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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 [...]
As promised, I made a second attempt at watching Francesco Jodice’s film about UFO sightings in the Mersey Valley at Open Eye. I came in near the end, there’s an old geezer ‘singing’ and playing the spoons (rather well) in [...]
At the County Sessions House until 19th. This is by the Yellow House youth arts project run by George & Gosia McKane and to be honest I was dreading it, if you set out to make an awful film you [...]
At the gallery above St Petersburg Russian restaurant in York St. I was here a couple of weeks ago for the exhibition by the Georgian artist Mikhail Makharadze now I’m back for this solo show ‘Rhythms’ by Nicole Bartos, originally [...]
Via Liverpool Biennial… Austrian Artist Karl-Heinz Klopf ‘s YOU’RE HAVING A LAUGH: a great night out comes to symbolise artist’s picture of Liverpool For the past five months Austrian artist Karl-Heinz Klopf has been working in residence in North Liverpool, [...]
BBC – collective – liverpool biennial 04The BBC Collective, which is well worth subscribing to by the way, features the Biennial this week and I’m right chuffed because it includes a link to this blog!
BBC Newsnight Review 24 September Just been broadcast, on the whole, a favourable review. They thought it was patchy but I suppose a festival of this size and scope with a fair degree of independence is bound to be patchy. [...]
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 [...]
Portrait – DNA – Archive Exhibition Opening 13th May 2009 Portrait – DNA – Archive by David Bade and residents of Seaforth Seaforth Station, 13th May 2009, 6:00pm Followed by refreshments at the Former Seaforth Post Office. This event is [...]
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 [...]
Yikes! I’d better get started on my project, things are starting to move! From Mike Noon (Arts Council NW)…. Colleagues As he is still working on setting up channels of communication I have agreed to distribute the following message from [...]
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 [...]
Liverpool Biennial – International Festival of Contemporary Art – What We Do – News – Tuesday 19 January: TOUCHED Talks – Daniel Bozkhov. Tuesday 19 January 2010 Upstairs at the Bluecoat 7pm The theme of the 2010 Liverpool Biennial International [...]
A Sense of Place1 November – 17 December 2010Private View: Thursday 4 November 2010, 18.30 – 20.30 Exhibition by seven female artists from Soup Collective – May Chong, Ruth Edwards, Tifany Kendall, Jackie Kerr, Emma Sumner, Louise Waller, Wendy Williams. [...]
Encounters And Memories1 – 31 October 2010Documentation of a Live Art Installation and Encounter Series including Film, Photography, Ceramics and Etching. Artists: Emma and Guy Thackham, Sven Eselgroth, Sarah Beetson, Nick Gillespie, Daniel Baldwin, Jennifer Cadwallader, Claire Wilson. Encounters & [...]
Journey of the Bride2 – 30 September 2010Solo exhibition of black and white drawings by Alice Lenkiewicz. A postmodern fairytale about a woman’s magical journey. A Bride runs away on her wedding day, hitchhikes through America, meets a fairy prince [...]
Blackburne House, Main Hall until Nov 29th.Often as I go round galleries, especially the Tate & Walker there are groups of students, often sitting on the floor, drawing sketches of the art, the gallery or the local scenes. I always [...]
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 [...]
The Caravan Gallery: Is Britain Great? 16 – 20 September 2010 Private View: FRIDAY 17 September 2010, 18.00 – 21.00 A photographic exhibition in a caravan showing the reality and surreality of contemporary Britain with a focus on Liverpool. The [...]
A Sparkling Party 2 October – 13 November 2010 A touring exhibition of selected works in silver by Kevin O’Dwyer The Bluecoat Display Centre are delighted to be hosting Kevin’s first solo exhibition in over 10 years. A Sparkling Party [...]
Wendy Ramshaw – Drawings in Gold. Exhibition 20 September – 8 November 2008Viewing Friday 19Sept 17.30 – 19.30 A new collection of work by Wendy Ramshaw, one of Britain’s leading jewellery and metal designers.The exhibition ‘Drawings in Gold’ has been [...]
National Sculpture Prize Exhibition14 August – 25 September 2010 The National Sculpture Prize 2010 is the second instalment of the Art Prize created by the Bluecoat Display Centre, to hunt out innovative new artists and makers in the field of [...]
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 [...]
Hinterland13 September 2010 – until further noticePhotography exhibition by Alexandra Wolkowicz and Marijke Brinkhof. Hinterland is a collaboration between art director and set designer Marijke Brinkhof (Rotterdam) and photographer Alexandra Wolkowicz (Liverpool). It emerged when we experimented with creating an [...]
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 [...]
There in Time. Exhibition: 13 to 28 November 2008Viewing Saturday 8 Nov 18-21.00 Exhibition drawing together three artists whose work will explore the complex relationships between humans and the environments which they inhabit. Artists: Tamarin Norwood, Mark Simpson, Emily Speed [...]
And Then He Was a She. Exhibition 20 September – 30 November 2008Viewing Friday 19 Sept 18-20.00Portraits of Andy Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn by Sadie Lee This series of paintings by Sadie Lee is the realisation of a long [...]
Emma Tooth – Concilium Plebis. Exhibition 20 September – 15 November 2008Viewing Friday 19 Sept 18-20.00Concilium Plebis is a new series of oil paintings by UK portrait painter Emma Tooth supported by The Arts Council England. Being shown alongside the [...]
Fellow Travellers. Exhibition 20 September – 30 November 2008Viewing Friday 19 Sept 18-20.00A continuously evolving group exhibition of works by lesbian and gay artists. Artists: Sadie Lee, Matthew Stradling, Laurie Lipton, Nick Hunt, Asa Johannesson, David Hoyle, Sarah Plescia, [...]
Five Nordic Women Artists. Exhibition 20 September – 30 November 2008Viewing Friday 19 Sept 18-20.00Five contemporary women artists present new work commissioned by NICE08 Festival As part of NICE08 (Nordic International Cultural Events) women artists from Iceland, Norway, Denmark [...]
Liverpool International Artists. Exhibition 20 September – 15 November 2008Viewing Friday 19 Sept 18-20.00A British Art and Design Association project inspired and curated by the Liverpool born artist Terry Duffy. The exhibition comprises an eclectic mix of painting, photography, sculpture, [...]
Rush Hour by Mark Willcox. Exhibition 27 November 2008 – 11 January 2009In probably the last show in the Biennial programme, Mark Willcox is showing, in a solo exhibition ‘Rush Hour’, a body of semi-abstract work that recreates his experiences [...]
