VG&M Volunteer Cheryl will focus on the Edward Burne-Jones sketches that are on display along their gallery corridor.
This event is free and will last approximately 15-20 minutes.
Please meet at the VG&M Welcome Desk in reception ten minutes prior to start time and their volunteer will collect you at 2pm to start the talk.
West Kirby Bookshop are thrilled to welcome Fiona Williams to West Kirby to celebrate the publication of her debut novel, The House Of Broken Bricks.
Fiona Williams’ stunning nature-writing and poetic prose, turns a relatively simple story into a hauntingly beautiful experience.
Join Walker Art Gallery for this talk with 2023 Prize winner Emily Kraus in front of her painting ‘Stochastic 14’.
“I work inside a cubic scaffold structure around which I stretch a canvas loop. It is a shelter, a constraint, a tabernacle and a boundary. The mechanism itself — rolling bars and canvas with no end — is a metaphor for the cyclical world. To create an organic image within a rigid system whose nature is to make repetitive marks requires listening, attention and rebellion.
“Using this apparatus is like painting with blinders on. I hold the memory of surrounding marks as I focus on what I can see, forcing my eyes to layer linear time like ears do when composing a musical score.”
Tickets for this talk are £5 and include entry to the exhibition.
Join Graham Crowley in-conversation with Nicola Selsby – Cunningham, Head of the Walker Art Gallery. Graham is the 32nd winner of the Prize, he has been selected for the exhibition ten times with the first time being in 1976, he was also a jury member for the Prize in 2008.
“I paint shadows. I’m intrigued by luminosity in painting. This is the driving force behind LIGHT INDUSTRY. I’ve always been fascinated by paintings like those of Manet. The way in which the image and the painting as its own object can be seen simultaneously – fused together as a single luminous entity. This remarkable duality is one of painting’s defining characteristics.
“Creativity and class are long-standing preoccupations of mine and one of the ways that I’ve discovered to navigate these complex issues is by employing a variety of vernacular idioms. In this instance it’s a rather obsolete, low-tech graphic device, the duotone. My intention is to make paintings that are both luminous and their own object. This dictates the way I paint. I apply Paynes Gray pigment directly into the medium. Wet into wet, then glaze.”
Tickets for this talk are £5 and include entry to the exhibition.
Discover the connection between mind + body and the ways to positively bring change to your life through meditation.
Hosted by Dr. David Hamilton
Followed by Q+A
Attention all makers and doers! Join us at Make On The Corner, Make CIC’s new event space in Huyton Village for their Maker Meet up #19.
This informal event is a great opportunity for creatives in the industry to connect, collaborate and get inspired by their peers.
Please remember that event details may be subject to slight changes. Stay tuned for any updates or announcements. Enjoy the event and make the most out of the networking and learning opportunities!
A big thank you to our event sponsor Gather LCR.
We’re delighted that this maker meet-up is the second of three instalments sponsored by Gather LCR. Gather is a community for digital, creative and tech leaders and they have supported 175+ digital, creative and tech businesses across the Liverpool City Region. www.gatherlcr.com
Discover the stories of some of the amazing women represented by objects on display in the Museum of Liverpool, with our Lead Curator for Social History, Kay Jones.
Tickets for this talk cost £7.
Waterstones Liverpool are delighted to present an evening with Paul Simpson as he discusses his long-awaited memoir “Revolutionary Spirit – A Post-Punk Exorcism: The Teardrop Explodes, Care, The Wild Swans and Beyond”. Paul will be in conversation with Will Sergeant.
Part memoir, part social history, Revolutionary Spirit is the poignant, often hilarious story of a cult Liverpool musician s scenic route to fame and artistic validation. If Morrissey was the Oscar Wilde of the 1980s indie scene, Simpson was its William Blake, a self-destructive genius so lost in mystical visions of a new arcadia that he couldn’t meet the rent.
Join this talk on gallery to explore the themes surrounding the painting selected as the Lady Grantchester prize winner ‘Hurl’, led by Emma Roche.
“These works are primarily concerned with the mechanics and history of painting and are motivated by abstraction and experimentation. Images in the work often indicate liquids such as tears and bodily excretions. I am drawn toward the molten qualities of paint and how it is mimetic of these corporeal liquids.
The process is slow. I make long lines of acrylic paint, extruded through a syringe and then lay them out to dry. Once dry, they are peeled off and used as if wool or thread – the paint strands are literally knitted together (with knitting needles) to make the painting.
Preliminary drawings on gridded paper are used as craft charts to work from – each square represents a stitch to build the image. Physically questioning the ‘gesture’ through this purposefully irreverent and ridiculous use of materials and subverting the heroic history of painting is also of interest.This process corresponds to the humdrum of daily repetitiveness and physically records and stores time.”
Tickets for this talk are £5 and include entry to the exhibition.
Join the team for this talk on gallery to explore the themes surrounding the shortlisted painting ‘Other Light’, led by Damian Taylor.
Focusing on his work in the JMPP, Old Light, Damian will discuss his wider interest in reimagining the material and technical foundations of painting, and how it can respond to the sweeping changes in visual culture that have resulted from digital technologies.
He will locate this in relation to earlier periods of profound change, notably the introduction of photography in the middle of the nineteenth century and address his interest in trying to make images that are unstable or unfixed. In this spirit, he will welcome interactions and interruptions from visitors throughout the talk.
Tickets for this talk include entry to the exhibition.