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:6173@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20201205 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20210222 DTSTAMP:20201008T134252Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-sean-edwards-undo-thing s-done-2/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Sean Edwards: Undo Things Done DESCRIPTION:\n\nThis winter\, Bluecoat brings 2020 Turner Bursary artist S ean Edwards’ Wales in Venice solo show Undo Things Done to Liverpool. The artist’s internationally acclaimed presentation for Wales at the 201 9 Venice Biennale was a poetic inquiry into place\, politics and class\, i ntertwined with personal histories. As the show tours and evolves\, Sean E dwards (b. Cardiff 1980) has extended the exhibition to include a solo pre sentation by Cardiff based artist and writer Sadia Pineda Hameed whose wr iting and films reflect his own interest in what we expect and what we inh erit.\n\nKnown for his sculptural approach to the everyday\, Edwards often begins with seemingly unrelated elements linked by autobiographical and c ultural connections. These range from the 1970s shopping centre near the h ousing estate where he grew up\, to Springsteen’s album Nebraska\, a Wel sh quilting group\, snooker\, tabloid newspapers\, and various found mater ials. Through investigative processes including time spent in local archiv es\, museums and libraries\, he gathers together images\, stories\, quotes \, and clips. It is in the teasing out of these things in the studio\, in isolating\, abstracting\, and bringing them together\, that their politica l and formal resonance comes into play.\n\n \n\nUndo Things Done - 'evokin g a way of living familiar to a great many people'\n\n \n\nUndo Things Don e takes as its starting point Edwards' experience of growing up on a coun cil estate in Cardiff in the 1980s\, capturing and translating what he cal ls a condition of 'not expecting much' into a shared visual language\; one that evokes a way of living familiar to a great number of people.\n\n \n\ nAt Bluecoat\, Edwards will create a further iteration of Undo Things Don e spanning two of the largest gallery spaces. The exhibition will feature key artworks exhibited in Venice including the ‘Confessional Screen’ sculptures and his own version of Welsh wholecloth quilts\, alongside new prints\, a new work for the exterior of our building and a re-edited versi on of his radio play Refrain.\n\n \n\nRefrain\, co-produced by National T heatre Wales\, was written for the artist’s mother Lily Edwards and stre amed live from her flat in Cardiff to the venue in Venice every day of the Biennale. Refrain weaves Lily Edwards’ biography\, growing up in a No rthern Irish Catholic Children’s Home and her subsequent life in Wales\, with found materials and Sean Edwards’ memories from childhood. The wor k was subsequently broadcast in a new version by BBC Radio 4 December 2019 .\n\n \n\nThe artist will also show a significant older work\, the silent film Maelfa (2011). Set in the now demolished 1970s shopping centre on t he Llanedeyrn estate where he grew up\, this film is a precursor to his pr esentation in Venice: Undo Things Done reunited with its origins.\n\n \n \nShowing alongside Edwards is Cardiff based British Asian (Filipino / Pak istani) artist and writer Sadia Pineda Hameed (b. London 1995) and co-fo under of LUMIN journal\, Wales’ only small press and curatorial collecti ve focused on experimental works by marginalised artists and writers. Her practice involves film\, installation\, text and performance.\n\n \n\nHer most recent moving image work\, tiny bubbles in the wine (2019) is a col laged film that evokes the artist's mother's previously untold experience s of migrating from the Philippines to the UK. The artist creates intuiti ve links between a mother’s story\, Filipino traditions of oral history traditions and David Medalla’s kinetic sculpture Cloud Canyons. Sharing many of Edwards’ own interests in inheritance and legacy while developi ng her own distinctive aesthetic\, we are so pleased that Sadia Pineda Ham eed will present a new film at Bluecoat as part of Undo Things Done in t he first gallery.\n\n \n\nCredits:\n\n \n\nSean Edwards’ Wales in Venice 2019 Undo Things Done exhibition was presented by Bluecoat’s Head of Programme\, Marie-Anne McQuay\, as guest curator on behalf of lead organi sation Tŷ Pawb\, Wrexham at 58th International Art Exhibition - La Bienna le di Venezia. Wales in Venice is commissioned by the Arts Council of Wale s. The tour of Undo Things Done to Tŷ Pawb\, Wrexham\; Bluecoat\, Liver pool (Lead Partner) and the Senedd\, Cardiff is kindly supported by Art Fu nd\, Colwinston Charitable Trust and Elephant Trust.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2020/10/image002-3.jpg LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201025T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR