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:675@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160324T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160324T183000 DTSTAMP:20160316T094335Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-speed-meet-the-liverpoo l-biennial-associate-artists/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Speed Meet the Liverpool Biennial Associate Art ists DESCRIPTION:Thursday 24 March 2016 18.30\nat Bluecoat\nFree\, booking requi red\n\nJoin the Liverpool Biennial Associate Artists at Bluecoat for a uni que ‘speed meeting’ experience. Throughout the evening\, you can talk to ten artists based in the North of England and find out more about their work in an informal setting\, in which each artist will present their pra ctice to small audience groups.\n\nThe Liverpool Biennial Associate Artist s Programme is a major new initiative by Liverpool Biennial\, in partnersh ip with Independent Curators International (ICI) and Cactus Gallery\, whic h supports artists based in the North of England to develop their careers internationally. Artists are increasingly able to build sustainable career s outside London if they have the opportunity to strengthen their networks and markets beyond the UK. Liverpool Biennial and its partners are workin g with ten artists to provide a unique opportunity to work with leading in ternational figures in the art world and to showcase their work in Liverpo ol Biennial 2016.\n\nBook your free place now\n\nARTISTS\n\nSimeon Barclay \n\nSimeon Barclay (b.1975\, Huddersfield) lives in Leeds. Barclay is inte rested in exploring the dynamic nature of language\, the mediated image\, and objects that both seduce and provoke. He understands these impulses in relation to the human condition\, an existence Barclay perceives as being caught up in the tumultuous\, unfixed process of situating and defining o urselves within culture and tradition.\n\nJacqueline Bebb\n\nJacqueline Be bb (b.1977\, Chester) lives in Chester and Portland\, Oregon\, USA. Bebb i s interested in the impact of geographical dissonance on artistic endeavor . She uses travel as a means to galvanise thought\, question cultural obse ssions and examine the constructs of relationships from lifelong bonds to fleeting affinities.\n\nLindsey Bull\n\nLindsey Bull (b.1979\, Hereford) l ives in Manchester. Bull is a figurative painter whose work explores psych ological states. She is interested in different states of mind and how the se interior lives manifest or hide themselves from the outside world. With a fascination for dark\, idiosyncratic psychologies\, her paintings are i nvestigations into often sidelined or marginalised groups and individuals. \n\nRobert Carter &\; Lauren Velvick\n\nRobert Carter (b.1987\, Blackbu rn\, Lancashire) and Lauren Velvick (b.1988\, Preston\, Lancashire) live i n Manchester. They started working together in 2014 and founded ‘The Exh ibition Centre for the Life and Use of Books’\, one long\, ongoing self- taught history lesson that touches on art\, publishing\, censorship\, and regional politics. They are currently interested in translating ideologies into pattern.\n\nNina Chua\n\nNina Chua (b.1980\, Manchester) lives in Ma nchester. Chua is interested in surface as a visual and visceral experienc e. Through repetition and accumulation\, surfaces are built up which foreg round line\, colour\, and support. Nothing is concealed\; the process is e ssentially laid bare. The work is an exercise in limitation and the econom y of means\, which is used to maximal effect.\n\nMatthew Crawley\n\nMatthe w Crawley (b. 1965\, York) lives in Leeds. Crawley’s practice may be see n as a particular polemic brought about in some part by the influence of h is day job: art technician. The artist has\, made manifest an invisible fr iend\, assumed the identity of a Sardinian Bottlenose Dolphin\, resurrecte d a closed provincial Art Gallery and constructed a one to one scale facsi mile of his 13-year-old daughter’s bedroom.\n\nFrances Disley\n\nFrances Disley (b.1976\, Warrington) lives in Liverpool. Disley seeks to expose t he thought processes of the artist when wrestling with form and colour. Sh e uses her own body to animate the crude painted objects and surfaces that she creates.\n\nDaniel Fogarty\n\nDaniel Fogarty (b.1987\, Stockport) liv es in Manchester and Rotterdam\, The Netherlands. Fogarty applies the form at of ‘the whim’ in his practice. He sees his sculptural and collage w ork as being close to publishing\, in which paintings and thoughts of the day are as changeable and estranged as the weather\, and as normal as the Cheerio's he ate this morning.\n\nHarry Meadley\n\nHarry Meadley (b.1990\, Leeds) lives in Leeds. Meadley takes a varied approach to art making\, wi th a wide-ranging and interconnected body of work that appears to intentio nally span all mediums.\n\nStephen Sheehan\n\nStephen Sheehan (b.1986\, Bi rkenhead) lives in Birkenhead. Sheehan is interested in the beautiful\, fr agile\, and transient nature of life. He explores this interest through pe rformative actions and film. Sheehan’s work is usually produced in open spaces accessible to the passing public. This gives his work a sense of fr agility and vulnerability - at any moment it may be disturbed by human cur iosity.\n\nLiverpool Biennial 2016\n9 July – 16 October\n\nLiverpool Bie nnial presents a free festival of newly commissioned contemporary art from around the world. Liverpool Biennial 2016 will unfold through the landsca pe of the city. It is organised as a story narrated in several episodes: f ictional worlds sited in galleries\, museums\, pubs\, unused spaces\, stat ions\, hotels\, shops and supermarkets.\n\nFind out more ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/03/biennial-speed-meet.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:20151025T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR