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…
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.
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.
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 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.”
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