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If You Can Hold Your Breath
18 June – 18 July 2010
Seven international artists examining the state of the ‘in-between’. All of the works exhibited suggest transformation, combining sculpture, painting, video and installation to challenge figuration, either by directly referencing the body or through deliberately abstracting, eliminating or obscuring it. Through editing, layering and re-shaping, found materials and forms become subverted into something more curious and ominous. Artists: Sarah Bowker-Jones, Karen Cunningham, Alex Farrar, Melissa Jordan, Pesce Khete, Elizabeth McAlpine and Rachel Niffenegger, curated by Lucy Johnston.

Eleanor Moreton: Im Wartezimmer
9 April - 22 May 2010
The Ceri Hand Gallery is delighted to announce Eleanor Moreton’s first solo show at the gallery, Im Wartezimmer (In the Waiting Room), featuring a series of new paintings that interrogate the past, both the historical - specifically that of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries - and the personal past.

Spasticus Artisticus
15 January – 27 February 2010
The title for Ceri Hand Gallery’s inaugural 2010 exhibition is taken from the song “Spasticus Autisticus,” penned by the legendary Ian Dury of the band Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Curated by Jota Castro & Christian Viveros-Fauné.

BEDWYR WILLIAMS: NIMROD
18 September - 24 October 2009
For his inaugural solo show, the artist Bedwyr Williams has transformed the gallery into a provincial airport, complete with terminal buildings, control tower, runway and menacing formation of planes looming overhead. Constructed from skateboards, walking sticks and incongruous found objects, these makeshift planes form bizarre psychological weapons – the artist’s nightmare manifest.

Henny Acloque: A Dressing
3 July – 8 August 2009
Ceri Hand Gallery is delighted to announce Henny Acloque’s first solo show in the UK. London based Acloque’s new series of narrative paintings reference old masters such as Bosch, Bruegel and Dürer and explore the fragility of life and the self.

Matthew Houlding: Sons of Pioneers
10 April – 22 May 2009
The Ceri Hand Gallery is delighted to announce Matthew Houlding’s first solo show with the gallery.  Houlding's new sculptures and collages are an homage to the utopian zeal of modern architecture and Hockney’s Bigger Splash painting.

S Mark Gubb - 'My Empire of Dirt' 16 January - 28 February 2009
My Empire of Dirt is S Mark Gubb's first solo show at Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool. This exhibition extends his preoccupation with our passage through life, and the social, theological, political and economic systems and structures that affect our existence and behaviour.

Mel Brimfield: 'Waiter Waiter, there's a Sculpture in my Soup', Performance Art and Comedy from Gutai to the Present. 18 September – 19 October 2008

Doug Jones: Inservi Deo et Laetare. Exhibition: 15 August to 11 September 2008
As a child from a long family line of Freemasons, Jones has always been fascinated by the secret aprons his father kept in a box in the study, and the books which detailed the ceremonies the Masons performed behind closed doors.

These Living Walls of Jet
5 July - 2 August 2008

Eleven artists who weave contemporary and historical references – from the baroque to the renaissance - with folklore and the treacherous natural world, to reveal absurdity in our quest for stability and perfection and the fragility of sexuality, memory and subjectivity.