Harold Hewitt creates life-scale immersive pictures of the world we’re all familiar with.
His images are of local scenes, but sometimes a narrative emerges that he didn’t expect – perhaps referencing history, religion, poetry, art history, mythology or even present-day issues. What began as a familiar local scene becomes a stage for a drama, or sometimes a metaphor for a bigger message.
While the pictures might look at a glance like enlarged photos, they begin as oil paintings created on location. These are then developed over many months using hundreds of collaged cut outs. These give the pictures spatial depth, bringing in peripheral as well as direct vision. With the peripheral vision and large size together you feel you can almost step into the works, and become part of the narrative.
Life Is A Collage will run 9th June – 29th July in galleries 1 and 2. For full visiting information check their Visit Us page.
EVENTS:
Opening night: Thursday 8th June, 6-8pm – all welcome. Harold will be joined by Ruth Fisher to sing songs about the works from 6-7pm, and then will give a 10-minute talk about the exhibition.
Artist Talks: Friday 16th June, 6pm and Saturday 1st July, 2pm. Book on Tickets Wirral
Launching with a curated display in their gallery space, this summer Bluecoat Display Centre are delighted to share a collection of homewares, jewellery, textiles and more which have been specially selected as gifts for those significant occasions in your life, including weddings and anniversaries.
Whether you’re planning your dream wedding, eloping for an intimate ceremony, celebrating your 50th anniversary, have a big birthday coming up, moving into a new home or planning your retirement do, they have a carefully curated collection of handmade gifts by their talented craft makers, which can be tailored to match the unique character of your occasion.
Included in the collection are some items for before and during the big day, including a collection of distinctive, handmade engagement and wedding rings, bridal jewellery, textile accessories and paper decorations.
Join us for the display opening and launch of the collection on Saturday 10 June 2023 between 2pm – 4pm. Friends of the Bdc will receive a 10% discount on all purchases from the gallery during the event.*
Between Friday, July 7th and Thursday, July 27th, The Brain Charity will host Minds Re-imagined – an art in science exhibition.
The exhibition is a collaboration between artist Helen Lydon and neuroscientist Dr Josh Kearney.
The mixed-media artworks featured are a response to recent findings in cognitive neuroscience.
They reimagine our brains in different ways, using metaphors of mind.
This gives an imaginative perspective on how our brains are diverse, dynamic and extended: constantly working and thinking in tandem with our bodies, other people and the environment.
The artworks will be on display in The Brain Charity’s centre for anyone to view during our opening hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm).
On Friday, July 7th between 12pm and 2pm there will be an informal launch in The Brain Food Café – all are welcome.
To RSVP, please click the sign-up button today. For more information, email activities@thebraincharity.org.uk or call The Brain Charity on 0151 298 2999 and ask for Suzanne.
Ensemble
Solo exhibition of paintings by Ali Barker
The Landing, The Atkinson, Southport
24 June – 22 July 2023
Exhibition open Monday – Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Meet the Artist day Saturday 8th July.
Ali Barker’s work expresses music and sound in colour. She works with a fixed palette to represent the colours she perceives through her experiences of the phenomenon of sound-colour synaesthesia – when listening to music, she perceives notes of the musical scale as specific colours.
These personal experiences are the inspiration and motivation for Ali’s artistic practice. She draws upon them, as well as her musical background (she plays the violin and viola), to create her abstract paintings. Starting from the written music, her perceptions whilst listening to specific pieces, or working from sound recordings she has analysed, her translational processes develop excerpts into colourful paintings, ranging from gestural works to geometric patterns.
As a mature student, Ali Barker studied Foundation Art and Design at Southport College in 2014-15 and completed her MA in Fine Art (Distinction) at the University of Chester in 2019.
Based in Sefton, Ali has exhibited her artwork across North West England. She has had two solo shows in Liverpool, and regularly exhibits in group shows, including the Sefton Open. Ensemble brings together a selection of works made in the last few years with new paintings made for this exhibition.
https://www.alibarker.com/news-main.html
In their first major show as a co-operative, artists of the Material Matters collective present ‘Here To Become’: an exhibition of new contemporary art and series of events at the Bridewell Gallery from 7- 14th July 2023.
