he has been exploring the legacy of Black music, with particular focus on the social, geographical and musical influences of Dub – a subgenre of reggae music – in Britain, and in the context of Liverpool.
As an outcome of his residency, Ashley presents a three-channel sound piece developed from field recordings and conversations taken in the city. The sound work explores the ways music travels: allowing us to re-imagine notions of storytelling, and examine the ways Dub, as an experimental process, provides a perspective for understanding and re-defining links between the past and present.
Ashley also presents a collection of works on paper as part of an ongoing series titled Abyssal, made in response to some of the audio recordings. Elements of his research are displayed in the space including poetry anthologies, extracts from Loosen the Shackles – a publication documenting the first report into race relations in Liverpool, and a selection of vinyl records from Ashley’s personal collection by Dub musicians and producers who used pioneering techniques of echo, delay and storytelling.
Hope Strickland is an artist-filmmaker and researcher from Manchester, UK.
Her current practice is concerned with maroon ecologies and the bonds between resource extraction and racial violence. ‘Maroons’ are the name given to those who escaped from slavery and their descendants. Their existence outside plantation logics was often, in part, due to their successful navigation of inhospitable environments such as swamps and dense mountains.
Hope’s work also explores the temporal fractures and intimacies that can be found in working across 16mm, digital and archival film formats. Hope produced the short film I’ll be back! (2022) after being awarded a FACT Together digital residency in 2021.
I’ll Be Back! begins and ends with the story of the rebel slave Francois Mackandal. In 1758, Mackandal was condemned to be burned at the stake, not only for his crimes but for his radical powers of metamorphosis.
German illustrator Severus Heyn brings his first public exhibition, “Consuming me” to Liverpool Arts Bar.
The artist otherwise known as @queerartisan creates bold and often explicit images, in a fun and colourful way to explore themes of intimacy, desire, heartbreak and conformity.
This collection of work, curated by Laura McCann, offers thoughts on how we consume and are consumed in modern society.
Kathleen Guthrie and John Cecil Stephenson were key figures of 20th century British modernism. Married from 1942 until Stephenson’s death in 1965, this exhibition will be the first time that their work has been exhibited side-by-side.
Though Guthrie and Stephenson were both established and successful artists prior to their marriage, this exhibition explores the development of their individual styles under each other’s influence.
The exhibition will be open 25th January – 8th April 2023 in Galleries 4 & 5. For full visiting information check our Visit Us page.
About The Artists:
Kathleen Guthrie (1905-1981) exhibited widely from the 1930s onwards. Following her marriage to Stephenson in 1942 her work moved increasingly towards abstraction. Guthrie also wrote and illustrated children’s books, most notably The Magic Button to the Moon which was published in 1958, and during the 1960s impressed with her work in silk screen printing.
Stephenson (1889-1965) took on Walter Sickert’s studio at 6 Mall Studios, Hampstead in 1919, where he was later joined by Herbert Read, Barbara Hepworth, and Henry Moore. From 1922 until 1955 he was Head of Art at the Northern Polytechnic on Holloway Road.
Stephenson began making his predominantly abstract work in the 1930s, exhibiting widely – though during the Second World War he returned to figurative work, making paintings of the Blitz. A series of strokes Stephenson suffered in 1958 left him unable to move or talk. Partly for this reason he is today less well-known than many of his contemporaries, despite being a key figure in the development of abstract art in Britain.
Stephenson’s work was re-visited by Guthrie in her screen prints of his paintings, including Egg Tempera 1936 and Egg Tempera 1937.
Image courtesy of Liss Llewellyn Fine Art
