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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 [...]
‘Beyond the Reality’ at Hermitage Art Gallery I don’t think this made it into the Biennial guides, I only heard about it because I bumped into the curator Kate Dadiani on the first day of the biennial so I went [...]
‘Bread & Games, Plant & Play’ Azra Aksamija This takes place in Gt. Georges Square (off Nelson St) each Saturday. The plastic boxes each contain an item, you can leave things in them or swap or borrow, I think. Bit [...]
‘Cabin Pressure’ at the Cabin Club. thePooch.com I said this might be fun and it was. Shame there weren’t more passengers on board this flight but they were a very friendly gang. I nearly wasn’t allowed on board as the [...]
‘Cabin Pressure’ thePooch at the Cabin Club, 8pm tonight £3. Think I’ll have look if I’ve still got the energy, went to the Cabin a few times when I was a teenager many, many years ago.
‘Close to the Sea’ at FACT Just into the third week now and I’m feeling a bit weary, contemporary art overdose, biennialy bloated. So, I chill out by going to a gallery! Just the one today though. I had a [...]
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 [...]
‘In Shop-Shop’ Torolab. I saw this cart a lot at various places in the city centre in the first couple of weeks but not recently. Its a rubbish cart which has been transformed into a mobile shop and it sells [...]
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 [...]
‘Resonance’ – Philharmonic Hall Foyer 1-5 & 8th Nov 10.00-17.30. This was created by students from Sutton High College with Amanda Coogan and Patricia MacKinnon-Day. There’s a short film on a screen above the stairs featuring, mainly, a cello with [...]
‘Ritual Bodies’ at the WalkerNormally when I go to the Walker now I just head straight for the Special Exhibitions rooms, I’ve seen all the other stuff so many times. But these ‘artists interventions’ are spread around so I ventured [...]
‘Vishnu to Woodstock’ at Kif Did well today, thought Kif on Parr St was closed again but you just have to knock on the door. This is the case with a lot of the small independent places of course, sometimes [...]
“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 [...]
…but not here (much). If you are interested in whats happening in the Liverpool Art world then you need to follow my new Art In Liverpool Weblog. This blog will be staying though. It seems to be the only online [...]
…there’s a Cathedral. But also, there’s University buildings, I went to JMU Gallery at no 68 as the Art Rosenbaum exhibition was due to have been replaced by something else last week. But Art’s art was still there! So I [...]
..to report today. The evening gig at Arena from the Hive electronic music guys was good last night. I’ll be back there on Wednesday night to see my favourite ‘Fiction‘ poets.I went to the Bluecoat this afternoon but the Sachiko [...]
1 Stop Wrestling News Free GPW Exhibition This Saturday Looks like the wrestling world is descending on Jump Ship Rat this afternoon.
11 paragraphsBased at the Static gallery is the official press corps of the Biennial and this is “A brief exploration of the Liverpool Biennial Press Release”
18th September, 2004 – 20th September, 2004 3pm – 6pm I am in a wedding dress, distributing handbills to find husbands and wives. I sing Love Me Tender for each candidate. If they want to marry me, we complete a [...]
3345 Abstract Amigos – Derek Culley1 – 19 September 2010 Exhibition of Prints by Mersyside based Irish artist, Derek Culley. One of a series of four exhibitions of prints by abstract artists. Other exhibitions featuring John Hoyland RA (CCA Galleries [...]
3345 Abstract Amigos – John Hoyland 22 September – 17 October 2010 Exhibition of Prints by John Hoyland RA. Major British Abstract Master / Painter. One of a series of four exhibitions of prints by abstract artists. Other exhibitions featuring [...]
3345 Abstract Amigos – Terry Sullivan. 20 October – 5 December 2010 (Extended)VIEWING – Tuesday 16 November 18-20.00 Exhibition to be opened by Mr Michael Sandys Head of Commercial KIRWANS Solicitors.Exhibition of Prints by abstract artist Terry Sullivan. One of [...]
52 Roscoe Street Ah, OK, so when is it open exactly? (It wasn’t open at 16.00 today) Christopher Miller at Everyman Bistro So I went to the Everyman, the ever-popular downstairs bar/bistro at the theatre in Hope St. There’s always [...]
69A Intandane – Dolls in the Dream House18 September – 30 November 2010Paintings by Jeanne-Marie. Surreal paintings of women and other creatures. Part of the Independents Liverpool Biennial strand. Venue details:69A Intandane75 Renshaw Street, Liverpool L1 2SJPhone: 0151 708 8873Email: [...]
A couple of non-Biennial things I’ve seen recently. On Sunday I went to the Beatrix Potter exhibition at Liverpool Museum. It wasn’t easy to get in because they were setting up the stages for the big Christmas light switch on [...]
A few things finish this Saturday, including ‘Graduates 04′ at Arena and the Independents stuff in the Novas building. TransVoyeur are showing the culmination of filmed performances and interviews for the rest of this week, detailsI’ve been sat at home [...]
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 [...]
Adrian McEwen (McFilter) has written a good review of his visit to the Biennial
Ah yes, wonderful Blackburne House, fond memories of teenage schoolgirls. My first girlfriend, Carolyn, was one of them. I was a pupil at the Institute boys school (now LIPA) across the road. We used to see each other on the [...]
Mindscape by Tony Bishop24 November – 24 December 2010 (Call 0151-529 8480 for appointment) Private View – Wednesday 24 November 17-19.00 RSVP: chantelle.townley@aintree.nhs.uk This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 0151-529-8480Tony Bishop‘s [...]
Amazing!There’s one bit of the Biennial I visit almost every day and yet I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it!I call in to the Centre in Wood St. to see if there’s anything new on the notice board or leaflets [...]
An American Stuckist’s Perspective on the Liverpool BiennialHe seems to think St Luke’s is the Catholic Cathedral. A common mistake.
Another epic art trek today. Beans on Toast with black coffee for late breakfast at Tabac. Nothing arty about that (unless you count the huge fish tank), just wanted to recommend it. Then down to 32 Seel St. but they [...]
Another show which isn’t part of the Liverpool Biennial but I have to mention it and I know I say this almost every day but ‘this exhibition is fun’, unfortunately it finishes on Thursday evening. There are four interactive works [...]
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 [...]
Anyone out there spotted any more of Daisy Delaney’s windmills? Daisy Delaney Windmill blog post There must still be a few surviving. If you see one send me some pics and I’ll post them here.
Arena – Graduates 04 Oct 16th to 30th. Private viewing tomorrow 15th 7-9pm. Six new graduates in need of appreciation and support. Wonder if I can buy one, lock them in a garret somewhere and force to them to turn [...]
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, [...]
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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 [...]
