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:4467@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190202T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190313T170000 DTSTAMP:20190321T153413Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/williamson-art-gallery-how-we-lo ok-wirral-met-fellowship-exhibition-2019/ SUMMARY:Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: Williamson Art Gallery: How We Loo k: Wirral Met Fellowship Exhibition 2019 DESCRIPTION:How We Look: Wirral Met Fellowship Exhibition 2019\nWilliamson Art Gallery &\; Museum\n\nOpening Times Wednesday- Sunday 10am-5pm\nExh ibition: 2 February 2019- 13 March 2019\nPrivate View: 2 Feb\, 6pm till 8\ n\nEach year fellowships are awarded to selected graduating students from the BA (Hons) degree courses within the Wirral Met HE art school. This yea r the exhibition features a collaborative project undertaken by the 2018 f ellows Louis Jeck Prestidge and Jonathan Benson with WMC lecturer Michelle Rowley. Responding to her site-specific MA research project\, set in the stalled Liverpool Innovation Park\, Michelle commissioned the fellows to d evelop a collaborative film work.\n\nThis invitation provided a creative s pace for Louis and Jonny to reflect on a new set of ideas and determine ho w their own personal practices might engage with the themes Michelle was i nvestigating. ‘Hunting Ground’\, is the result of this collaborative e xperiment. Drawing together ideas concerning the reimagining place and ass igning anthropological meaning\, the empty ‘parkland’ reverts to a hun ting ground where metaphorical hunting prompts open questions as to the pu rpose of the chase.\n\nLouis’ practice centres around the forming of nar ratives by combining his own digital films with found clips from Youtube. These clips have been carefully chosen to articulate the relationship he h as with the moving image and how it has exposed and reaffirmed our underst anding of masculinity in the 21st century. These films are a continuation of his previous exploration in sculpture and installation. “Through my p ractice I have found that I am able to best express my inner personality t hrough painting and filmmaking.”\n\nJonny’s current practice is a prod uct of an expanding process\, a personal exploration into Western visual c ulture via destruction\, preservation and transformation. Historian and Cu ltural theorist Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas describes the transcendent al nature of archetypes\; or how images of great symbolic\, intellectual\, and emotional power emerge in Western antiquity and then reappear and are reanimated in art and culture of later times. Through the use of traditio nal portraiture\, abstraction and continuous lines\, the brow of an Elgin Marble repeats and erodes into the present\, merging with and becoming the icons of our age.\n\nOur relationship to the natural world and our psycho logical attachments and cultural values linked to landscapes and the built environment inform Michelle Rowley’s practice. Her work explores how\, through conscious design or informal and improvised social use\, we constr uct places of meaning and personal significance. She is interested in how  this happens and especially in how spaces and sites are appropriated and subverted from their original intended use. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/01/howwelookStill.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:20181028T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR