Event type: Exhibition

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Josèf...

For FACT’s winter season, the worlds of artists Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Josèfa Ntjam collide in a free immersive exhibition. Working across archives, maps and video games, the artists consider how acts of resistance, rebuilding and reimagining can lead to transformative new worlds.

Josèfa’s work reexamines history in the aftermath of colonialism and the Transatlantic slave trade. Her richly layered works reference counter-cultural movements and non-Western histories that symbolise ideas of resistance, transformation and freedom. Josèfa presents these symbols within an interstellar, underground cave filled with jellyfish, plankton and mushrooms. These natural life forms survive by communicating through networks and signals that they create amongst themselves. By drawing parallels between our human behaviour and natural processes, she demonstrates how spaces of solidarity, care and revolution can thrive in darkness.

Danielle opens access to new worlds designed with The Bandidos, a group of young people from Liverpool. When Danielle and the group first started working together, she asked: what doesn’t Liverpool have that you need? What does your world need? And, if you had everything you needed to live, what would you want? Danielle creates artworks that archive the experiences of Black Trans people and communities who can be otherwise underserved. Here, she brings to life The Bandidos’ imaginative visions, developing a video game that can be explored online and through four portals inside the gallery.

Both Danielle and Josèfa’s worlds play with time to shift our view on how the past impacts our present. If conflicting versions of history can exist, so can alternative possibilities for our future. Through their careful observations of archives and understanding of needs, they show us how acts of resistance, rebuilding and reimagining can lead to transformative new worlds.

This exhibition will be the final instalment of Radical Ancestry, FACT’s year-long exploration into the sense of belonging. This programme of exhibitions, projects, residencies and events look at how history, geography, biology and culture shape our ancestral history and question how technology can help us to explore new ways of thinking and experimenting with who we are.

Rena Pearl and Sandra Hepworth

A new exhibition at The Reader’s Mansion House featuring artists Rena Pearl and Sandra Hepworth.

Quirky images of Liverpool with textiles and embroidery, abstract acryllic paintings on canvas and photographs.

Held Mansion House, Calderstones Park, 10-23 October, free.

Liver Sketching Club’s 150th ann...

The final event of the Liver Sketching Club’s 150th anniversary year will be an exhibition of the club’s history at the Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead.

The exhibition will open on Wednesday 9 November and events during the run of the exhibition include.

On Saturday 26 November, there will be an all-day drawing event at the gallery with models sitting from 10am to 4pm. Visitors to the gallery will be invited to try drawing in the setting of a ‘recreation’ of the club’s early studio being set up within the Williamson.

The Williamson holds regular Friday evening tours of the gallery, and club Archivist, David Brown, will lead the tour on Friday 2 December around the Liver Sketching Club’s exhibition for anyone who would like to head along. Starts at 6pm.

https://williamsonartgallery.org/portfolio_page/liver-sketching-club-150th-anniversary/

A Brush with Landscape by Paul Whiteho...

An exhibition of urban and rural landscapes by Paul Whitehouse at Cass Art, LIverpool.

An exhibition of paintings, mainly in oils on canvas and all framed. Paul’s work celebrates the urban and natural environment of Oxfordshire, Cornwall and Liverpool, and includes his submission for Sky Arts Landscape Artist of The Year, in which he took part in 2021.

Follow Paul on @whitehousepapm and @ten_22_defined.

Cass Art, 18 School Lane, Liverpool, L1, Sunday 6th November to Saturday 19th November.

Space Is The Place Act 2: A Transfigur...

A new exhibition at Williamson Art Gallery explores Wirral’s magical Hilbre Island and the psychological connections we make with landscape

Space is the Place Act 2: A Transfigured Movement in Time is the second collaborative exhibition from Merseyside-based artists Patric Rogers and Angelo Madonna.

In this multi-media art and film experience, the artists take the uninhabited archipelago of Hilbre Island in the Dee Estuary, as a jumping-off point to explore concepts of psychogeography and psycho-magic through a series of conceptual and symbolic artworks and film.

Space is the Place Act 2 encourages the viewer to consider the processes and practices through which we, as human beings, connect aspects of our conscience such as memories, associations, myth, and folklore to the landscapes we inhabit.

The ideas and concepts behind the exhibition will be further explored in a concurrent events programme. This includes film screenings and Q&A sessions with the artists and performers of the film A transfigured movement in time.There will also be a performative lecture and creative exploration with performance artist and lecturer at Liverpool Hope University. Dr Silvia Battista.

 

Flora

Flora, the latest exhibition at dot-art Gallery explores the historical and contemporary representation of flowers, plants and the genre of floral still life.

Each of the artists in this exhibition interprets through their uniquely developed style the organic curves and soft folds of flowers and leaves that we display in our homes or plant in our gardens.

Clare Chinnery and Hilary Dron add a contemporary pop of colour with abstracted roses and pansies dripping down the canvas. Andrew Sherriff offers a traditional observational view with his flower studies, having a background in life drawing and working tonally with light and shadow, adding surprising backgrounds of textured swirls.

If these artists are on a scale of style then Grahame Ashcroft sits in the middle, with his shapely compositions of close-up flowerpots and planters, all in zingy bright colours but true to the form of the flower species he analyses.

