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Convenience Gallery: September Life dr...

About Life Drawing:

Convenience Gallery CIC host a monthly life drawing session.

We absolute love life drawing, and have been running classes in Wirral now for 3 years. It brings together a brilliant community of people together to draw and create.

This is a session for people of all levels. It is untaught so that means bringing along whatever materials you want to work with and have fun with it. There will be a mixture of poses; both short and long. There will be a 20 minute break at the halfway point to.

We will have some materials available if you forget yours, but please bring along whatever you wish to work with. Whether thats pens, pencils, paint, canvas, carcoal, paper, or something completely different bring it along.

We use Life Drawing to help fundraise to continue to do our work with the community around us. As a not for profit, your support at events like this helps us massively.

About Convenience Gallery:

Convenience is a not for profit, creative arts platform based in Merseyside. Since 2019 we have been on a mission to create accessible ways for communities to engage and be enriched through the arts. With over 5000 people participating with our projects and having created 108 paid freelance opportunities to date.

Read more on our website: www.conveniencegallery.org

More about the venue:

This takes place in the bar/ coffeeshop at Bloom too, so you can get a drink whilst you work on your drawings. (At Bloom bar & Coffee 100% of the £’s you spend go to support the work of the Open Door Charity. How boss is that?!).

Last bits:

Please let us know at least 7 days in advance for cancellation where possible, this is a popular class and we will look to reallocate your place if you are unable to attend.

If you have any questions please get in touch conveniencegallery@outlook.com

Traces, Impressions and Digressions wi...

Traces, Impressions and Digressions with Kerry Morrison

Saturday 23rd September, 10am – 4pm, Colliers Moss, Free

Artist Kerry Morrison investigates the landscape through drawing in this durational performance.

Regular Heart of Glass contributor, social-ecological artist Kerry Morrison invites you to join her for a day of performative drawing investigation in the landscape of ‘the Moss’. Kerry, equipped with scrolls of paper, charcoal and graphite will walk Colliers Moss, slowly and intently seeking out stories as left through impressions from the past and traces of the more-than-human.

Kerry’s actions, although performed with intent, will also be random and directed by her observations, conversations and people she meets along the way. Kerry welcomes visitors to watch her as she moves through the Moss and draws. She also welcomes conversations about the Moss with passers by. Snippets of these conversations might find their way into her drawings.

Peatland Walks

11am – 11.45am and 2pm – 3pm

Guided by the Peat Restoration group and Mersey Forest Ranger Dave McAleavy. We will interact with Kerry Morrison’s live performance en route.

About the Moss

Colliers Moss in St Helens features 130 hectares of developing and developed habitats on the spoil and waste heaps of Bold Colliery and Bold Power Station. Formerly known as Bold Moss, the site has a fascinating history, having for thousands of years been a raised bog that grew sphagnum moss, as well as heather and cotton grass.

Dead, compacted mossland forms peat and an industry was created in which turf cutters dug long trenches to remove the peat. The extracted turf blocks were then built into an array of thousands of pyramids – each measuring between three and twelve feet tall – in order for them to dry out. This was required as sphagnum mosses behave like sponges, holding an enormous amount of water.

In between the trench rows were tramlines that allowed ponies to pull slatted trams of peat turf to nearby sheds where ‘pressing’ took place. Once this process had been completed, the peat was sold as firelighters or animal bedding litter. This industry largely ended around WW1 and for forty years the site was a fertile natural habitat for wildlife.

Part of A Sense of Green. In partnership with The Mersey Forest.

We aim to create safe, welcoming and accessible spaces for all. If you’d like to discuss your access needs, please get in touch by contacting Heart of Glass via info@heartofglass.org.uk or call Anna on 07529224271.

Access information for Colliers Moss:

- Colliers Moss is part of Bold Forest Park
- Mostly level, well surfaced paths

Accessible by car and train (nearest station St Helens Junction – 20 minutes walk) with no parking on site*

Please note there are no toilets on site at Colliers Moss. The nearest toilets are a 15 minute walk away at Derbyshire Hill Family Centre

*For those with access needs, please let us know before 23rd September, and we can arrange for parking on site.

Cultivate: Sensory Drawing and Printma...

Illustrator, printmaker and workshop artist Laura-Kate Draws has been working with members of Buzz Hub St Helens CDP to explore environmental activism and sustainability through sensory drawing and printmaking workshops.

See what the Buzz Hub members have created, through guided observational drawing and painting, inspired by the nature and green spaces surrounding St Helens.

Laura-Kate has been commissioned by Heart of Glass as part of Prototype Projects 2023.

Part of A Sense of Green.

We aim to create safe, welcoming and accessible spaces for all.

Wednesday 20th September, 10am – 4.30pm, Buzz Hub, Nuttall House, Clifton Street, St Helens, WA10 1EX, Drop-in

If you’d like to discuss your access needs, please get in touch by contacting Heart of Glass via info@heartofglass.org.uk or call Anna on 07529224271.

Access information for Buzz Hub:

Accessible toilets

Flat access

Access information for Derbyshire Hill Family Centre

Accessible toilets (Changing Places and family room available)

Flat access

Lift to all levels

Accessible by bus (31)

45 minute walk from St Helens Central station

Should I bring anything?

Join regular Heart of Glass collaborator artist Frances Disley to celebrate the trees of Halewood Triangle Park as she leads a workshop exploring gifting, ceremony and ritual. Together, we will make our own garlands and gifts to offer to the trees as a way of demonstrating our care and affection for them.

The so-called lungs of the earth, trees communicate with each other and even store memories. They have a profoundly positive effect on us humans too. By creating our own garlands and dressing the trees, we will explore the importance of acknowledging the importance of our cohabitation.

Whilst at Halewood Park Triangle, we invite you to explore Frances’ project Following the Roots: Stories of Halewood; a new trail of sculptural artworks made in collaboration with residents from Halewood, telling the human tales of Halewood intertwined with the wisdom of the trees.

This workshop has been designed for adults, but children are more than welcome to accompany.

Part of A Sense of Green.
We aim to create safe, welcoming and accessible spaces for all. If you’d like to discuss your access needs, please get in touch by contacting Heart of Glass via info@heartofglass.org.uk or call Anna on 07529224271.

Access information for Halewood Triangle Park Environment Centre:

Ground level with flat access

Accessible toilet on site

The main entrance to Halewood Park is on Okell Drive. There are several other local pedestrian entrances on Higher Road, Abberley Road, Stanford Crescent, Hollies Road and Lydiate Lane

Car parking available next door to the centre

Safe cycle routes via the Trans Pennine Trail runs through Halewood Park. Cycle stands are available outside the Environment Centre
Halewood Park is adjacent to Halewood Train Station on Hollies Road. Leave the station and cross Hollies Road and enter the Park through the pathway adjacent to the primary school
A number of buses stop outside Halewood Park

Contact Traveline on 0871 200 22 33 for times of buses and trains or visit the Traveline website

Portrait Drawing

10 Week Course
Wednesdays from 6pm – 8pm
4th October – 6th December

Starting from the basics, your tutor will provide exercises and tuition to help you improve your portrait drawing or help get you started.

Suitable for beginners, or for more experienced portrait sketchers.

Life Drawing

The course is aimed at adults of any age, both beginners and the more advanced, who want to work directly from both the nude and clothed model.

The course will start with the basics of drawing the whole figure to achieve technical accuracy by learning how to measure. Once the student has learned the basic drawing skills, they can if they wish, through the guidance of the tutor, move on to the intermediate course and be introduced to using a medium of their choice: watercolour, acrylics etc.

In Conversation: Uma Breakdown & ...

In Conversation: Uma Breakdown & Johanna Hedva
Mon 28 Sep, 19:00 / Booking required, £7

Join us for an intimate in-conversation with writer and artist Johanna Hedva, and artist Uma Breakdown as they discuss queerness, disability and the horror genre. This special event brings the artists together at a key moment: the recent publishing of Hedva’s Your Love Is Not Good and Uma’s upcoming solo exhibition at FACT (20 October 2023 – 28 January 2024).

This event will begin with a reading from Your Love Is No Good by Hedva, followed by a reading from EARTH A.D. ZINE by Uma. Following the readings, there will be a discussion between the artists with an opportunity to ask questions. Hedva’s book will be available to buy courtesy of The Dead Ink Bookshop.

In a City of Flowers

From artist Lou Chapelle: in a city of flowers!

‘In a City of Flowers’ is a holographic and interactive video installation that invites viewers to gently place their hand within small wooden shelters to hold a butterfly in their palm. The work consists of 12 of these houses, each hosting a different British breed: some thriving, some vulnerable or extinct, some migrating.

These houses resemble those for birds or insects found in the garden whose aim is to offer shelter and care for local species. In the installation, these houses are removed from this context to question what home is for these creatures. Most of our British butterflies are in decline due to pollution, change in climate, and light pollution affecting their local habitat.

Each house in the installation hosts a holographic video of a butterfly reflected in the centre like a ghostly and ungraspable apparition, only visible through a narrow peep hole. Through a larger hole, people can place their hands within to cup the butterflies, a tangible yet absent image, giving them a sense of intimacy and fragility and reminding us of our care and responsibility for the natural world.

Some of the butterfly species presented are extinct in the UK, such as Large Copper, Black Veined White; some are still thriving such as the Cabbage Butterfly; some are migrating species that come and go with the fluctuations of the Earth’s climate such as the Painted Lady. Each one is closely linked to the plant species in their habitat which provide food and shelter with some only feeding on particular plants.

This work is a reminder of how important it is that we keep our urban and rural spaces packed with local plants and wildflowers.

The work will tour to various public locations from Autumn 2023, and with it the aim to make people more aware of our beautiful and fragile wildlife.

Collaboratively produced with the Rule of Threes team. Consultations about butterflies took place with Widnes Greenhouse and Butterfly House and the national charity Butterfly Conservation.

You can find out more about Lou and her previous work on her website: http://www.louchapelle.com/

The exhibition will launch with a preview on 22nd September and will then be open to the public Monday – Friday 10am – 4:30pm and Saturday 10am – 1:30pm.

For further details of the associated events, visit their Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-a-city-of-flowers-round-table-discussion-tickets-714499997727?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Event is completely free and available for drop-in. The exhibition’s Round Table Discussion on Friday 22nd September must be booked in advance on our Eventbrite page, but the tickets are also free.

Encounters with Artists’ Books

This is an introductory workshop, covering basic techniques needed to delve further into the fascinating world of artists’ books’.

Many famous artists have made works in book format, such as David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Gilbert and George. Artists’ books are a fascinating and growing art form that is gaining in popularity with many exhibitions devoted to them.

In this workshop we will be covering essential basic techniques, such as

choosing papers and covers
correct measuring and cutting
folding
simple bindings

During the workshop we will be creating A5 pamphlet booklets, Turkish map folds and accordion booklets with exchangeable covers. We will discuss various other styles, methods and practical issues involved in making artists’ books.

Tutor: Brigitte Watkinson

Brigitte creates surreal paintings and collages. Collated magazine images, old art work, current newsprint, paint, photography and found objects amalgamated and intra-acted, creating visions and telling stories of the complex dynamic and surreal interior landscape of my emotions.

Dates:

Saturday 21st October, 12pm -4pm (£65 for 1 Day Course)

Venue

FACT Liverpool

88 Wood Street,

Liverpool,

L1 4DQ

Cost

£65

Materials

Participants should bring:

• A good selection of plain, printed or painted papers

• Card, heavy paper (decorated or plain), old artworks (for cutting up)

• Stiff fabrics and / or wispy fabrics, e.g. Tulle or gauze (if desired)

• A3 Cartridge paper 140 – 220 gsm

Tools and equipment will be supplied on the day

Notes:

There are a maximum of 16 places available on each session, so early booking is essential.

To avoid a booking fee and pay by card, cheque or cash, please contact dot-art Services directly on 0345 017 6660.

Collage Art Journaling

This 10 week course will focus on students creating a visual diary combining elements of collage, writing, drawing, ’zen’ doodling as a means of personal self expression and a space for experimentation; exploring themes from everyday life, as well as bigger hopes, dreams, and fears.

Fun and relaxing, collage is a wonderfully creative outlet, particularly for people who want to make art but don’t feel they have the skills or confidence for other endeavours. There are no rules! You can’t get it wrong and collaging, art journals are an easy way to help you connect with the creative self within.

The purpose of art journaling is not to make every page a masterpiece but to go with the flow, encourage playfulness and to enjoy experimenting with creativity in a personal, safe environment with the support of the tutor.

This self-directed process allows a freedom of expression that will build confidence and empower thinking.

Each week will begin with a quick 10 minute warm up collage exercise and then participants will create an image in response to a prompt or theme.

Prompts & Themes could include:-

Creating a Mandala, zentangle
A favourite quote
A favourite poem
Your Hand
What’s in my head
Faces
Gratitude
Black Out Poetry
Nature
A favourite memory
Dreams
Creating a Surreal collage/ humour
A favourite song
Free writing & imagery

On completion participants will have started a beautiful personal journal and will have gained the skills to carry on with this expressive, mindful art form.

Tutor: Olga Snell

Olga Snell is a digital collagist and workshop leader sharing her skills with students across the UK.

Snell was a freelance commercial photographer for 25 years based in Toronto Canada working for major Advertising Agencies, Designers and Blue-chip clients such as Apple Computer.