Angelo Madonna further explores his work on body-duality; Silvia Battista invokes ritual practice to imagine a mythological, speculative fiction; Patric Rogers presents a startling geological examination of human identity and John Elcock unveils a giant kinetic sculpture as a chilling metaphor for nuclear annihilation.
‘Here to Become’ is an Independents Biennial event responding to the theme of the 2023 Liverpool Biennial ‘uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things’ which addresses the history and temperament of our city and its call for ancestral forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing.
The event is a chance for us all to throw our gender assumptions up in the air, laugh at the ensuing chaos and emerge refreshed!
It is an art event, designed to cleanse our palates and revaluate our perceptions of gender. The emphasis is on using nonsense as a tool, set against a background installation of the artist’s personal fairytales, populated by supportive magical beings. These magical beings were created through collaborations, both with adults & the artist’s (then young) child.
About the Artist
Melody Carey Art is a project centred around a fictional autobiography written by Kelly Stubbs. Kelly didn’t have the understanding she needed to come out as a transgender woman, until relatively late in life. After more overtly political projects like Liverpool Trans Pride & promoting access to art for transgender people, she has been developing her autobiography and associated art practice, as a way of coming to terms with both the joys and barriers she faces as a transgender woman.
This event is part of The Royal Standard’s Biennial 2023 programme and will be ticketed
Daniel Halsall is a painter who creates modern minimalist figurative paintings that draw on Modern day themes on technology, vector glyphs, computer data, and living in the digital information age.
Daniel is well known for his creative work with Gondwana Records founded by Daniels brother Matthew, collaborating on artwork with acts such as Matthew Halsall, GoGo Penguin, Mammal Hands, Svaneborg Kardyb, Jasmine Myra, and Dwight Trible to name a few.
With the latest series of paintings in the exhibition, music plays a big inspiration on the work, the paintings take influence by the sounds of Autechre, Aphex Twin, Nils Frahm and Plaid. Inspiring playful painting jams with vibrant colours, echoing the intense sounds and melodies in these musicians work.
The exhibition will run from 6th July to the 12th of July at The Royal Standard art gallery, in the heart of Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle.
Elisa Sallis and Xanthe Tilzey present an immersive exhibition housed at The Royal Standard.
The exhibition will include multidisciplinary mediums, and will culminate in an ultra-over-stylised vision of what it means to be a feminine artist in our contemporary white cute context by bringing together their practices and blurring the boundaries between their resepctive styles and mediums.
How to wear high heels celebrates all things kitsch, textured and gorgeous.
PV 23rd june 6pm-late
“From Point A to Point B” is an exhibition by Elizabeth Challinor that focuses on bringing the curatorial processes and methodologies to the forefront of the exhibition, to highlight how exhibitions get from Point A (initial conception) to Point B (final exhibition).
This exhibition serves as a culmination of a larger ongoing research project that featured a short series of smaller exhibitions. Each exhibition was developed collaboratively with 2 artists over a 5 week period, meeting weekly to develop ideas through discussing their individual practices, and concluded with a one-night exhibition. The aim of these exhibitions was to work collaboratively and communicatively, and explore how exhibitions can be generated through ongoing creative discussion and sharing ideas.
“From Point A to Point B” explores the development and curation of this series of exhibitions, featuring notes, transcripts, images, recordings and more from each exhibition, following the creative journey, process and evolution of each exhibition, and hopes to offer an in-depth look at how the artists worked together, how their work and ideas merged together, and how the exhibition unfolded as time went on.
The participating artists were Amy Cadwallader, Beth Wise, Ami Zanders, Olivia Vacanti, Mia Cathcart, and Sophie Baskerville.
The Royal Standard is proud to present the debut solo show of Freddy Francké.
Under the Cracked Lid of The Beetroot Man is an ‘earth shattering’ culmination of ‘interdisciplinary’ works exploring the artists’ attempts at self-identification and vulnerability from the last two years curated in a calming, sensory and accessible environment.
Expect more woeful themes than you can shake your fists at the clouds at.
PV will be held on 9th June at 6pm
