Free Chinese Calligraphy Workshops
Wednesday 24 February & Wednesday 24 March 2010 2.30 – 3.30pm.
Booking advisable via the University of Liverpool Victoria Gallery Museum, but places may be available on the day.
Meet in the foyer.
Local calligrapher Cathy Wu will lead this practical calligraphy session which will introduce participants to this ancient art. There will also be a chance to visit our ‘Strokes of the Brush’ exhibition, showcasing contemporary Chinese calligraphy.
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TALK: As Long As It Takes – Sculptor Stephen Hitchin
WEDNESDAY 11 November 2009, 13.00 at VG&M
Stephen Hitchin will be talking about his work and his current sculpture exhibition (see the details)
tel: 0151 794 2348 www.liv.ac.uk/vgm
Lots of events coming up at the University of Liverpool’s great gallery in Brownlow Hill. Including Pete Clarke’s talk tomorrow (Saturday 24 Oct 2009)
FREE Family Saturdays!
Last Saturday of every month (excluding December) Drop-in between 1.00 & 4.00pm. No booking required
Join friends, family and artists for our drop-in creative workshops. Most suitable for children aged 4 – 11 years but everyone is welcome.
Lunchtime Gallery Talk by Pete Clarke
Saturday 24 October 1.00-2.00pm Gallery 6. No booking required
Artist Pete Clarke introduces his new exhibition: ‘Looking Backwards; Facing Forwards’.
School of Music Recital
Wednesday 28 October 1.00pm Leggate Theatre. No booking required
Open Debate: Body Image and the Media
Thursday 29 October 5.00pm Leggate Theatre. No booking required
Chaired by Roger Phillips.
Family Saturdays Halloween Special
Saturday 31 October 1.00-4.00pm No booking required
Come and meet spiders, cockroaches and snakes… if you dare. Then make a head dress to take home with you.
Lunchtime Gallery Talk by Stephen Hitchin
Wednesday 11 November 1.00 – 1.45pm Wednesday 3 February 1.00 – 1.45pm Sculpture Gallery. No booking required
Sculptor Stephen Hitchin introduces his new sculpture show.
School of Music Concert
Wednesday 18 November 1.00pm Leggate Theatre. No booking required
Featuring the University of Liverpool Chamber Choir directed by Curtis Perriman.
Lunchtime Gallery Talk by Pete Clarke
Tuesday 24 November 1.00 – 2.00pm Gallery 6. No booking required
Artist Pete Clarke introduces his new exhibition: ‘Looking Backwards; Facing Forwards’.
Swedish Guitarist Stefan Ostersjo
Wednesday 25 November Leggate Theatre. No booking required
Stefan will be playing both classical and electric guitar.
Family Saturday
Saturday 28 November 1.00 – 4.00pm No booking required
An arts and craft afternoon for children and families.
Christmas Carols
Wednesday 9 December No booking required
University singers provide an afternoon of seasonal cheer with a selection of Christmas favourites.
Pete Clarke. Liverpool Gardens Triptych 1982. Myrtle Gardens, The Closure, Caryl Gardens
University of Liverpool VG&M – Looking Back: Facing Forward – Mistakes and Metaphors
2 October 2009 – 23 January 2010
An exhibition of Paintings, Prints and Drawings by Pete Clarke. The retrospective is a critical overview and selection of significant works by Pete Clarke from the 1980s to recent paintings including works produced for Sheffield City Art Gallery from the collections of the Arts Council and Liverpool University.
And very good it is too. It’s the first time I have seen a proper collection of Clarke’s work and it is so much better than just seeing an individual piece here and there amidst group shows etc.
Although the work is not hung in chronological order you still see the journey from early 80s when he arrived in Liverpool to teach at the Art College through to recent work, becoming more abstract, maybe less overtly political, brighter colours. The influence of poetry and printmaking is always present.
There are sketchbooks and other academic material and a very nice catalogue which includes interviews and more information.
You can also hear my interview with him on our podcast service at defnetmedia which I think is well worth listening to.
Pete Clarke moved to Liverpool in 1978 after studying at Chelsea School of Art, West of England College of Art [Bristol Polytechnic], Burnley Municipal College and living for a time on the Isle of Wight and then London. The changing face of this city has fascinated him and in many ways it represents the social and cultural history that personifies the shifts and developments of ‘modernity’ and concepts of the regional in the international. He is the MA Course Leader and Principal Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. He leads the artists’ initiative ‘Eight Days A Week’, arranging reciprocal exhibitions, projects and events in Liverpool and Cologne. He makes paintings, prints and installations with the artist Georg Gartz from Cologne exploring collaborative strategies within contemporary practice questioning individuality, authorship and authenticity in a European context.
www.unclan.ac.uk/centrecontemporaryart
www.peteclarke.org.uk
Pete Clarke. Losing the Plot. 2006
Roger McGough, Catherine Marcangeli and Brian Patten
The Mersey Sound at VGM
8 May – 12 September 2009
The exhibition charts the development and sources of inspiration of Liverpool poets, Roger McGough, Brian Patten and the late Adrian Henri – writers who were central to the citys literary, music and visual arts scene of the 1960s.
Can’t believe it was early May that we went to the opening of this excellent show in the University’s Victoria Gallery. McGough and Patten (my Poetry heroes) were there along with Catherine Marcangeli the partner of the late Adrian Henri. We went back again last week for another look.
If, like me, you are a fan of the Liverpool Poets then you won’t want to miss this but there was a lot more to the Mersey Sound than poetry. I would say these guys were at the leading edge of multimedia and performance art at the time. There were the poetry readings, music from the Liverpool Scene, Scaffold, Mike Evans etc. and the ‘theatrical hunour group’ The Liverpool One Fat Lady All Electric Show.
The late Adrian Henri in particular seemed to love ‘happenings’ and organised several around Liverpool, starting with ‘City’ in the Hopie (Hope Hall which later became Everyman Theatre) as part of Merseyside Arts Festival. The happenings included poetry, jazz, dance and live painting.
Its great ot see that this era is so well documented in the exhibition, there’s the posters and flyers, badges and handwritten or type-written poems and notes, this is all pre-digital of course. There are several of Henri’s paintings, copies of the poets books, album covers, photographs etc.
Well worth a visit before it ends on 12 September 2009.
The University acquired the poets archive in 2007 following a significant grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and a number of other generous benefactors. The funds have allowed an archivist to catalogue the collections, which will now be showcased to the public at the VG&M for the first time. This exhibition contains photographs, notebooks and manuscripts from the Liverpool Poets archive.
Liverpool artwork of the week 2009-34. ‘Liverpool 8 Four Seasons Painting’ by Adrian Henri in The Mersey Sound at University of Liverpool VGM, 8 May – 12 September 2009
Henri said ‘These paintings are in a sense abstracts but using elements of the landscape – like for example of the yellow lines. I love the quality of yellow lines on the road – the thickness – the gooeyness in the way it was put on.’
The Mersey Sound at Victoria Gallery and Museum
8 May – 12 September 2009
The exhibition, called Mersey Sound, will chart the development and sources of inspiration of Liverpool poets, Roger McGough, Brian Patten and the late Adrian Henri – writers who were central to the citys literary, music and visual arts scene of the 1960s.
Roger, Brian and Adrian became well-known in the 1960s by making poetry immediate and accessible to new audiences through joint anthologies such as The Mersey Sound (1967). Selling more than one million copies, The Mersey Sound became one of the bestselling anthologies of poetry ever published.
Shakespeare lecture at the University of Liverpool Victoria Gallery and Museum
The British Academy Shakespeare Lecture will take place at the University on Monday 1 June 2009
Professor John Kerrigan from the University of Cambridge will lecture on Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows in the Victoria Gallery & Museum at 5.30pm
Professor Kerrigan gave this years annual British Academy Shakespeare Lecture in London on 23 April, the traditionally observed anniversary of Shakespeares birth and death. In addition to the London lecture, the lecturer can also choose to give the lecture in another location and as a local man, Professor Kerrigan has chosen to give this prestigious lecture at the University of Liverpool.
The language-world of early modern England was thick with oaths and vows, ranging from casual profanity in taverns to the solemn undertakings of those marrying or accepting public office. Moralists urged the seriousness of oaths; casuists advised on how to undo them. There were religious, legal and philosophical debates about what it meant to swear and how firmly one should keep a promise.
The literature of the time reflects the prevalence of oaths and vows and the arguments about their status. But Shakespeare was exceptional in the density, depth and subtlety with which he explored these issues. His plays and poems are full of oaths and vows doing structural, psychological and verbally minute, inventive work. This lecture will seek to rectify scholarly neglect of the topic, highlighting Shakespeare’s awareness of the paradoxes of oath-taking and vowing and their potency in performance. The aim is not just to elucidate a key element of his artistry but to understand more ful!
ly his general construction of human experience.
Registration is not required for this event and everyone is welcome.
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