Liverpool artist, Garry Lawlan who also has a page in our artists directory, has been the the first to benefit form a new scheme set up by Dot Art.
He is pictured here in between Lucy Byrne (Dot-Art) and David Hunt (Director at Alexander James Executive Search)

Headhunting firm Alexander James Executive Search on Wednesday Sep 27 unveiled an oil painting of the city's famous skyline, by Liverpool artist Garry Lawlan, after responding to a call for a new wave of business patronage of the arts.

The appeal was made on the website of the Liverpool Culture Company's free to join 08 businessconnect forum, after its manager Nichola Lee heard a talk on the city's two great Victorian patrons James Barclay Walker and Henry Tate.

The advert was made by 08 businessconnect member dot-art - an art gallery and consultancy which represents more than 80 Liverpool artists - inviting businesses to sponsor a local artist.

The appeal has already been hailed a success with a second sponsorship deal completed and several more in the pipeline.
David Hunt, Director at Alexander James Executive Search, said as well as buying the new work the company is also promoting Gary's work in their external communications and will be showcasing his work at network events next year.

David added: ''We're a relatively recently formed company and wanted to have a unique flavour to our new offices. The 08 advert was perfect timing. Garry's work is outstanding and as well as brightening up the office, we're proud to be able to give a local artist a lift up in their career. We now have two of Garry's pieces in the office, both depicting the cities Iconic waterfront, and they have made a big impression on visitors to our office, as well as making the office a better working environment for us. ''

http://www.dot-art.co.uk/

Doctor Who Exhibition at the Spaceport, Seacombe

SATURDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER 2006 TO THURSDAY 4TH JANUARY 2007
www.spaceport.org.uk

* Get scarily close to creatures from other galaxies.
* See some of the Doctor’s famous enemies including Autons, Slitheen and the awesome Cybermen.
* K9 is here to give the Doctor a helping hand.
* See actual costumes worn by the Doctor and Rose.
* See monsters, aliens and props from the last two series.
* Visit our hyperspace store for all the latest Doctor Who merchandise.
* And be warned - the DALEKS are around somewhere.

ADDRESS: SPACEPORT, VICTORIA PLACE, SEACOMBE, WALLASEY, WIRRAL, CH44 6QY
TELEPHONE: 0151 330 1333

You may recall that a few weeks ago I gave a talk at a conference organised by the Arts Council entitled 'Get Digital'.

It was all about blogging, podcasting, RSS etc.

The event itself was blogged by the organisers Don't Panic and recorded by UkFast with interviews with myself, other speakers and delegates.

Thats me in the picture being interviewed by Jonathan Bowers and if you really want to hear some of my words of wisdom and the other interviews go to the getdigital blog

Well this sounds nice and easy, I should dig out my old pastels and take a few along...

CALL FOR ARTISTS: Biennial exhibition open to all artists in Liverpool and Cumbria

Do you want to show your work as part of this years Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art????

As part of the Grizedale Arts commission for the new A Foundation buildings in Liverpool we are holding a 2-week salon style showcase of artists from Merseyside and Cumbria.

There is no selection process, anyone can take part, and any work received will be hung in the Grizedale project space however we can fit it!
We can accept work in any media, but all films must be provided as DVD’s that will simply be left in the space for people to play on the TV as they wish.
You will need to arrange for your work to be delivered to and collected from the space.

The exhibition takes place from 1 November – 15 November at A Foundation, 67 Greenland St, Liverpool, L1 0BY
All work must be received by Friday 20 October

To register your interest for the Salon, and to receive a booking form please contact Hilary: hilaryt@afoundation.org.uk
0151 709 4180
http://www.afoundation.org.uk/

What a lovely call for entries, it deserves your attention...

(Redskyatnight)
(3rd – 17th November)

‘And in the morning, it will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?’

The colour Red has many paradoxical meanings; it is enigmatic, a passionate colour, representing love, yet also anger. It is confident and courageous yet brutal and aggressive. Intense and atmospheric, oppressive and liberating, this enigmatic colour was epitomised in the work of the abstract expressionists, finding its totality in the works of Barnet Newman & Mark Rothko. Since these explorations of the colour, artists have continued to explore the colour red according to diverse aesthetic & conceptual premises.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

It is our vision to produce an exhibition where all the works are red, or explore the varying symbolism and aesthetic properties of this enigmatic colour.

If your work explores the above theme, either emblematically or in the abstract and would like your work to be considered for this exhibition please send digital images and a brief description to its curators by Monday 16th October: Any medium and discipline will be considered.

Vicki Maguire - backyard_babies_rock@hotmail.com
Martyn Coppell – martyncoppell@btinternet.com

PRIVATE VIEW 3rd November 2006

For Private View invites and guest list or appointments please contact Amy Goring at:
redwireredwire@hotmail.co.uk

For more information about Red Wire’s forthcoming exhibition programme go to www.redwireredwire.com

Red Wire Gallery
Second Floor
Carlisle Building
67 – 69 Victoria Street
Liverpool
L1 6DE

CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Monday 16th October

Art Gallery Private Views are a good thing. Discuss.

We reckon that one of the achievements of the artinliverpool.com website and our regular newsletters is that there is now a sizable group of people who regularly attend private views. Barely a week goes by without a few viewings, there's often 2 or 3 on a Thursday even in the Summer and we see mostly the same crowd of people at each one.

Of course, we never buy any artwork at these events but it helps spread the word, we get to know which galleries show what type of art at what sort of price and I for one am often asked for recommendations.

Some people dislike PVs, they're busy, noisy, boozy you can't really get to examine the art. But I like them partly for those same reasons but mainly because its the only time you can meet and talk to the artists and curators. As long as its a Liverpool gallery I know I'll be able to re-visit for a proper look at the exhibition so am happy to socialise in the meantime.

I'm sure the number of PV groupies is growing here and I think it helps foster a sense of community within the arts. I hesitate to promote them as a 'networking' opportunity but of course they are.
In some cities, New Orleans for example, they have a sort of PV-crawl as most of the galleries are in the same part of town, there's several viewings on the same night and basic transport is available to get from one to the other.
Maybe we could do a similar thing here, now who can we get to do the maps?

Speaking of Viewings, there's plenty more this week. See you there...

ARTEFACT CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Artefact is an opportunity for local artists, designers and illustrators working with technology to exhibit their work at FACT.

Selected artists will display their work in a solo showcase in the Bar area at FACT for a 3 month period. The Bar is a prominent location in the building and the work will be seen by a huge number of visitors. Artefact will run alongside shows by internationally renowned artists taking place in the FACT Galleries.

Work can be in any 2D medium and should have employed the use of technology at some stage of its production. The work must have been made within the last 3 years, and the artists should currently be based in the Merseyside area.

There is no size limit on individual works, but please be aware that the wall space is 5.4m wide x 2.3m high. Selected work will need to be submitted ready to hang with all appropriate fixings.

To apply please submit the following:

• Maximum of 10 images in either slide, digital images on disc (300dpi+) or emailed digital images (300dpi+) format.
• Current CV
• Short Artists statement
• SAE for return of material (without this FACT cannot guarantee the return of work)
•

Deadline for submissions: 20 October 2006.

Please send entries to:

Tomas Harold
Artefact Administrator
FACT
88 Wood Street
Liverpool
L1 4DQ

Or
artefact@fact.co.uk

Nice job for someone...

Based in Liverpool, European Capital of Culture, 2008, FACT is recognised worldwide as one of Britain’s most innovative and enterprising arts organisations; dedicated to the support, development and presentation of artists’ work in film, video and new media.

Director c. £50K
Following the appointment of FACT’s Director, Gill Henderson as the first Director of CreateKX in London, FACT is seeking to appoint a Director with outstanding creative leadership qualities to build on FACT’s past and present achievements in the context of the Capital of Culture year and beyond.

For more information or to request an application pack please contact:
Alan Smith, Operations Director, FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool. L1 4DQ
Tel: 0151 707 4444
Email: asmith@fact.co.uk
Closing date for applications: Friday 20th October 2006
Interviews in Liverpool.
www.fact.co.uk

We welcome applications from any individual regardless of ethnic origin, gender, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation or age. All applications will be considered on merit.

FACT is a registered charity No. 702781.
Company limited by Guarantee Registration No. 2391543

Nothing Rhymes with Poets are pleased to announce the launch of their second short film featuring performances by a selection of Merseyside Poets in association with the BBC Big Screen.

Funded by the Arts Council and Awards for all, the project aims to promote the work of local performance poets by offering them training and a platform to show case their work. This year’s film breaks down the boundaries of traditional performance poetry using graphics and filmic narrative to explore the meaning of the text.

The film launch will take place at 3pm on Saturday 30th September, at the base of the Big Screen in Clayton Square, Liverpool (outside Tesco). Further screenings will take place every day until the 27th of October at the following times; 9am, 11am, 1.30pm, 3pm and 7pm. Followed by screenings across the country in 2007.

For further information email poetrybigscreen@excite.com

Loads of 'New Tools' Courses from MITES coming up at FACT.
Pick up a brochure or download the pdf from their website

http://www.fact.co.uk/main/services/artistdevelopment/new_tools/

New Tools 2006-07 offers a number of exciting new courses, including workshops on the latest High Definition (HD) technologies. If you are wondering what all the fuss is about, Defining High Definition will demystify HD and unravel the
jargon that surrounds it, while Hi Def, Low Rent, and Hands on HD introduces participants to HD production and workflows using HDV and HDCAM Cameras and the latest HD editing packages.
SuperCollider is a focused one-day introduction to a real-time audio synthesis environment on the Mac, while by popular demand New Tools is pleased to offer basic and intermediate courses on the Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator digital imaging packages.

Via Merseyside ACME...

Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England Grant Application Workshops

* Wednesday 4th October 2006
* 10.00am - 4.00pm
* St George's Hall, Liverpool.

On Wednesday 4th October the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Arts Council England (ACE) will be delivering a programme of workshops which will help you learn more about the Grants for the Arts, Young Roots and Your Heritage grant programmes. The event will take place at St George's Hall and is free. Lunchtime refreshments will also be available.

More details on the ACME site

From Anita Smith of www.liverpoolgallery.co.uk

From now on once I have covered my costs, I will be donating the rest of income from commission we take on sales, equally between Zoe's Place Baby Hospice and Cancer Research UK.

In other words, each time a piece of work sells through the website or any of the exhibitions and events I arrange, two charities will benefit.

I'm also looking for new artists to join the website (the only criteria is that they live in the Merseyside area).

Contact Anita Smith
anita@liverpoolgallery.co.uk
www.liverpoolgallery.co.uk

I often get asked about courses in Liverpool. I can't really keep up with them all and only just spotted these at Tate starting on Sept 27th

Drawing Days
Approaches to the Human Figure
Wednesdays 27 September – 6 December, 9.30-12.30 and 13.30-16.30

Life drawing is an essential element of an artist’s practice. For the first time ever, Tate Liverpool is offering an opportunity to take part in life drawing classes. Attend a morning or afternoon session or both - all welcome. The Drawing Days sessions are led by Rick Creed, Department of Contextual Studies, Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University.
Tate Liverpool
£15 (£10 concessions), no booking necessary
Price is for each half day session, admission is free for Liverpool School of Art and Design Students. Materials included in price.
For tickets, call 0151 702 7400.

Ah, lovely drawing. Can't beat it can you really. What a shame the exhibition isn't coming to the North West.

THE JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE 2006 Awards Announced

The First Prize of £6000, Second Prize of £3000 and two Student Prizes of £1000 have been chosen from a shortlist of 47 drawings by 43 artists selected by Jason Brooks, Artist, Dr Yvonne Crossley, Director of The Drawing Gallery, London, Paul Thomas, Artist and Co-founder of The Jerwood Drawing Prize.

The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006 prizewinners are:

First Prize (£6,000):
Charlotte Hodes - Wallace Collection Series I 2005/06
2006, Digitally Manipulated Drawing, Inkjet with Collaged Fragments,104cm x 137cm

Second Prize (£3,000):
James McLellan - Crypto-Flux
2006, Pen on Paper, 28cm x 23cm

Student Prize * (£1,000):
Zoë Anderson - Farmer Neal Cassidy was the Result of Masturbating Drunks
2006, Collage, 40cm x 57cm
* Zoë Anderson completed an MA Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London in June 2006.

Student Prize * (£1,000):
James Wright - Treasured Memories
2006, Pencil on Paper, 42cm x 32.5cm
* James Wright is due to complete an MA Painting at the Royal College of Art, London in 2007.

2,295 entries were submitted for consideration by the selection panel of The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006 by artists resident or domiciled in the UK. The shortlist of 47 drawings includes work by 43 highly regarded, established artists as well as relative newcomers and students fresh from art school.

The exhibition opens at the Jerwood Space, London SE1 from 20th September to 22nd October 2006. The exhibition will then tour in the UK, to galleries in Cheltenham, Birmingham, Bury St Edmunds, Durham and Cardiff.

Art and architecture in religious contexts on Merseyside

An interfaith event to mark and celebrate the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the
King as winner of the ACE / RIBA Award for Religious Architecture 2005/6

28th September 2006, 10am-5pm (with optional evening events)
Hope Street Liverpool
£20 (£15 concessions & ACE members)

PROGRAMME
Morning - Art on Hope Street
Venue: Metropolitan Cathedral, Gibberd Room

Cathedrals and commissioning public art - Canon Toby Forward, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral (10:00-10:30)

Architectural glass on Hope Street - Andrew Moor, specialist in architectural glass (10:35-11:05) (short coffee break)

Art for architecture - Artist Susanna Heron on her newly completed sculpture at the Metropolitan Cathedral (11:30-12:00)

(13:00-13:45) Lunch provided by 'The Piazza' in the Gibberd Room.

Afternoon - Architecture for a regenerating city Venue: Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, Western Rooms

Public Realm - Gareth Callen from Falconer Chester Architects on the story of the Metropolitan Cathedral's award winning external works (14:15-15:00)

Brougham Terrace, plans to redevelop the site, the earliest mosque in Britain - Akbar Ali, Chairman of the Abdullah Quilliam Society (15:05-15:45)

(short walk to the Princes Road Synagogue approx 15 mins)

The Princes Road Synagogue, dialogue and heritage including a tour of the synagogue - Dr Cecil Moss (16:00-17:00)

Optional evening events (at extra cost)
Dinner at the Western Rooms Anglican Cathedral
Evening screening of 'my architect' - a portrait in film of Louis Kahn

Additional recommendations can be made for tours, exhibitions and events for attendees wishing to stay in Liverpool for longer.

supported by the Community Development Fund and the John S Cohen Foundation.

For further information and booking forms contact:
Laura Moffatt
Art+Christianity Enquiry
All Hallows on the Wall
83 London Wall
London EC2M 5ND
t/f 020 7374 0600
mailto:projects@acetrust.org
http://www.acetrust.org

Liverpool Culture Company is excited to bring you four very different and distinctive productions.
Make sure you catch these amazing four shows which form the final celebration of our Liverpool Performs 2006 programme.
You are sure to find something to thrill, move and inspire at these unique and stunning performances. Give these international artists a warm welcome on their first visit to Liverpool – for many of these
companies this will be their only UK appearance.
As an introductory offer for our shows at the Royal Court you can get half price entry to see The End Of Cinematics when you buy a ticket for The Carbon Copy Building. Plus we are offering a specially
discounted family ticket to see Scrap Arts Music.

Bang on a Can All-Stars
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Wednesday
4th October
7.30pm

Liverpool Culture Company proudly presents New York’s Bang on a Can All-Stars, voted Ensemble of the Year in 2005 by Musical America.
This cutting edge ensemble brings together six of the world’s finest musicians to create a refreshing new sound in contemporary music. Mixing classical and electronic instruments with digital technologies, this explosive group expands musical horizons and is one of the few ensembles to perform at Steve Reich’s
Barbican birthday celebrations in 2006.
Repertoire includes Electric Counterpoint by Steve Reich and Manhatta by Michael Nyman.

Scrap Arts Music
Royal Court
Tuesday
10th October. 7.30pm

Scrap Arts Music really blasted the roof off their sell-out concert at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Make sure you don’t miss this athletic company of five amazing ‘action musicians’.
Scrap Arts Music bring their super-charged energy, funky rhythms and melodious sound to Liverpool from their own harbour city of Vancouver, Canada. This remarkable percussion ensemble uses dazzling mobile instruments they’ve created from scrap metal and construction salvage.
This musical extravaganza of pulsating passions and personalities, here for one night only, will appeal to all ages and is sure to thrill.

The Carbon Copy Building
Royal Court
Wednesday 25th – Thursday
26th October. 8pm

Have you ever wondered how the other half live? Meet the people who live in two separate buildings on opposite sides of a city: one in a wealthy avenue and the other in a run-down alley. Eight contemporary singers and
musicians tell the story of parallel yet opposite lives in this comic book opera.
This extraordinary multi-media experience is based on Ben Katchor’s cult comic strip with music by the acclaimed Bang on a Can co-founders Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe. Katchor’s words and drawings are brought dramatically to life in this unmissable UK Premiere.

The End Of Cinematics
Royal Court
Thursday 16th
– Saturday
18th November. 8pm

This incredible journey of the senses is like watching the very best music video come alive before your eyes as special effects are turned inside out!
Haunting electronic songs of love and longing composed by Mikel Rouse are fused with scenes of Paris as you’ve never seen it before. Original film footage provides a video backdrop for the live performers, in turn captured live and screened, creating a 3D film right before your eyes.
This European Premiere is a sensual work that expertly combines live performance, video and a pop-tinged original musical score that will inspire.

liverpool08.com

59 Powis Street, the Welsh Streets Project 'Solid Futures' opens today (19/09/06) at 1.00pm
They are looking for volunteers who would be interested in working a couple of hours Tues Thursday and two Sats. Contact Moira Kenny moirakenny1@hotmail.com

SoundNetwork @ F.CITY - Friday 13th October

F.CITY - a festival of digital culture in Lancaster
29th September - 21st October
www.folly.co.uk

Call for artists:

A opportunity to play live at f.city, a new and exciting festival of digital culture in Lancaster.

SoundNetwork are putting on a one off gig of live sound art and experimental music as part of the festival.
Friday 13th October, Korners Bar at The Farmers Arms, Lancaster.

We are looking for 4 artists to play for around half an hour for £100 each. Its a gig, in a pub, with a PA. Its loud, its dirty and its a chance to carve a niche into the city! So get back to us if you want to be involved.

The emphasis is on digital.....so stick to the 0s and 1s for this one.

Deadline: 2nd October
The fee includes transport and other expenses.

Write to info@soundnetwork.org.uk with details about yourself, links to any websites and sources of audio. Tell us as much about yourselves, and what you do, as you can.

Please include a contact telephone number.

This is where its all happening at the moment...

From Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney...

NEW YORK AND UK ARTISTS LEFT WITHOUT VENUE IN THE LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL

Trannsvoyeur, an artists led initiative of New York and Liverpool artists, had their show pulled by ‘external forces’ after the artists had arrived in the City to install their work.

Artists from New York and the UK were left standing around without a space to show their work after various venues were systematically withdrawn.

The artists from New York had paid to transport their work and themselves to the ‘friendly’ City only to find that the Transvoyeur show, of which they were a part, had the original venue cancelled at the last minute and in the alternative venue the space allowed was progressively reduced.

Ironically, work from Transvoyeur artists are being used to advertise the whole of the Independents Section of the Biennial, however the show itself has been undermined, by other institutions agendas, out of existence.
This does not look good for the European City of Culture in 2008, as news of these events and the internal politics of the festival spread throughout the international art world.

Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
Mail: transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk
Website: www.transvoyeur.co.uk

at
www.digitalshow.co.uk

You can see all 5 prizewinning paintings on the Walker Art Gallery website:

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/24/

I think this should be a popular choice for the first prize, I certainly like it. I like the other prizewinners too a really good show - better than 2004 I reckon.

The £25,000 first prizewinner of the prestigious John Moores 24 exhibition of contemporary painting at the Walker Art Gallery is Martin Greenland for his stunning invented landscape Before Vermeer’s Clouds.

The significance of the title is that the sky in the painting is copied from A View of Delft by leading Dutch painter Jan Vermeer (1632-75) – a work that has fascinated Martin for 30 years. He says Before Vermeer’s Clouds also has the same appearance of stability and unhurried peace as Vermeer’s.

Martin says about his winning oil on canvas painting, which features a waterfall and a distant town with a strange multi-coloured tower: “It’s a perfectly levelling thing to do, exploring landscape both real, as on a walk, or by completely inventing it - exploring the illusion of landscape made by the tactile breadth of oil paint.

“The first instance is about absorption, meditation, analysis, the second about realisation, connection, revelation - a show of things more or less understood. Completely inventing is an obsession but not a chore.

“It may seem futile to make the works seem as though they have been observed or taken from photographs but inventing gives the work reason for existence - what is shown exists only in this painted illusion. It’s a deeply satisfying thing to do and oil on canvas is still the broadest, most perfect vehicle for this.”

The four other prizewinners – each receiving £2,500 – are:

Matthew Burrows: Baptism (oil on linen). Matthew was born on the Wirral in 1971. He studied at the University of Central England, Birmingham, and the Royal College of Art London. He has shown in group exhibitions including Presence, St. Paul’s Cathedral London 2004 and Folklore APT Gallery London. Matthew Burrows’ solo exhibitions include A Divine Comedy which toured Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester City Art Gallery and Huddersfield Art Gallery, Flattering Overtures Eagle Gallery/Emma Hill Fine Art, London, and Anyone Here? Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham.

Graham Crowley: Red Reflection (oil on canvas). Graham was born in Romford in 1950. He studied at St. Martin’s School of Art, London, and the Royal College of Art, London. He has held a number of significant teaching posts, most recently professor of painting at the Royal College of Art. He has shown in seven previous John Moores exhibitions and won joint second prize in 1987. He is represented in several public collections and has exhibited in numerous group shows, winning the ING Purchase Prize at The Discerning Eye Mall Galleries, London. His most recent solo show was at Beaux Arts, London.

Vincent Hawkins: After Paul Nash (acrylic on canvas). Vincent was born in Hertfordshire in 1959. He studied at Maidstone College of Art. His group shows include Recent Graduates Show (selected from art colleges in the south east), Angela Best Gallery, Canterbury, Old Subject New Object Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, and an exhibition at Clapham Art Gallery, London. He has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006.

James White: In the Basement (Kit II). James was born in Tiverton, Devon in 1967. He studied at West Surrey College of Art and Design and at London’s Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Group exhibitions in 2005 were God is bored of us FMCG London 2005 and Chambres a Part Hotel Sexx, Paris. Solo shows include James White Gavin Turk’s studio, London, The Incidental Monumental 2 Modern Art, London, Atoll Fig-1, London, Paradise Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, Paintings Museum 52, London and United Elements MW Projects, London.

The judges were artists Tracey Emin, Sir Peter Blake and former John Moores prizewinner Jason Brooks along with the British Council’s director of visual arts Andrea Rose and curator of fine art at the Walker Art Gallery Ann Bukantas. They first looked at 2,300 entries on slides – the highest number of entries in 43 years – and chose a shortlist. The jury picked the prizewinners and 52 paintings in the exhibition after seeing 268 actual paintings on the shortlist.

Note: Doesn't give a deadline, ring them if you're interested.

SOLA ARTS IS LOOKING FOR:

Graphic Arts & Visual Support Worker

Hours: Part-time Freelance Position
Start: November 2006 (pending CRB check)

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated and experienced individual to work as a Visualiser/ Graphic Designer for SOLA ARTS.

We are looking for an individual who is motivated, flexible and committed to community arts, and has an understanding of social inclusion and integration. The successful candidate must be willing to undertake training as required.

• The successful candidate must be enhanced CRB checked or committed to undertake an enhanced CRB check.

• The successful candidate must be motivated to work in flexible and dynamic ways.

The successful candidate must also:

Essential
• Have sound skills in drawing and painting.
• Have a sound ability to use Apple Mac computers and applications such as Photoshop, In Design, Word, PowerPoint & Excel.
• Have a sound understanding of grassroots community arts.
• Have an understanding of grassroots community development issues and be able to work flexibly around this.
• Be competent in more than one language; written and spoken
• Successful candidates will be self-motivated

Desirable
• Experience of co-ordinating and running creative workshops.
• Have knowledge of Final Cut Pro or iMovie.
• Have an understanding of refugee & asylum seeker issues in the UK.
• Be fully CRB checked.
• Experience of working in the community arts.

IF YOU HAVE THE SKILLS AND WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH US, SEND A CV AND VISUAL PORTFOLIO (CD/DVD ONLY) TO:
Adele Spiers- Manager, SOLA ARTS, Toxteth Town Hall, 15 High Park Street, Toxteth, Liverpool. L8 8DX
Or call Adele or Alfonso for more information on: 0151 726 8440

Subscribers will have just received the latest artinliverpool e-newsletter.
Normally sent out weekly this is a special pre-biennial issue, the first of many over the coming weeks as we hope to send out more frequent emails until things quieten down a bit.

This issue includes a list of several viewings, launches, performances, parties etc. taking place over the next few days as the Biennial gets under way.

To see it online go to
http://www.artinliverpool.com/newsletters/update82.htm

To subscribe to receive future issues go to
http://www.artinliverpool.com/subscriber.htm

Its the annual Hope Street Festival on Sunday September 17th 11.00 - 17.00.

Its a free festival featuring a farmers market, a craft market, samples from local restaurants and pubs, open days, music, films, dance, theatre, talks, and workshops at venues along Hope Street, Liverpool.

Also includes an exhibition and sales of jewellery from members of the Mersey Jewellers and Metal Artists Network in 60 Hope Street.

Can't wait...

Insyde is an interactive installation designed specially for the Walker Art Gallery's upper hall by artist collective Airside

It envelops the exterior and interior of a large, cubed space built within four existing neo-classical columns. On entering the space, wall projections, music and a tribe of animated characters called FlowerBabs transport the visitor to a fantasy world.

Music for the Insyde has been exclusively composed by Airside artist Fred Deakin, who is also one half of Lemon Jelly

Watch a short preview here

'Insyde' at the Walker for The Liverpool Biennial - Sept 16 to Nov 26 2006

via Arts Council Jobs Bulletin...

Refugee and Asylum Seekers project

Can you offer something different.
We are looking for artists to work with a group of young people with very little
English skills.
2 hour sessions per week in Liverpool, on a Wednesday possibly up until July 2007

Please submit details of what you can offer.
Send your outline for a project to Ian at
ian.catalyst@btconnect.com

OPPORTUNITY FOR 16-19 YEAR OLDS BASED IN LIVERPOOL: GRAFFITI ARTS TRAINING COURSE:

ZAP GRAFFITI ARTS in conjunction with N:GAGE are seeking young unemployed 16-19 year olds living within Liverpool for our new "GRAFFITI ART WORK" course:

(DURATION 12 WEEKS @ 12 HOURS per week)

These courses will allow participants to learn the basic skills of graffiti as an art form and engage in an extensive course working across Greater Merseyside:

LEARNING: FILM & LITERATURE, TALKS, RESEARCH TRIPS AND LECTURES

WITH EXPERIENCE GAINED THROUGH:

PRACTICAL WORK: PLANNING.
ILLUSTRATION.
GRAPHIC DESIGN.
GRAFFITI ART.
BASIC WOOD WORK.
FRAME MAKING SKILLS.
COMPUTER AND MULTIMEDIA WORK.
(CDROM / WEBSITE CREATION)

COMMUNICATION SKILLS: WORKSHOPS: TEACHING OTHERS / SHARING SKILLS.
DEALING WITH THE PUBLIC & COMMERCE.
DOCUMENTATION AND EVALUATION.

Entry into the course does not adversely affect your benefits, most probably the
contrary as E.M.A funding available for those that fit criteria, as follows:

UNEMPLOYED AND NOR CURRENTLY IN FULL-TIME EDUCTAION and LIVING IN LIVERPOOL.

Based at ZAP GRAFFITI ARTS studio art 35a Renshaw Street, Liverpool, participants will engage in varying activities across the Wirral and Greater
Merseyside.

For full details and eligibility please contact:
LIVERPOOL:
ANITA MOONEY: N:GAGE 0151-702 0777

or alternatively KIERAN GORMAN: ZAP GRAFFITI ARTS:
0151 702 9057
0771 6548 629
E-MAIL: info@zapgraffiti.com
WEBSITE: http://www.zapgraffiti.com

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Patrick Caulfield at Tate Liverpool

Well you know I spend all day, every day working on this website so as it was my birthday yesterday I decided to take a day off. So what did I do? I went to Tate Liverpool of course.

I really like Patrick Caulfield's work so was delighted that Tate are exhibiting about 50 paintings from their collection. I'm not really sure why I like them, they probably leave a lot of people cold, they're hardly likely to make you laugh or cry, but they appeal to my sense of order and neatness.

Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005) is one of the major British artists of the post-war era who produced some of the most enigmatic and iconic works of the last fifty years. Following his death last year, Tate Liverpool will present a display of his work from the Tate Collection that brings together such important paintings as After Lunch 1975, and Interior with a Picture 1985-6 with a series of acclaimed screenprints. Caulfield’s work radically re-imagines and reinvigorates traditional genres such as the landscape, the still-life, and the domestic interior. His work is characterised by the reduction of detail to areas of bold and flat colour with objects delineated in solid outlines. Although often celebrated as one of the leading proponents of Pop Art in Britain, he distanced himself from any particular art movement by engaging with the subject matter and styles from art history and maintaining a distinctive individuality and originality.

Patrick Caulfield, Tate Liverpool, 26 August 2006 – 4 February 2007, Admission Free

Flower Power at Bluecoat Display Centre TWO in Hanover St, ends on Saturday Sept 16th with a closing reception on Friday 15th. 17.30 - 19.30.

Noise Club presents:

‘Sunken Sounds – Tunnelled Visions’

An evening of hypnotic subterranean soundscapes exploring Liverpool’s Williamson Tunnels through sound and vision.

The tunnels’ unique acoustics and atmosphere provide a stunning backdrop for Noise Club’s distinctive blend of audio-visual experimentation. Featuring a diverse array of instrumentation – from the violin and guitar to laptop, bulbul tarang and sonic sculpture – accompanied by live drawing and video projection.

7:30pm, Thursday 14th September.
@The Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre

Tickets at £3 each are now available from Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre, either in person (Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm) or by post enclosing a stamped addressed envelope for the return of your tickets. (cheques payable to The Joseph Williamson Society).

Book now to avoid disappointment!

The postal address is:
Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre,
The Old Stableyard,
Smithdown Lane,
Liverpool,
L7 3EE

Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre
enquiries@williamsontunnels.co.uk
www.williamsontunnels.co.uk

Noise Club / Hyperion
noiseclub@merseymail.com
www.geocities.com/noiseclubhyperion

cheshire open studios - starts this weekend

A fantastic array of professional artists lives across Cheshire and they are opening their studio doors, creating a rare opportunity for visitors to pop in. It’s a great way to discover the passion and ideas behind the artworks, to find
out how a games board is handcrafted, a willow chicken is woven or an etching comes to life.

The Cheshire Open Studios event is on for 3 weekends during September. 9th & 10th artists’ studios are open from Knutsford and Wilmslow to Macclesfield and Congleton. 16th & 17th studios are open between Northwich and Crewe, Nantwich and Alsager. 23rd & 24th artists open their studios in and around Chester and in Frodsham.

An accompanying exhibition showing work of each artist can be seen at hotart in Knutsford, along with our secret celebrity art sale in aid of Christies and Cheshire Open Studios.

For a full list of the 30 artists and craftspeople involved, including directions to their studios and images of their work, visit
http://www.cheshireopenstudios.org.uk

“WALK ON” —— A Liverpool exhibition for the 6th Shanghai Biennale - 5 September - 5 November 2006

That's right, there is a Liverpool Exhibition at the Shanghai Biennale right now.
I hope I'm not giving away any secrets here.
Despite being organised by Liverpool Biennial and curated by Brian Biggs, Director of the Bluecoat Arts Centre I have not been able to find any information locally or from their websites or news releases.

It was just lucky I discovered it on the Shanghai website before my daughter flew over there last week. She is trying to find the venue now. Apparently the Biennale people there had no info and the cab drivers can't find it (sound familiar?). Hopefully she will find them tomorrow and send us a review when she gets back.

Liverpool and Shanghai are twin cities. Both stage concurrent international art biennials, and this exhibition by UK artists, being shown during the 2006 Shanghai Biennale, is expected to be the start of an ongoing process of dialogue and exchange between the visual arts in the two cities.

The UK artists selected are based in Merseyside, North Wales and London and all have a relationship to the city of Liverpool. They have been chosen in response to the Shanghai Biennale’s theme of HyperDesign.

The artists:
Burn Philip Jeck
e-space lab Paul Rooney
Common Culture Imogen Stidworthy
Alan Dunn Union North
Leo Fitzmaurice Tom Wood

LINK (this page can be very slow or even impossible to load at times - The Great Firewall of China, maybe)

10 WEEK BLUECOAT PRINTMAKING COURSES

Printmaking
Thursdays 10am – 1pm
£70 (£55 conc)
A 10-week course for the more experienced, facilitated by printmaker Emma Gregory. Printmakers are invited to take their own paths through relief and intaglio. Silkscreen facilities are not available to this class except by arrangement with LJMU staff.

Introduction and Refresher Printmaking
Thursdays 1.30pm – 4.30pm
£90 (£60 conc)
Emma will lead a specialist 10-week exploration in printmaking techniques. The course will include etching, soft and hard ground and aquatint, relief prints and blind embossing, lithography (card based). Suitable for all abilities.

Printmaking - Now Fully Booked Up.
Thursdays 5.30pm – 8.30pm
£70 (£55 conc)
A 10 week course for all ranges of ability and experience. Printmaker, Graham Williams facilitates the course that suits beginners to those with more experience.

Taster to Printmaking
Thursday 26th October 10am – 4pm
£50 (£40 conc)
This course will refresh rusty printmakers or breed new lovers for the art. This is an opportunity for you to experience the age-old process of printmaking. Beginners especially welcome. This class is open to a maximum of 6 people.

All courses are subject to numbers. Places are limited.

NB Participants, with the exception of those on the taste course, are required to enroll with LJMU as students. This membership lasts for one year and entitles the user to use of the university libraries and receive invites to relevant events and lectures. This cost of enrolment is £75.

All classes are run at 68 Hope Street in the Printmaking Studios at Liverpool School of Art and Design.

With the exception of the one day taste course, all courses run from Thursday 21 September until Thursday 30 November. There is a break on the 26 October.

Call Annie McLean on 0151 703 9248 or email annie@bluecoatartscente.com

Transvoyeur Art Auction 2006, View Two Gallery, Mathew Street, Liverpool, England, Curated by Tony Knox and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, Wednesday 06 September 2006, 7.00 pm -9.00 pm.
THREE MORE DAYS TO VIEW ITEMS REMAINING AT VIEW TWO GALLERY, Thursday 7 - Saturday 9 September 2006.

Transvoyeur Art Auction 2006

The Transvoyeur auction at the View Two last night was a success with private and commercial collectors bidding on a range of diverse contemporary art. There are a few items remaining. To view these on line and to make a bid or offer please go to the catalogue web page (http://gaynorevelynsweeney.co.uk/transvoyeur_art_auction_2006_catalogue.htm) and then email transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk (>> To view remaining work available).

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