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Walker Art Gallery - John Moores Painting Prize 2010

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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.
 

Open Eye Gallery - Liverpool Biennial: Touched

imageLars Laumann
18 September - 28 November 2010

Lars Laumann makes video essays about people and their complex interior worlds. He points up their strangeness, separateness and need to connect. He explores collisions of individuals, cultures, ways of life and systems of belief. Combining elements of documentary with fiction, poetry and myth, he creates extraordinary stories that plunge us into the lives of his subjects.
 

Various venues - No Longer Empty: On the Road

nle-logo-100No Longer Empty: On the Road - Liverpool Biennial 2010
18 September - 27 November 2010

Conceived as a response to the present economic condition, The New York-based group No Longer Empty (NLE) creates site-specific installations that temporarily transform vacant venues throughout the city. For Liverpool, NLE will feature thirteen international artists, including four from Liverpool using sound as a medium to explore the history of the city, occupying and activating two previously disused and derelict buildings and a city centre car park. NLE is one of the Liverpool Biennials’ six official programs.
 

Cornerstone Gallery - 'New Fiction' by Martin Greenland

Martin-Greenland-Emmanuels-Land-100'New Fiction' by Martin Greenland
18 September - 12 November 2010

The Cornerstone Gallery in collaboration with the Art Space Gallery / Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, is proud to present an Exhibition of new works by Martin Greenland. ‘New Fiction’ is a delicate balance between the believable, based upon what is seen, and the unbelievable, the unseen. This balance is negotiated through an appreciation of physical beauty, the technical craft of paint and the concept.
 

Ceri Hand Gallery - Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson 'No Sign of Helicopters'

no-sign-of-helicopters-100Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson 'No Sign of Helicopters'
16 September – 16 October 2010
Preview: Wednesday 15 September 2010, 18.00 - 20.00

For their debut solo exhibition at the Ceri Hand Gallery, which coincides with the Liverpool Biennial, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson present a new body of work exploring issues of containment and release.
 

Royal Standard - Hierarchies of Allegiance

JBaldock_Togetherness-100Hierarchies of Allegiance
17 September – 17 October 2010
Preview: Thursday 16 September, 17.00 – 21.00. Includes a live performance, WE by Pil and Galia Kollectiv.

The Royal Standard is pleased to present Hierarchies of Allegiance, one of two exhibitions during the Liverpool Biennial. This group exhibition brings together U.K based artists whose work encompasses film, performance, drawing and installation. Artists: Christian Newby | Jonathan Baldock | Pil and Galia Kollectiv.
 

International Gallery - Space Between

gaspowerplant-100Space Between
18 September - 2 October 2010
Private View: 17 September 2010

Where and what is the (space between)? High Tide's contribution to S.Q.U.A.T Liverpool imparts an exploration into the ambiguities and often intangible relationships that we have with the natural world. Brady & Carter, John Davies, Helen Grove White, Philip Jeck, Kultivator, Anne Lydiat, Anna Mendelssohn, David Nash, Janette Porter, Tim Pugh, Elizabeth Willow.
 

Gallery4AllArts, Gallery 2 - Capturing Threads of Light

NicoleBartosCapturingthreadsofLight-100Capturing Threads of Light
16 - 29 September 2010
Open Day: Saturday 18 September 2010, 12.00 - 19.00

A revelation of colour vibration and light filtering screens that welcome you to take a journey of meditation and peace. Featuring a site specific installation and abstract painting by Nicole Bartos.
 

Wolstenholme Creative Space - Album

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18 September - 17 October 2010
Private View: 17 September 2010, 18.00 - 21.00
Album is an exhibition comprised of new and existing works by 17 young artists currently studying on the RCA’s renowned Photography MA course in London. Working across the disciplines of photography, film and video, new site-specific works, which seek to respond to the particularities of the city will be produced and shown for the first time.
 

Unity Theatre - Tabula Rasa Theatre

tabula-rasa-100Tabula Rasa Theatre - Ritual - Communion
18 September  - 28 November 2010

The UnityTheatre is housed in a former synagogue: this piece looks at the parallels between theatre, religious ritual, performance and communion. An installation by Alexandra Wolkowicz and Jon Barraclough for the Unity Theatre, Liverpool to mark its 30th year. Be filled with magic and food for the soul. Manna from heaven.
 

VARIOUS VENUES - S.Q.U.A.T. Liverpool

squat-liverpool-100S.Q.U.A.T. Liverpool
18 September - 28 November 2010

For the Liverpool Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art, 2010, N.L.E. and T.A.O., will be collaborating to curate the exhibition S.Q.U.A.T. Liverpool. This will be one of 6 exhibition platforms running concurrently with the main Touched International Exhibition.
 

A Foundation - Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010

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18 September - 13 November 2010

Featuring the work of 49 artists across a range of media, the exhibition provides a unique opportunity to engage with new practice and ideas from across the UK. Participants are selected by a panel comprised of influential arts figures, predominantly artists, the selectors for 2010 are Gabriel Kuri, Mark Leckey and Dawn Mellor.
 

C.U.C.- Liverpool Biennial: CityStates

imageLiverpool Biennial: CityStates
18 September - 28 November 2010

A major new collaboration for Liverpool Biennial 2010 presents a series of international exhibitions exploring the cultural dynamics between cities and states. CityStates is a cluster of international exhibitions, initiated and supported by embassies, foreign governments, international agencies or galleries, exploring the cultural dynamics between cities and states.
 

Metal at Edge Hill Station - Dream Machine

Dream-machine-100Dream Machine
15 September - 23 October 2010
Private View: 15 September 2010 from 18.00 onwards

Opening on the 180th Anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, inside the buildings of the oldest existing passenger railway station still in use, this exhibition will celebrate the first journey taken between two cities through a series of large-scale works which reflect on time, routine, repetition, direction and discipline; qualities that all inform the artistic process. Featuring artists: Nicola Dale and composer Ailis Ni Riain, Phil Lockhart, Tom Palin, and Richard Proffitt
 

Corke Gallery - Biennial Preview Show

corke-logo-100Biennial Preview Show
15 - 18 September 2010

Ticket and invitation only preview of work being shown in the Corke Gallery’s TEN Independents Biennial exhibitions.
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St. Luke's Church - Fab Collective present Giraffe

fab-logo-100Giraffe: a visual exploration of laughing by the Fab Collective
18 September - 28 November 2010

In these gloomy times the Fab Collective want to make you smile - or maybe even laugh - with their latest exhibition at St Luke's Church. Always up for a laugh, the Collective want to touch people's funny bone in their new exhibition. Titled Giraffe, the exhibition - which is part of the Independent strand of the Liverpool Biennial - will show the funny side of Liverpool.
 

Norfolk St Studios - Forgotten Alchemy by Dave White

Dave-white-COBRA-100Forgotten Alchemy by Dave White
18 September - 3 October 2010

An installation by Dave White. An exhibition of recent works documenting 'Forgotten Alchemy' the translation of possessions and experiences from childhood to date.
 

Gallery4AllArts, Gallery 1 - Fanchon Fröhlich, Beryl Bainbridge - a friendship

fanchon-frohlich-beryl-bainbridge-100-2Fanchon Fröhlich, Beryl Bainbridge - a friendship
16 - 29 September 2010
Private View: 16 September 2010, 15.00 - 20.00

A collection of drawings, paintings and writings by Fanchon Fröhlich related to the artist's friendship with the writer Beryl Bainbridge. Curator Nicole Bartos.
 

The Capstone - Emma Rodgers

Emma-Rogers-FightingHares-100Emma Rodgers at The Capstone
18 September - 12 November 2010
Private View: 23 September 2010, 18.00 - 21.00
Bluecoat Display Centre in association with Liverpool Hope University presents an Exhibition celebrating the work of international artist Emma Rodgers. She is one of Britain’s leading ceramic sculptors and an artist who is constantly pushing the boundaries of her work in terms of expression and the use of materials.
 

The Vitreum - Liverpool Life

excavation_time-100Liverpool Life
16 September - 15 October 2010

Liverpool - the place & its people explored in contrasting ways by 3 of the region's leading photographers: Jim Connolly captures the legendary humour whilst Colin Serjent zooms in on the city's surfaces and Frank Meaney celebrates the panoramic splendour of the architecture.
 

John Lewis - between Presence and Absence

jason-jones-100John Lewis - between Presence and Absence
18 September - 18 October 2010

Liverpool born and nationally exhibited artist Jason Jones presents an installation of work within the furniture department of John Lewis, Liverpool One. The resonance between the presence and absence of an object void of visible human involvement is what informs these works.
 


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