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LOUISE BOURGEOIS Ground-breaking artist remembered Work by the recently deceased French-born artist, Louise Bourgeois is included in the exhibition The Rise of Women Artists at the Walker Art Gallery. Bourgeois who died on 31 May 2010 was an endlessly inventive [...]
This is an excellent new exhibition in the gallery which recently housed the Bridget Riley works. This is also visually stimulating with deep vibrant colours and amazing techniques and effects that can make some areas look blurred whilst others are [...]
On the BBC website… Audio slideshow: Liverpool’s year of culture In the past 12 months, 3.5 million people visited Liverpool for the first time – according to the company behind the city’s European Capital of Culture programme. Some 7,000 cultural [...]
EASTER EVENTS at National Museums Liverpool SATURDAY 3 – SUNDAY 11 April 2010 Get Hopping to National Museums Liverpool This Easter An egg-splosion of free family fun at National Museums Liverpool will keep everyone occupied during the Easter holidays. Free [...]
Having seen all the Pre-Paid postcards at Cornerstone last night, we are really looking forward to the Auction on Wednesday 9 December 2009. We picked a couple of bargains last time and the quality of artwork this year is very [...]
Voluntary Arts England is presenting a free one-day national conference on Tuesday 30 March 2010 at FACT, Liverpool; Restoring the Balance: the effect of arts participation on informal learning, health and wellbeing The conference, part of the Up For Arts [...]
TALK: As Long As It Takes – Sculptor Stephen Hitchin WEDNESDAY 11 November 2009, 13.00 at VG&M Stephen Hitchin will be talking about his work and his current sculpture exhibition (see the details) tel: 0151 794 2348 www.liv.ac.uk/vgm
An interesting, serious exhibition just opened at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool and a timely reminder of why we still need events such as this week’s International Women’s Day. One of the women featured in the exhibition, Rebecca Kamara, [...]
News from Liverpool A Foundation… A Curriculum – PARTICIPANTS ANNOUNCED A Foundation Artist Residency In association with Saatchi Online and John Moores University A Foundation is pleased to announce the eight artists selected to participate in A Curriculum, 2010 are: [...]
Here’s some bright,warm paintings to cheer us up on these cold, dark Winter days, this solo show by Wirral-based Grahame Ashcroft fills a large room at the Williamson Gallery. Well worth a visit, it’ll bring a smile to your face [...]
A very nice, thoughtful installation indeed in the project space at the Royal Standard by studio member Frances Disley. Not only is the ceramic work skillfully produced but the drawings on them are amazing. Very beautiful, I hope it goes [...]
‘An Age of Confidence’ - Photographs by Bedford Lemere & Co – Lady Lever Art Gallery A century ago Britain led the world with booming industries, powerful commercial links and a supreme navy – all reflected in the remarkable photographs of [...]
Full details of the Apport exhibition which is on until 10 November 2009. (Tue – Sun 18.00 – 20.00) Ben Egerton The Portal / installation / 2009 The sea is connected to my home town, and many other places, people [...]
Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 July, 22.00 at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. FREE. ‘As The World Tipped’ performance by Wired Aerial Theatre. AN AWE-INSPIRING disaster movie about the consequences of climate change is to be performed in the skies of Liverpool [...]
BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | ‘Bang’ sculpture to be taken down. Following on from the item about Wallinger’s giant horse, its a shame to be losing this sculpture which is a much more interesting work but has always [...]
This exhibition ‘Being Lost’ includes Liverpool-based artists Brendan Lyons and Kevin Hunt at the excellent Rogue Studios Project Space in Manchester. 28 May – 4 June 2011. PV Friday 27 May 18-20.00. www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk
‘Between Presence and Absence’ – an exhibition by Jason Jones. Liverpool Biennial 2010: John Lewis department store gets involved! © Gayna Rose Madder 2010 Jason Jones, manager of Liverpool Hope University’s prestigious Cornerstone Art Gallery, is the first artist ever [...]
‘CARAVAGGIO TO VERMEER’ by John Afflick. Corke Art Gallery, Wed 13th April – Sat 7th May 2011 Mini-review © Gayna Rose Madder 2011. This controversial show provides the viewer with a conundrum. Is this pastiche? There is no doubt that [...]
I love Jon Pountain’s recreation of Vermeer’s studio in the Casa de Brujas – the former Big Issue building on Duke Street. Also his pastels and drawings are excellent. Nick Williams is showing some new paintings as well which are [...]
We are fortunate to have JMU student, Alison Timson, doing work experience with us this month. As well as helping us sort out things in the office and keeping our websites up to date she’s been trekking round some of [...]
‘Everton v the City of Liverpool’- photography by Christian Petersen19 January – 31 January, 20091st Floor, 110 Bold Street (the Kind Charity shop, opposite Coffee Union Cafe) Its concerned with adressing the inequalities that mark Liverpools social/economic/cultural landscape and have [...]
This is the final of the three exhibitions at Editions Ltd for the Independents Liverpool Biennial. Aplogies for not reporting on the other two while they were actually on, all three were really rather good. The first was ‘Trailogue‘ 17 [...]
An evening for art lovers to support Alder Hey Imagine Appeal Art lovers in Liverpool can treat themselves to an evening of art indulgence at the forthcoming ‘Imagine on Canvas’ event which supports Alder Hey Imagine Appeal. The inaugural event [...]
Listen out for the bells on Saturday 16 May 2009 at Noon. ‘Imagine’ A live performance – 16th May @ High Noon, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. Artist / Producer: Cleo Evans A Futuresonic Festival Commission: http://www.futuresonic.com/ Rehearsals for the world premiere [...]
‘Inner Beauty’ by Julie Dodd at Arena Studios & Gallery. 1 – 10 Dec 2011. Viewing: Friday 2 Dec. 18-21.00 Arena Studios and Gallery are proud to present ‘Inner Beauty’ an exhibition of work created by our artist in residence [...]
If you’re into architecture, planning, urbanism, Liverpool etc you may want to be involved in this project which launches at Static on Wednesday 22 July 2009 from 18.00. You’ll need to RSVP (see below) Liverpool Architectural Society and the RIBA [...]
INVASION – Leasowe Millenium Centre. From 10 June 2011 For the first time in its ten year history, the Millenium Centre in Leasowe will be providing studio space for an artist in residence. Following the aims of the centre to [...]
Photos of the artwork by Minako Jackson Doug Jones: Lares et Penates at Ceri Hand Gallery 14 January - 19 March 2011 For his second solo show at the Ceri Hand Gallery, Doug Jones has constructed four rooms inspired by [...]
Another Homotopia event at CUC – looks good, book now. Little Boy – 17th -21st November 2009, from 19.30 Whiston, Merseyside in 1982. Madness are riding high in the charts and Lisa and Paula dream of marrying Suggs. Michelle struggles [...]
If you missed it in St Helens you can still catch it in Birkenhead Central Library on 8/9 April 2010. Details here RAPHAEL HEALTHCARE LAUNCHES LOVE YOURSELF PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION Raphael Healthcare is celebrating Mental Health Action Week with its touring [...]
Sutton Taylor – ‘Lustre’ at Hope University Cornerstone 10 January – 18 February 2011 An exhibition by Sutton Taylor in association with Hart Gallery, London. www.hartgallery.co.uk Now that the major building works on Hope’s Creative Campus are complete, the Capstone [...]
This is in Lancaster but features Liverpool Art Prize, People’s Choice Winner, Elizabeth Willow alongside Jonathan Raisin who organises and performs in many Liverpool music events. Making Time Making Time is a performance project devised by the Nuffield Theatre to [...]
‘Move’ at Unit C18, Albert Dock. 31 Oct – 9 Nov 2008Viewing, Thursday 30 October 2008, 18.00-20.00 An exhibition of drawings, installation and photography considering the theme ‘Move’ by David Bixter, Daniel Scanlin, Claire Weetman Unit C18, Albert Dock, Liverpool [...]
Oil City Confidential Special Guest of Liverpool Sound City + Director’s Q&A + Wilko Johnson Live Thursday 20th May 2010 at FACT Ticket £12.50 Following the success of the Oil City Confidential screening at FACT on 2 Feb 2010, Liverpool [...]
UNIQUE WATERFRONT SETTING FOR EPIC MOVIE One of the greatest films of all time, Marlon Brando’s ‘On The Waterfront’, is coming to Liverpool in a great free open air spectacular. The powerful story, concerned with the problems of trade unionism, [...]
After Calderstones we went to Nic Corke’s gallery on Aigburth road where there is a fine selection of works by street artists. Banksy, of course, is probably the best known but the others are mostly established artists too and there’s [...]
‘Palaces’ by Gina Czarnecki at the Bluecoat Friday 9 December – Sunday 19 February daily 10am – 6pm. Free admission. Children from all over the UK have been donating their milk teeth to a resin sculpture, created by artist Gina [...]
‘Portrait of a Nation’ Project Launched. Teenagers launch national identity debateYoung people across the UK, working with the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008, today laid down a challenge for their generation to explore, debate [...]
‘Pre-paid 2011′ Charity Postcard Exhibition and Auction WEDNESDAY 7 December 2011, 17.30 (Auction starts 18.30) (VIEWING: Wednesday 16 Nov 2011 17.30 – 19.30 at Hope Uni Cornerstone Gallery) After the success of ‘Pre-paid 2009’, made possible by the generosity of [...]
If, like me, you missed Patricia MacKinnon-Day’s ‘Private Views Made Public‘ at the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, you can at least see the time-lapse video here Mackinnon-Day worked with six local people who “own” spectacular private panoramic views of these six [...]
Colin Reid : “Re-collection” Solo Painting 9 November 2009 – 3 January 2010 Angie McCormick “Elemental 5” 23 November 2009 – 31 January 2010 Both at The Lauries Centre, Birkenhead There are two exhibitions running at the moment in the [...]
OPEN EYE GALLERY13 January to 18 March 2012 MAIN EXHIBITION – RICHARD & FAMOUS: RICHARD SIMPKIN AND SIMONE LUECK Curated by Martin Parr ARCHIVE EXHIBITION – PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS From the collection of Martin Parr Open Eye Gallery, one of the UK’s [...]
To support ‘The Rise of Women Artists’ exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, the University of Liverpool’s Continuing Education department, in collaboration with National Museums Liverpool, will host two free lectures for the general public. Painting 1950′s Britain: Prunella Clough’s [...]
These bas-relief paintings are well worth close inspection, the artist has cleverly constructed pieces that show the inspiration of the coasts and hills of his native Wales. There are some excellent drawings too. Salvage: An Exhibition by Tony Roberts at [...]
Serendipity at De Cafe, 178 Aigburth Road, Liverpool, L17 9PE. Opening: Thursday 16th October 2008 19.00 Exhibition: 16th October 2008 – 16th November 2008 Featuring work by the following artists: Ali Laura Baxter Diane Canon Jo Derbyshire June Rose H [...]
Scheherazade’s Taster Sessions…introduces a new… ‘Shibori’ Workshop in the Coach House Studio – next to the gallery. Come along to experiment with a new technique! Still only £15 each! *Shibori is a Japanese technique of manipulating, wrapping, pleating, tying & [...]
Small Things Too – Duo Show by Nathan & Anthony Pendlebury 6 February – 1 March 2009 Curated by HeadSpace 84 small paintings and photographs now cover the walls of Egg Cafe, all the work of father and son artists, [...]
SATURDAY 14 May 12noon – 23.00. SMILES FOR JAPAN Day and Night of Music, Performance, Film, Art & Fun! Give your smiles and support from Liverpool to Japan. Venue: CUC Liverpool, 41 -51 Greenland Street, Liverpool, L1 0BS Date: Saturday [...]
14th-18th February 2011 (11.00-3.00pm) and 21st–25th February 2011 (11.00-3.00pm) Families are being invited to come to the Cathedral this half term for interactive activities based on the theme of sound. ‘Sounding out the Cathedral’ allows visitors to make their way [...]
