Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-35. ‘Portrait of Peter Cameron’ gouache on board by Kim Harley at The Gallery Liverpool 28 August – 10 September 2010
The current exhibition at The Gallery features works by the artists based in the nearby Elevator artist studios in the Elevator building. It’s a really good show with a few artists whose work I haven’t seen much of before because although they are based here they may exhibit elsewhere or may do a lot of commissioned work which the public never see.
Kim is one such artist, she is a long established commercial painter and illustrator and also teaches art and design but I don’t recall seeing her work before. She has a couple of portraits in the show including this one of fellow studio member Peter Cameron.
There is of course a lot of other excellent art in the exhibition – well worth a visit.
The Elevator Artists collective
at The Gallery Liverpool, Stanhope St
28 August – 10 September 2010
Art Exhibition by the Elevator Artists collective. Richard Ashworth, Vincent Lavell, Steve Best, Chekhuo Leung, Jacqueline McKenzie, Freida McKitrick, Peter Cameron, Bill Embery, Charlie Frais, Kim Harley, Ken Bullock, Frank Moore, Steve Strode, Lindsey Moran, Emma Newman, Emma Sumner, Marianna Whitehorn, Daniel John, Dave Garnett
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-34. ‘The Temple of a Thousand Bells’ by Laura Belém in the Oratory 19 August – 28 November 2010.
I have already written about this lovely installation here.
Brazillian artist Laura Belém’s beautiful new installation at National Museums Liverpool’s Oratory in St. James Cemetery is composed of a thousand glass bells and a polyphonic sound track creating a 3-D effect. It is a new commission and trailblazer for Touched, Liverpool Biennial’s International 10 exhibition.
Sound moves between loudspeakers in the Grade I listed building, unveiling an ancient legend about a temple of a thousand bells that was built on an island. Over the centuries, the island sank into the ocean, and with it, the temple. As the story unfolds, it reveals the attempts of a sailor to hear the music of those bells. The narrative is interspersed by specially composed music and sound effects.
The one thousand bells of blown glass will hang from the roof of the Oratory, to complement the fine classical architecture of the space. The bells are without clappers – the only sound will come from the recorded audio: a visual metaphor to match the narrated legend of the lost music of the bells in the depths of the ocean. The mass of clear, translucent glass bells will evoke water, notions of spirituality, fragility and evanescence. They may also suggest lyricism, dreams and imagination.
The thousand glass bells have been made at one of the UK’s few surviving traditional glass blowing workshops, the Glass Blobbery in Corwen, North Wales.
Artist Laura Belém said, “My intention is to show a work that can touch the viewer’s ‘inner self’ – heart and soul – something we share universally and that transcends geographic and cultural boundaries. I am also interested in altering or creating other levels of perception of a public space for people in Liverpool.”
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-33. ‘Woman Walking Her Dog in the River Near Sedona’ painting by James Buso in Urban Outfitters, 7 August to 1 October 2010.
Always liked Jim Buso’s paintings but we don’t get to see them very often despite him being in the Royal Standard studios. This is an unusual location but they do show some good artwork on the staircase in Liverpool ONE’s Urban Outfitters and this small exhibition titled Every Mark Meant Something I Forgot looks great.
c. Peter Goodbody
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-32. New Year’s Eve 2009 photograph by Peter Goodbody in Fab Collective’s ‘Having a Do’ at St Lukes Church 31 July – 31 August 2010
Lovely picture, ticks all the boxes, cute, atmospheric, timeless. A lasting reminder of a happy event or ‘do’. Peter Goodbody (aka p3dro) is one of around 25 photographers in the Fab Collective currently exhibiting at the bombed out church, you can see more of his work on the fab website or his own of course – www.p3dro.co.uk
‘Having a do’ – The Fab Collective
31 July – 31 August 2010
This summer the Fab Collective are returning to St Luke’s Church with a new photography exhibition ‘Having a do’. This exhibition looks at how people celebrate life through the events that they go to.
Fab photographer Mark Maloney explains the theme:
“This exhibition looks at how people celebrate life through the events that they go to. Throughout the year we get invited to all sorts of different events including birthday parties, retirement dos, funerals, christenings, weddings, new year, religious and cultural festivals etc.
At each one the setting, the mood and the colours change and people dress differently according to each occasion. Each event generates different emotions and feelings. We thought it would be interesting – and fun – to capture these in our photos.”
Exhibiiton open: Thursday – Sunday
Venue details:
St Luke’s (Bombed-Out) Church
Address: Leece Street, Liverpool, L1 2RT
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-31. ‘Agnes Jones: Past and Future’ by Alice Lenkiewicz in Noble Women at Liverpool Cathedral 2-27 August 2010.
The Lady Chapel was the first part of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral to be consecrated for worship and is 100 years old this year. Although probably bigger than most churches it can easily be missed by visitors as it is hidden away in a corner of the vast Cathedral. It’s a fascinating place with portrait windows of Noble Women on the West wall of the Chapel. Restored after the Second World War they show women from different areas of life, including some local heroes like Kitty Wilkinson – helper of the poor – and Agnes Jones – a devoted nurse – as well as nationally known figures such as Grace Darling, Elizabeth Fry and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
These were all incredible, brave, pioneering, radical women whose stories need to be told so it is great that artist Alice Lenkiewicz who lives within walking distance of the Cathedral has chosen to paint 6 Noble Women and the works will be in the Chapel throughout August. The paintings are quite narrative but do not dwell too much on the darker side of the life these women had to tolerate rather showing their brightness, heroism and beauty.
“I decided to create a painting of Agnes Jones 1865 aged 33.
In this painting I wanted to show the contrast of past and future in the life of Agnes Jones.
The story of her life surprised me and I found myself creating a symbolic painting inspired by South American folklore painting.“ Alice Lenkiewicz from her Noble Women Blog
Noble Women Exhibition
in the Lady Chapel at Liverpool Cathedral
2 – 27th August 2010
Paintings by Alice Lenkiewicz. A solo exhibiton of oil paintings depicting six pioneer women from the Noble Windows of the Lady Chapel: Grace Darling, Kitty Wilkinson, Agnes Jones, Elizabeth Fry, Josephine Butler and Christina Rossetti.
Liverpool artwork of the week, 2010-30. ”Egg Force 5′ by Allofusarelost at Eggspace 23 July – 15 August 2010
Congratulations to the good people of Headspace who organise and curate the exhibition at the Egg Cafe. They’ve been doing this for 5 years now and the current exhibition celebrates the fact featuring work by artists who have exhibited during the last 5 years.
HeadSpace’s 5th Birthday Exhibition
at Egg
23 July – 15 August 2010
© Royal Geographical Society
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-29. ‘Return of the Sun’ photograph by Frank Hurley in Endurance: Shackleton’s Antarctic adventure at Merseyside Maritime Museum 16 July 2010 – 3 January 2011.
So many great photographs to choose from this exhibition of around 150 pictures of the dramatic adventure.
The epic story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Endurance expedition is an incredible real life tale of survival
The exhibition features about 150 compelling photographs of the expedition’s ordeal taken by ship photographer Frank Hurley, who dove into frigid waters to retrieve his glass plate negatives from the sinking Endurance. The photographs, printed from the original negatives and Hurley’s album of prints, are accompanied by gripping memoirs from the voyage.
Endurance: Shackleton’s Antarctic adventure
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-28. ‘Wheel’ video 2007 by Jon Fawcett at A Foundation 2 July – 14 August 2010
I like the images in this video which was shot in Ecuador but also the sense of mystery. What are these guys doing? Is it the secret service up to something, a scientific experiment, some cultish behaviour or maybe just a strange picnic. And even though all these objects are here in the gallery we still can’t figure out what they do.
(Text from A Foundation..) Fawcett’s use of extensive research into tropes of conspiracy and media cults have allowed him to bring into focus the fuzzy logic of new age mysticism that is proliferating in the era of networked consciousness. His sculptures, video and performances exude a menacing technical precision and seduce with a spectrum of alluring colours but these are aesthetic camouflage to cloak ideas that question the nature of the mediated reality or as the artist says, ‘a fabric of contemporary mythologies.’
In this delicate weave in which ephemeral ideas become locked into the history of material technologies from surveillance drones to kevlar weave, the artist uses strategies that simulate those which have become common in the uncanny world in which we live, paralleling activities such as business, politics and war, and operating on a dispersed, global scale.
Visit www.jonfawcett.com for further information.
Jon Fawcett: Hearts and Minds
at A Foundation
2 July – 14 August 2010
The works of artist Jon Fawcett exhibited in the Blade Galleries are a series that test the interfaces between the boundaries of artistic production, dissemination and reception.
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