Been in a state of panic for the last few hours as the website was down. The domain name had expired due to some admin confusion - not my fault honest! First bit of stress I've had for about 3 years. Not nice is it? And all over an art website which is only supposed to be a hobby.
Anyway, all sorted now. I had so much to write about too, I wonder what it was. Did anyone miss me?

Via The Arts Council...

SEEKING THE BARDS OF BIRKENHEAD

Potential poets are sought on the Mersey Ferry, at a stall on Birkenhead Market, from the YMCA, aboard the Age Concern bus, and in local schools and youth clubs. The Poem for Birkenhead was the idea of members of the Lauries Centre in Central Birkenhead who after seeing the Poem for Liverpool written by Roger McGough and sponsored by Fivearts cities, lobbied to have their own. Birkenhead boy Paul Grady (aka Lily Savage) will open the Lauries Centre in October by reading the Poem for Birkenhead.

Fivearts cities agreed to commission this poem and are delighted to be working once again with Workers Education Association (WEA) to deliver this community-based project. Between Monday 5 to Friday 16 September, award winning poet Jim Bennett will invite people to write one liners on “Birkenhead is…” spending two Wednesdays at Birkenhead market on a stall dedicated to verse. He will cross the Mersey on the Ferry asking budding bards to put pen to paper to create the definitive poem about Birkenhead. The poem will be displayed at the Lauries Centre after the grand opening with Paul Grady.

Via larklane.com...

Larks in the Park Revisited 05

Larks in the Park returns to Sefton Park.
Local Acts to perform in the Palm House.

Larks in the Park Revisited comes to Sefton Park on Sunday 25th September. The return of the popular eighties event, funded by the Capital of Culture Creative Communities Programme, Liverpool Community College and a number of local businesses, is bringing together local acts to perform at a community music and art day.

Andrew Macaulay, Creative Director of the event, says

“It was over twenty years ago that Echo and the Bunnymen made their name on the Bandstand. We have brought the event back to Sefton Park to allow the local community to enjoy local acts playing on a local stage.”

“Many of us who went to the early events have grown up and have children now. While bands including Liverpool based ‘The Pearl’ take centre stage, child centred community arts activities will take place around the Palm House.”

“This is a community music and art event that has something for everyone! It’s a chance for us to celebrate the journey of our lives for the last 20 years with our children. And it doesn’t matter if it rains – as we’ll be under cover in our lovely venue, Sefton Park’s Palm House.”

The event runs from 10.30am to 5.00 pm on Sunday 25th September. Admission to the event is free.

Acts playing at the event include:

Stan Ambrose
Frank Carlyle magical history tour
Perfectly Frank
2 Real
Chiba Sprawl
Hallucinations
Sarah Lawton
The Pearl

For further information on the event see www.larksinthepark.info

Via Arts Council...

SUBMIT TO SIDESHOW!

Contemporary artists and artist led groups or initiatives working in any media are invited to submit proposals for projects they would like to curate or deliver as part of the Sideshow program.

Sideshow takes place from 21 April - 25 June 2006 in Nottingham and the surrounding region and submissions can be made for any part of this period.

Sideshow encourages artists to think creatively about the delivery of their work and consider the potential that working in alternative venues offers including the impact of site-specific practice and public and social intervention in addition to venue based projects.

Sideshow will support projects that demonstrate:

· Innovation
· Clear context
· Relevance to the specified or required location
· An exploration of issues relevant to contemporary art
· Quality

There are 2 distinct submission strands, one for individual projects and one for curated projects. For details on how to submit please visit the website; http://www.sideshowonline.org/ or contact info@sideshowonline.org

Please send all submissions to:
Sideshow
34 Windmill Lane
Sneinton
Nottingham
NG2 4QB

DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: 28 October

Local artist and poet Alice Lenkiewicz has a new book, 'Maxine', being published, available later in September. Its a novella, a mix of poems and prose with illustrations...

The novella explores a brief lapse in the life of Maxine, a bored housewife living in the 1950s. Realising that her life is uninteresting and lacking in meaning she strives to astral travel back in time where she encounters the muses and artists from famous ancient masterpieces.

It can be pre-ordered from the publishers Bluechrome or Amazon, Waterstones, W.H Smiths and Blackwells online.

Via Daily Post
Liverpool graffiti artist STOK has been charged with criminal damage after painting walls in Roscoe Street and is due to appear before magistrates next month. STOK's graffiti art is a familiar sight around the city centre, some of his work was commissioned by the Biennial project to brighten up some derelict buildings. He claims he had permission from the owners to paint the mural.

Local artist, Craig Atkinson has just published a book of his drawings. Its a limited edition, only 100 copies.
More details here

I have to admit I'm not greatly impressed by the five portrait busts by Jacob Epstein which are on temporary display in the Walker. I suppose they're meant to be a bit abstract which does make slightly more interesting than the average true-to-life busts. But poor old 'Man of Aran (Tiger King)' for example seems to have a particularly badly fitted permed wig stuck on top of his head. The other efforts are equally uncomplimentary.
Maybe I should go to the talk next Sunday to gain a better understanding.
Link.

'Sacred X' Interactive Icons by Oleg Ikona at View Two Gallery.
These interactive icons on the walls of the top floor at View Two are good fun. They are beautifully crafted using the traditional methods with very detailed paintwork using tempera and in some cases, gold leaf. You can press buttons to make them light up or play music or other sounds. The highlight is the Beatles icon which includes items such as a lock of Lennon's hair, a piece of Ringo's drumstick and an mp3 player with a selection of Beatles and more contemporary music.
There's a full review by Philip Key in the Daily Post

This impressive event has been organised in no time at all, in support of uniting against an increasingly worrying trend of racism in the city.
Come on down for a top day of music, poetry, food and an open mic tent. Give it your support.

Unite Against Racism Festival
SUNDAY 4th SEPT at PRINCES PARK

12.00 till 8.00
747’s
Ladytron
The Mack of All Trades and DJ Rasp (Shakti)
1 Heart Choir
Pop Levi and the Emergencies
The Cuckolds
Strictly Mowtown
KDS
Fade 2
The Pedantics
Jahdeeanko (Liverpool Reggae, uncle of Anthony Walker)
Ghost 2000
Kelly Flannigan
Stuffed Love
The Silhouettes
Snapant
Tramp Attack
Plus:
Fiction Poets
DJ Olabean and Spycatcher
and the Wenton Family present Bernie Wenton (Nat King Cole Winner of Stars in their Eyes)

Plus on the floor entertainment from across the metropolis, good food, kids workshops, stilts, face painting, open mic.

With special guest speaker

President of Merseyside Coalition Against Racism & Fascism says,
The event is entitled “Say no to Racism” and is Merseyside’s response to the increase in racism. This is Merseyside striking back. The event has the support of the community, the Trade Unions, the Councils and, very importantly, the black and ethnic minority population and young people.

Merseyside was proud when Liverpool was awarded the European City of Culture, but the events of the last few months is clearly casting a cloud across that award. This Festival will be the beginning of a zero tolerance campaign against racism, and that is why it’s entitled “Say no to Racism”.

A small organising committee has pulled this Festival together in less than four weeks and the day will also have a few local and national speakers as yet to be agreed. There will also be kids workshops, face painting, stilts, open mic and food.

Fundraising is ongoing and donations can be made payable to MCARF 4 St. Anne Street Birkenhead Wirral CH41 3JU

I found this review by Simon Poe for the New Statesman entertaining and informative. The exhibition at Lady Lever ends on Sept 4th.

"Beside the Seaside" is an utterly charming exhibition. It is a small show, but the curators at the Lady Lever have borrowed well from Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Ipswich, Newcastle, Bristol and the Tate, and made the most of the splendid collection of their fellow National Museums Liverpool art gallery, the Walker. Standing head and shoulders above all the other paintings is Walter Sickert's The Bathers, Dieppe

Its time to reveal my true identity. I've been masquerading as Ian Jackson for so long I sometimes forget who I really am. So I went to the Liverpool Museums Beatles Games webpage and am glad to say that they have confirmed that I am in fact Paul McCartney. You can just call me Sir. I have posted a photo of myself here as proof, you can see I'm still as baby-faced as ever.
Actually there are a lot of striking similarities, he just has a bit more cash than me.
There's other Beatles-related games on the website. Don't worry Beatles week and the Mathew Street Fest. will be over soon and we can return to only mentioning them a mere 10 times a week.

There are also some extra Beatles items on display at the Museum of Liverpool Life from Aug 25th to Dec 31st.

There are some great photographs of Snow and Ice sculptures from the Harbin Ice and Snow World 2005 in China. Can't post one here because they're all copyright R. Todd King. Do take a look.
Link to http://www.rtoddking.com/chinawin2005_hb_if.htm

Here's an entertaining piece by The Echo art critic Joe Riley.
Its starts...

A POMPOUS, London-based pundit claims it's madness that Liverpool is to be European Capital of Culture ... Joe Riley defends our honour

It's a familiar posture: the braying buffoon wrinkling his snooty snout and pouting his lips to exhale a sulphurous whiff of poison - this time in our direction
Phew! steady on Joe. No, on second thoughts. More Joe!
Full Article

The Mathew St Gallery which sells prints of John Lennon's art and photographs of the Beatles closed a few months ago but has just re-opened for one exhibition over the Mathew Street Festival period.
'Salvador Dali meets The Beatles - The Photographs of Robert Whitaker'
is just as it says in the title except they never actually met. Whitaker was the Beatles photographer from 1964 to 1967 and a friend of Dali's from the late 60s to early 70s. There are nearly 50 pictures of the Beatles and several of Dali. You can buy them but they're not cheap. Though the limited edition book (5,000) of the Dali pictures for £40 seems reasonable value.
Until Sept 4th (Mon-Sat 10-17.00; Sun 11-16.00)
Philip Key's Daily Post report.

From the Walker website...

Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity celebrates its centenary this year, is included in a display of five bronze portrait busts by pioneering sculptor Jacob Epstein at the Walker Art Gallery from 27 August 2005.
Einstein posed for the bust – an outstanding example of Epstein’s celebrity portraiture – at a refugee camp in Cromer, Norfolk, in 1933 shortly after fleeing Nazi Germany
All but one of the busts on display are from the Walker’s collections. Along with Einstein’s, they are:

Author Paul O’Keeffe will be giving a free 45-minute talk on Epstein at 1400 hours on Sunday 4 September 2005 at the Walker
Link

There's now a full list of the artists and artworks with photographs on the Walker website of the 'Art Craziest Nation' by The Little Artists. Great fun.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/littleartists/

You can still get involved in the Sea Cycles project.
Here's a pdf file giving ideas to inspire people to create/transform themselves or their wheels into a marine related theme and come along.

SEA CYCLES:
LIVERPOOL’S 4TH PEOPLE POWERED BOAT FLOTILLA
SUNDAY 18 SEPTEMBER.

Departs 11.15am Liverpool World Museum William Brown Street

Free

The Pool Project continues as artist Jean Grant (site-sight) invites participants to celebrate the secret underground tidal pool that flows beneath Liverpool.

A flotilla of DIY craft with a maritime theme will set off from where boats once moored, along Whitechapel and Paradise Street, finishing at the Mersey near the Maritime Museum, reminding us of the Pool’s existence and its importance to the city’s growth and development. This is a great opportunity for everyone to get dressed up, blow bubbles, sing sea shanties and have fun. For information on how to be involved, email aniimac@netbreeze.co.uk or visit website: http://www.poolproject.co.uk/seacycles

So yesterday was August 20th, i.e. 20/08, i.e. 'A Date to Celebrate'. There were lots of events and attractions going on so I was out early and started by taking a look at the new '08 Place' in Whitechapel.
"The 08 Place will provide information on events in the city, how to get involved in the Capital of Culture programme and stock a full range of official and licensed merchandise."
Apart from the merchandise (which local businesses are rightly unhappy about) there's not a lot here but I suppose it will grow as time goes on. What I keep wondering is what its going to be called after 2008? Surely it won't still be called the 08 Place in 2013? And what about liverpool08.com? Its bound to get renamed eventually and we'll have to change all our bookmarks.
Anyway, got a free balloon and moved on, hoping to go to the top of St Johns Beacon but it was booked up for the whole day so moved on to the Walker to take another look at the Lego art. Here's Steve Gerrard holding up the European Cup. Picked up a free gift (bar of chocolate) from the Museum and hired a DVD for free from Central Library.
Took a quick look at the Honda Power Boat races on the Mersey before buying olives from the Continental market in Lord St. There was a fashion show of sorts on the Church St. podium but the dancers were just rehearsing (badly) as I was going past, I wasn't going to hang around. Too late to join the Kids Treasure Trail at FACT and I'm over age anyway (just) so took a quick tour of some of the Studios at Arena which were open for the day, first time I'd seen them.
It was only lunchtime now but I'd had enough, there were a lot more things I could have seen or done. As you can see from that list it was all minor stuff it probably went completely unnoticed by most people but I'm not negative about it. Its better than nothing and will probably grow each year.

You need to be familiar with Bob Ross to get this. Sorry, I can't remember where I stole it from.

I like collecting postcards but only in a half-hearted way and I threw out all my old ones a few years ago. They are a good reminder of places visited not just by me but by friends and family and in most cases are better quality than the average holiday snaps that most of us take with our cheap cameras with ice-cream on the lenses and sand inside the workings.
So well done Zoe Freeman who has not only been collecting postcards for over 25 years but organising them into scrap books and albums. They are all on show at Museum MAN for the next few days along with some of her own photographs. Almost exclusively UK cards, the majority are of Northern towns and, of course, there's a lot of Liverpool. More recent ones can be viewed on the walls in the hallway and include a collection of the postcard-type flyers for local art exhibitions (including this one)

You get a lovely view from MAN as well, the sunset is one of my pics not a postcard.

The Liverpool Art agency Aesthetix has a contract with a furniture company who are opening a new branch at Switch Island next Friday and require 300 saleable artworks before then.

artinliverpool has no connection with Aesthetix, I'm just passing on the information.
Update: Artists no longer required.

Not a lot to see really. Album cover art for bands such as Dead 60s (due to be released in October), The Basement (later this year), The Mountaineers, The Coral and a few others.
I like the way its displayed though, on coat hangers in small, medium and large sizes. And they're for sale. Juno is a Liverpool-based design studio, most of their work is for the music and creative industries but they do other stuff too.
The exhibition runs at PolishedT until Sept 6th.

From the Liverpool.gov.uk website...

Working on well being
Culture bosses in Liverpool are asking health experts for help in a new scheme to cut stress and illness among people in the city.

The Liverpool Culture Company will soon be running a series of workshops for health professionals to get them thinking about well-being in a creative way. Experts are now being recruited to run these sessions and make a real difference to Liverpool people's lives.

Workshops will look at how to maintain health to prevent illness, and help people with symptoms to manage them. Participants will also have the freedom to use their imaginations to put together a creative wish list of healthy ideas which can then be taken forward, from thinking about the design of buildings, to introducing art workshops in doctors' surgeries
...

People who would be suitable to run the workshops may come from the artistic, cultural and creative sectors and would help identify practical and tangible ways in which well-being can be boosted. The deadline for applications is Friday 9 September 2005 and the contact is contact Julie Hanna, Creative Health and Well-Being Manager, on 0151 233 6393.

Link

Well its good old St. George killing the dragon isn't it. Shame there was no Endangered Species Protection Program in Medieval times. You can see the great stained glass windows and other architectural splendours just by wandering into St Georges Hall this week, until Saturday 20th. The Town Hall is also open to the public this week.

Ok, not the real Mr Hirst but its pretty lifelike, here he is with his shark in a tank piece being lauded by a large crowd with empty wine glasses.
Its the work of 'The Little Artists' - John Cake and Darren Neave who you can see in the other photo. The whole piece is a minature art gallery entitled 'Art Craziest Nation' and includes models of famous YBAs such as Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Chris Ofili and Grayson Perry dressed in one of his notorious doll-like outfits. There's also Steven Gerrard holding an over-sized European Cup.
Its still being assembled in the area at the top of the stairs in the Walker and opens on Saturday August 20th until January 29th.
Daily Post article
and Guardian
and BBC

There's an interesting new exhibition at Urban Coffee in Smithdown Rd. Several recent JMU graduates have formed a group (as yet, untitled) and this is their first show 'Untitled For Now' (you'll have to do better than that guys). There are several pieces, some I recognise from (or at least related to) this years JMU Fine art Degree Show.
There's David Tippings photographs of unusual objects, Jemma Egan (mixed media), Annie Houston ('Tongue Flowers'), Peter Formela (oils & acrylics), Mailini Vivian (small photos), Christopher Mills (acrylics), Michael Aitken (small mixed media), John O'Hare (painted clocks), Amanda Ferguson, Emma Wilkinson (textiles), Katriona Edrich (mixed media), Josh Pennant and Hamish McLain.
Runs until end September.

Colin Reid is very popular at the moment. His exhibition of recent paintings 'Where to Draw the Line' finished its run at Urban Coffee and moved straight into the Kif. There's 2 or 3 new ones added. It runs until September 1st, prices negotiable, well worth a look.

Believe it or not these people are queueing in Church St. for free Pot Noodles! Strange because they don't look like they are starving or poor and there's plenty of real food on sale just up the road.
Meanwhile, the seagull & pigeon acrobatic group were performing nearby on the Great Escape statue.

Apparently Businessess are Open As Usual despite the Bigsess Digsess. Its a common error though, a google search for 'businessess' returns 38,000 results!
This Fire Exit at the rear of Gostins building exhorts people not to piss there. They can ask I suppose but why should they get preferential treatment.

The Sea Cycles project is now well under way. The event takes place on Sept. 18th but you can get involved now, Pub workshops start tonight.
Take a look at the new website

Never mind Rock the Future, the Independent has managed to travel to the future to give a detailed description of the exhibition that FACT haven't even started to install yet. The last show only finished yesterday. I suppose its all taken from a press release which is fair enough, can't expect a national paper to visit every exhibition but they could at least join in the pretence by waiting till nearer the opening which is August 26th. (Members preview 25th). Sounds like a good one too, looking forward to it.

Its in London though.
An artist from 'The Centre of Attention' will come to your home and install their artwork and even discuss it over a cup of tea if you like. You can buy it as well of course though it might be a performance or conceptual piece.
On Demand link

Mike Chapple's Daily Post Interview with Eddie Berg from Aug 1st...

New task for FACT founder Aug 1 2005

By Mike Chapple, Daily Post

"IT IS a daunting task - but I really want to be daunted!" So chuckles Liverpool's Eddie Berg, who since March has been artistic director of the British Film Institute.

The founder of FACT now not only occupies one of the most influential roles in one of the most esteemed organisations of its kind in the world but is also overseeing the biggest revamp in its 72-year history.

The BFI is currently looking to build a new £60m National Centre for the Moving Image to be completed in time for the London Olympics of 2012 - and Berg is at the heart of its design and the campaign to fund it.

Full story..

There's a mobile phone mast inside the Arena Gallery. I don't suppose its a real one, its one of several works relating to mobile phones. I went to the opening last night but I need to go back to have a proper look at some of the items. There's photographs and videos taken with phones and a CD of remixes of ring tones as well as a computer displaying downloadable 'wallpapers' amongst other things.
Good to see a report made it onto the BBC website even if its only because of its novelty value.

'I love your body darling ...''Seaside Suburbia and 'Another Place' by Antony Gormley'
by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (July 2005)
Photograph by Tony Knox

My lover is but flesh and bone and if I decide by his mere corporeal measure, how do I equate his margins to my own. Sex, sexual or sexuality, each determined by perceptions on the boundaries of flesh. Flesh delineated by societal conventions and inherited predilections. The body. Here Gormley has mass produced himself, metalised self portraiture, sculptures which pervade the horizon on a North West of England beach. A provisional region of suburbia, 'darling, we have a house by the sea side'.

Middleclass sensitivities modified to the acceptability of 'but it is art!' The ghostly figures, multiple, the form of a naked male, the metal exposed to the elements of the salt air and corrosion visible. The imperfections whether from the original casting to the oxidisation by the salt air imbue the differentiation in each of us. Britain a multi cultural society, protestations of politic correctness, assertions of diversity but one nation, such modified in accordance with our own preference.

Yet, I have a choice of Gormley's to select, explore within lascivious intent and I wonder as I kiss his cold lips and taste the salt and rust whether I am one of the seaside residents, critical of everything and everyone else in my social status, but my measures of sex and sexuality actually structured on pure titillation, my abode my castle and kingdom, clandestine, while I fornicate with multiplicity and hypocracy. How to be British!

This installation by Gormley is exceptional and offers a different
experience for each individual who visits it. For further information on Gormley, please visit www.antonygormley.com.

www.gaynorevelynsweeney.co.uk

From the liverpool.gov website
From August 15, visitors will have a week-long opportunity to take a glimpse at the lavish interiors of St George's Hall and Liverpool Town Hall.

Liverpool Town Hall was built in 1754, making it one of the city's oldest buildings. As well as being the seat of Liverpool's political administration, the Town Hall also provides the setting for a huge range of events - from civic receptions to weddings.

St George's Hall is one of the UK's finest neo-classical buildings, and arguably Liverpool's most dramatic structure. It sits at the top of William Brown Street, which last year was included in Liverpool's World Heritage site. The Hall was completed in 1854, and remains a prominent reminder of the city's prosperity in the 19th century, when it was the 'gateway to the new world'.

The interior of the building is dominated by the Great Hall, which is a staggering 169 foot long and features a floor of intricate Minton tiles which can be viewed through a special vision panel.

Between 15 - 20 August, visitors can take advantage of free entry to the Great Hall and the exhibitions. On Saturday August 20, St George's Hall will ring to the sound of hourly organ recitals and choral music, while community historian Steve Binns will hold a talk on the Hall's past as a court of law.

From the Lady Lever Website....

£225,000 for improvements awarded
The Lady Lever Art Gallery is one of the forty museums and galleries throughout England to benefit from grants totalling £4 million. Funded jointly by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Wolfson Foundation, the grants will help improve the quality of museums’ displays, public spaces, disabled access and environmental controls.

Lady Lever Art Gallery has been awarded £225,000 to make a series of much needed improvements including:

Improved access to the building for all, with the creation of a new entrance and reception. Visitors will be greeted by staff at a welcoming new reception as they enter the Gallery underneath the existing spacious, domed vestibule. The new reception will lead visitors straight into the magnificent Main Hall of the building.
Development of a flexible learning suite for use by schools, families, adult groups and individual visitors, It will include an interactive ‘Artbase’ space with family activities including trails, drawing, quizzes and costumes; a story zone for family groups and young children; and two computer stations giving access to further information on the collections.
Creation of a new gallery dedicated to William Hesketh Lever and his love of art - where visitors will be able to learn what kinds of things he collected and why, see the diversity of the collection, find out about the building of the gallery and its place within the community of Port Sunlight Village.
The planned completion date for the project is winter 2006. There will be no disruption to the opening hours of the gallery.

These grants mark the fourth year of the DCMS/Wolfson Foundation Museums & Galleries Improvement Fund, which has awarded £12 million to 65 different institutions around the country since it was set up in 2002.

I said there was a donkey in Bold St. last Thursday now thanks to Minako Udea I have the picture to prove it. Minako posts weekly stories and photos about Liverpool to a Japanese website called ScouseHouse, there's a few pictures of local art events there. Well worth a look.

After going to the Museum yesterday I called into the Liverpool Vision place at the Old Haymarket. There's plenty of info and scale models of the various regeneration projects in progress or planned. For instance there's the Kings Dock plans, the Met Quarter, the Commercial District and Lime St. 'Gateway'.
But also there's this splendid model put together by pupils at Broughton Hall High School.

In the evening I went to see Goldfrapp at the Carling Academy. An excellent gig and I never knew you could play the theremin between the legs. Interesting!

I went to the World Museum Liverpool today to meet Barbara Hind who's photographs of Buddhists and worshippers in Mongolia are on show.
Originally from Knotty Ash, Barbara visited Mongolia 16 times between 1994 and 2001. The result of her extensive travelling is a group of photographs, providing an intimate portrayal of everyday life for Mongolian Buddhists.
Mongolia suffered under Stalinist repression in the 1930s when 20,000 Buddhists were killed and 500 temples destroyed. Buddhism only started being openly practiced again in 1991.

The photographs, which are rich in colour and texture, include scenes of monk ordination, the call to morning worship and Tibetan language classes. These wonderful depictions of daily routines avoid any kind of posed or clichéd shots. Instead Barbara has created images that show enormous respect for the people who are her subjects as well as a gripping insight into an intriguing culture.
The photographs from Mongolian Buddhism have previously been on show at the National Museum of Mongolian History, Ulaanbaatar in 2001, where Barbara became the first westerner to be invited to display her work. This unique exhibition provided the local people, whose lives Barbara had documented, the chance to see the photographs for themselves. They have also been exhibited in Japan and Canada and will, no doubt, go on to several other places.

Barbara says: "The Mongolian Buddhist images have grown out of my personal association with the monasteries and nunneries I have visited.

Through my photographs I try not only to represent my own experience of seeing other people's worlds but to also try and evoke the people's experience in those worlds".
The exhibition is in a separate room on the 2nd floor and runs until October 2nd.

Visitors to Mongolian Buddhism can also see World Museum Liverpool's own comprehensive display of Buddhist artefacts from Asia in the World Cultures gallery, which includes an evocative Tibetan Buddhist shrine.