From National Museums Liverpool…
World Museum Liverpool reaches another landmark
World Museum Liverpool broke all records for visitors during the February half-term holiday last week.
In the seven-day period from Monday 20 February to Sunday 26 February 2006 there was a stunning total of 36,000 visitors – more than three times the average weekly figure.
And nearly 33,000 (77 per cent) of the visitors went to the new eye for Colour exhibition at the museum in the same period.
The previous record numbers of visitors were 24,000 each in the weeks of the May Day bank holiday and October half term holiday after World Museum Liverpool opened.
World Museum Liverpool (formerly Liverpool Museum) opened in April 2005 after a £35 million renovation scheme which doubled its size and brought thousands of objects out of store to fill new galleries.
eye for Colour looks at the amazing world of colour. Visitors enjoy astonishing experiences linked to ever-changing domains of colour where light and shade combine to create startling forms. There are also many hands-on activities. The exhibition runs until 27 August 2006.
Monthly Archive for February, 2006
This might look like a bit of a crime scene at the moment as well but its just that I was at the Walker this morning before they had even finished hanging the pictures on the wall.
‘Partners in Crime’ is just the two paintings hanging side by side – Cézanne’s The Murder and Sickert’s Jack the Ripper’s Bedroom. The common theme for these two rather sinister paintings is murder.
Cezanne is often referred to as the father of modern art and is credited with influencing such artists as Picasso and Matisse. The Murder was painted in 1867 and is an early, dark example of Paul Cezanne’s work. A novel by Zola, in which the heroine murders her husband, may have inspired the choice of subject. In the painting, the murderer is lifting his hand ready to give the final blow, while his accomplice uses all his strength to hold the victim down.
Walter Sickert’s interpretation of Jack the Rippers Bedroom (1906) is a shadowy, macabre piece, with a bed just distinguishable beneath the filtered half-light coming through the blinded window. The colours used are muted and the onlooker is left with more questions than answers. Some believe that Sickert was Jack the Ripper.
The Cezanne is from the Walker’s collection and the Sickert from Manchester Art Gallery as this is one of a series of collaborations between the two galleries under the title of Partners in Art.
They are in the Impressionists room until May 31st 2006
Operations Events Technician
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Based in Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008, FACT is dedicated to the support, development and presentation of artists’ work in film, video and new media.
FACT is now looking for an Operations Events Technician to work within the Operations Team to be responsible for the technical support of all events and hires within the FACT Centre (other than Exhibition Programme events).
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Interviews to be held week beginning 13 MARCH 2006.
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I’m really interested in this project and will be following closely and posting any news on this blog. NOISE (www.noisefestival.com) is a national online showcase of creative talent for people aged 25 and under. Although its national, it was set up in the North West mainly by Arts Council NW and NWDA.
It was launched last Thursday at Tate Liverpool where as well as speeches from people such as Culture Minister James Purnell and Mark Eley (of Eley Kishimoto – one of the UK’s top fashion designers) we watched Killa Kel (the Human beatbox) and Angel (X Factor finalist) perform an excellent short set.
The Curators also include Peter Saville, Wayne Hemingway, Anthony Wilson, Daniel Brown and the prominent artist Stella Vine who I was pleased to chat to at the launch. She’s really excited about the whole thing and looking forward to looking at every one of the artists submissions.
From the website…..
WHAT IS NOISE?
Are you 25 and under and want to get into the creative industries? Would you like to see your work on television, radio, online and in print? Plus an opportunity to have your work reviewed by some of the UK’s most renowned creatives and potential international collaborators.
NOISE is an arts and media festival for all young people (age 25 and under). From now until 31st May 2006 you can submit your work for the Noise media showcase in October 2006.
1. Register. We need some basic information on our artists <-- YOU!
2. Submit. This is where - and how - you POST YOUR ART to us. The team and top creative jury will select the best work and showcase it across the media in October 2006.
3. Modify. Why don’t you make something HAPPEN on our website now? Go to our flashsite and use the tool bar, you can submit your version of our start page and if we like it we’ll go live with it.
4. Blog. . If you have a blog already let us know about it. If not go to our Blog page and make your own MSN Space now. www.noisefestival.com/blog
Some very nice paintings at Editions Gallery in Cook St. by Val and Doug Robinson until March 9th 2006.
Both have quite distinctive styles using lots of earth colours, Val’s work is mostly figurative compositions in oils. She has painted professionally since graduating from Liverpool Art School.
Doug is a retired architect and paints imagined landscapes inspired by prehistoric features.
These are recent works and are very popular, I noticed quite a few being bought on the opening night.
Multi Media Designers required:
Collective Encounters is a north Liverpool based theatre company, dedicated to using theatre as a tool for social change. Growing out of last years Living Place Project, in 2006 Collective Encounters will be delivering
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connected a project exploring disengagement, disenfranchisement and democracy. The programme will have two stands: a participative training project and a professional site-specific production.
We are looking to work with multi media designers across both strands of this project. If you have proven skills in multi media design, integrating multi media and live performance are interested in theatre in found spaces and in making politically informed work please send a CV and/or example of your work to -
Sarah Thornton, Artistic Director, Collective Encounters
84 Allington Street, Liverpool L17 7AF
Or for more information e mail:sarah@collective-encounters.org.uk
This actually opened on February 18th, in time for the half-term holiday but I didn’t have time to write about it.
I have already been round 3 times and really enjoyed it.
Its aimed at the 7-12 age group which seems to about the right level for me!
Its at the World Museum until August 26th, you might have to queue for a while to get a go on the popular Art Machine which (virtually) shoots colors onto a spinning screen, you then save the image and email it to yourself (or someone else). When you receive the image you can then use the makemymegastore site to print it onto various items such cards, T shirts etc.
Favourite Colour
Also online you can choose your favourite colour and have it projected in the exhibition and on the website
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/exhibitions/colour/selectfavourite.aspx
Eye For Colour
The rainbow revealed at World Museum Liverpool
The amazing world of colour, from dark sombre hues to dazzling psychedelic spectrums, is spotlighted in Eye for Colour at the World Museum Liverpool from 18 February to 27 August 2006.
Visitors enjoy astonishing experiences linked to ever-changing domains of colour where light and shade combine to create startling forms. This is where science meets art in more ways than one. This is a rainbow universe where the senses are stimulated to incredible degrees, where colour takes on an ever-increasing importance.
Eye for Colour explains and explores what colour is all about – its origins, how the natural world exploits its benefits, how artists use colour and its cultural significance in the world around us.
Hands-on experiences and interactives involve visitors and invite them to explore, play and be creative with colour. A giant swivelling human eyeball dominates its surroundings with a camera in the retina. Visitors can see how the eye works and make the model move about.
etc. See the NML website
Straying well off-topic this morning, I though this was interesting at the end of half-term week when there seems to be very few people at their office desks. Hopefully I’ll get a flood of responses on Monday to the emails I’ve sent this week to people stuck at home looking after their schoolkids.
From the WorkSmart website
Over five million people at work in the UK regularly do unpaid overtime, giving their employers £23 billion of free work every year. If you’re one, why not take some time to reflect on how well (or badly) you’re balancing your life?
24th February 2006 is the day when the average person who does unpaid overtime finishes the unpaid days they do every year, and starts earning for themselves. We think that’s a day worth celebrating.
Take a proper lunchbreak, not just a sandwich at your desk, and leave on time, to enjoy your own time on Friday evening. You deserve it! This is one day in the year for your boss to appreciate your efforts, and for you to appreciate yourself. Here’s how to do it:….
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