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‘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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“What is a car, if not a piece of travelling sculpture?” -Bruno Munari | Liverpool Biennial. Liverpool Biennial 2010, 18 September – 28 November 2010, presents the Official Liverpool Biennial Car 2010, designed and driven by artist Daisy Delaney. The [...]
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 201018 September – 13 November 2010Featuring the work of 49 artists across a range of media, the exhibition provides a unique opportunity to engage with new practice and ideas from across the UK. Participants are selected by [...]
A Foundation – Liverpool Biennial: Touched18 September – 28 November 2010A Foundation will host two artists in the Liverpool Biennial 2010 exhibition; Touched. The artists Sachiko Abe and Antti Laitinen have been asked to become catalysts in an exploration of [...]
Here’s me touching the Liverpool Biennial 2010 car which was parked alongside the one from 2008 outside the JMU Academy of Art & Design this afternoon. The theme for 2010 is ‘Touched‘ and the latest in the series of related [...]
About Here The Gallery Liverpool, Stanhope Street 17.09.2010 – 17.10.2010 Four artist – Christine O’Reilly Wilson, Susan Meyerhoff Sharples, Jane Hughes, Wendy Williams. Open: Monday – Saturday 10.30 – 16.30 (Closed Sun) If you have been to the gallery in [...]
It was early in the morning (too early for us) last Saturday that Antti Laitinen set sail from New Brighton in his boat that he’d built from pine bark over recent weeks in the A Foundation. He was fortunate with [...]
Antti Laitinen has spent the last three weeks carefully building a “Bark Boat” at A Foundation as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2010, Touched. On Saturday 25th September 2010 this vessel made of bark collected from the forest floor in [...]
Full details of next week’s Biennial’s Art For Places events on the Wirral… JOIN IN THE FUN EVENTS IN TRANMERE, SEACOMBE, ROCK FERRY AND BIRKENHEAD AND BE PART OF THE WORK TO SITE A PIECE OF PUBLIC ART ON WIRRAL [...]
This is probably the final exhibition at the National Conservation Centre and has been cut short as National Museums Liverpool restructure to cope with the recently announced cuts in funding. There have been many excellent exhibitions here in recent years, [...]
Liverpool Biennial – International Festival of Contemporary Art – Artists and Projects – News – Artist Talk with Tania Bruguera CANCELLED. “Invited artist Tania Bruguera will be coming to Liverpool on her first research visit for the International exhibition. The [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-45. ‘Stereo-tastic’ installation by Carol Ramsay in ‘With These Walls We Are Shaped’ at Wolstenholme Creative Space, 28 October – 28 November 2010 Part of an excellent show at Wolstenholme that explores the gallery as [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-47. ‘Gloria: A study for an Opera II (2010)’ by Hrafnhildur Arnardottir AKA ‘Shoplifter’ in City States (NICE Nordic Pavilion) 18 September – 28 November 2010 One of the highlights of the Biennial for me [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-43. ‘Mandi XV’ 2007 by Kris Martin at the Black-E, part of Liverpool Biennial Touched in the public realm 18 September – 28 November 2010. “In myth and legend, swords are symbols of protection, purity [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-42. ‘Earth and Aether’ installation by Lin Holland and Jane Poulton at Liverpool Cathedral, part of Independents Liverpool Biennial, 19 September – 12 December 2010. This fascinating installation with its house-shaped reflective structure hanging from [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-39. ‘The Space Between Want’ by Lynn Parotti in Three Moments, the Caribbean Pavilion, CityStates at the Contemporary Urban Centre 18 September – 28 November 2010 I have not seen all the CityStates pavilions in [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-44. ‘Tales From the Woods’ by Teresa Wilson at Arena 28 October – 14 November 2010, part of the Cooperative strand of the Liverpool Biennial. This is the 3rd exhibition at Arena during the Biennial. [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-41. ‘Haufen’ (Heap), Oil on Canvas 180 x 290 cm by Tim Eitel, part of Liverpool Biennial ‘The Human Stain’ at 52 Renshaw Street, Liverpool 18 September – 28 November 2010. One of a few [...]
Of course, as the Biennial starts next week there will be a plethora of Viewings, Launches, Afterparties but this is one that is open to all and should not be missed. Private viewing of ‘City States’ part of Liverpool Biennial [...]
Art for Places: Wirral – Events 31 May – 5 June Art for Places: Wirral is holding a series of special public events between 31 May and 5 June. The events include walks, cycles, barbecues and cinema. For a full [...]
Photos © Minako Jackson It may be more than a week early but the flags are already out signalling the start of the Liverpool Biennial 2010. But when you look at these flags up close you see that they are [...]
All photos by Minako Jackson It’s been several weeks since the opening day of the Biennial when I looked around the exhibition at the Tate and my notes have long since disappeared but I do remember I thought it was [...]
Biennial – Touched Talks Series Announced In the run up to its launch on 18 September 2010, Liverpool Biennial has invited prominent artists and thinkers to explore TOUCHED, the theme of Liverpool Biennial’s International exhibition 2010. Paul Domela, Programme Director [...]
There was a closing party for the Biennial last night. Lewis Biggs donned his multicoloured jacket as he does for this event every 2 years and thanked all the people involved especially the volunteers and other front of house staff [...]
Via liverpool Biennial… Assist our Artists in Residence Trevor Morgan, our resident artist from Sydney, Australia, has been working in and around Liverpool to obtain video footage for an artwork he will present later in the year. He’s particularly interested [...]
Look out for the new Biennial Car for 2010 in Liverpool on Tuesday 16 Feb until Thursday 18 Feb, together with its cousin, The Made Up car from Liverpool Biennial 2008. They will be around the city and at the [...]
The Cooperative Tours FIRST TOUR THIS SATURDAY 25 September 2010 A free 3-hour mini-bus tour of Liverpool’s thriving arts scene, led and narrated by a cast of artists, poets and curators from The Cooperative – the city’s foremost art’s collectives [...]
The Bare Necessities of Getting the Most out of the Biennial Contents Inside The Naked Corner Highlighted Events Single or in a Group, See Art That Speaks to You Curator, Artist-led, and Custom Tours Inside The Naked Corner “The reactions [...]
DJs, Philosophy, DaDa, and More! The Marx Lounge in Conversation – Alfredo Jaar with Chantal Mouffe and Mark Sealy 12 November, 18.30, Visitor Centre. For FREE tickets, email mary@biennial.com As part of The Marx Lounge, Alfredo Jaar engages speakers from [...]
Those nice people at the Liverpool Biennial have sent me this splendid notebook. The cover is embossed with the Biennial logo and on the accompanying card the word ‘touched’ is in braille as well. The theme for the 2010 Bienial [...]
Weekend Guide 6-7 November 6 – 7 November: Spray Paint Graphic Wolves on your Stuff – Like Carlos Amorales’s graphic wolves? Want one on your shirt/bag/skateboard/anything? Come to the Visitor Centre on Saturday and Sunday between noon and 4pm to [...]
SAT 9 & SUN 10 October 2010 at the Biennial venues There are a number of exciting tours this weekend that are FREE but need to be booked in advance to avoid disappointment. Saturday 9 October: Curator’s Exhibition Tour – [...]
Hoping some of you sign up and tell us what it’s all about! The Innovasion – Alternate Reality Game 9 October, 10.00–22.00 / £5 Something is wrong at the Liverpool Biennial. Suspicious signs and mysterious codes appear from nowhere, and [...]
All photos © Minako Jackson I always enjoy the New Contemporaries exhibitions at the A Foundation during Liverpool Biennial. This one gets off to a good start as one enters through a ridiculously oversized door. We then see a version [...]
Bluecoat Display Centre: A Sparkling Party – 2 October – 13 November 2010 A touring exhibition of selected works in silver by Kevin O’Dwyer. Review by Gayna Rose Madder Kevin O’Dwyer’s first solo exhibition in over 10 years, ‘A Sparkling [...]
Brendan Lyons at the Bluecoat 18 September – 28 November 2010 In an unexpected encounter with art in an unusual location, Brendan presents a series of site-specific paintings in the passage leading off the garden at the Bluecoat. Have you [...]
Liverpool Biennial: CityStates18 September – 28 November 2010 Viewing Thursday 16 September 2010 18-20.00 plus afterparty. All Welcome.A major new collaboration for Liverpool Biennial 2010 presents a series of international exhibitions exploring the cultural dynamics between cities and states. CityStates [...]
Catalyst Reviews – An Encounter With Culley. A lovely review of Derek Culley’s Independents exhibition at the Gala Leo Casino, written by Sandra Gibson.
The 2010 Independents start here. CHAOSMOS has taken over all 3 floors of the View Two gallery and it’s excellent! I hope people don’t take it the wrong way if I say it’s typically Independents with its mix of paintings, [...]
Gallery4allarts – Independents Biennial 2010 – 30th October 2010, 3pm SMLLCA Charity Contemporary Art Auction Gallery 1 “MINIBUS AND MEET ME AT SUNSET 2010” ‘Auction’: Saturday 30th Oct 3pm Auction assisted and hosted by Gayna Rose Madder. A charity exhibition [...]
If you haven’t visited the Williamson Tunnels yet then now is as good an opportunity as any as you’ll get to see an excellent exhibition at the same time as having the tour and learning the history of this weird [...]
You must be joking! Running and debating at the same time. Think I’ll watch online – pity the poor camera operator. Liverpool Biennial – International Festival of Contemporary Art – Artists and Projects – Events – Critical Run 1 – [...]
Cry Me A River A solo-climate-summit by Anna Mendelssohn binarycell, 40 Seel Street, L1 4BE Saturday 25 September 2010 – Doors open 6:30pm, show starts at 7pm Sunday 26th – Doors open 2:30pm, show starts at 3pm Monday 27th – [...]
All photos by Minako Jackson Deadpan is the second excellent show at The Royal Standard for the 2010 Biennial. The first was Hierarchies of Allegiance featuring artists: Christian Newby, Jonathan Baldock ,Pil and Galia Kollectiv and curated by RS Directors [...]
Dream Machine at Metal at Edge Hill Station 15 September – 23 October 2010 Opening on the 180th Anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, inside the buildings of the oldest existing passenger railway station still in use, this exhibition [...]
EILISH CULLEY ‘An Element of Curiosity’ AT STUDIO 2 PARR ST © Gayna Rose Madder 2010 Eilish Culley has a well-developed ability to capture the unexpected moment. Combined with a fine sense of humour and a considerable set of technical [...]
