by Sinead Nunes
In order to help raise the vital funding needed to promote and facilitate the events taking place for Liverpool Art Month, selected professional artists across Merseyside were invited by Metal and Arena Studios and Gallery to design a unique artwork made from the two squares that make up the Liverpool Art Month logo.
The project ‘Making Shapes’ was displayed inside the Liverpool Art Month hub at the Grand Hall in the Albert Dock, the same place as this year’s Liverpool Art Prize exhibition. A range of different artists were involved, and it was completely open as to how the two shapes were displayed.
Starting on Light Night, they were then sold off in an on-line charity auction through Ebay. Over 38 artists (including this year’s Art Prize Winner and People’s Choice Award winner Tabitha Moses) were involved and the project raised over £700 for Art Month, which is a huge sum and will go towards some great things in the future.
Here is a list of the artists who took part:
1 Jenny Porter – Vertigo Kiss
2 Jai Chuhan
3 Rhonda Davies – Meat Legs
4 Michael Lacey – Statue Collage
5 Brendan Curtis Burton – You
6 Sam Wiehl – Jesus H Henry Christeo
7 Ed Bruce
8 Ian Fallace – Pink and Cells
9 Penny Davenport
10 Guy Harvey
11 Black Soup
12 Andrew G Fisher
13 Nathan Pendlebury
14 Tomo
15 Sarah Jane Richards
16 Post
17 Mo Peacock
18 Andrew Foulds
19 Josie Jenkins – Estuary Calling
20 Jane Hughes – Toxteth Library
21 Anthony Gribben
22 Steve Barrett
23 Lee Donnelly – Hugo Chavez
24 Richard Meghan – Apophis
25 Jodie Mellor
26 Simon Smith
27 Rick Creed
28 Anna Ketskemety
29 Carol Ramsey
30 Pete Cameron
31 Paula Tasker–Lynch – Wordscape Diptych
32 Chris Turrell–Watts
33 Karen Edwards
34 Maria Abernethy
35 Christine Grogan – Get Lost
36. Tabitha Moses
37. Paul O’Keefe
38. Sian Hughes