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:5532@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20200808 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20201102 DTSTAMP:20200806T113323Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/walker-art-gallery-linda-mcmartn ey-retrospective/ SUMMARY:Walker Art Gallery: Walker Art Gallery: Linda McMartney Retrospecti ve DESCRIPTION:LINDA McCARTNEY RETROSPECTIVE\n\n25 April – 31 August 2020\, Walker Art Gallery\, Liverpool\n\nThe Walker Art Gallery will display phot ographs taken by Linda McCartney (1941-1998) in an exhibition curated by P aul\, Mary and Stella McCartney. The Linda McCartney Retrospective will sh owcase more than 200 photographs\, including images of the McCartney famil y taken in Liverpool which have never been displayed before.\n\nThe exhibi tion features images of some of the most iconic artists and moments from t he 1960s music scene\, alongside intimate and arresting family portraits. The photographs capture the world as Linda experienced it\, representing t he people\, places and landscape around her in her inimitable spontaneous and experimental style.\n\nA wealth of ephemera and archive materials will also be displayed\, including some of Linda’s journals from the 1960s a nd a number of her cameras. Contact sheets\, Polaroids and sun prints all feature\, demonstrating Linda’s creativity and interest in early and exp erimental photographic processes.\n\nSandra Penketh\, Executive Director f or Galleries and Collections Care at National Museums Liverpool\, said: “The Linda McCartney Retrospective offers visitors a very special insigh t into the exceptional talent of Linda McCartney as a photographer. Linda ’s ability to capture intimate moments with ease and sensitivity is evid ent throughout the exhibition\, from her relaxed photographs of some of th e greatest musicians of all time\, to her intimate family portraits\, port raying her sense of humour and fun.\n\n“We’re particularly looking for ward to displaying a series of photographs taken in Liverpool and on the W irral which haven’t been exhibited before. From Liverpool’s city centr e streets\, to Wirral’s coastal spots\, it’s fantastic to see these fa miliar sights through Linda’s eyes.”\n\nBorn Linda Eastman in New York in 1941\, her interest in photography developed after she accompanied a f riend to a photography class while studying at the University of Arizona.  Seeing photographs such as Dorothea Lange’s powerful images of 1930s A merican migrant families\, she was inspired to photograph the world around her as she saw it.\n\nBy the mid-1960s\, Linda was a successful professio nal photographer known for her portraits of musicians such as the Rolling Stones\, Jimi Hendrix\, Aretha Franklin and The Beatles. In 1968\, she bec ame the first female photographer to have a cover photograph on Rolling St one magazine\, with her portrait of Eric Clapton.\n\nThe exhibition will display Linda’s contact sheets featuring images of the Rolling Stones on the Hudson River\, as well as iconic photographs of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s album launch and the recording of the White Album at Abbey R oad Studios.\n\nLinda was a single mother to her daughter Heather when she married Paul McCartney in 1969. Paul adopted Heather\, and the couple had three children together: Mary\, Stella and James. Following her marriage\ , Linda’s work became more intimate and emotive\, centring on the daily lives of her family\, as well as her love of animals and the natural world .\n\nHer photographs taken in Liverpool feature some of the city’s most famous streets and landmarks. In order to avoid being recognised in public \, Linda would often shoot the city through car windows\, capturing intere sting perspectives with great spontaneity. Windswept images of the family spending time together near the waterfront at Hoylake\, Wirral\, also feat ure.\n\nLinda McCartney had a parallel career as a musician\, working alon gside Paul on the album RAM and as a member of the band Wings. She was an animal rights activist and a passionate advocate of a vegetarian lifestyle \, often using her images to support the campaigns that she believed in.\n \nTickets for Linda McCartney Retrospective are available to purchase on line\, or from the Walker Art Gallery\, priced at £9 for adults and £8 f or concessions. Members of National Museums Liverpool receive free entry t o the exhibition. To purchase tickets\, or to become a member\, visit: l iverpoolmuseums.org.uk/lindamccartney ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2020/01/unnamed-16.jpg LOCATION:Walker Art Gallery\, William Brown Street\, Liverpool\, L3 8EL\, L iverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.409412;-2.980352 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=William Brown Street\, Live rpool\, L3 8EL\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Wal ker Art Gallery:geo:53.409412,-2.980352 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201025T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR