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Glass, Metal & Fire: Ruth Ball
22 October 2009 - Autumn 2010
Local enamel artist Ruth Ball is displaying some of her beautiful pieces from her collection of enamelled jewellery and decorative objects in the Walker Art Gallery in an exhibition called Glass, Metal & Fire.

'Dare to Wear: Glass Dresses by Diana Dias-Leão' is a stunning display of beautiful but deadly garments. Featuring 14 glass dresses and two barbed wire corsets, the display demonstrates Diana Dias-Leão’s glass making skills and her experience of working in the fashion industry.

John Moores Painting Prize 2010
18 September 2010 - 3 January 2011
Puddles, pleasure and protest all feature in this year’s John Moores Painting Prize. 45 paintings shortlisted from almost 3,000 entrants cover traditional themes of portraiture, landscape, still lives and abstracts but their execution and direction are far from old fashioned, proving the vitality and power of contemporary painting.