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:6701@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211113T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220130T170000 DTSTAMP:20211128T170827Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/williamson-art-gallery-brigitte- jurack/ SUMMARY:Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: Williamson Art Gallery: Brigitte J urack DESCRIPTION:Brigitte Jurack: What is left behind\n\nBrigitte explores our r elationship with animals and their inner lives. Her recent work considers issues around environmental adaptability by focusing on some of the scaven gers with whom we share long cultural entanglements\, such as crows\, foxe s and monkeys.\n\nAesop’s Fables have long fascinated Jurack in her arti stic practice through their articulation of hybrid identities and the anim al within. At a time when we can no longer deny the devasting effect of hu man activity on our environment\, the ethical dimension of this animal tur n and the urgency needed to change takes centre stage.\n\nFor this solo sh ow\, Jurack presents a series of new works in ceramics\, watercolour\, dra wing and film\, and “the focus on foxes\, crows and monkeys is a reflect ion on the edges of society\, on the clever scavengers who eke a living fr om the in-between spaces and leftovers from the rest of life” (Colin M. Simpson\, Williamson Art Gallery).\n\nA new colour monograph published by Williamson Art Gallery and Manchester School of Art will be available\, wi th essays by Colin Simpson\, Lauren Velvick and Dr Danielle Child.\n“The se works were begun pre-Covid\, with the intricate watercolours and drawin gs all created within the stillness and silence of lockdowns spent in Alte rnator Studio and Project space\, a converted bakery in Birkenhead and my studio and place of making since 2013.” – Brigitte Jurack\n\nAbout the artist\n\nBrigitte Jurack (Düsseldorf\, 1962) studied at Kunstakademie D üsseldorf\, Glasgow School of Art and Chelsea College of Art\, London. Sh e looks at the world as it is and tries to make sense of it\; her process can be described as picking up what is already out there. Jurack has exhib ited at IMMA (Ireland)\, European Ceramic Work Centre (Netherlands) and Wo rld Water Conference (Japan). She was the 1993 Henry Moore Sculpture Fello w\, 2014 Liverpool Art Prize nominee and was selected for the 2019 Korean International Ceramic Biennial. She is Head of Sculpture at Manchester Sch ool of Art and her studio is in the converted 19th century bakery in Birke nhead from where she runs Alternator Studio and Project Space\, including its acclaimed Translating the Street series of micro-residencies including Harold Offeh\, Haleh Jamali\, Jeff Young and Casey Orr. She is also a co- founder of artists’ group Foreign Investment who have exhibited in Rio d e Janeiro\, Kiev\, Hong Kong\, Oslo\, Berlin and the Istanbul and Venice B iennials.\n\nFree entry.\nOpen Wednesday-Friday 10.30am-5.00pm and Saturda y 10.00am-4.30pm.\nGallery closed Saturday 25th December – Saturday Janu ary 8th January. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2021/11/Brigitte-Jurack-final-fox-image-1bsmall.jpg LOCATION:Williamson Art Gallery & Museum\, Slatey Road\, Birkenhead\, Wirra l\, CH43 4UE\, Wirral\, United Kingdom GEO:53.384568;-3.040443 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Slatey Road\, Birkenhead\, Wirral\, CH43 4UE\, Wirral\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Wil liamson Art Gallery & Museum:geo:53.384568,-3.040443 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211031T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR