Event type: Exhibition

Bluecoat Display Centre’s new exhibition, Murmuration, is now open at the gallery on College Lane, with selected items available through the online shop.

Murmuration – “a word that perfectly describes the rustle of thousands of pairs of wings” (Cambridge Dictionary).

During the last couple of years, many of us have found a new enjoyment and meaning in our local nature and wildlife.  This display brings together makers who celebrate the natural world – and in particular birds – through craft.

Click here to view the online collection,

‘Traces Through The Landscape’ is a solo exhibition by Amanda Oliphant, featuring a new body of work exploring the emotions and ideas the landscape can conjure when walking through it.

Amanda Oliphant graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art at LJMU followed by an MA in Art as Environment at MMU. As an Interdisciplinary Artist, working nationally and internationally, her interests lie within the changing landscape of Art and Ecologies. This new series of work continues her interest in creating artistic interventions that aim to engage the public, discovering hidden layers with shared experiences within art.

The artist says: “The feeling of my footsteps upon a broken path, obstacles I go around, breath-taking vistas that stop me in my tracks, taking my breath away. The noise of crows calling or the beauty of a songbird singing, hidden layers of colour and light, the force of the wind and rain upon my face, and the reassuring warmth of the sun gifting me a feeling of content.

All elements that seep into my own consciousness and that remain when I’m back in my studio transferring these experiences through paint – they are a journey of life, they are ‘traces through the landscape’.”

“Painting both outdoors and then back in the studio helps to build a painterly story, expressing many layers that sometimes I have to walk away from, find time to reflect, and then return. They are a reconnection to place, an interpretation of the natural world”.

Find original works in oil and cold wax by Amanda Oliphant highlighting the tones and mood of the Landscape.

All artworks are for sale.

Join dot-art for the Private View of the exhibition on Thursday 26th May from 5pm-7pm. All welcome, but please register here: https://traces-through-the-landscape.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 27th May – 23rd July 2022.

Artist Lindsay Amanda Lowcock in collaboration with Louise Hardwick (University of Liverpool), Aidan Worsley (Uclan), and The Brain Charity.

This installation is part of a wider dissemination strategy to report on the findings from the study ‘Seeking recognition for people with severe disabilities on benefits’.

The installation is staged at University of Liverpool, School of Law and Justice, 4th Floor, 11am-4pm.

Voice is an important part of inclusion in life: being recognised; taking part; being heard. The participants in the study were given a rare opportunity to vocalise their experience, and, in response, the artist Lindsay Amanda Lowcock (www.lowcock.uk) has designed an installation to display their voices. This is achieved by the voices of the participants becoming vocal performances that are heard through six monolithic speakers.

Each performance consists of one word taken from the study which distils their experience of depending on disability benefits. The speakers appear like the standing stones of death monuments and create a space for the viewer/experiencer to wander around and hear the individual voices.

The combined audio and physical interactional experience creates an oppressive, confining, baffling, and demoralising response, akin to that experienced by study participants.

Beyond the field of sound, a light is situated: a tall and thin slit of simulated sunlight. This represents Judith Butler’s (2016) concept of recognition. In contrast, in the field of sound, the vocal performances and the people they represent occupy a hinterland not comprehended to the unimpaired, and in that hinterland they remain unrecognised.

The installation will also be staged 18-21 May, The Brain Charity, Norton Street, L3, 11am-4pm.

See here for details.

Ali Hunter is an artist/illustrator, currently living in Liverpool, UK.

She draws and paints what visually inspires her. Ali’s current inspiration is drawn from home interiors and decor, and the bulk of her recent work has been focussed on painting rooms in people’s homes.

She is also working on a series of female portrait paintings, which combine fashion, pets and interiors. Ali likes to recreate an image that offers plenty of intricate details.

She’s found the wider community of female artists very supportive. The female artist pool is very diverse and vibrant, both locally and online.

Being a neuroatypical female artist, Ali found it challenging to self-publicise at first. Artists are expected to put themselves out there and approach people confidently, which is something she found difficult. However, she’s now starting to find her place and feel more at home within the female art world.