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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-season-launch-the-lives
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SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Season Launch: The Lives of Artists
DESCRIPTION:Season Launch: The Lives of Artists\nThursday 8th February\, 6-
 9pm\n\nJoin us for the launch of The Lives of Artists\, our new season of 
 exhibitions\, commissions\, residencies\, events and workshops. The Lives 
 of Artists asks audiences what might be uncovered about ourselves when we 
 listen to the testimony\, histories\, and stories of artists reflecting on
  their lives.\n\nThe evening will give visitors a first look at new exhibi
 tions including Joshua Clague: and it feels like I just got home and Babak
  Ganjei: Thanks for Having Me.\n\nGanjei reflects on vignettes from his li
 fe and career as an artist. He has re-staged the market stalls that he beg
 an selling his work from\; a means of sharing his work that Ganjei has out
 grown\, and yet can’t let go of. The deferential title of his exhibition
 \, Thanks for Having Me\, reflects back on a life of operating on the marg
 ins and never quite being sure where he belongs.\n\nIn and it feels like I
  just got home Clague is interested in enduring memories of the female voi
 ce in his life. The exhibition often riffs on the pop-icons and divas that
  he once emulated as a form of emotional resonance. Clague has produced hi
 s new work over the course of a year in which he returned home to the Wirr
 al\, having spent years away in London. His work lays out how his sense of
  self changes at different times\, in different places.\n\nBoth artists ha
 ve a longstanding connection to the Bluecoat\, with Ganjei having designed
  a commission for the building’s revamped Hub space back in 2021. Clague
  has had a studio space at Bluecoat since March 2023 as part of the New Co
 ntemporaries Studio Bursary and has also used the gallery over the last fe
 w months as a space for making new work.\n\nThe Lives of Artists will also
  see the launch of two new billboard commissions by Tess Gilmartin and Ott
 man Said. Both artists use abstraction as a way to create beautifully comp
 lex landscapes.\n\nSaid draws Liverpool’s familiar waterfront as abstrac
 ted blocks that seem to jostle for space amongst layers of interwoven line
 . Gilmartin’s expressive work features brightly coloured animals and pla
 nts\, drawing upon her experience of spending time outdoors.\n\nBoth artis
 ts feel rooted to the landscape\, and reflect this sense of belonging in t
 heir work. Said and Gilmartin are part of the Bluecoat’s creative commun
 ity as members of Blue Room and have been developing their practice in our
  supported studio project Studio Me.\n\nFree\, drop-in\n\nhttps://www.theb
 luecoat.org.uk/whatson/season-launch-the-lives-of-artists
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