So, noticing a spelling mistake on my main Art In Liverpool page (why didn’t anyone tell me I had ‘Strats’ instead of ‘Starts’?) , I ran the spellchecker in Dreamweaver.
Its top suggestion for artinliverpool was martini and for blog it suggested bog. So artinliverpool blog becomes martini bog. Also, Top suggestion for Homotopia was Homophobia. A Homophobia Festival? I hope not.
Monthly Archive for October, 2005
TRACEY EMIN AND SIR PETER BLAKE TO HEAD UP JURY FOR BRITAIN’S BIGGEST PAINTING COMPETITION
Call for entries to John Moores 24 exhibition of contemporary painting at the Walker Art Gallery
From 1 November 2005, artists can register for Britain’s biggest contemporary painting competition – the John Moores 24 exhibition of contemporary painting (16 September to 26 November 2006) With a jury featuring two of the biggest names in British art, next year’s exhibition looks set to be the most exciting show ever.
The often quirky and always unpredictable exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery – an integral part of Liverpool Biennial 2006 – is an open submission competition available to all UK-based artists working with paint.
Judges for the competition include conceptual artist Tracey Emin, artist Sir Peter Blake, former John Moores prizewinner Jason Brooks and curator of fine art at the Walker Art Gallery, Ann Bukantas. The fifth judge has yet to be announced
Sir Peter Blake was one of the leading figures in the development of British Pop art, incorporating imagery from modern culture into his work, including comic books, consumer goods and advertisements. Perhaps his most recognised work is the cover for The Beatles’s album, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. He remains one of the most significant and influential painters in the UK.
Tracey Emin rose to fame with works such as My Bed (1998/99) and Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 (1994) that explore episodes in her life. Emin was last in Liverpool to unveil Roman Standard (2005) her first ever public sculpture in the grounds of the Anglican Cathedral in February 2005.
Jason Brooks was a prizewinner in John Moores 20 (1997) and was also included in John Moores 21 (1999), the same year in which he won the NatWest Art Prize. In 2004 he was selected to show in John Moores 23 where his painting ‘Cortina’ was purchased by the Walker for its collection.
In addition to an outright first prize of £25,000 there will be four prizes of £2,500 each. Initial judging will be by slides – one painting per artist with up to two slides of that painting. This will lead to a short-list of up to 500 works which will then be called in for judging and from which the final selection will be made. The £1000 ‘visitors’ choice’ prize, which proved very popular and provoked great debate during the 2004 exhibition, makes a welcome return.
Julian Treuherz, keeper of art galleries, says: ‘Despite predictions that painting is no longer the medium of choice for today’s cutting edge artists, the John Moores prize exhibition, generously supported by the Moores family, continues to demonstrate that painting is still one of the liveliest and most creative options open to today’s artists.’
The deadline for artists to register is 17 February 2006 – registration forms can be obtained through www.thewalker.org.uk/johnmoores24 or from the Walker Art Gallery. Slides must be sent in by 1 March 2006. Winners will be announced at the opening of the exhibition which runs from 16 September to 26 November 2006.
Entries have to be original new or recent paintings within a set size, designed to hang on walls, by someone who lives, or is based, in the United Kingdom. Full conditions are in the entry pack. Littlewoods founder Sir John Moores, a keen painter, started the exhibition in 1957.
Diwali (Festival of Light) celebrations start tomorrow (November 1st) and the World Museum Liverpool will be hosting some free events.
Here’s the customary picture of children getting in some practice and the info from the NML press office.
DIWALI CELEBRATIONS
Festival of Light at World Museum Liverpool
National Museums Liverpool is marking this year’s Hindu festival Diwali with fantastic free events for all the family in November.
Local children from schools across Merseyside are wowing crowds at World Museum Liverpool’s Treasure House Theatre on Saturday 12 November 2005 with special dance shows at 1330 and 1415 hours. The performances promise to be a fitting celebration for this year’s Festival of Light, combining different styles of movement, music and dress from various regions of India.
The dancers have been honing their moves in a programme of music and dance workshops, which are part of a Liverpool Culture Company project called Introducing India. The project aims to teach children about all aspects of Indian culture including the country’s religion, values and traditions.
Purvi Parikh, the workshop facilitator, says: “Dance is such an important part of Indian culture and it this a great way to make it accessible to everyone. The children have been working very hard to make this show a real celebration of Diwali.
Diwali (Festival of Light) celebrations start tomorrow (November 1st) and the World Museum Liverpool will be hosting some free events.
Here’s the customary picture of children getting in some practice and the info from the NML press office.
DIWALI CELEBRATIONS
Festival of Light at World Museum Liverpool
National Museums Liverpool is marking this year’s Hindu festival Diwali with fantastic free events for all the family in November.
Local children from schools across Merseyside are wowing crowds at World Museum Liverpool’s Treasure House Theatre on Saturday 12 November 2005 with special dance shows at 1330 and 1415 hours. The performances promise to be a fitting celebration for this year’s Festival of Light, combining different styles of movement, music and dress from various regions of India.
The dancers have been honing their moves in a programme of music and dance workshops, which are part of a Liverpool Culture Company project called Introducing India. The project aims to teach children about all aspects of Indian culture including the country’s religion, values and traditions.
Purvi Parikh, the workshop facilitator, says: “Dance is such an important part of Indian culture and it this a great way to make it accessible to everyone. The children have been working very hard to make this show a real celebration of Diwali.
Nice piece in the todays Daily Post by Dave Charters about James W Carling.
Carling was a Liverpool artist who was born in Addison Street in 1857 and who died in 1887, buried in a pauper’s grave in Walton Park Cemetery. He spent some time in America where he produced some very good illustrations for Edgar Allen Poe’s poem ‘The Raven’ which will feature in the exhibition with accompanying literature at Editions Gallery. The small exhibition opens tomorrow, November 1st until the 7th.
The Observatory at 1 Old Haymarket is the home of Liverpool Vision, the Urban Regeneration Company. Obviously public and community art is a vital part of regeneration so Peter Rix their Community/Education Officer is busy with various projects the latest of which is now on show to the public.
Merseyside Play Action Council (MPAC) have organised the ‘Storylines’ project, supported by the Liverpool Culture Company. More than 120 children from five different youth and sports centres, aged from 5-15 years old, took part in the colourful drawings, with everything from buildings to nature and what they think culture in Liverpool is.
I called in on Friday when a few of the children were there along with MPAC organiser Eileen Wong who said
“The purpose of the project was to produce a visual image of how the children saw as “their” city, “their” cultural background and more specifically what makes Liverpool a special place for them. The children’s idea of what the project was proved very different to the artist’s and the young people used colour very early on, creating detailed drawings and lots of experimentation took place.”
I admit I didn’t know much about MPAC before but it looks like a really useful resource for artists and anyone working with children and young people. Take a look at their website www.merseyplay.com
So here are the stands displaying the 120 delightful pictures on sheets of perspex. I’m afraid I don’t know how long they’ll be there for, probably a few weeks. The five youth centres who took part were Norris Green Yth Centre, Speke Adventure Playground, The Greenhouse Project and Rice Lane City Farm and the Vernon Sangster sports centre.
Also in the Observatory you can see the ‘Your City Centre’ exhibition and the scale models of the plans for the Lime St Gateway development, the Kings Dock waterfront and Central Village (back of central station) developments. All very interesting. more info on their website www.liverpoolvision.co.uk
I went to Manchester today to catch the final day of the Manchester Art Show at the MICC GMEX. Nice to see such a lot of good quality work on display and most of the participating galleries and artists seemed pleased with the response from the public either through sales, commissions or positive feedback.
Spotted a few Liverpool artists there, Nick Sykes and Tim Ellis who are based at 50 Parr Street had their own stand and seemed to be doing good business.
Of course, its a commercial thing, the exhibitors pay between £600 and £3000+ for a stand, it costs £5 to get in and £4 for a catalog and the cafe does good trade. So some the the art is a bit High Street, ‘chocolate box’ or just plain boring. There was a very small Lowry on sale for £25,000. But I found a lot of the work interesting, enjoyable and certainly technically very accomplished.
Sculptures were relegated to the lobby area where there was more space for them and included pieces like this technological version of Rodin’s The Kiss made entirely out of coloured cables. (I neglected to take the name of the artist)
We should have a Liverpool Art Show (or even an Art In Liverpool show). Anybody want to organise it?
Contact Rebecca if you can help
Hello, my name is Rebecca Taylor and I am currently in my 3rd year at Northumbria University, Newcastle studying Fine Art. I am originally from Liverpool, Old Swan.
In order to raise money for our degree show, we hold a fine art auction and ask people to donate art pieces for us to sell. We ask our fellow art students and also try to contact established artists in the hope that they too will help us.
I understand that you cannot disclose artists contact details, but I ask that maybe you could pass on this message to your current exhibiting artist, or past artists.
On behalf of the auction committee we kindly ask that perhaps artists could donate a piece of work or even a signed post card.
Thank you for your time
If you wish to contact me, 07795030335, or email. funkyplum666@hotmail.com
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