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:4087@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180929T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181027T160000 DTSTAMP:20180927T111853Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/warrington-museum-art-gallery-dr eaming-of-dead-fish/ SUMMARY:Warrington Museum & Art Gallery: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery: D reaming of Dead Fish DESCRIPTION:Artist inspired by Warrington Museum returns for exhibition\n\n An artist inspired by Warrington Museum &\; Art Gallery’s collection has returned to the venue with an exhibition of her own.\n\nHannah Leighto n-Boyce’s works range from site-specific and ephemeral actions\, to draw ing\, sound and installation\, and her working methods combine material an d process-led exploration with present day and archival research.\n\nShe e xplores place\, object and body relations through themes of surface and er asure\, embodiment and connectivity.\n\nFor Dreaming of Dead Fish\, her so lo exhibition at Warrington Museum &\; Art Gallery\, Leighton-Boyce has developed a series of newly-commissioned works using un-accessioned items in the museum collection alongside glass\, soot\, slide film and projecti on.\n\nThis new body of work\, commissioned by Warrington Contemporary Art s Festival with funding from Arts Council England\, has been inspired by i tems in the museum’s ephemera collection.\n\nThe Invisible Girl\, for ex ample\, is a Victorian object of curiosity on display in the Warrington To wn Hall 1840 exhibition\, within which a diminutive figure was either susp ended in mid-air in a globe or represented through a disembodied voice.\n\ nVisibility\, separation and embodiment have fed into Hannah’s research and studio practice.\n\nThe relationship between the works and their envir onment\, and the materials and processes chosen\, capture senses of longin g and touch\, proximity and distance\; acting like a series of extended mo ments and pauses\, they attest to the fragility of experience.\n\nAccompan ying the exhibition is a newly commissioned essay by Dr Craig Staff.\n\n- Hannah Leighton-Boyce lives and works in Manchester.\n\n- She studied at W inchester School of Art (2005) and completed the MA at Manchester School o f Art\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, in 2012.\n\n- Recent works in clude: a series of sculptures exploring salt as a metaphor for the body\, developed through a residency at the Glasgow Women’s Library and exhibit ed at Castlefield Gallery (2018)\; a collaborative live sculpture made wit h residents of Helmshore\, Lancashire (2014) set within the context of the area’s industrial heritage\; and a sound installation at Touchstones Ro chdale (2016) funded by a New Opportunities Award (New Expressions3)\, whi ch explored ideas of disembodiment and labour through the resonant propert ies and work history of objects within the museum’s collection.\n\n- Rec ent group exhibitions include Ruth Barker &\; Hannah Leighton-Boyce\, C astlefield Gallery (2018)\; Excuse Me While I am Changing\, Rogue Projects Space\, Manchester (2016)\; New Work\, The Manchester Contemporary (2016) \; Women Artists from 1861 - 2015\, Touchstones Rochdale\; For Posterity\, Castlefield Gallery\, Manchester (2015)\; and People and Process: A Histo ry of Salts Mill\, Salts Mill\, Saltaire.\n\n- She has works in private an d public collections including Salford University Arts Collection\, Touchs tones Rochdale\, and Salts Mill and Ackworth Quaker School\, both in West Yorkshire.\n\nListings information\n\nExhibition title: Hannah Leighton-Bo yce – Dreaming of Dead Fish\n\nDates: Please note this exhibition is onl y open during selected times - Saturday 29 September – Saturday 27 Octob er 2018 (Wednesday to Saturday only)\n\nTimes: 12pm-4pm\n\nAdmission: Free \n\nLocation: Warrington Museum &\; Art Gallery\, Museum Street\, Warri ngton\, WA1 1JB\n\nwww.warringtonmuseum.co.uk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2018/09/Hannah-Leighton-Boyce-03.jpg LOCATION:Warrington Museum & Art Gallery\, Bold Street\, Warrington\, WA1 1 DR\, Warrington\, United Kingdom GEO:53.38857;-2.596091 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bold Street\, Warrington\, WA1 1DR\, Warrington\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Warringto n Museum & Art Gallery:geo:53.38857,-2.596091 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR