Exhibition - Uncover Liverpool

Sunrise / Sunset

Seeing in a new season with colour and scenes of sunshine, this new exhibition at dot-art brings together a selection of artworks from dot-art artists as a group show; landscapes, photographic collages and sun filled scenes that tell us spring has sprung.

This exhibition helps us look forward to brighter times with an optimistic air despite recent worldwide events. Colourful and using nature as a muse, this collection of works can provide some respite and the promise that better days are coming.

You will find original landscapes by artists such as Simon Cooper who has recently broadened his work by introducing more colour to his practice, shown in these skyline diptychs; or Clare Wrench’s layered flashes of colour that build up her scenes looking over the Manchester Ship Canal or a Lighthouse on a distant shore.

Bexy takes an abstract view of the theme and uses photographic collage in his practice to create these dreamy soft scenes with hidden figures and textures within the worlds.

Ali Hunter’s pen and ink illustration of the ‘Bluecoat at Dusk’ sends light bouncing off this Grade I listed treasure in the heart of Liverpool City Centre.

Other artists in the show deliver views of more traditional calming sunsets that are always a serotonin hit, for example Steve Bayley creates a trio of suns in different states from rising, falling to breaking through in a harmonised pastel palette.

Mark Nelson leads viewers on a path through his paintings, merging the foreground of his work into the gallery, he invites you to walk a path across a sun-bleached field or through a mass of sunflowers.

Find all these interpretations and more as part of Sunrise / Sunset and enjoy being transported to warmer settings and get a sense of the beauty, resilience and optimism nature has to offer.

Join them for the Private View of the exhibition on Thursday 24^th March from 5pm-7pm.

All welcome, but you must register here: https://sunrisesunsetprivateview.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 25th March – 21st May 2022.

Identity and Place

From delicate stitched knickers with hidden meanings to obscured colourful embroidery, Re-view Textiles tackle the themes of identity and place with works made during lockdown and beyond in its current exhibition at The Atkinson, ending on the 26th of March.

Re-View Textile is a textile artist network that draws its members from Liverpool, the Wirral and surrounding areas. The group has met regularly over the last 10 years to exchange ideas and create opportunities to exhibit together.

The Re-View Textile artists make a wide range of 2D and 3D work using felt, knitting, crochet, wood carving, ceramics, hand and machine stitch, paint and assemblage; often from found and recycled materials, expressing concern for the environment.

For many of the group, the time in lockdown was used for creativity, giving opportunities for reflection and escape. The exhibition tours from The Willow Gallery in Oswestry and several artists have added additional pieces to the works previously shown there.

Themes such as the home, safety, and inner worlds appear in this exhibition. There are works showing nests, dreamscapes, life in different countries, loneliness and metaphors from nature for the Coronavirus.The land and sea also feature, shaping identity and culture.

Seal people from Scotland, the history and geology of Iceland, the energy of the sea, ritualistic clay figures with robes stained with plant materials. Also, in the show are intricate lace edgings explore the themes of gender and the marginalization of textiles in contemporary art.

Exhibiting artists: Susan Beck, Sue Boardman, Mary Bryning,Helen Cooper, Jo Frankel, Viv Netherwood, Rosey Paul, Judith Railton, Alison Bailey Smith,, Julie James-Turner and Janet Wilkinson

BLIP by Dan Chan

A part of the “In Cahoots” 21/22 progrogrmme by Convenience Gallery

Delivered with support from TNL Community Fund and Kindred LCR.

Walk through the archway and you will find yourself in a BLIP! of reality. It is a safe space, an idyllic dream world, forged from the negativity and hatred people on the margins of society experience. The fantasy world is a place we can all tap into to find sanctuary and safety, here you can experience joy, tranquillity and connection.

BLIP! is an immersive experience built with printed textiles, projection, sound and scent. What does your dream world look, sound, smell and feel like?

The installation highlights how marginalised people create their own sanctuaries, as the society we live in is not built for us. It is particularly important to Chan’s identity as they are a mixed British Chinese, queer and non-binary person. By looking at this intersection in a political context, the current government changes to legislation and rise in anti-Asian hate crimes, since the start of the pandemic, do not make the UK a safe place to exist in.”

‘Blip’ Opening night: Friday 1st April 6:30-late

Show run: 1st April- 15th April (10am-5:30pm Monday-Friday)

Location: Bloom Building, CH41 5FQ

Where the Arts Belong: Making Sense (O...

As part of Bluecoat’s ongoing project Where the Arts Belong, leading visual artists, writers, storytellers, dancers, musicians and composers have worked creatively with people living with dementia on a wide range of artistic activities.

While experienced at working with others, this was the first time each artist had worked in a dementia setting. They have been on this mutually supportive journey with Bluecoat’s Participation team, led by artist and facilitator Tabitha Moses.

Starting in 2019 and continuing into 2022, the artists have navigated the emergence of Covid 19, while remaining dedicated to working with the residents, staff and families of North West Belong Villages. An additional sister strand We Belong Together was also developed to help tackle the isolation brought on by lockdowns for older people.

The Bluecoat’s Colonial Legacies

Over the last year, the Bluecoat has worked with a group of young people to interrogate the building’s past, to be presented in a new exhibition, The Bluecoat’s Colonial Legacies.

This exhibition will bring to light archival material and research relating to the Bluecoat’s beginnings as a charity school, along with new findings about its co-founder, the merchant Bryan Blundell and his family.

We have worked with a group of 14-18 year olds, who have produced a selection of creative work that will be on display alongside a newly commissioned artwork by artist Grace Thomas.

A small blue coat, based on the uniform worn by the eighteenth-century Blue Coat School pupils, will be suspended in the space, its threads unravelling. This reflects the unwinding of contested histories, and the ties between two of the building’s central narratives, colonial legacies and the concept of looked after children.

Quentin Blake: Illustrating Verse

Kirkby Gallery will present a touring exhibition from House of Illustration, Quentin Blake: Illustrating Verse – a free collection of 120 works by the world-renowned artist and illustrator, Sir Quentin Blake.

Sir Quentin Blake has been illustrating poetry throughout his 60-year career, creating illustrations for a huge variety of poets. The gallery will be home to a wonderful collection of these works, selected by the artist himself.

Blake is probably best known for his work with Roald Dahl and the images her created for famous novels like George’s Marvellous Medicine and The BFG. A highlight of the exhibition will be his illustrations for Edward Lear’s The Owl and The Pussy-Cat and an illustration for a poem by William Shakespeare – both writers that will be celebrated in Knowsley 2022.

Cherry Jezebel – The Exhibition

To complement Everyman Theatre’s upcoming production of Cherry Jezebel, Homotopia and DuoVision Arts have put together a display of art work which enhances the themes explored in Jonathan Larkin‘s writing.

The exhibition will include work byBen Youdan, Debbie Divine, Tracy Watt, Gozra Lozano, ladypat, Jonathon Beaver, Michael James O’Brien, Sophie Green, Graeme Lavery, Luke Bryant & Jason Carr.

No ticket necessary, the gallery will be open in EV2, upstairs at the Everyman during their opening hours.

Stephen Dixon and Paul Scott: Exhibiti...

The Bluecoat Display Centre welcome this unique opportunity to curate and host an exhibition dedicated to work by Stephen Dixon and Paul Scott, both well known for their research and work in printed ceramic as well as political and social commentary.

Both artists are internationally renowned and have worked in Manchester and in Cumbria for much of their professional careers.

All work featured will be available for sale in the gallery and online from Friday 4 March.

The exhibition runs until 30 April.

Kunichika: Japanese Prints

This stunning new exhibition of prints by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) is an exciting follow up from Lady Lever Art Gallery’s previous exhibition Edo Pop.

Kunichika was one of the most important 19th century print makers in Japan. Born in Edo (present day Toyko), Kunichika was trained by Kunisada, a leading print maker of the time, and went on to be a highly original master in his own right.

Kunichika embraced modern subjects and his prints reflected the great social and political change in Japan at the time. He was best known for his depictions of the Kabuki theatre, capturing the drama and excitement of scenes from popular plays and famous actors.

More than 50 of Kunichika’s hand-printed single, double and triptych prints will feature in this must-see exhibition, which is the first in a national gallery outside of Japan to focus on his work.

For more information visit www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

Super Last Minute Studio Show

Super Last Minute Studio Show is an exhibition celebrating some of the wonderful artists they have on offer here at The Royal Standard.

As one of Liverpool’s oldest and largest artist-led organisations, they aim to support and provide opportunities for their studio community as much as possible, and are using this gap in their gallery programme to showcase some of the amazing creativity and talent we house in our studios.

They also only decided to do this last week, and it’s super last minute.

They asked artists to show completed pieces and works in progress, as finished pieces of work aren’t always available at such short notice, and they want to give an insight into where studio members are at with their creative practices in this current moment.

The exhibition will be open for one night only on Friday 25th February, 6-9pm.

Event type: Exhibition