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:5111@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20190908 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20190923 DTSTAMP:20190811T091637Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/georges-dock-plaza-the-maiden-vo yage-by-jenny-steele/ SUMMARY:: George's Dock Plaza: The Maiden Voyage by Jenny Steele DESCRIPTION:The Maiden Voyage by Jenny Steele\n8 - 22 September 2019\nVENUE : Georges Dock Plaza\, Georges Dock Building\, Pier Head\, Liverpool L3 1D D\nArtist Jenny Steele to unveil a bold new site-specific installation on Liverpool’s Georges Dock Plaza that will highlight Liverpool’s histori cally important transatlantic links to North America. \nThe Maiden Voyage  is a new site-specific installation and dance work that has developed ou t of a research-led project by contemporary visual artist Jenny Steele. T he Maiden Voyage takes inspiration from to the spread of ‘Art Deco’ m odernist architecture across the transatlantic from the United Kingdom to New York during the 1930s\, both through the transportation of people and the design and promotional advertising of 1930s transatlantic ocean liners themselves and presented at Georges Dock Plaza\, by the Grade II-listed G eorges Dock - Ventilation Station and Combined Control Centre for the Mers ey Tunnels.\nFollowing the devastation of World War One\, the period of mi d war or ‘Art Deco’ design was optimistic in style and promoted ideas of health and wellbeing. After an extensive time researching the architect ural style of the period in both the UK and USA\, Jenny Steele has expande d her focus now into the design and promotional advertising of prominent m id war transatlantic ocean liners that departed Liverpool for New York. A starting point for Steele’s research was the Archive of the Cunard Steam ship Co Ltd at the University of Liverpool’s Special Collections &\; Archives\, where her research explored the promotional language\, design a nd visual style of Cunard’s mid war elite liners. As well as taking insp iration from the descriptions of the positive experience of life on board from reading some of the passenger’s letters home that are held in the c ollection.\nAt both Manchester’s North West Film Archive and Screen Arch ive South East at the University of Brighton\, Steele also viewed home mov ies and promotional films that show life aboard the liners including an ab undance of relaxation in the open air\, and exercise such as swimming\, te nnis and shuffleboard. Steele also found the idealised\, stylish imagery t hat reflected life on board in vintage Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar magazin es from the 1930’s held at The British Library\, which shared clothing f or ocean liner travel in photoshoots and illustrations. And she viewed fir st hand\, examples of 1930’s bathing costumes\, lounging pyjamas\, dress and formal wear at Worthing Museum &\; Art Gallery\, which holds one o f the most significant costume collections in the UK.\nAll of this researc h has led to Jenny Steele’s new site-specific installation for Georges D ock Plaza\, to the side of the Grade II-listed Georges Dock Ventilation &a mp\; Control Station (built 1931-34). The Maiden Voyage will revive the spirit and optimism of 1930’s mid war transatlantic travel\, highlightin g Liverpool as a historically important port for travel to North America. Steele’s own drawings and prints influenced by design details and the st yle of the period\, will emblazon the Art Deco Georges Dock Plaza that was designed by architect Herbert James Rowse and with sculptures by Edmund C harles Thompson with George T Capstick\, as well as inside the original ic onic green tunnel tollbooth that sits in the centre of the square\, from 8 to 22 September 2019.\nSteele has also created a circular 6 metre-diamete r appliqué textile work that will be fixed to the circular plant access c over on Georges Dock Plaza beside the toll booth. The textile will also be utilised within a dance collaboration that will celebrate the optimism of transatlantic travel from 2pm on Wednesday 9 October with Merseyside Danc e Initiative’s (MDI) Jennie Hale\, and participants from intergeneration al groups to be performed at the Arrival Hall of the former Cunard Headqua rters\, the Grade II*-listed Cunard Building.\nThe Maiden Voyage is suppo rted by Arts Council England Project Grants\, a-n The Artists Information Company\, Fred Aldous\, Cunard Archive (University of Liverpool Special Co llections) and Liverpool City Region. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/08/Jenny-Steele-The-Maiden-Voyage-repeat-2019.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190331T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR