Three artists explore landscape and reconnection, through photography, oil paint and watercolour. The exhibition features Eli Pascall Willis, Janine Pinion, Donalda O’Neill and sculpture from Ralph Shuttleworth.
The exhibition is held at The Lake Gallery in West Kirby. The gallery is open from 10am-4pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday each week.
See The Lake Gallery website here
‘Photie Man’ celebrates the internationally-acclaimed Irish artist Tom Wood (b. 1951), showcasing his iconic images of Liverpool and bringing together his work from across all decades, it will be the first major retrospective of Tom’s work in Liverpool.
Embraced locally as ‘photieman’, Wood has dedicated much of his career to the people and places of Liverpool and Merseyside to create an intimate, diverse and knowing portrait of the city and the surrounding area, and his pioneering photographs capture a definitive phase in the social and political history of the region. He is one of the most influential photographers working today.
Highlights include epic and renowned projects such as ‘Looking for Love’ from the Chelsea Reach nightclub in New Brighton, and Wood’s widely-praised Bus Series (‘All Zones Off Peak’). Unseen long-term studies of two major local institutions, Cammell Laird Shipyard and Rainhill Hospital, feature alongside his images taken around the city’s football grounds.
The exhibition will also explore Wood’s use of found photographs and landscape photography taken in Ireland and North Wales, alongside never-before seen film work from the artist.
Tickets go on sale early 2023
To mark the 100-year anniversary of her first book, Flower Fairies of the Spring, this exhibition will feature around 45 original illustrations, with digital projections and costumes inspired by the fairies, designed by Vin Burnham.
Explore the inspirations behind Barker’s paintings, as well as the flora and fauna featured in the work through National Museum Liverpool’s botanical collections.
First published in 1923, there were originally 170 drawings – accurate depictions of flowering plants and trees, into which are incorporated, caricature figures of fairies, designed to accompany the species drawn. The Fairies were often based on real children, from Barker’s sister’s nursery.
The Flower Fairies books by Cicely Mary Barker (1895 – 1973) are owned by the Warne Archive.
Tickets are free and available from early 2023.
Whilst ticketed entry is free, your donation helps us to continue to deliver a programme of extraordinary exhibitions and events each year, such as Flower Fairies, which otherwise wouldn’t be possible with your support.
Image credit: Illustration from Flower Fairies of the Garden by Cicely Mary Barker © The Estate of Cicely Mary Barker, 1944
Happiness! is an exhibition filled with fun and humour. Celebrating one of Liverpool’s iconic comedians, the exhibition charts the life and career of the legendary Sir Ken Dodd, and his connection to today’s comedic stars.
This exhibition highlights Ken Dodd the entertainer – comedian, performer, actor, and singer. Ken’s unique blend of whimsical, physical, surreal and theatrical humour transformed the UK’s comedy scene.
Using memorabilia from Ken Dodd’s personal archive, this show will explore Ken’s career and how his comedic approach continues to be used and adopted by some of the UK’s most well-known and emerging comedians.
Fondly remembered for the magical world he created, including Ken Dodd’s Diddymen, his tickling stick and the jam butty mines, his true passion was his natural gift for making people laugh. The exhibition will build on Ken’s passion, looking at the science of comedy, happiness and why laughter is good for our health.
The show will also explore the role Liverpool has played both as an incubator of entertainment for countless comedians, as well as its association with northern humour and identity.
*This exhibition has been extended to run until 7 July 2024*
The Liverpool Collection is an exhibition packed with artistic perspectives on the beautiful city of Liverpool.
As our bustling and vibrant city returns to pre-pandemic times, so does a sense of normality. But as we know, things are never stable, as demonstrated on the political and economic stage over recent months. We hope Christmas joy and a sense of reflection as we wrap up 2022 will be found for our visitors in our annual Liverpool Collection exhibition, with visual reminders of the beauty and creativity in our own local community.
dot-art is an independent Liverpool gallery supporting the work of local artists and our Liverpool Collection is an annual showcase of how these artists interpret their home city. Included in the exhibition are instantly recognisable Liverpool locations alongside nature walks and hidden nooks around the area. The range of works span from abstract to figurative pieces and provide customers a fantastic array of choice for gifting art this festive period.
Artists like John Petch have created geometrical paintings and prints of iconic Liverpool buildings. Megan Dunbar has dreamy oil pieces of the stunning Sefton Palm House and Carol Miller takes us on a walk through green pockets around Allerton and Otterspool.
This exhibition offers a wide range of art gifts with prints and paintings starting from £40 and our exclusive NEW limited edition Liverpool Baubles. Sustainability and climate consciousness is very important to us at dot-art, so as of this year our classic Liverpool Baubles will now be made from sustainably sourced wood.
As part of the new bauble launch, we are also creating limited edition versions, hand painted by our dot-art Artists Ali Barker, Suzanne Grace and Nathan Pendlebury. Each artist will be adding their unique style to the iconic buildings of Liverpool.
Ali Barker will be representing stained-glass light rays on the Metropolitan Cathedral. Suzanne Grace will be marbling the Sefton Palm House and Nathan Pendlebury will be livening up the Liver Building with his zingy pop-art style. There are just 50 hand painted versions of each bauble, available for £25 each or get all three, gift boxed, for £50!
Tick off your shopping list with affordable art gifts and share your love of local art with the ones you care for this Christmas time.
All artworks are for sale
Join dot-art for the Private View of the exhibition on Thursday 24th November from 5pm-7pm, for mulled wine, hot chocolate and Christmas Carols from the Scrapyard Choir!
All welcome, but you must register here: https://TLCPV22.eventbrite.co.
The dot-art Gallery can be found at 14 Queen Avenue, Castle Street, Liverpool, L2 4TX (just 5 minutes’ walk from Liverpool One).
Opening times: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am-6pm
The exhibition runs Friday 25th November 2022 – Saturday 28th January 2023.
April Lin 林森 presents The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance – a research-driven, choose-your-own-adventure game that investigates how meaning around ancestry is constructed, sustained, and embodied.
Who counts as an ancestor, and what does having an ancestry mean?
By texting with a chatbot, you are invited to converse with The Interface, an otherworldly guardian who tends to The Hall of Understandings, a cosmic library containing different perspectives, practices, and provocations on ancestry. The Interface needs your help as the library has fallen into disuse: the ecological, political, and spiritual consequences of this on the Earth are growing harder and harder to reverse.
By playing the game and texting with the chatbot, you help The Interface by contributing your reflections on ancestry or by exploring existing Extracts from The Hall of Understandings. With each participation, The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance furthers its experiment in building an archive premised on a collective, healing, and nuanced discussion around belonging, while hinting at the intergenerational web of connections we are all part of.
The game is accessible remotely via Whatsapp or playable in gallery as a digital-organic nest.
Add The Interface on Whatsapp using the QR code here
Exploring ideas of home through language, culture and vernacular architecture, Erin Dickson’s practice deliberately softens provocative subject matters including British class systems, AI bias, intimacy, and isolation.
After being awarded a FACT Together digital residency in 2021, Erin produced Harton Moor (2022), an animated guided tour of a 1970s council estate in South Shields. The estate is presented as an idealised architectural model set against the personal narrative of a child resident, Jessica. The 1:1 representation of the streets and houses of Harton Moor is rendered in uncanny detail within a colourless, translucent world without the marks of human interaction.
A pristine virtual flyover of the site is interrupted by the messy realities described by Jessica, revealing the complex relationships on her street. Offering elements of truth and fiction, Harton Moor exposes the friction between the perspectives of the imagined architect and actual resident, where reality sits somewhere in between.
For this presentation, Erin has produced lifesize 3D printed sculptures of Jessica and her neighbour and fellow Harton Moor resident, Dave, who sit within the space.
These new works by Erin are presented in FACT’s new gallery space designed by Chila Kumari Singh Burman.
The Covid Chronicle was conceived and curated by London artist Wendy Bliss, and has been described as a ‘Bayeux Tapestry’ for the 21st century pandemic.
It is a historic document in textiles & stitch, and charts first-hand the experiences of people during the pandemic itself. During lockdown Wendy set out to reach textile artists around the world through social media, and was delighted to received 140 incredible panels from 15 countries by the end of 2021. In 2022 Wendy set about curating the panels for shape and colour and, with the help of sewing friends, stitched and lined them into 35 metre-square blocks.
The Covid Chronicle is now on tour, exhibiting in museums and galleries around the UK, whilst a permanent home for the work is sought.
“I have been overwhelmed by the response to this project, and the beauty and poignancy of the pieces received. Spontaneous comments from the artists demonstrate how curative the making process has been for them, and my hope it is will similarly help those who see it to process their own experiences through this amazing visual record.” – Wendy Bliss, founder
“Literally stitching my own piece to that of others seemed like a perfect antidote to the disconnect I felt.” – Naomi Adams, contributing artist
Oxton Art Fair will be celebrating its 18th birthday this year at the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum.
Seventeen artists will be taking part and exhibiting a variety of original works including – painting, photography, printmaking, jewellery, ceramics, mixed-media, woodcraft and textiles.
As always, there’s something for everyone whether you want to browse, buy, come and chat to the artists about their processes, or simply soak up the sumptuous pre-Christmas atmosphere.
Oxton Art Fair has come a long way from its small beginnings in 2004 to 2021, when post-lockdown over 1,000 people chose to visit Oxton Art Fair in just one day.
They can’t wait to celebrate their 18th milestone and they would like to thank everyone for their continued and much valued support.
Date: Saturday and Sunday – November 19/20th, 2022 10-4pm.
Where: Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Slatey Road, Birkenhead – CH43 4UE.
They Think They Are Fallen Angels” by Christine Kowal Post is an exhibition about our place in nature and how we see our relationship with the rest of the world.
Kowal Post’s work considers the relationships we build with the natural world, other creatures, and each other. We are comfortable with embracing our shared physiology with animals, and have never considered ourselves physically superior to other members of the animal kingdom.
Yet we cannot help looking for traits which make us not just unique within nature, but exceptional. So we imagine ourselves as intellectually exceptional, disconnected from other beings and with the right to dominion over nature.
Kowal Post’s carved wooden figures explore where and how we fall short in this human aspiration to be like ‘fallen angels’ akin to deities in the great chain of being.
About the artist:
Christine Kowal Post makes sculptures and reliefs using traditional wood carving techniques. She has been working as an artist since the 1970s in Liverpool, North Wales, the Netherlands, and is currently based in East Sussex. She was elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy in 2005 and the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2014. ‘Wolfpack’ was exhibited at the 2019 Venice Biennale.