Andrew Sherriff – Featured in this exhibition is Andrew’s ‘Lockdown Flowers’ series. “Normally I like to capture people but because of lockdown that was restricted but I was still keen to keep creating. I would arrange some flowers each week to draw and see what developed. I worked in a loose and energetic style in the hope of giving the flowers a sense of movement; it is surprising how much flowers move, following the light.”

Clare Chinnery – “With an interest in 17th-century Vanitas paintings I have been studying the symbolism and chiaroscuro techniques of the old masters; interpreting and translating historical images and creating my own still lives using expressive colour and spontaneous mark making.

These paintings are inspired specifically by Jan Davidsz DeHeem’s baroque style still lives, their complex and overladen sumptuous compositions focus on tropical summer fruits and flowers with added suggestions of snails, seashells and skulls.”

Hilary Dron – Hilary was born in Liverpool and completed her degree at Central School of Art and Design, London. She worked as a designer for Liberty before beginning a 30 year career, teaching Art in schools and in Further Education.

After a sabbatical in Japan and the Far East, she decided to leave teaching and concentrate on her own work, something she has always wanted to do. The last six months have represented a huge step for Hilary and have included a commission by Aintree Hospital and exhibitions in and around Liverpool.

Grahame Ashcroft – “At the start of the pandemic lockdown in March 2020, I decided to paint in my garden. Although his garden paintings are looser than mine and in a different medium, I found Emil Nolde’s work encouraging. Nolde’s experience of a lockdown was being forbidden by the Nazi regime to paint or exhibit. For me, not being allowed out came as a perversely liberating experience. So much so that, two years later, I’m still painting in my garden.”

All artworks are for sale

Join them for the Private View of the exhibition on Thursday 22nd September from 5pm-7pm. All welcome, but you must register here: https://floraprivateview.eventbrite.co.uk

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 23rd September– 19th November 2022.

Please Touch The Art (itch my brain)

Please Touch The Art (itch my brain) is a textile art exhibition from QueerCore artist Rhiannon May.

The exhibition takes the audience inside the workings of the brain on a chaotic and colourful journey.
Expect incredibly scientifically inaccurate depictions of the brain alongside incredibly irresistibly touchable art!

So, please DO touch the art, and please DO itch my brain…

The Lake Gallery – Of Land and S...

An exciting new independent art gallery is set to open its doors at the end of September.

The Lake Gallery, located on Grange Road in the heart of West Kirby on the Wirral, is exhibiting a selection of fine art and contemporary craft from established and emerging artists.

Its inaugural exhibition, ‘Of Land and Sea’ opens on Thursday 22nd September running until 22nd October and will showcase a vibrant collection of original paintings, ceramics, sculpture, glass and mixed media pieces from six established artists: Helen Smith, Clare Flinn, Marianthi Lainas, Fiona Philips, Rachel Peters and Morven Browne.

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For more information head over to thelakegallery.co.uk, where you can also join the mailing list for news of future exhibitions and opening night invitations.

Opening Times: Thursdays – Fridays – Saturdays. 10am – 4pm.

Marta Maciuszek – In the Window

Bluecoat Display Centre are delighted to show the work of new graduate Marta Maciuszek ‘In the Window’ throughout September.

Marta has worked across the areas of ceramics, metal and textiles to create a series of bowls and vessels, and was selected for the Bluecoat Display Centre’s final Graduate Award 2022 from the Liverpool Hope University BA Design exhibition.

“My body of work is inspired by the qualities found in nature, especially flowers, such as fragility and colours. Through drawing, I enjoy observing and interpreting structures and forms such as the protective qualities of petals and the powerful nature of the stamen.

My ceramic vessels draw upon the elements of the Japanese anemone flower. I explored the use of wire embedded in the glazed surface to echo the fluid lines and movement. The metal vessels incorporate techniques of raising, planishing, etching and patination. I focused on exploring fragility, making the durable hard metal vulnerable.” – Marta Maciuszek

An Ecology of Care

An exhibition bringing together a series of innovative socially engaged projects reflecting the intimate stories of care, relationships and resilience within our community.

‘Care’ and ‘community’ have become buzzwords in recent years, but the projects included in An Ecology of Care exhibition attempt to highlight the genuine power of collective discussion and action from those with lived experiences in relation to health and social care.

Photographer Tadhg Devlin presents two collaborative projects Bound/Frayed and From Across the Kitchen Table (Who is the Community?).

Bound/Frayed is a project which reflects a year-long project between Tadhg Devlin and a number of staff and people supported by the social care charity, Community Integrated Care.

Together they have been co-authoring images which represent the experience of working in the care sector in some of the most challenging moments, whilst also celebrating the everyday work to support people who access social care, which is often hidden from the public. These powerful portraits capture an important moment of resilience in our society, made during equally challenging times.

Community Integrated Care’s John Hughes, reflects “Tadgh’s work powerfully brings to life the crisis that engulfed the social care sector during the pandemic – creatively reflecting the thoughts, feelings and experiences of this moment of history.

His work also makes visible the incredible passion, skill and impact of people who deliver social care. We hope it helps to reframe an understanding of the pandemic and the importance of the care sector.”