This is additional information kindly provided by the gallery.
Coast Exhibition 17/3/05 – 18/6/05 (Extended)
5athegallery, Bickerstaffe St, St Helens
The sea is in St Helens !
The new selling contemporary art exhibition titled COAST held at 5athegallery opened to the public on March 17 th 2005 .
St Helens first independent art and craft gallery is situated in Bickerstaffe Street in the heart of the newly renovated George Street Cultural Quarter between the town’s main bus and train stations.
Since opening its doors in November 2003 the gallery owner Mr Ken Hughes said “I have been overwhelmed by the support and enthusiasm shown, in particular, by the people of Merseyside who visit the gallery regularly to enjoy the changing programme of professional art exhibitions and who buy the artworks and the unique printed products.”
The new exhibition titled COAST is a selected group show of varying artworks in different mediums including painting, drawing, photography, mixed media and sculpture produced by 28 Northwest based artists, 10 of whom live or work in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens.
The preview of the COAST exhibition took place in the evening of Wednesday 16 March in the main upstairs gallery space of 5athegalleryand as well as artists, business people and art lovers; guests included Merseyside teachers and lecturers. Art Teacher Sheena Smith from St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic High School said “There is an excellent variety of work; I will definitely bring the pupils to view the exhibition”.
The event attracted the support of Councillor Marie Rimmer Leader of St Helens Council who also commented on the gallery owners recent award winning at the St Helens Tourism & Leisure Award ceremony, “Thanks to his vision and commitment, Ken Hughes is a worthy winner of the prestigious 2004 Tourism Entrepreneur award, I know the competition was very strong indeed given that the other shortlistees were Le Frog Restaurant and Rennies Gallery.”
The coastal theme for the exhibition was purposely chosen to link to this year’s theme for Liverpool - Year of the Sea - in it’s count down to becoming European Capital of Culture 2008. Liverpool ’s maritime themed year is part of the ‘SeaBritain 2005’ festival - a year which will celebrate Britain as a seafaring nation and highlight its maritime heritage, which is an initiative led by VisitBritain and the National Maritime Museum .
The 28 artists represented are: Karen Adamson, Steven Ashton, Bernard Atherton, James Bartholomew, Rachel Bishop, Colin Callon, David Burns, Stuart Carter, Paul Cousins, Elizabeth Culley, Steve Deer, Nerjit Dhol, Shamial Din, Patrick Ferguson, Sharon Hughes, Ken Hughes, Gordon Humphries, Caro Inglis, Andrew Jones, George Kear, Brian Lewis, Anthony Marsden, Ian McKay, Julie Robson, Estella Scholes, David Stanley, Alicia Velazquez, Adele White.
5a thegallery is open Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 6pm , free entry.
Please telephone for further details 01744 20466.
