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Artists Anonymous: Communication and Association. Exhibition: 20 September - 30 November 2008
Within their complex and often disorientating installations, Berlin based collective Artists Anonymous explicitly acknowledge the means by which art is created, and the whirl of social events and intellectual debates that accompany it.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008 Exhibition: 20 September - 22 November 2008
This year is the largest show ever occupying the ground floor of the Blade Factory and the Coach Shed, showing the work of 57 artists from a submission of over 1400.

Fantasy Studio Project. 20 September to 30 November 2008
The Fantasy Studio Project will provide an insight into seven Korean contemporary artists' creative processes by revealing the transitory moments of production. The project will not reconstruction each artists' studio in any literal sense, but pose liminal spaces that allow the reinterpretation of the exhibition venue as a site were the artists' practice 'bleeds and blends' with the building itself.

Far West. Exhibition: 20 September - 30 November 2008
During the period of the Liverpool Biennial, A Foundation will become a franchise store for Far West, a major cross-art form project exploring the new consumer and cultural relationships that are emerging as the economic centre of the world shifts towards the East.

Manuel Vason: Encounters. Exhibition 20 September - 30 November 2008
Describing his photographs as collaborations, the artists perform exclusively for Vason, shooting in locations and conditions that allow the performer the opportunity to experiment with new relationships with the site and body. 

Wendy Ramshaw - Drawings in Gold. Exhibition 20 September - 8 November 2008
A new collection of work by Wendy Ramshaw, one of Britain’s leading jewellery and metal designers.The exhibition ‘Drawings in Gold’ has been specially planned to take place during a period of a visual renaissance - the year in which Liverpool is the European City of Culture.

Garner-Medwin Lecture 2008 by Wendy Ramshaw. 23 October 2008 14.30 - 15.30
Wendy Ramshaw will give the Annual Garner-Medwin Lecture 2008 on Thursday 23rd October from 2.30-3.30pm. Tickets are available for £3.95 (£2.95 concs.) pre-booking is advisable. Call the Bluecoat Display Centre for tickets and/or further information.

In The Window Series - Walter Keeler Ceramics. 1 to 31 October 2008

Walter Keeler is one of the UK's top contemporary potters, and is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain.

EIGHT DAYS AT THE BLUECOAT PROJECT SPACE. 13-19 October 2008. Ulrike Oeter
Eight Days A Week is taking out a 3 month lease on the ‘Artist in Residence Space at the Bluecoat’, Liverpool to function as an activity and resource space for artists from October 1st – December 31st 2008.

'Made Up' featuring The Royal Art Lodge, Tracey Moffatt, Khalil Rabah and David Blandy. Exhibitions: 20 September - 30 November 2008
At the Bluecoat, David Blandy (UK), Tracey Moffatt (Australia), Khalil Rabah (Palestine) and The Royal Art Lodge (Canada) present new, commissioned work, and Sarah Sze (US) a stunning site-specific installation in the Vide.

Exhibition Tours - Every Friday during 'Made Up'
12.00pm – 12.45pm FREE

Experienced guides walk you through the exhibition, answer questions and challenge you to think beyond your initial responses to the art on display. Tours last approx. 45 minutes.

There in Time. Exhibition: 13 to 28 November 2008
Viewing Saturday 8 Nov 18-21.00

Exhibition drawing together three artists whose work will explore the complex relationships between humans and the environments which they inhabit.

Jen Liu. Exhibition. 31 October - 30 November 2008
Exhibition preview Thursday 30 October 18.00

Works by the New York artist

Mel Brimfield: 'Waiter Waiter, there's a Sculpture in my Soup', Performance Art and Comedy from Gutai to the Present. 18 September – 19 October 2008

And Then He Was a She. Exhibition 20 September - 30 November 2008
Portraits of Andy Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn by Sadie Lee

Emma Tooth - Concilium Plebis. Exhibition 20 September - 15 November 2008
Concilium Plebis is a new series of oil paintings by UK portrait painter Emma Tooth supported by The Arts Council England. Being shown alongside the International Artists exhibition at Novas CUC.

Fellow Travellers. Exhibition 20 September - 30 November 2008
A continuously evolving group exhibition of works by lesbian and gay artists.

Five Nordic Women Artists. Exhibition 20 September - 30 November 2008
Five contemporary women artists present new work commissioned by NICE08 Festival

Liverpool International Artists. Exhibition 20 September - 15 November 2008
A British Art and Design Association project inspired and curated by the Liverpool born artist Terry Duffy. The exhibition comprises an eclectic mix of painting, photography, sculpture, film and installation and tackles themes including urban cultural diversity, homelessness, alienation, sexuality as well as love, passion and spirituality.

Rush Hour by Mark Willcox. Exhibition 27 November 2008 - 11 January 2009
In probably the last show in the Biennial programme, Mark Willcox is showing, in a solo exhibition ‘Rush Hour’, a body of semi-abstract work that recreates his experiences of rush hour with a sight-impaired condition

The Art of Sound Exhibition. 16 October - 8 November 2008
Viewing Wednesday 15 Oct 18.00(?)
Presented by The Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland, as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival 2008
A multimedia exhibition featuring leading Irish composers

Tom of Finland Retrospective. Exhibition 20 September - 30 November 2008
This exhibition is a major retrospective of the early drawings by legendary gay artist Tom of Finland. Over 100 illustrations from 1944-1984 will be on show. It is one of the Homotopia festival trailblazers for the Tom of Finland Foundation.

Vue sur Québec: Manifestation internationale d’Art de Québec, in partnership with Jump Ship Rat
Exhibition: 20 September - 2 November 2008
Vue sur Québec showcases eleven artists, each of them featured in previous Québec City biennials. In addition to the exhibition at the Contemporary Urban Centre, three billboard works on Leece Street and street performances by BGL complete the show.

Hope Staff and Alumni 08. Exhibition 20 September - 30 November 2008
Viewing tbc

Recent works by Hope University's Fine Art and Design Staff, ex-members of staff and selected previous graduated students.

Cast by Nature by Lisa Who. Exhibition 8 - 22 November 2008
Viewing Friday 7 Nov 18-21.00
"Cast by Nature" is a multiple installation piece by Lisa Who reflecting on the female form as the vessel for life.

What Cannot Come to Pass. Exhibition 25 October - 1 November 2008
Viewing Friday 24 Oct 18-21.00
An artistic investigation of the desire to fly and other impossibilities by Elizabeth Willow

Dot-Art Autumn Collection. Exhibition 22 September - 28 November 2008
Group show of contemporary art in a range of media
by nearly 100 Merseyside based artists.

'See Art' at Optimark
Grahame Ashcroft - exhibition of paintings at
Optimark opticians, 72 Bold Street

July 2008 onwards 

dot-art.com presents...  Exhibition 20 September - 30 November 2008
At the Warehouse in Sparling St.
A diverse exhibition of work by Liverpool based artists.

Liverpool Printmakers Make Good. Exhibition 6 November - 6 December 2008
Monoprints, silkscreen prints, wood engravings and
etchings by three prominent UK based printmakers.