To Swim to Hilbre Island by Gill Curry
I did say in an earlier post that you can rely on local printmakers to put on a good show and here’s more proof. Maybe the only problem I may have is over-familiarity with the art/artists, at least for me.
I haven’t seen Gill Curry’s series of prints relating to the marine life around Hilbre Island before – very nice. I also like Anne Beare’s richly coloured etchings of an old Oak Tree. Also featuring works by Lisa Who, Mike Hatjoullis, Grace Horne and Eileen Summers.
A Sense of Place at Unity Theatre
12 January – 6 February 2010
Heralding in the New Year, an exhibition of etchings, linocuts and screen prints by six artists living locally.
Icelandic Puppets at Unity Theatre | Hope Street, Liverpool.
We were up early for a Saturday morning to take in the 11.00 show at Unity Theatre. It was well worth it.You can read my review on the Hope Street Blog link above.
Up early again tomorrow to see our penguin arrive on Hope Street so no weekend lie-in for us.
Megazilla c. Mark Harrison
Dog Jog c. Mark Harrison
A very nice show giving a good selection of Mark’s work including digital prints and the more recent acrylics which are very well executed. His caricatures are really good I think.
Mark Harrison’s Monster Illustration Show
at Unity Theatre
3 November – 28 November 2009
Since moving to Liverpool from Watford in September 1994 with a HND in illustration Mark Harrison has been working freelance.
In 1997 became a member of Arena Studios on Duke Street and in 2005 became a full time director of the organisation for two years alongside his illustration practice.
www.m-harrison.co.uk
A plug for our friends at Liverpool Community College who are putting on this play.
“We Are Englan” by Filter Theatre Company
Friday 5th to Saturday 6th June 2009, 8:00pm
Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, Liverpool, L1 9BG
Ticket Office: 0151 709 4988
Email: tickets@unitytheatre.co.uk
Tickets: £6 / £5 concessions and £4 for students of Liverpool Community College.
“We Are Englan is a unique play that has been realised through dedicated research. With an exciting fusion of comedy, physical theatre and verbatim a serious issue is addressed without degradation of entertainment value. The production aims to highlight the intense struggle for survival and freedom that takes place out of sight around the world every day and gives credence to the belief that every person has the right to make a better life for themselves. We Are Englan is a play that shows the human spirit at its best and contempt for human life at its worst.”
Jane Hughes – Lines of Perception at Unity Theatre
Tuesday 31 March to Saturday 2 May 2009
This exhibition actually finished more than a week ago but I really want to record it here as it was so good, I hope we and others can see the work again somewhere soon. We only managed to get to see it on the last day. There were a lot of great drawings documenting the old art school buildings and also hand-written observations including some written on toilet paper whilst hiding in the washroom! Very skillful, interesting and lovely drawings.
On-site drawing and writing underpin Jane’s practice. The act of being therewith all its sensual experiences is particularly important. Since graduating in Fine Art from John Moores University, Jane has been involved in two documentary projects within University Art and Design schools.
During 07/08 Jane undertook investigation via drawings and notes in four of the John Moores Art School buildings, forming an archive of life within these facilities [their last year before the opening of the new Academy of Art & Design].
Currently Jane is compiling a similar record at the Cornerstone campus of Liverpool Hope University. The works in this exhibition give a flavour of Jane’s observations through linear drawings, written notes and acrylic paintings.
Liverpool artwork of the week 2009 – 5. ‘Left Adrift’ photograph by Colin Serjent, ‘Abstract Way’ exhibition at Unity Theatre 3 – 28 February 2009
Very pleased that Colin Serjent is having a solo show, his photographs are straightfoward shots of natural objects, there’s no digital manipulation but they look like abstracts – Hence the title. Often its impossible to work out what or where they are taken, that’s part of the fun.
Subjects in his photography include colour relationships, decay and erosion, derelict buildings, woodlands, fragments of man made objects, weather ravaged natural objects and trampled debris. Lots of rich colours and textures.
www.abstractway.co.uk
Unity Theatre
If you go to the panto at Unity theatre please don’t forget to look at the artwork on the walls upstairs. There is an exhibition of Christine Toh’s prints and collages. Christine’s main interest for the past ten years has been print making. She uses Linocut and etching, monoprinting and screenprinting.
Christine says “Each layer is like a piece of memory lost in the past but necessary to build the future. I like the viewer to find something that is personal to them through my work.”
Very nice.
At Unity Theatre until January 14th 2006
This is an exhibition of works by Nicholas Franklin who is an art director for Mersey TV currently working on Hollyoaks. There are a few small canvases of really thick impasto paintings of things like chocolate bars and chewing gum packets which I quite like (the paintings not the products). There are several (too many?) works called Pride which are covered in those aids style ribbons only made from strips of paper cut from magazines which completely cover the different shaped canvases. Also some simple swirly paintings, not very exciting and other stuff (they’ve made use of every bit of wall space upstairs) including photographs of Kylie Minogue and Nadia (who she?). Unity link
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