BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6034@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20200804 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20200823 DTSTAMP:20200803T113437Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/arthouse-sca-separate-yet-togeth er-sca-members-open-exhibition-2020/ SUMMARY:ArtHouse Gallery: ArtHouse SCA: Separate Yet Together\, SCA Members ' Open Exhibition 2020 DESCRIPTION:SEPARATE YET TOGETHER\nSCA Members’ Open Exhibition 2020\nArt House\, Eastbank Street\, Southport\n4th – 22nd August 2020\nThis year ’s eagerly awaited annual Southport Contemporary Arts Open Exhibition is rising to the challenge facing all artists during Covid-19 and will be\, according to SCA Director Norrie Bewick-Calvert\, “a celebration of the creativity that took place in an unprecedented time.”\nShe explains:  “Although physically separated from each other\, the SCA’s artistic ne twork continued to bring people together through on-line creative projects and inspirations. The newfound time and space also gave many the opportun ity to bring to life many of their innovative ideas and skills\, old and n ew. 
In this year’s gallery exhibition we hope to share the wide scope of SCA Members work as well as the positive mental and physical outcomes of being Separate Yet Together.”\n\nWhat began as a way of resourcefull y staying connected\, the combined Friday art class and various SCA member s devised an on-line sharing project ‘Separate Yet Together’. Each we ek the artists would share their experiments at the SCA on-line gallery as a way to generate and feed into developing more new work.\nSCA regular\, Kate Tidmarsh describes the process: “Over the period of ‘lockdown’ our Friday art group kept in touch via zoom. We decided to share works in progress with each other and use these as either inspiration or physical components of our own work as a way of being together\, while we were sepa rate.”\n\nSome of Kate’s mixed-media realisations will now also be on show in the ArtHouse gallery in August. “I became interested in the ac tual words ‘Separate Yet Together’ and incorporated them into a phra se that I recorded and used to make a voiceprint (spectrogram). This mixed -media piece incorporates digital fragments of other artists' work echoing the superimposed voiceprint\, on an underlying collagraph print.”\nReti red Liverpool JMU academic and SCA Member\, Martin Dawber\, better known t oday for his many books on contemporary art and design practice\, had to a pproach Norrie’s challenge from a different angle while self-isolating i n Birkdale.\n“Because of the temporary closure of ClayWorks as part of l ockdown\, I had to rethink my usual modus-operandi and so I swapped my cus tomary clay for torn-up paper and created a Coronavirus cake out of papi er-mâché. It was constructed from torn baking recipes pages from the wee kend supplements and has American author\, Dean Koontz’s maxim “Where there is cake\, there is hope” inscribed on the cut slice.”\nLong te rm SCA member\, Jo Landy\, has also been challenged by the self-isolation status working from her Ainsdale studio to conjure her thoughts into a ser ies of creative embroideries.\n\n“Three months on and I am thinking abou t the passage of time during this strange phase. I have used rusted fabric \, left over a long period\, and added slow stitch and then free-machine s titch to produce the 3D shapes representing the virus.”\nNeil Prior\, an other long-standing SCA member who presented a on-man-showing at the galle ry earlier in the year\, took up his own ‘virtual’ brush to complete two new paintings - “Time to Reflect” and “Freedom” – both related to the lockdown topic - ‘Separate Yet Together’.\nNeil explai ns\, “Fortunately during the lockdown the SCA members were able to set up a regular zoom meeting once a week and a WhatsApp chat that was product ive in sharing ideas and experiences and creating pieces of work correlate d to the current state but was also a support mechanism for all those conc erned so proved to be an excellent vehicle.”\nNeil describes his submiss ions: “The two pieces speak for themselves\, In “Time to Reflect”\ , the yellow boat is an indication that despite how alone we can feel at t his time\, we are all in the same boat and that we should use this slowing down of time to reflect on ourselves and those around us (represented by the clouds).”\nHe goes on to add\, “The second painting\, ”Freedom ” is a very large canvas and probably my favorite piece over the lockdo wn as it was taken from a photograph that I took of a single Black Headed Gull in flight on Ainsdale Beach. I used the images of the gulls flight to represent our own flight path as lockdown relaxes and we seek some kind o f freedom and return to normality.”\nThis unique and exclusive one-off s howing shows that there is definitely nothing to stand in the way of commi tted artists. It is certainly not one to be missed. The SCA Members’ ext raordinary artwork will be on display at the ArtHouse\, Eastbank Street f rom 4th – 22nd August 2020. The gallery is open Tuesday – Friday 10.0 0-15.00. Saturday 11.00-16.00.\nIn line with Government advice\, the SCA t eam have introduced strict measures to keep visitors to the Gallery as saf e as possible: There will be a policy of 2 visitors at a time\, with socia l distancing once inside\, and hand sanitize dispensers at the door to use on arrival. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2020/08/Jo-Landy-with-Work.jpg 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:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR