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The Bluecoat - Sonia Boyce: Like Love – Part One & Two

sonia-boyce-02-100Sonia Boyce: Like Love – Part One & Two
30 January – 28 March 2010
This multi-media installation by Sonia Boyce originated from a residency at Meriton School for Young Parents in Bristol, where it was shown at Spike October 2009. The exhibition explores universal ideas around the concept of care – the emotion we invest in others and in the making of works of art. In Bristol, Boyce produced a series of artworks from classroom discussions, which address fragmentary experience of longing, and raise questions about due care and contemporary life.
 

Tate - Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic

Wilfredo-Lam-The-Murmur-100Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic
29 January -– 25 April 2010. Admission: £6.00 (£4.50 concessions)

Taking its inspiration from Paul Gilroy’'s seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), the exhibition is the first to trace in depth the impact of different black cultures from around the Atlantic on art from the early twentieth century to today.
 

Walker - Aubrey Williams: Atlantic Fire

aubrey_totemicbird-100Aubrey Williams: Atlantic Fire
15 January - 11 April 2010

An exhibition of paintings by the renowned Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams. The exhibition includes a selection of Williams’ vibrant large scale oil paintings. Exploring an eclectic range of inspiration from Mayan motifs to the work of composer Russian Shostakovich, his work is intensely alive with colour and motion.
Aubrey Williams is an important modern artist whose paintings resist classification.
 

Liverpool Art Prize 2010 - Nominations Announced

lap-logo-201x90A record-breaking 95 nominations for the 2010 Liverpool Art Prize.
So many great local artists, it’s going to be difficult for the judges to decide on the shortlist. Judging takes place early February then we announce the shortlist and further details.
Many thanks to all those who took the trouble to nominate artists, we feel that the open nomination process is an essential part of the Liverpool Art Prize event.

Click here for the final list of nominations for the 2010 Liverpool Art Prize. In alphabetical order of surname with website or link where available.

 

LIVE ARTS EVENT: Wrong Love at A Foundation

wrong-love-100SATURDAY 13 February 2010, 21.00 - 3.00am at A Foundation
Liverpool’s biggest Independent Live Arts Event of 2010. WRONG LOVE is a night of intimate performances, site-specific installation, audio visual art and live music which will use the banner of an alternative Valentine’s Day celebration to ask questions about romance, sexuality, unconventional love and where art is headed in this new decade.
 

Ye Cracke - Northern Songs

northern-songs-100Ye Cracke - Northern Songs
22 January - 15 March, 2010
A winter exhibition at Ye Cracke pub. The fourth open art exhibition 'Northern Songs' features original paintings and photographs by local artists.
 

C.U.C. - "Eyewash Exhibition"

eye-wash-station-100"Eyewash Exhibition"
3 - 14 February 2010

A group exhibition of work by emerging and established Liverpool based artists, showing together for the first time.
 

Milk And Sugar - RIBA Medals

riba-award-100The RIBA President’s Medals  exhibition Tuesday 9th February – Thursday 1st April 2010
An exhibition of award-winning student work, including the Bronze Medal for Part 1, the Silver Medal for Part 2 students and the Dissertation Medal, selected from submissions from over 240 invited Schools of Architecture from 50 countries. These awards are aimed at promoting excellence in the study of architecture, rewarding talent, and encouraging architectural debate world-wide. All nominated projects can be viewed online at www.presidentsmedals.com

 

World Museum Liverpool - Plantastic!

plantastic-100Plantastic!
13 February - 5 September 2010

This fun interactive science exhibition reveals the wonderful world of plants and shows how they interact with people, animals, insects and each other. The exhibition explains how we use plants in our daily lives often without realising it, and how they are essential for the world’s survival. Free entry
 

Unity Theatre - Susan Ironfield – Harmonic Images

Susann-Ironfield-100Susan Ironfield – Harmonic Images
9 February  - 6 March 2010

Susan was born in Accrington and has studied languages and music at Liverpool University. She has been exhibiting since 1976.Whilst living in Düsseldorf for over 20 years Susan took up a new art form which combines music with art to produce Harmonic Images.
 

Gallery4AllArts - "Thinking Abstract"

Emil-Moritz-Perfection-100"Thinking Abstract"
6 February - 31 March 2010
Private viewing: Saturday 6 February, 12 noon - 16.00.

"Thinking Abstract"- a group show from artists working in a variety of abstract mediums such as: painting, etching, collage, mixed media, drawing and photography.
 
 

Podcast for the Week 2 February

podcast-icon 2/2/10 - More visual arts audio from Loverpool with Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic and Wrong Love
 

Egg - karen & jazamin duo exhibition

egg-duo-100karen & jazamin duo exhibition
11 February - 7 March 2010
Private View: 10 February 2010, 19.00 - 21.00
Duo exhibition by Karen Henley & Jazamin Sinclair curated by headspace.
 

Royal Standard - Blind Alchemy: Rachel Adams | Ian Giles

Blind-Alchemy-100Blind Alchemy: Rachel Adams | Ian Giles
12 - 27 February 2010
Preview: Thursday 11 February, 18.00 - 20.00
The Royal Standard is pleased to announce Blind Alchemy, the second in a series of collaborative projects between artists Rachel Adams and Ian Giles. One of the pursuits of the alchemist, turning lead into gold, lies in the no man’s land between scientific procedure and magical reaction. Turning nothing into something is a key part of both artist’s practices.
 

Ceri Hand Gallery - Spasticus Artisticus

spasticus-artisticus-100Spasticus Artisticus
15 January – 27 February 2010

The title for Ceri Hand Gallery’s inaugural 2010 exhibition is taken from the song “Spasticus Autisticus,” penned by the legendary Ian Dury of the band Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Curated by Jota Castro & Christian Viveros-Fauné.
 

The Gallery Liverpool - Literalism: Clifford Sayer

cliff-sayer-100Literalism: Clifford Sayer
6  - 27 February 2010
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Clifford Sayer, the founder of the literalist movement. This exhibition emphasizes the visual meaning of fine art. Clifford is an academic painter of both life & imaginative works, who was born, grew up and studied in Toxteth, Liverpool, where he still continues to paint and sculpt.
 

Gostins Gallery - Themes of North Wales

frances-100Themes of North Wales
5 - 13 March 2010
Paintings by Frances Walden-Jones. Frances spent her childhood in North Wales, near Colwyn Bay, and in the 1950's/60's spent her Saturdays in the studio of Gladys Dawson R.A. (later Gladys Woodruff). After studying at Cardiff university, Frances spent her working life teaching drama. In her retirement Frances has taken up her paintbrushes again, resulting in these colourful paintings of North Wales. Also on display are recent work by Colin Reid.
 

Maritime Museum - China: Through the Lens of John Thomson 1868 – 1872

thomson_manchu_bride-100China: Through the Lens of John Thomson 1868 – 1872
5 February – 6 June 2010
The vanished world of Imperial China is vividly captured on glass plates by an intrepid Scottish photographer John Thomson who travelled throughout the country meeting people from all walks of life. The exhibition startlingly reveals the character of the vast empire mainly through its remarkable people.
 

Lauries Centre - Zero BLank Eye Candy

Zero-Blank-100Zero BLank Eye Candy
31 January 2010 until further notice

Zero BLank Eye Candy is an evolving art exhibtion by Simon Mack and invited artists from Merseyside, Chile, Japan + Germany reacting to and commenting on contemporary blank ideology and post-meltdown consumerism now showing at the Lauries centre.
 

Calderstones Park - ‘Natures Forms’ Joel Bird

joelbird_magpies_100‘Natures Forms’ Joel Bird at The Coach House, Calderstones Park
15 – 21 February 2010

For this exhibition Joel focuses more on our harmony with the natural world. The works show landscapes and people interacting with their environments. The lines of flux and flow are an attempt to reconcile our duality as nature has.
 
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STARTS: Susan Ironfield – Harmonic Images

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TUESDAY 9 February 2010 at Unity TheatreSusan Ironfield was born in Accrington and has studied...

LECTURE: Academy Lectures - Adam Chodzko

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WEDNESDAY 10 February 2010, 16.00 onwards at Liverpool School of Art and Design, LJMU Adam...

VIEWING: karen & jazamin duo exhibition

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WEDNESDAY 10 February 2010, 19.00 - 21.00 at Eggspace (Egg Cafe) Duo exhibition by...

VIEWING: Blind Alchemy: Rachel Adams | Ian Giles

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THURSDAY 11 February, 18.00 - 20.00 at Royal Standard The Royal Standard is pleased...

STARTS - Strokes of the Brush - Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy

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FRIDAY 12 February 2010 at Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool This exhibition draws...

LIVE ARTS EVENT: Wrong Love at A Foundation

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SATURDAY 13 February 2010, 21.00 - 3.00am at A Foundation Liverpool’s biggest Independent Live Arts...

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SATURDAY 13 and SUNDAY 14 February 2010 Art Interference - "ABOUT LOVE" by Elisa Freitas...

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