Event type: Exhibition

‘Earth Above, Sky Below’ Exhibition at the LAKE Gallery

A new exhibition at the LAKE gallery in West Kirby looks at the worlds around and above us, as seen through the eyes of three artists working in very different mediums.

Featuring contemporary landscape paintings by Bridget Greenwood, abstract prints and sculptures by Louisa Boyd and tactile glass pieces by Helen Smith.

The exhibition opens on Thursday 14^th August and runs until Saturday 13^th September. The gallery will be hosting a preview evening on Thursday 14^th August 6pm and 8pm and all are welcome to join us for a glass of wine and to meet the artists.

Opening times: Thurs – Sat, 10am – 4pm

 

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Bridget GreenwoodBridget Greenwood is a contemporary abstract landscape artist based in Cheshire. Having had a successful career in advertising in London, Bridget returned to painting in 2020 as a result of lockdown. Bridget’s paintings explore her fascination with the landscape. She sketches outside to record the moment, but her paintings are completed in the studio where they go through many stages of reducing the landscape to shapes and marks.

Colour has always been Bridget’s starting point and is central to her work. For Bridget, colour has the “wonderful ability to express emotion and helps to convey the landscape’s ability to heal”.

Louisa BoydLouisa Boyd’s work centres around the persistent human desire to belong. She considers environment in her pieces and how we connect with the natural world to navigate and to establish a sense of place. Her abstract prints and sculptures feature celestial symbols, sacred geometry and cartographic imagery. Louisa’s etching prints layer abstract, drawn imagery made with traditional drawing tools with more painterly marks; the map-like outcomes, symbolic of navigation, are a visual fusion of historic and contemporary ideas. Louisa’s prints are then often used alongside marbled papers to create three-dimensional works with structures based on sacred geometry; the elements of mathematics that underpin the fabric of the world we exist within. Central to this body of work is Plato’s idea that the five regular forms, the Platonic solids, connect to the five elements of nature: earth, fire, air, water and aether.

Helen SmithCreated from kiln-formed glass, Helen’s tactile glass pieces are strongly influenced by place. However, rather than depicting the landscape directly her focus is always on a sense of the atmosphere of a place in combination with the interpretation of found textures within the landscape.Each piece is initially worked flat, created by layering up glass powder, glass frit (small chunks) and sheet glass before being fired in the kiln. Once the glass has been fired and sandblasted to clean the surface another layer can be added. The pieces in this collection have all been through this process several times. In the final stage the piece is sandblasted to give the glass its tactile matt surface before being returned to the kiln one last time to be fired again at a lower temperature, either flat or over a former to create a sculptural form.

 

 

Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree! Flock together for crafty family fun, constructing multi-coloured replicas of your favourite birds. Play with print stamping blocks and collage to recreate intricate feathered patterns and textures. Using our easy-to-follow templates, make a 3-D model of your bird and dive into our pick ‘n’ mix recycled craft box to add finishing touches to personalise your bird.

Take inspiration from artworks in Tate’s collection, including David Shrigley’s Untitled 1998, Eileen Agar’s Sculpture of a Bird 1899–1991, Dame Elisabeth Frink’s Bird 1952, Jim Lambie’s Four to the Floor 2005 and Georges Braque’s The Bird 1949.

Our Learning Space is open every day for visiting families- a space to relax and create with art games, colouring-in, books, toys and more!

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Accessibility

Tate Liverpool is temporarily located at RIBA North, Mann Island, a short distance (425m) along Liverpool’s iconic waterfront. There is step free access to the main entrance. There is a lift to the first floor gallery, or alternatively you can take the stairs.

• Toilets are located on the first floor
• The nearest Changing Places toilet is located at the Museum of Liverpool
• Ear defenders are available to borrow.

Please ask a Visitor Engagement Assistant Additional seating is also available. Please ask a member of staff if you require assistance.

To help plan your visit to Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, have a look at our visual story. It includes photographs and information of what you can expect from a visit to the gallery.

For more information before your visit: Email visiting.liverpool@tate.org.uk

Artists from Blue Room, the Bluecoat’s inclusive arts project present a new collection of works exploring the biodiversity of our urban garden.

Green spaces such as the Bluecoat garden have long been a source of inspiration for artists. The exhibition celebrates the often overlooked flora and fauna of urban spaces and the important role nature plays in creating a nurturing space for city dwellers.

The works in the exhibition depict commonly observed birds and insects found in the Bluecoat garden. In collaboration with ceramic artist Olivia Rowan from local studio Clay Workshop, the artists created 3D sculptures using recycled clay. Observational drawings of flora and fauna have been collaged into screen printed collaborative works created in the Bluecoat Print Studio.

Featuring works by Alfred Beesley, Amy Dykes, Susan King, Tracey Ledley, Andrew Mellor, Kayleigh Murray, William Richardson, John Rigby, Ottman Said, Jean Smith, John Steele, Jane Walsh, and Veronica Watson.

Bluecoat Display Centre offers a platform for a diverse range of selected contemporary craft makers to showcase their work through selling exhibitions.

All our makers demonstrate amazing levels of skill, a high quality of making and have a unique voice which is informed by the material, a sense of place, culture, background and narrative. Makers are at the heart of the Bluecoat Display Centre and we continue to be leading advocates for the continued appreciation of their wonderfully crafted work.

Scroll down to find out more about our current and upcoming selling exhibitions.

Or browse our rich archive of exhibitions and displays that have highlighted the work of contemporary craft makers from the North West, across the UK, Europe and internationally for over six decades.

The LAKE Gallery is delighted to present their latest exhibition.

‘ANIMATE’ is an extraordinary portrayal of our natural world and the animals within it by four artists concerned with the spiritual as well as the physical.

Featuring delicately-coloured tempera paintings from John Elcock, Louise Pallister’s dynamic drawings and prints of birds, animal-inspired sculptures and paintings by Kim Harley-Griffiths and impressions of the landscape by printmaker Vidah Roberts.

The exhibition opens on Thursday 3^rd July and runs until Saturday 9^th August.  Opening times: Thurs – Sat, 10am – 4pm

 

John ElcockJohn is a visual artist based in Liverpool whose work explores symbolism, birds and the numinous in a multidisciplinary practice centred on painting and conceptual sculpture. His work has been exhibited nationally with paintings featuring in the ING Discerning Eye and Wales Contemporary. He is a founder member of the Material Matters collective.

Louise PallisterBrought up to respect and take an interest in the lives of other animals, Louise has found her niche making work that concerns relationships with our animal kin. Following BA degree studies in sculpture Louise Pallister worked in museums, galleries and design studios around the country before returning to her own work. She completed an MA Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School in 2014. Since then, her practice has expanded to include drawing, printmaking, photography, animation and writing.

Vidah RobertsVidah Roberts, a Wirral based artist, is best known for her figurative drawings and etchings.  In all of her pieces, whether of individual trees, landscapes or portraits of people, the overall feeling is of a focussed, attentive, stillness.  ’My recent work is essentially focussing on the feelings of life held intensely in living, growing spaces.  Drawing allows me quiet time to engage with the myriad intriguing aspects of the landscape and most particularly with trees.’

Kim Harley-GriffithsGrowing up on the edge of an ancient woodland in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, Kim was immersed in the sounds of nature and the otherworldly calls of animals from the nearby Welsh Mountain Zoo. As night fell, these primeval soundscapes sparked vivid dreams and fuelled her imagination, leaving a deep and lasting impression on her creative spirit. This early connection to the natural world, tinged with mystery and mythology, continues to shape Kim’s work today. ‘I want to portray how animals and birds move with power and natural grace. This is what I strive to achieve through drawing, painting and sculpture.’

In this free exhibition, Mohamed Gohar utilises his artistic visual language alongside architectural and heritage experiences.

He examines the dynamics of present-day Alexandrian society and their influence on the evolution of the city’s urban and built environment. The aim is to observe and analyse the communal behaviours of the city users, focusing on fostering an objective understanding of the changing values and cultures.

The exhibition runs throughout the festival’s duration.

Join us for an informal artist talk (and a complimentary hot or soft drink!) on Wednesday 16 July, at 4pm.

Free Entry

Venue:

Yamama Café & Bar, 31-32 Parliament St, Liverpool L8 5RW

Following on from a debut group exhibition at Cass Art in 2022, this new display shares a range of works exploring the diverse interests of Studio Me artists including nature, pop culture and architecture. The works show the variety of media the artists have explored in their supported studio at the Bluecoat, including painting, collage, printing making and pastels

Studio Me is a development of Blue Room, the Bluecoat’s long-running inclusive arts project. The project supports learning disabled and neurodivergent artists to develop their creative practice and share work with new audiences.

Exhibiting artists are Laura Aquilina, Alfred Beesley, Tess Gilmartin, Joshua Henderson, Andrew Mellor, William Richardson, Tom Rooney, Ottman Said, Jean Smith, John Steele, Norman Tomlinson, Jane Walsh, and Veronica Watson.

Location: Cass Art, 18 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT

Open Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm & Sun, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

 

 

 

 

Petros Moris explores how fragments of history can help us think differently about the future, transforming remnants of the past into symbols of renewal.

The ‘ALONE’ project is inspired by a personal encounter which the artist had in an abandoned urban playground in his home city of Lamia, Greece – a site that was left unbuilt due to archaeological discoveries. Here he found a marble tile mosaic crafted by his parents in 1985 which had been painted over by a local graffiti artist with the word ‘ALONE’.

Moris was fascinated by how this intervention transformed the original work into a multilayered artefact comprising the work of different people, raising questions about authorship and collaboration, and of the fates of urban spaces, craft traditions and personal heritage. He continues and builds upon this legacy through ‘ALONE’ – the outer layers of these recent works are tiled with discarded marble stone which he collected from his parents’ mosaic studio.

Created using a mixture of digital fabrication and traditional techniques, the hybrid shape and animalistic forms of these five sculptures combine and layer different attributes, including references to ancient artefacts which are exhibited in an archaeological museum in his hometown.

Further works from the ‘ALONE’ series are exhibited across other Liverpool Biennial 2025 venues Bluecoat and Walker Art Gallery.

Courtesy of the artist, with thanks to TAVROS, Athens.