Harold Hewitt creates life-scale immersive pictures of the world we’re all familiar with.
His images are of local scenes, but sometimes a narrative emerges that he didn’t expect – perhaps referencing history, religion, poetry, art history, mythology or even present-day issues. What began as a familiar local scene becomes a stage for a drama, or sometimes a metaphor for a bigger message.
While the pictures might look at a glance like enlarged photos, they begin as oil paintings created on location. These are then developed over many months using hundreds of collaged cut outs. These give the pictures spatial depth, bringing in peripheral as well as direct vision. With the peripheral vision and large size together you feel you can almost step into the works, and become part of the narrative.
Life Is A Collage will run 9th June – 29th July in galleries 1 and 2. For full visiting information check their Visit Us page.
EVENTS:
Opening night: Thursday 8th June, 6-8pm – all welcome. Harold will be joined by Ruth Fisher to sing songs about the works from 6-7pm, and then will give a 10-minute talk about the exhibition.
Artist Talks: Friday 16th June, 6pm and Saturday 1st July, 2pm. Book on Tickets Wirral
The Royal Standard is excited to announce their new monthly Life Drawing sessions!
Join them for an hour and a half of relaxing tunes, drawing and drinks!
This is a ticketed event for the safety and security of their models, and so that they can pay them adequately for their time
Life Drawing at The Royal Standard. Starts 6 June, 6.30pm – 8pm.
This course will run Thursday evenings at 5:30pm – 8:00pm for 4 consecutive weeks (27th July/3rd August/10th August/17th August)
The Art of Screenprinting is a comprehensive course suitable for beginners and intermediate printers alike. On completion you will be a knowledgeable, confident screenprinter and able to hire our printmaking facilities to use.
The course schedule is as follows:
Week 1 (27th July 5:30 – 8:00pm) You will learn the fundamentals of screenprinting and create experimental prints using hand cut paper stencils and monoprint.
Week 2 (3rd August 5:30 – 8:00pm) You will learn how to clean a screen and prepare it for printing, as well as coating your screen in UV sensitive emulsion and exposing it to create a permanent stencil for printing. You will then use your exposed screen to create a set of prints.
Week 3 (10th August 5:30 – 8:00pm) This week will teach you all about registration and how to use multiple screens to create multi-layered prints.
Week 4 (17th August 5:30 – 8:00pm) Your final week will teach you how to print onto fabric, utilising all you’ve learnt to understand the subtle changes needed in the screenprinting process to create great fabric prints.
All materials you will use are included in the cost of the course, but you are welcome to bring along your own if you choose. Their studios are environmentally friendly where possible and use greener methods of screen printing, such as water-based acrylic inks. Completing this course will act as an Induction. After becoming a Bluecoat Artist Member you will be able to book into their Screen Printing Studio should you wish to.
(Attendees must be 18+)
Tickets: £180
Book now: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/41876?eid=41876&
Learn the basics of UV screen-printing, a popular & versatile printing process that can be used on fabric & paper.
During this one day course you will learn the basics of screen printing, including learning about the materials used and processes involved in creating a UV exposed screen.
After preparing and exposing your own screen, you’ll get time to draw your own image to print, or you can bring a *suitable image with you. You’ll finish the workshop by using their screen-beds to ink and print your 2 colour designs onto paper in a small edition that you can take home with you.
The course runs for one day (11:00am – 5:00) with a break for lunch.
All materials you will use are included in the cost of the course, but you are welcome to bring along your own if you choose. Their studios are environmentally friendly where possible and use greener methods of screen printing, such as water-based acrylic inks. Completing this course will act as an Induction. After becoming a Bluecoat Artist Member you will be able to book into their Screen Printing Studio should you wish to.
(Attendees must be 18+)
Tickets: £70
Book now: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/41870?eid=41870&
Learn new and exciting ways to print with screen-printing in this fun and informative course.
You will learn various experimental methods for making stencils, resists, applying inks to your screen and creating beautiful one-of-a-kind abstract prints. After learning these methods you will then be given ample time to experiment on your own, or with help from their printmaking tutor Ami Zanders, to create a series of unique artworks.
The course runs for one day (11:00am – 5:00) with a break for lunch.
All materials you will use are included in the cost of the course, but you are welcome to bring along your own if you choose. Their studios are environmentally friendly where possible and use greener methods of screen printing, such as water-based acrylic inks. Completing this course will act as an Induction. After becoming a Bluecoat Artist Member you will be able to book into their Screen Printing Studio should you wish to.
(Attendees must be 18+)
Tickets: £70
Book now: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/42676?eid=42676&
Launching with a curated display in their gallery space, this summer Bluecoat Display Centre are delighted to share a collection of homewares, jewellery, textiles and more which have been specially selected as gifts for those significant occasions in your life, including weddings and anniversaries.
Whether you’re planning your dream wedding, eloping for an intimate ceremony, celebrating your 50th anniversary, have a big birthday coming up, moving into a new home or planning your retirement do, they have a carefully curated collection of handmade gifts by their talented craft makers, which can be tailored to match the unique character of your occasion.
Included in the collection are some items for before and during the big day, including a collection of distinctive, handmade engagement and wedding rings, bridal jewellery, textile accessories and paper decorations.
Join us for the display opening and launch of the collection on Saturday 10 June 2023 between 2pm – 4pm. Friends of the Bdc will receive a 10% discount on all purchases from the gallery during the event.*
Ensemble
Solo exhibition of paintings by Ali Barker
The Landing, The Atkinson, Southport
24 June – 22 July 2023
Exhibition open Monday – Saturday, 10am-4pm.
Meet the Artist day Saturday 8th July.
Ali Barker’s work expresses music and sound in colour. She works with a fixed palette to represent the colours she perceives through her experiences of the phenomenon of sound-colour synaesthesia – when listening to music, she perceives notes of the musical scale as specific colours.
These personal experiences are the inspiration and motivation for Ali’s artistic practice. She draws upon them, as well as her musical background (she plays the violin and viola), to create her abstract paintings. Starting from the written music, her perceptions whilst listening to specific pieces, or working from sound recordings she has analysed, her translational processes develop excerpts into colourful paintings, ranging from gestural works to geometric patterns.
As a mature student, Ali Barker studied Foundation Art and Design at Southport College in 2014-15 and completed her MA in Fine Art (Distinction) at the University of Chester in 2019.
Based in Sefton, Ali has exhibited her artwork across North West England. She has had two solo shows in Liverpool, and regularly exhibits in group shows, including the Sefton Open. Ensemble brings together a selection of works made in the last few years with new paintings made for this exhibition.
https://www.alibarker.com/news-main.html
In their first major show as a co-operative, artists of the Material Matters collective present ‘Here To Become’: an exhibition of new contemporary art and series of events at the Bridewell Gallery from 7- 14th July 2023.
Angelo Madonna further explores his work on body-duality; Silvia Battista invokes ritual practice to imagine a mythological, speculative fiction; Patric Rogers presents a startling geological examination of human identity and John Elcock unveils a giant kinetic sculpture as a chilling metaphor for nuclear annihilation.
‘Here to Become’ is an Independents Biennial event responding to the theme of the 2023 Liverpool Biennial ‘uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things’ which addresses the history and temperament of our city and its call for ancestral forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing.
The event is a chance for us all to throw our gender assumptions up in the air, laugh at the ensuing chaos and emerge refreshed!
It is an art event, designed to cleanse our palates and revaluate our perceptions of gender. The emphasis is on using nonsense as a tool, set against a background installation of the artist’s personal fairytales, populated by supportive magical beings. These magical beings were created through collaborations, both with adults & the artist’s (then young) child.
About the Artist
Melody Carey Art is a project centred around a fictional autobiography written by Kelly Stubbs. Kelly didn’t have the understanding she needed to come out as a transgender woman, until relatively late in life. After more overtly political projects like Liverpool Trans Pride & promoting access to art for transgender people, she has been developing her autobiography and associated art practice, as a way of coming to terms with both the joys and barriers she faces as a transgender woman.
This event is part of The Royal Standard’s Biennial 2023 programme and will be ticketed
Daniel Halsall is a painter who creates modern minimalist figurative paintings that draw on Modern day themes on technology, vector glyphs, computer data, and living in the digital information age.
Daniel is well known for his creative work with Gondwana Records founded by Daniels brother Matthew, collaborating on artwork with acts such as Matthew Halsall, GoGo Penguin, Mammal Hands, Svaneborg Kardyb, Jasmine Myra, and Dwight Trible to name a few.
With the latest series of paintings in the exhibition, music plays a big inspiration on the work, the paintings take influence by the sounds of Autechre, Aphex Twin, Nils Frahm and Plaid. Inspiring playful painting jams with vibrant colours, echoing the intense sounds and melodies in these musicians work.
The exhibition will run from 6th July to the 12th of July at The Royal Standard art gallery, in the heart of Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle.
