BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7095@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20230208 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20230226 DTSTAMP:20230208T141512Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/arthouse-celebrating-10-years-at -arthouse/ SUMMARY:ArtHouse Gallery: ArtHouse: Celebrating 10 Years at ArtHouse DESCRIPTION:‘Celebrating 10 years at ArtHouse’ \nGroup exhibition\nArtH ouse\, 65 Eastbank Street\, Southport\, Merseyside\, PR8 1EJ\n8th – 25th February 2023 \n10 years ago Southport Contemporary Arts decided it was f inally time to find a more stable home for their escalating activities aft er several years of pop up exhibitions and classes around the region.\nLau nched in 2009\, the SCA network was originally established to embrace the fact that Southport is home to a wide spectrum of independent art practiti oners working across various disciplines and techniques\, including painte rs\, textile artists\, filmmakers\, photographers\, printmakers\, sculptor s\, jewellers\, musicians\, poets and performance-based artists.\nHaving f ound and refurbished the building in Eastbank Street\, in which ArtHouse i s now housed\, they have to date clocked up 170 exhibitions - no mean feat for a completely self-funded\, voluntary organization.\nEstablishing a pe rmanent ground floor gallery and upper studios that are let out to residen t artists\, SCA Director\, Norrie Beswick-Calvert confirms: “We were abl e to not only fulfill our objective of celebrating the creative work of ou r members\, but it also allowed us to extend that opportunity to non membe r individuals and organizations”.\nNorrie adds\, “The success and long evity of ArtHouse is testament to the passion our community has for art an d contemporary craft and we look forward to continuing to offer this oppor tunity for creatives of all ages and working in all artistic genres”.\nT o celebrate ArtHouse’s 10year Birthday in 2023\, SCA will be hosting a n umber of special events in the Eastbank Street Gallery throughout the year kicking off with a special invitation exhibition during February that wil l showcase the work of those artists who have held solo exhibitions at Art House during the last decade.\nSculpture/artist\, Russell MacDonell\, held his first solo show in the summer of 2019: “I love ArtHouse and the vib e it creates\; it gives a rare opportunity to local artists and makers to showcase their work in a small and intimate but special space.”\nConstan tly developing his skill base\, Russ now works across a variety of mediums employing an assortment of tools to create his work: “The chainsaw art is a completely different process to working with clay. Working with the c hainsaw you take material away to create a finished piece whereas with cla y you add to your work by building up the piece with clay. I also draw\, p aint and do illustration and caricatures which influence my clay sculpture style.”\nEx Sandgrounder now living in the Wirral\, Pauline Horner also has fond memories of her time at ArtHouse: “I was delighted to have a S olo Exhibition at the ArtHouse in September 2020. I had painted every day throughout the first Lockdown and had plenty of paintings to exhibit. My o verall title was ‘Beautiful Britain’ and paintings included mountain a nd water scenes from England\, Wales and Scotland. Many of these originate d from sketches I had done in previous years. It was an amazing experience to see the gallery covered with my own paintings.”\nAvid Ainsdale based potter\, Chris Hughes\, had his first solo show at ArtHouse in 2021. A fo rmer primary school teacher\, Chris began making his pots in the late 1970 ’s and following retirement in 2007\, enhanced his existing garden studi o by building a workshop and installing his own kiln.\n“I believe that m ost artists are drawn to the medium that suits them the best. I like clay. I like the feel of it the way it changes\, you can model it\, stick it to gether and build with it\, carve into it\, colour it and just leave it as the colour of the earth. By training I am a geographer\, clay is all about earth\, fire and water\, pretty similar really.”\nAll Chris’s stonewa re pots are hand-built using pinching\, coiling and slabbing techniques an d glazed in sympathetic natural tones. Favourites are blue and black (Tenm oku) and iron\, cobalt and copper oxides to enhance his trademark surface decoration.\nChris will be displaying his latest ceramics during the ArtHo use exhibition: “This jug grew out of a commission received at the Open Studio weekend I held as part of the SCA Arts Trail last year. I was asked to make a 'wonky jug' by a visitor to the studio\, which I did\, and it l ed me to make several more including this huge jug\, by far the largest I have ever made. It weighs quite a lot and is even heavier when full of liq uid - not the most practical jug in the world\, but it was never intended to be so!”\nArtist and writer\, Alice Lenkiewicz\, now based in Liverpoo l\, who will be displaying her textile mixed media and figurative wall han gings\, also first exhibited at ArtHouse in 2021 prior to embarking on a t hree-month textile art residency at The House of Annetta\, in London’s B rick Lane. Alice’s work is mainly sourced from her own fertile imaginati on incorporating a heady mix of African art\, Symbolism and Post Impressio nism realised using a combination of digital drawing\, painting and appliq ué.\n“My work is inspired by dreams and art that I have observed on my travels abroad. I have always enjoyed textile art\, predominantly pattern and design and dreamlike subjects\, particularly of women in nature and in surreal landscapes”.\nOn display will be Alice’s latest mixed media s tretched canvas\, ‘Under the Sun and Trees’: “This is a technique I really enjoy although it can be quite time consuming but worth the time sp ent. It involves painting the image first and then creating an extra layer of fabric and stitch on the surface of the painting. This creates a rich and tactile surface with layers of paint and stitch merged together. It ca n be quite minimal or it can become quite intricate”.\nThis wide-ranging celebratory showing is certainly not one to be missed. Catch it while you can. The work will be on display at ArtHouse\, Eastbank Street\, Southpor t from 8th – 25th February 2023. The gallery is open Tuesday – Friday 10.00-15.00. Saturday 11.00-16.00. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2023/02/Alice-Lenkiewicz-Seated-Lady-6-wall-hanging.png LOCATION:ArtHouse Gallery\, 65 Eastbank Street\, Southport\, Sefton\, PR81E J\, Southport\, United Kingdom GEO:53.645169;-3.004323 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=65 Eastbank Street\, Southp ort\, Sefton\, PR81EJ\, Southport\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=ArtHouse Gallery:geo:53.645169,-3.004323 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR