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:1431@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20170204 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20170219 DTSTAMP:20161031T170749Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-display-centre-stalwart s/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat Display Centre: Bluecoat Display Centre: Stalwarts DESCRIPTION:Stalwarts\n4th February - 18th March 2017\nPrivate View: Friday 3rd February\, 2017 5.30 – 7.30pm\nAt Bluecoat Display Centre\n\nThe Bl uecoat\, (the building which Bluecoat Display Centre has been based in sin ce its conception in 1959)\, is celebrating its 300th year anniversary dur ing 2017. It is the oldest building in Liverpool City Centre and was origi nally built as a school for orphans of seafarers. The Bluecoat became one of the countries first artist-led centres in the early 20th century\, when it became the home of the Sandon group of artists\, It is now a thriving arts centre.\n\nBluecoat Display Centre is an independent contemporary cra ft gallery which exhibits museum quality work by national and internationa l makers and has programmed this exhibition\, reflecting on the passage of time and the history of the Display Centre.\n\n“Stalwarts” presents c eramic artists John Leach\, John Ward\, David &\; Margaret Frith\, Emil y Myers\, Duncan Ross and Gabriele Koch\, who all have a very long standin g relationship with the Display Centre\, some over 50 years. Each will be showing a new collection of work.\n\nThese luminaries can be seen in major national public collections and this exhibition represents a unique oppor tunity for the general public to view and purchase their very collectable works.\n\nDavid &\; Margaret Frith - As David says\, "Celebrating now 50 years of potting\, my work evolves around the thrown form and is firmly based within the oriental culture of reduction glazed ware". Margaret say s of her relationship with porcelain\, “Still after 50 years there is so much to search for”.\n\nGabriele Koch will be showing simple hand-built forms exploring balance and spatial relationships. “Earth\, water\, air &\; fire. Gabriele Koch’s lovely pots speak of all those elements as vividly as any I know” said Sir David Attenborough of her works.\n\nJoh n Leach set up the Muchelney Pottery on the Somerset Levels in 1965 after training with his grandfather Bernard Leach and his father David. He will be exhibiting his one-off work during this exhibition.\n\nEmily Myers curr ently works in both porcelain and red stoneware\, “Emily Myers is a cons ummate\, careful thrower….her range of work quietly celebrates the possi bilities of clay.” Emmanuel Cooper.\n\nDuncan Ross throws and burnishes his work using many layers of fine terra-sigillata slip with resist and in lay decoration. Duncan feels that the challenge lies in the relationship o f form and pattern. Balance\, rhythm and proportion are all important.\n\n John Ward was born in 1938. His hand-built vessels illustrate many techniq ues and involve him mixing his own clay and finishing his pots by scraping \, burnishing and sometimes the use of under glaze colours.\n\nA supportin g loan display of earlier works by these artists drawn from the collection of National Museums\, Liverpool will illustrate how the individual artist s work has developed and changed over the years. All the loaned works were purchased from Bluecoat Display Centre in the past. The Stalwarts exhibit ion is curated by Dr Maureen Bampton who is somewhat of a stalwart herself \, having just celebrated spending over 30 years in her role as Director. Many historic mile stones and relationships will be commemorated in this s how.\n\nOpening the same day in the adjoining Bluecoat Gallery\, will be t he complementary show “Public View.” Curated by the Bluecoats long sta nding Artistic Director Bryan Biggs\, it brings together works by 100 fine artists who have exhibited at Bluecoat during the last 50 years.  Artist s include Yinka Shonibare\, Tom Wood and Yoko Ono.\n\nBoth shows represent just a small sample of the many hundreds of artists and makers who have s hown in the two very individual spaces over the years\, and provide a snap shot of the curatorial considerations of these two distinctive charitable organisations.\n\nAdmission Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/10/unnamed-6.jpg LOCATION:Bluecoat Display Centre\, The Bluecoat\, College Lane Entrance\, L iverpool\, L1 3BZ\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.404162;-2.984092 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Bluecoat\, College Lane Entrance\, Liverpool\, L1 3BZ\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS =100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat Display Centre:geo:53.404162,-2.984092 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20161030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR