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:11096@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251108T000000 DTSTAMP:20251016T145310Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/herstory/ SUMMARY:ArtHouse Gallery: Herstory DESCRIPTION:‘Herstory’\n\nSolo exhibition by Becky Atherton with jewell ery by Mick Phillips\n\n21st Oct – 8th Nov 2025\n\nThe ArtHouse\, 65 Eastbank Street\, Tues thro Fri 10.00 – 15.00 and Sat 11.00 – 16.00.\ n\nLancashire born artist Becky Atherton from Burscough has only recently  found time to focus on her own creative practice after working as a com munity artist for 25 years. Subsequent to completing her MA in Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston in 2021\, Becky received a ‘developing your creative practice’ grant from the Arts Council in 2023.\n\nDuring this period Becky began to investigate the herstory of philanthropist and art collector\, Anne Haworth\, who’s family home was bequeathed to the people of Accrington at her death in 1920 and later beca me a public art gallery and museum – Haworth Art Gallery.\n\nExhibiting her work regionally\, nationally and internationally\, Becky has continue d to explore herstory\, female mythology\, fairytale and folklore through out her ever evolving practice: “My work looks at how I can promote the natural world in a magical spiritual way. Using a surrealist/fantasy styl e I want to challenge the materialistic patriarchal society we live in by providing an alternative. The intent is to encourage people to think beyon d the limits of religion\, domestic lives\, money and wealth and explore s tories and other possibilities and ways of being and thinking.”\n\nAn ea rlier acrylic painting of Titania even travelled over to Nova Scotia to fe ature in the Canadian quarterly magazine\, ‘long con’\, before resur facing across the world in Bangladesh as part of Karkhana Art Space’s  ‘HOPE’International Online Art Exhibition in 2021.\n\n“’Titania’  was based on William Shakespeare’s Queen of the Fairies. Although she is winged\, she is also shackled. I took my inspiration from the sculpture of Alice Nutter by David Palmer located in Roughlee Village in Lancashire . Alice Nutter was an English woman accused and hanged as a result of the Pendle Witch-Hunt. By combining Titania and Alice I wanted to evoke the st rength of women which throughout the centuries has been systematically att acked.”\n\nAn upshot of Southport’s Townscape Heritage Project in 2023 \, Becky’s regal ‘The Protection of Salus’ paintings draw attentio n to the imposing sculpted face of the ancient Roman goddess carved high a bove the central 3rdstorey window of an iconic Grade II-listed Victorian b uilding in Lord Street.\n\n“While being part of the SCA Heritage Group\, we explored number 479-481 on Lord Street\, a beautiful blue tiled\, Vict orian eclectic building. During the making part of the project my interest was sparked by the female head situated at the top of the building often surrounded by pigeons! The groups researched and found and named her as Sa lus the Roman Goddess of safety\, welfare\, health and prosperity. I wonde r is Salus still protecting the people of Southport today and in turn are the pigeons protecting her?”\n\nIntertwining the mystery of Nature with the stuff of legend\, Becky’s recent evocative ‘Selkie’ paintings explore the covert mythology of moonlight dancing\, shape-shifting women that alluringly straddle the line between seal and human.\n\n“I aim to visually intermingle female mythological characters with modern day and hi storical scenarios. I also want to have a strong connection with the natur al world\, which historically seemed to be a female power base.”\n\nAcco mpanying Becky's idiosyncratic artwork will be a selection of upcycled\, hand crafted contemporary artisan jewellery designs by Mick Phillips al so from Burscough.  Although Mick originally studied jewellery making for ty years ago as part of his art education\, it is only since 2020 that he has revisited the craft.  Mick takes his inspiration from found pieces of decorative ceramic or ‘sherds’ collected from local fields and stre ams: “The pottery sherds are first sorted\, cleaned and sterilised. Any rough edges are ground off\, maintaining the original outline of the sher d as far as possible. Depending on the size of the sherd it will either be come a pendant or an earring\, but either way it must have a hole drilled using a diamond tipped drill. A silver jump ring is then silver soldered i n place and a chord\, or earring finding\, is fitted.”\n\nBecky’s fasc inating artwork will be on display alongside Mick’s eye-catching jewelle ry from 21st October– 8thNovember 2025 at The ArtHouse\, 65 Eastbank S treet\, Tues thro Fri 10.00 – 15.00 and Sat 11.00 – 16.00. There is al so an opportunity to meet up with Becky\, who will be in the Gallery to ch at about her work\, on Saturday 25thOctober 13.00-15.30pm. 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