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'Evolve' - part of Independents
strand of Biennial and 'Big
Draw 2004' Sept 18th - Nov. 28th.
'Faith' part of the Liverpool - City of Faith theme.
Includes work by Opus group of Liverpool artists. Dec 6th - Jan 21st.
Sean Hawkridge - Solo Exhibition Jan
28th to Feb 25th
Ruth Thomas Exhibition
March 4th - April 1st
'Found objects are important in my work, from gull's feathers and the casts from sand worms collected on the beach, to the pine needles and grass used in more recent work. I collect these natural objects from the environment in which I live, in North Wales.
'Insider Art' - Inmates Prison Art (HMP Liverpool)
April 8th - May 6th
Hope Uni. - Fine Art and Design Degree Show
May 27th - June 3rd
Adrian Henri - Retrospective
June 24th - July 15th
By kind permission of Catherine Marcangeli and supported by Editions
Contemporary Arts Ltd The Cornerstone Gallery Liverpool, is pleased to
invite you to the Private View of an Adrian Henri retrospective on
Thursday 23rd June 2005, 6-8pm.
Adrian Henri was born in Birkenhead, grew up in Rhyl and went on to
study Fine Art at Newcastle University under Victor Pasmore and Richard
Hamilton, settling in Liverpool in 1957. A former fairground worker,
teacher, scenic artist and college lecturer, he went freelance in 1967,
and led the poetry/rock group Liverpool Scene from 1967 to 1970. His
career encompassed painting, poetry, performance, song-writing as well
as a playwright up until his death in 2000.
In an obituary for the Guardian in December 2000, Mike Evans described
Adrian as a "Prolific painter and poet famed for communicating the
delights of popular culture."
The exhibition brings together Adrian's interests, fascinations and
loves over the last forty years. It is a collection of better-known
works, together with some drawings and prints which have never been
shown before.
Dot Art - a selection of artists from their extensive collection
July 22nd - August 19th 2005
Stuart Sutcliffe - some of the collection of paintings by the former Beatle from 5aTheGallery
Viewing Aug 25th 18-20.00 - August 26th - Sept 23rd 2005
Maia Oprea - one night only viewing of work by 17 year old Romanian student in Residence at Hope Uni. Tuesday Oct 11th 2005 17.30 - 19.30
'Changing Eight - 2005' Exhibition of 8 contrasting artists: Anna Benson, Frank Moore, Tim Ellis, Nick Sykes, Steve Strode, Susan Massey, Craig Atkinson, Richard Meaghan. Sep 30th - Oct 28th 2005
Arthur Roberts - 'Space and Time, new paintings and drawings'
Established Liverpool Artist and director of Loop Gallery Arthur Roberts is joining forces with the Cornerstone Gallery at Hope University to show his latest paintings.
The exhibition is titled 'Space and Time' and is his boldest and confident work to date. The geometric abstract works, acrylic paint on canvas are strikingly bright, colourful and uplifting alongside his drawings on stone and glass which are spiritually thought provoking.
Arthur's unique visual abstract language synthesizes and evokes emotions of ancient places, microscopic worlds, solar systems, art history and synthetic computer environments. These new compositions transport the viewer to landscapes of the imagination where colour and form speak directly to your heart.
Arthur represents an uninhibited Liverpool which swaggers with resurgence, an unmissable exhibition.
Contact Arthur at arthur.r@merseymail.com
Nov 4th - Dec 2nd 2005
Cornerstone Festival - Art, music, dance, theatre etc. Nov 25th - Dec 10th 2005
Full programme
Avant Garde 16mm Film Night #2. 'Dance on Film' Tuesday Dec 13th 2005 19-20.30 FREE
Contact hardinj@hope.ac.uk for more details
Craig Atkinson - 'Please hold the line' The exhibition of paintings and drawings demonstrates the ongoing shift between abstraction and figuration in Craigs work.
Craig's early work consisted of a series of 'white paintings' each worked on for approximately three years using fairly old fashioned formal ideas about abstract painting only to obliterate later with white paint to create a tension on the surface of the work.
More recently Craig has spent some time studying semiotics, and has taken a lot of what he learnt as the basis for new work. The rules that are made for us and that we make for ourselves are questioned and contradicted, sometimes showing a darker or more humorous side to something. His new work is not trying to do or say anything in particular and Craig does not want the work to be a political statement about anything. In his own words he believes that he is just trying to confirm that the world is a pretty daft place.
By drawing something one raises questions and Craig chooses to draw things that tend to be those desirable things 'one couldn't live without'. Their hi-fidelity, high precision, high cost, perfectness is most attractive, and if they have buttons that's even better.
The lo-fi, lo-cost, clumsily precise functionless drawings that result are full of imperfections, unintentionally undermining and parodying the design and engineering that went in to the objects production. Displayed in a gallery or on a t-shirt [for example] the drawings themselves take on the role of a desirable object or icon, making paradoxical the whole situation.
Dec 9th 2005 - Jan 13th 2006
Becca Backhouse and Elizabeth Willow - 'What Big Eyes You Have'
An exhibition inspired by symbols and themes drawn from the realm of fairytales, especially the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Through sculpture, blackboard drawings, photography and film the ideas of power, transformation and sacrifice are explored.
The exhibition “What Big Eyes You Have” emerged from our shared fascination with fairytales. Stories, and fairytales in particular, have an enduring effect on society, shaping beliefs, values, fear and desires, not only during childhood but on into our adult lives. Few are so well known as “Little Red Riding Hood”, and few are so subject to change over time and between different cultures. The tale depends upon the teller. However, there are three constant characters - Little Red Riding Hood, her Grandmother and the Wolf. All are powerful archetypes expressing particular values, which again depend on who is telling the story. Rooted beneath and branching above is the one element that remains unchanged - The Forest - where anything might be found
Jan 20th 2006 - Feb 17th 2006
 Callum Moncrieff 'Recent Works' a chronological numbered series inspired and influenced by an exaggerated awareness of the visual world that is fed from architecture, painting, sculpture, conversations, materials and the position of ordinary things. Feb 24th - Mar 24th 2006
'Bluecoat Around The Corner' March 31st - May 5th 2006
The Bluecoat Display Centre in association with the Cornerstone Gallery presents an exhibition of six diverse artists that work in a range of media to create a visually stunning exhibition titled 'Bluecoat Around the Corner'. Within Liverpool Hope University's Everton campus, The Cornerstone Gallery is an independent space that strives to promote new and emerging artists and create access to contemporary art within education and the local community. It is the first time that the Display Centre has been invited to curate and present an exhibition. The works are wall based and made by Merseyside based artists whom they represent. The substantial size of the exhibition space has given the featured artists an opportunity to spread their wings in terms of the scale of their ideas.
The featured artists are:
Jenny Barker, her glass work takes on sculptural, ornamental and architectural dimensions in the form of wall hangings. Much of her inspiration comes from landscapes and nature, which is often representative in the work's shape, texture and form.
Rebecca Gouldson works in a variety of metals to produce wall pieces for domestic and architectural context. Her love of drawing and printmaking is directly related to the marks made on the metal. The
artist creates distinct qualities of line and texture.
Rachael Howard designs colourful and imaginative embroidered narrative wall hangings. The work shows her fascination with everyday life. Her designs focus on the innocent pleasures of living.
Cathy Miles constructs three-dimensional wire wall works. She cleverly combines iron-binding wire with found objects and materials to create witty depictions of birds in conversion. Her characters come to life to reveal their grumbles and gripes, bad habits, love interests and attention seeking behaviour.
Andrew Peter's works are all unique, limited productions. He specialises in the design of mirror wall pieces, constantly seeking to improve the designs in terms of their aesthetics and construction. He chooses to construct in multiples but no consecutive pieces are ever exactly the same.
Kazuhito Takadoi is intrigued by the colours in nature, marvelling at the constant changes throughout the year. He is interested in slow decay when everything eventually returns to the earth. Viewing his work from different angles and in different lights provides a new perspective.
The Exhibition is open from Friday 31st March to Friday 5th May 2006. The Gallery is open Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm (closed 13th to 18th April due to the Easter Break).
The Liverpool Hope University Fine Art and Design degree show 2006
27th May - Friday 2nd June 2006
Margaret Cahill - 'All the Empty Places'
Friday 9th June to Friday 7th July 2006
Margaret Cahill is based at Rogue Studios in Manchester and lectures in Fine Art at Bolton University. She has exhibited in London, New York and Eastern Europe as well as widely in the North West most recently in a solo show at The Atkinson, Southport and at The Walker, Liverpool.
Her work is represented in the collections of Salford Museums and Art Gallery and South Manchester Hospital Trust as well as in private collections in Britain, America and Europe.
Margaret creates disturbingly beautiful images in paintings of vast atmospheric spaces that are evocative of a sense of place. Balanced between truth and invention they offer the possibility for narrative and meaning yet remain elusive. Photographing real structures, manipulating the images and then transforming them through the paintings, she creates an alternative place that evokes the real one, yet retains its identity as a place apart.
This incorporation of photographs combined with a subtle playfulness of scale contributes to an unsettling edge in work that explores issues around memory, absence and presence and the boundaries between fiction and reality. The resulting paintings are both meditative and jarring.
'dyingfrog presents....' - As part of the Culture Company's themed year of "Liverpool Performs", dyingfrog is presenting an exhibition of artists who use performance in the creation of their work.
Aug 18th - Sept 8th 2006
The exhibition will be launched with a live performance event, taking place at the private view and including each of the artists. The artists are : Claire Weetman, Lucia Cipriano and Fanchon Frohlich with Frakture.
independents - 'Do as I Say, Not as I Do' - a Liverpool Hope University Fine Art and Design staff show.
Exhibiting artists/designers: Susan Disley, Peter Dover, Janice Egerton, Lizabeth Gatley, Steve Gatley, Lin Holland, Richard Hooper, Jason Jones, Michelle Jones-Hughes, Dan McBride, Callum Moncrieff, Sara Preisler, Li-Sheng Cheng, Tony Smith, Deno Soteriou, Fiona Ward, Alan Whittaker.
Sept 16 - Dec 1st
 'Changing Eight' - annual exhibition of works by 8 contrasting artists. Dec 8 - Jan 12
Exhibiting Artists: Derek Culley, Barry Swerdlow, Natalie Bennett, Paul Riley, Nathan Pendlebury, Ghislaine Howard, John Monaghan, Susan Aigelsreiter.
Also
Arch Initiatives - ARCH Initiatives is a registered charity that provides a wide range of substance misuse services which support people to take control of their lives.
Services are offered in the Wirral, Warrington, Cheshire and Halton areas. Creative Initiatives is one of ARCH's many programmes.
It is a creative arts/work experience project that runs as a co-operative. The project enables service users to rebuild their lives and maintain a drug and alcohol free lifestyle, in a supportive environment.
Upon completion of the programme, (average 6 months duration), service users are supported to move on to further education, training, voluntary or paid employment.
Pauline Keaney - Curated by Editions Gallery. Jan 19 - Feb 16 2007
Pauline was born in Liverpool and studied at the Slade School of Art. She moved to the Greek Island of Hydra 9 years ago and the landscape and environment of the place has populated her work since then.
loop- OVERVIEW 07 Curated by Arthur Roberts, celebrating Liverpool's 800th birthday with a survey of abstract practitioners working within and around the city in 2007. Feb 23 - Mar 23 2007
 OVERVIEW 07 demonstrates the diverse and colourful energy that is generated by many individuals working within the inexhaustible realms of abstraction.
This is a show of today which highlights the universal language that abstract art occupies. OVERVIEW 07 will consist of thirty plus artists working in diverse media.
'A Surface of Stories' solo show by Peter Dover - Apr 2 - May 4 2007
“It is an attempt to make sense of the chaotic diary of my memory: New Brighton, the fairground, the docks, the river, the sounds, the discarded and loved not, and half forgotten.
It is the detail, the minute crystals of history strewn anonymously together, a grit of experience. A surface of stories.”
Peter Dover’s investigative journey through memory and artistic practice informed by personal experience, provides a compelling exhibition full of surprises.
Final Year Fine Art & Design Degree Show
The exhibition is a show of works by final year students specialising in Sculpture, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Wood, Ceramics, Textiles and Metal.
The Exhibition is open Saturday 26th May - Friday 1st June, 10am - 4pm (excluding Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday 27th and 28th May)
Terry Sullivan Retrospective
 Jun 8 - Aug 17 2007
'Terry Sullivan is a maker of evocative dream like images. We are enticed by the energy of the brush stroke gesture, the staining and splashing, the twists and turns which are presented from the depths of the artist's imagination.
This retrospective is a voyage through five decades of the thoughts and emotions of Terry Sullivan who has demonstrated with clarity and conviction his unique talent to visually interpret the worlds around and within us'.
'First Sight' - MA by Creative Practice 2007
Exhibiting Artists - Gavin Arner, Nicolette Bennett, Robert Bryson, Katy Burns, Gavin Donnegan, Emma Gilmour, Sarah Lawton, Bowei Liang, Jacqueline Rainford and Louise Waller.
Description - 2007 sees the first students to graduate from Liverpool Hope's MA by Creative Practice. This unique exhibition offers an insight into a range of disciplines such as Silversmithing, Ceramics, Media, Printed Textiles, Furniture Design, Sculpture and Painting.
Open - Monday 1st October to Friday 9th October, 9am to 5pm (One week only).
'Changing Eight' 2007
Oct 12 - Nov 9 2007
Group Show curated by Jason Jones.
Artists: Colin Taylor, Peter Collins, Richard Banister, Jennie Cunningham, Jon Baraclough, Alex Wolkowicz, Parabhen Lad, John Maloney
Also... Drawing Paradise on the Axis of Evil' exhibition of drawings by Emily Johns prented by Merseyside CN
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