Monthly Archive for January, 2009

Exhibition – Transvoyeur – ‘Aesthetic Innovation’

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Transvoyeur – ‘Aesthetic Innovation’
4 December – 20 December 2008
Transvoyeur was established in 2003 to enable international exchange and collaboration between contemporary artists.
Artists: Chris Boyd, Maggie Lambert, Gary Sollars and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
Plus, submissions from international artists in Research Portfolio.

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Exhibition – The Stuckists – ‘An Antidote to the Ghastly Turner Prize’

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abi-titmus-paul-harvey-150The Stuckists – ‘An Antidote to the Ghastly Turner Prize’. 6 – 29 November 2008.

The infamous phenomenon that is The Stuckists return to Liverpool for the first time since their major show at the Walker Art Gallery for the 2004 Biennial – described by the gallery as “a really, really popular show and very successful.”

The Stuckist art group was founded in 1999 by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish, who has since left, with 13 artists to promote “figurative painting with ideas” and oppose conceptual art. There are now over 160 sister groups in 40 countries. The name comes from an insult by Tracey Emin to Childish that he was “stuck”.

The Stuckists have gained considerable media attention for their demonstrations against the Turner Prize, and also instigated a media scandal about the Tate’s purchase of its own trustees’ work. This led to a Charity Commission ruling that the Tate had been acting illegally for 50 years.
This show features the leading UK Stuckists.

Exhibition – Local Heroes

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‘Local Heroes’ – Over 20 Local Artists.
23 October – 1 November 2008
Opening 22 October 6pm til Late

An exhibition and series of events that brings together some of Liverpool’s brightest creative talents.

Artists:
Brainface, Fernando Cari, Chimp Creative, Graeme Currie, Rhonda Davies, Penny Davenport, Kev Grey, Sarah Gladden, Thomas Jacobi, Emily Lansley, Sam Meech, John O’Shea, Tom Palin, Jon Pountain, Sarah Romero, Shelley Turner, Kate Sellers and James Slater, Markus Soukup, Chris Taylor, Chiz Turnross and Elizabeth Willow

As Liverpool Biennial hosts a troupe of international artists who have flown in from across the world and spent large sums on their work, what of those who operate by less bombastic means?

This exhibition seeks to create dialectics between shared, differing and contradictory conceptions of the local and the heroic. Amongst other things… aspects of size, scale, proximity, periphery, migration, media, morality, adversity, action, identity, intimacy, invention and determination… will be enacted and explored to various degrees by the work on show.

All artists taking part are based in Merseyside.