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:4855@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190509T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190609T170000 DTSTAMP:20190502T115512Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/the-cube-sea-air-and-wrecks-new- paintings-by-john-hyatt/ SUMMARY:: The Cube: Sea\, Air and Wrecks: New Paintings by John Hyatt DESCRIPTION:Pacific Road\, Birkenhead\, CH41 1LJ\nLaunches May 9th\n11.00am - 5pm Thursdays and Fridays\nhttps://www.imaginewirral.com\n\nWirral Cham ber of Commerce announces the launch of The Dark Side with the opening of The Cube and Dark Side Art Lab\, including the exhibition: \n\nSea\, Air a nd Wrecks: New Paintings by John Hyatt\n\nDark Side Art Lab and The Cube a re the first projects from The Dark Side.\n\nThe Dark Side is a cross-comm unities\, inter-generational and inclusive collaborative arts initiative l aunched by FINSA and artist\, John Hyatt\, Professor/Head of The Institute of Art and Technology at the Faculty of Arts\, Professional and Social St udies at Liverpool John Moores University.\n\nIf people don’t know what something is they use the word ‘dark’\, like ‘Dark Energy’ and ‘ Dark Matter’ - veiled\, hidden\, powerful and important. When I moved to Wallasey everyone in Liverpool said\, “Oh\, yer movin’ to The Dark Si de\, are yuh?” When I wanted to contribute a series of arts projects to Wirral Borough of Culture in collaboration with FINSA\, the umbrella title of ‘The Dark Side’ was hard to avoid. Over the coming year\, the aim of The Dark Side initiative is to help enervate\, reveal and profile Wirra l’s living treasures: her energetic people\, artists\, projects\, produc ts and cultures. The Dark Side shines a light on itself. - John Hyatt. Apr il 2019\n\nOver the forthcoming months more and more projects\, exhibition s and events will be unveiled by The Dark Side\, a unique collaboration be tween arts\, manufacturing and education\, supported by Wirral Chamber of Commerce as a part of Wirral Borough of Culture 2019.\n\nThe Cube is a pro ject sponsored by FINSA and designed by architects and occasional tutors a t Liverpool School of Art and Design\, Ed Butler and Dan Wiltshire of WMBs tudio. It has been erected at Pacific Road by students of Wirral Metropoli tan College. Alongside The Dark Side Art Lab\, it will become an exhibitin g and project venue at Pacific Road in the months to come\, supported by W irral Chamber of Commerce.\n\nThe Dark Side Art Lab opens with an inaugura l exhibition\, John Hyatt: Sea\, Air and Wrecks\, a series of new Wirral-i nspired paintings\, depicting the bright side of the Dark Side. The glorio us light of the sea and air of Wallasey imbues the paintings with an inten sity of light\, colour and spirit that would make even Van Gogh reach for his sunglasses - if he could wear them! The carcasses of boats poking out of the shifting sands of time hint at a darker past of beached ships salva ged by Wreckers.\n\nThe Dark Side has a lot of projects in the pipeline\, working with kids\, communities\, students\, local and international artis ts\, musicians\, architects\, and storytellers on workshops\, conversation s\, competitions\, exhibitions\, football\, public art\, shadow museums\, alien invasions\, fairy festivals\, pavilions for Birkenhead Park and Wood side and more besides.\n\n \n\nInformation on the Collaborators:\n\nFINSA is the pioneer manufacturer of particleboard and MDF since 1931 in Spain and since 1990 in Birkenhead. With offices in 17 countries\, FINSA serves 70 nations: a truly global brand with a sense of responsibility and concer n for sustainability and community.\n\nJohn Hyatt lives in New Brighton. H e is an artist who has exhibited in Australia\, Brazil\, China\, India\, I reland\, Portugal\, Japan\, the UK and the USA. Music fans know John in ma ny incarnations and collaborations and as singer/songwriter with legendary post-punk band\, The Three Johns.\n\nThe Institute of Art and Technology is LJMU’s accessible\, healthy and sustainable institute for original sc holarship\, applied creative imagination\, and rigorous research used to i mpact positively on lives\, times and environments. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/05/john-hyatt-dark-side.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