Elisa Sallis and Xanthe Tilzey present an immersive exhibition housed at The Royal Standard.
The exhibition will include multidisciplinary mediums, and will culminate in an ultra-over-stylised vision of what it means to be a feminine artist in our contemporary white cute context by bringing together their practices and blurring the boundaries between their resepctive styles and mediums.
How to wear high heels celebrates all things kitsch, textured and gorgeous.
PV 23rd june 6pm-late
“From Point A to Point B” is an exhibition by Elizabeth Challinor that focuses on bringing the curatorial processes and methodologies to the forefront of the exhibition, to highlight how exhibitions get from Point A (initial conception) to Point B (final exhibition).
This exhibition serves as a culmination of a larger ongoing research project that featured a short series of smaller exhibitions. Each exhibition was developed collaboratively with 2 artists over a 5 week period, meeting weekly to develop ideas through discussing their individual practices, and concluded with a one-night exhibition. The aim of these exhibitions was to work collaboratively and communicatively, and explore how exhibitions can be generated through ongoing creative discussion and sharing ideas.
“From Point A to Point B” explores the development and curation of this series of exhibitions, featuring notes, transcripts, images, recordings and more from each exhibition, following the creative journey, process and evolution of each exhibition, and hopes to offer an in-depth look at how the artists worked together, how their work and ideas merged together, and how the exhibition unfolded as time went on.
The participating artists were Amy Cadwallader, Beth Wise, Ami Zanders, Olivia Vacanti, Mia Cathcart, and Sophie Baskerville.
Liverpool Tattoo Convention returns to the city from June 2nd – June 4th for another weekend of world class tattooing, live music and entertainment!
Widely perceived as the most prestigious and innovative tattoo event in the UK, the show will take place on June 2nd, 3rd and 4th 2023 at the Britannia Adelphi Hotel – smack bang in the heart of the city centre, and just a stone’s throw away from Lime St Station.
Renowned for its innovation, non-stop entertainment and incredible atmosphere, the 3-day event will host UK and international tattoo artists, Tattoo Awards, tattoo competitions, and a stage of non-stop live music, including a Korn tribute-band, a NIN tribute-band, a Ghost tribute-band, and much more.
The Convention is a great opportunity to get tattooed by some of the world’s finest artists, and promises to be a weekend to remember; a true celebration of the art of tattooing.
The show prides itself on providing reasonably-priced food and drink, with pints starting at just £2.95. You can even stay on-site at the hotel for a preferential convention rate.
The last show was a huge success, with 6,000+ people enjoying the festivities and setting record attendance numbers in the process.
The Liverpool Tattoo Convention is regarded as a must-attend event, and is a well-respected show in the industry, honouring tattoo culture, lifestyle and art. There is something for everyone to enjoy during this relaxed and enchanting weekend of tattoo, art and variety entertainment.
To mark the end of Mental Health Awareness Week, Arts Bar Liverpool are holding a Wellbeing Weekend. The two day event will feature visual art by Alisha Friday, Amy Cummings and Kathleen Charters, much of which will be available to buy.
In addition to the exhibition, the venue also welcome back Steph from Foru Plants who is a horticultural creative who specialises in edible produce and on Sunday the 21st, Joe Dillon, guitarist with Hushtones, will provide a soundtrack via his vinyl collection.
Featuring Clare Wrench, Carol Miller, Lorna Morris, Rob Edmondson, Jacob Gourley and John O’Neill.
A new exhibition at dot-art, ‘Reflections’ is open to the viewer’s interpretation of the word. Some may envision sky reflected in bodies of water, mirror images or perhaps are drawn to a more personal reading of inward-looking moments of reflection. The artists in this exhibition have interpreted the theme through these various lenses and offer up their diverse artistic approaches through portraiture, landscape and photography to support the viewer’s own contemplation of what ‘Reflections’ mean to them.
Clare Wrench – Clare has always loved to paint reflections on water, incorporating this in her landscapes and cityscapes. She is inspired by Claude Monet’s impressionist waterlilies series and fascinated by how light reflects off the surface of the water. “Reflections upon water are one of my favourite things to paint, such as a ripple in the water of a lake causing a distortion in the image reflected. Water can also reflect a mirrored image which often takes the form of a pattern, abstract shape or the unusual forms on a crest of a wave.”
Jacob Gourley – Jacob’s practice is often figurative, utilising social commentary and imagined worlds as parallel styles, both in balance between realism and abstraction. Pre-pandemic, Jacob drew inspiration from his day-to-day travel. The outcome was a body of work which depicts rail and bus passengers in a public transport setting. Since then Jacob’s work has migrated to the ‘Lotus’ series, marking a turn in his practice towards a more other worldly/surreal type of work.
Lorna Morris – “’Twinkling Waves’, an oil painting, is a view from the shores of Lake Coniston in the Lake District – the home of my favourite writer on the art of seeing – John Ruskin. The silhouette is my daughter, but she is also you, the spectator, paddling on the shore as the steam gondola takes its final passengers home from their day’s adventure. Three distinct forms of water: clouds, steam and the ripples from the gondola all reflect and refract the same evening sky.
‘Reflections of Rockcliffe,’ another oil painting, is of Rockcliffe beach viewed through the reflections of a mirror in Port Donnel Cottage. I played in the little rockpools at Rockcliffe as a small child. The mirror symbolises the many years that have come and gone and my distance from the past. I see the memories through a filter of the mirror in a cosy sitting room. There in the reflection is the beach where I collected winkles and searched for crabs with my darling Grandad.”
Carol Miller – Although primarily a painter, Carol also takes photographs. She uses contemplative photography, focusing on taking the time to actually see, reflecting on the present, becoming aware of what is surrounding her to reveal richness and beauty that is often overlooked. Instead of emphasizing subject matter or the technical aspects of photography, the contemplative approach allows her to see and make images based on fresh perceptions. The resulting images are edited on her phone using a basic photography app.
John O’Neil – John studied illustration in Cambridge and completed a Fine Art Degree at Liverpool John Moores University. Liverpool’s rich and varied architectural heritage contrasting with the new urban skyline provides material for John’s evolving cityscapes. The movement of light and transient colour changes influences his expressive responses in drawing and painting and provides endless inspiration for his creative process.
Rob Edmondson – “Much of my work is based on the landscape of the North of England, I revel in the physical manipulation of the paint and experimenting with unusual techniques. Implicit in each painting is the use of light, colour, depth, and movement. Through visual devices I hope to capture the soul, in essence the mood of each special, secret place. This quote from Roald Dahl, could summarize my approach to art, “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.””
All artworks are for sale.
Join them for the Private View of the exhibition on Thursday 25th May from 5pm-7pm.
All welcome, but please register here: https://reflections-PV.
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 Friday 26th May – Saturday 15th July 2023.
Until 2022 Aram Manukyan was happily living in Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion Aram has relocated to Birkenhead and having previously exhibited around the world, he is now showcasing his work at Arts Bar Hope Street.
For this event Aram has worked with the curator, Laura McCann to selected a collection of paintings and sketches that represent him fully as an artist. Aram is influenced by his love of colour and shape but says his greatest inspiration are the ideas that come to him instinctively.
Dialogues is a partnership between Bluecoat and Jam Factory Art Center in Lviv.
Curator Olena Kasperovych from Ukraine and Bluecoat’s Senior Curator Adam Lewis-Smythe have selected two artists to work together in their galleries to create new work, responding to each other and the context of EuroFestival.
Alevtina Kakhidze is a Ukrainian artist based in Muzychi (Kyiv Oblast), she will be working alongside Liverpool-based artist Ellie Hoskins.
Kakhidze is best known for her drawings, performances and videos. Her drawings have focused on the war against Ukraine, charting the events and impact of war on her family and neighbours. Kakhidze’s work draws out personal observations and, whilst the subject matter is often of critical importance, she uses humour as a way to understand and analyse the world around her.
As a starting point Kakhidze will develop audio work and drawings that she made in 2016 in Liverpool. These works poke fun at the eccentricities of scouse culture and often feature icons of Liverpool such as the Liverbirds and Taro Chiezo’s ubiquitous Superlambanana sculptures.
Kakhidze’s deadpan humour is shared by Ellie Hoskins who uses text, illustration, painting, sculpture and animation to comment on daily life.
Hoskins uses text to express musings on the daily lives of herself and her peer group, and often amplifies absurdities of the mundane to comic effect. Kakhidze and Hoskins will both develop new work in their galleries throughout the exhibition period and will also exhibit large poster works on the exterior of their building on Blundell Lane.
Both artists are incisive in the ways that they wryly critique the world around them. They share an understanding of how important it is to be critical, to observe and understand the world around us and to do this with a sense of mischief, fun and openness.
Free Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality digital art and Artist Talk at The Royal Standard until the 20th of May, funded by Arts Council England.
This event runs from the 18th – 20th May. When booking tickets please select the day you want to attend. On the 20th May at 2 pm there will also be an Artists’ Talk, which has limited guest space for 20 people, if you would like to attend the Artists’ Talk as well as the exhibition please be sure to select the correct booking option.
DYSPLA, with the support of Arts Council England, has curated a collection of digital artworks and VR films by world-renowned Neurodivergent Artists, showcasing a range of content intended to inspire reflection on a “new” artistic concept — the Neurodivergent Aesthetics and its Heritage. A new term used by DYSPLA since 2017 to illustrate how those who see, think and experience the world differently from the subjective norms, create unpredictable stories and tell them in nonlinear ways.
Based at their lovely stained glass studio on the first floor of One Hamilton Square, this 6 hour Olive Can Fly workshop will include:
•instructions on how to select and structure your piece
•how to cut glass
•how to use a diamond grinder
•the application and burnish of silver backed copper foil
•how to assemble and solder each glass piece together to create your sun catcher
•how to add the correct size jump ring and chain to securely hang your finished piece.
You will be able to select your sun catcher pattern from a wide range of patterns that will be provided. There will be a broad selection of stained glass to choose from.
Detailed health & safety guides and precautions will be taught throughout the day and personal protective equipment (PPE) will be provided along with all materials.
No previous stained glass experience is necessary for this particular workshop
‘Torn up’ is Jason Wesley Biggs’ first exhibition.
Jason has always dabbled in art but during lockdown he was receiving so much junk mail through the door he decided to start chopping it up, this lead to him start cutting other things up; old family photos, passports, magazines, granddads’ book of Scottish tartan, he’d relish the daily takeaway menu as they’d become the sauce of artistic inspiration.
‘Torn up’ is an exhibition of chance, collage, Dada, Python, Bowie… it’s just Jason cutting, sticking, laughing, hoping and letting chance have some say and ‘by chance’ forming some composition that hopefully can evoke rather than explain.
Jason landed in Liverpool in 1996 to study Community Arts Drama at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts… this is where he is now… on the floor… surrounded by chaos… he’ll keep cutting and sticking, head along on the 28th and say hello.
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste” – Marcel Duchamp