See a selection of works from 2020 John Moores Painting Prize first prize winner Kathryn Maple in a showcase of new works at Walker Art Gallery.
Maple’s winning painting ‘The Common’ has become part of the permanent collection at the gallery, and this solo display will offer visitors the opportunity to gain a deeper insight into her work.
The display will feature Maple’s largest work to date and will show a combination of drawings and oil paintings that explore her ongoing themes of figures in familiar urban and rural spaces.
The John Moores Painting Prize will return for its 62nd exhibition at Walker Art Gallery in 2023.
This autumn the Bluecoat presents breathe, spirit and life 呼吸、靈魂與生命, a group exhibition of six artists.
Artists include Soojin Chang (In collaboration with Georgie Rei-n Lo, Jade O’Belle, and Aditya Surya Taruna a.k.a. Kasimyn), Sulaïman Majali, Thulani Rachia, Roo Dhissou, Kiara Mohamed and Emii Alrai.
This exhibition is curated by guest curator, Katherine Ka Yi Liu 廖加怡.
The exhibition takes the Bluecoat’s site history, originally a charity school for children in poverty built in 1716-17 with proceeds from the Transatlantic slave trade, as its starting point.
Referencing Keith Piper’s peer support curatorial strategy in the group exhibition, Trophies of Empire (Bluecoat,1992), breathe, spirit and life 呼吸、靈魂與生命 repurposes the gallery as a communal space for cleansing, detoxification and purification as a collective decolonial healing process. Together, the artists explore ideas in relation to Taoist practice of self-cultivation, meditation, rituals, and harmonisation with nature.
A special preview for breathe, spirit, life 呼吸、靈魂與生命 will take place on Friday 7th October from 6pm.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a live programme of performances and events, details of which will be announced nearer to the time.
Three of FACT’s artists-in-residence come together to showcase the experimental artworks created during their residency.
The works are presented in their new gallery space designed by Chila Kumari Singh Burman.
Agnes Varnai and Tina Kult founded their artist collective, The (new) Constellation (T(n)C), in 2017. Living and working in Vienna, the artist duo were awarded the European Media Art Residency Exchange in 2022 to support the development of their experimental practice.
They work with a wide range of media including virtual reality, 3D, installation, film and fashion. By combining different types of media, the artists research how immersive experiences can blur the boundaries between digital and physical realities. For this exhibition, Agnes and Tina will showcase their audio-visual installation that explores a fictional dialogue about labour and laziness between a human and a disobedient robot.
Lucy Hutchinson was selected to be a Jerwood Arts x FACT Fellow in 2022 to develop her practice which explores the relationship between identity politics, witchcraft, and biotechnology.
Using the Lancashire Witches as a starting point, Lucy’s work blends fact and fiction to connect seemingly different sources to question how historic events have shaped our world today. The resulting work is a speculative narrative that looks at under-explored histories whilst manifesting interventions for the future.
Organised in collaboration with the Art of Management & Organisation conference, co-hosted by the Bluecoat and the University of Liverpool, the group exhibition Do They Owe Us A Living? brings together twelve artists and artist collaborations and takes as its point of departure the conference theme ‘art-as-activism’.
Each artist was asked to respond to the theme of activism within the broader context of the conference. The exhibition features a diverse range of practice: from community-focused projects engaging with care in the workplace and council-approved regeneration programmes; through to artworks directed at the histories of prejudice surrounding different communities; as well as work that questions the efficacy of art to function as an act of political resistance in its vulnerability to political co-option; ‘activism’ proposed less as a given than a complex
proposition.
An exhibition of photography from Crosby Camera Club will open to the public at Mencap Cottage House on Mariners Road, Crosby in late August.
The prints, which will be on display around the house, represent a cross-section of recent work created by the camera club’s members, with a variety of subjects depicted.
The exhibition will open on Saturday, August 27th and run for just over a month, closing on Friday, September 30th, 2022.
Members of the public can visit this exhibition of work from local photographers, free of charge, between 9am until 4.30pm while the exhibition runs. Please note, the exhibition is not open on Mondays or Tuesdays.
Newly-elected president of Crosby Camera Club, June Poston, said:
I do hope as many people as possible will visit our photo exhibition and help support both our club and Mencap Liverpool & Sefton.
Mounted prints on display will be on sale at a very reasonable price, with 50% of each sale donated to Mencap Cottage House.
While you’re visiting you can also grab refreshments from the venue’s new coffee shop with delicious cakes, scones, and hot and cold drinks available.”
The exhibition opens just 11 days before the start of a new season for Crosby Camera Club, with new members very welcome to join.
Want to know more about William Roscoe Esq?
ArtsGroupie have been working with their friends at Palm House, Sefton Park to co-create a mini exhibition display about the famous Liverpudlian from Sunday 21st Aug – Weds 24th.
The launch on Sunday 21st Aug at 11 am, will feature:
– Butterfly shadow puppetry activity sessions
– A talk about Roscoe
– Live poetry
NO NEED TO BOOK JUST TURN UP
William Roscoe is one exceptional individual in Liverpool’s rich history. A self-made man who realised the importance of self-education and to respect nature.
His ideals about art, activism, and horticulture have had a massive influence on Artsgroupie. They strive to promote the arts to all and instill civic pride through their heritage projects.
‘It has been a delight to work with the enthusiastic and passionate like-minded team at the Palm House, Sefton Park. To co-create an exhibition celebrating William Roscoe and to introduce people to his life and times’.
John Maguire – Creative Director, ArtsGroupie CIC
Images for this event are kindly provided by Liverpool Central Library and Archives and The Athenaeum
Return of the Gods: Zeus, Athena, Hercules will open at World Museum on 28 April 2023 and will run until 25 February 2024.
Featuring a stunning collection of sculpture and antiquities, the exhibition will immerse you in the ancient world through the words of poets, music and drama.
Exploring the legends of the gods, goddesses and mortals from Ancient Greece and Rome, and including some of the most well-known characters such as the king of the gods Zeus, Athena the goddess of wisdom and war and the hero, Hercules, the exhibition will draw you into a fascinating world where the ancient gods were an important part of everyday life.
Follow the stories of birth, love and rivalry of the Olympian gods, and explore their characters and powers. The exhibition will explain how the Greek gods were adopted by the Romans and how they were worshipped publicly and in private.
Visitors can enter a Roman villa to discover how Emperors and the Imperial families were immortalised after death, before entering a dark and ethereal space to explore the underworld in a theatrical display featuring the three-headed dog, Cerberus, guardian of the gates of Hades.
If visitors enjoy The Return of the Gods: Zeus, Athena, Hercules, they’re asking them to pay what they think is appropriate, to support their museums and art galleries. Visitor contributions enable them to offer a rich programme of exhibitions and events, supports us in caring for our internationally known collections and reaching thousands of young people each year.
Pure Brilliance: The Boodles Story will open at the Lady Lever Art Gallery on 22 October 2022 and will run throughout the gallery’s 100th anniversary year, until 5 March 2023.
The exhibition will showcase the jewellery brand’s 225-year story and show how Liverpool has helped shape the company’s growth, from much-loved family jeweller to purveyors of some of the most stunning jewels in the world.
See how the heritage of Liverpool’s vibrant and creative jewellery industry in the late 19th century created a market for quality jewellery and metalwork, for which Boodles soon acquired a reputation.
Stunning pieces of historic jewellery from Liverpool makers and racing trophies made by Boodles will illustrate the early years of the firm. The company’s rise from city jeweller to the pinnacle of high-end design and manufacture will be shown through the dazzling and contemporary jewellery on display.
Discover the history of the Bluecoat building as a charity school and the unheard voices of the children it housed.
This exhibition brings archival material relating to the school together with contemporary art, including documentation of past Bluecoat exhibitions and performances that have interrogated this history.
The Bluecoat has worked directly with a group of adults with experience of the modern care system, along with creatives, to research some of the individual children identified in the school’s archive. Under the guidance of Liverpool writer Margy McShane the participants have creatively reimagined the lost voices of these children.
The work produced by this adult group will be featured in a new installation commission from interactive design studio Stand + Stare, which will form the centrepiece of the exhibition, and bring to life some of the stories of the children from the Bluecoat’s past.
The second in a series of pop-ups, Jupiter’s Song is a creative intervention exploring perspectives and experiences inspired by the Earle Collection of documents at the International Slavery Museum.
Focussing on these documents, international artist Khaleb Brooks, hopes to bring a new perspective and greater visibility of the Liverpool history archive. The installation will explore perspectives, exchange and humanising experiences, confronting narratives to consider identity and how the experiences of the past manifest today.
Khaleb Brooks is an artist, researcher and writer exploring blackness, transness and collective memory. Through sculpture, printmaking, painting and performance, his work melds together memories of the middle passage, emancipation and disrupted identities, offering spaces of healing and mourning through surrealism.
This pop-up series is designed to explore new ways of working, collaborations and representation of different voices, as part of the redevelopment of the International Slavery Museum and wider transformation programme across National Museums Liverpool.
This installation is at the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Building on the Royal Albert Dock. Free entry from Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm.
For more information visit https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/jupiterssong
