2010 EXHIBITION
Friday June 4 to Saturday July 10
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at METAL Edge Hill Station Tunnel Road Liverpool L7 6ND PLUS: Liverpool Open Studios and other Liverpool art events
welcome The Liverpool Art Prize is an annual exhibition and award for fine artists based or born in the Liverpool City Region. This year Artinliverpool are working in partnership with Metal. The exhibition is taking place at the exciting new space for art, Metal at Edge Hill Station (the World’s oldest passenger railway station still in use). Also, from this year on the winner will have the opportunity to show at the Walker Art Gallery. The exhibition and prizes acknowledge the outstanding achievements of the artists and their contribution to contemporary art within Liverpool, as well as further afield. It aims to promote national awareness and discussion of contemporary art in the city and to support individual artists in developing their practices. Now that the Liverpool Art Prize is firmly established we are building on its success and working with the other visual art organisations to highlight other events involving locally-based artists during the period of the exhibition. • • • • • •
Liverpool Art Prize exhibition at Metal – June 4 to July 10 Preview event on the streets of Liverpool ONE – May 14 to June 3 Global Studios exhibition at the Bluecoat – April 9 to June 20 Liverpool Open Studios weekend June 12/13 Culturepool at the Art Prize, talks and other events happening city wide Art Prize awards ceremony – June 30
Please visit the dedicated websites www.liverpoolartprize.com and www.liverpoolopenstudios.com for full details.
The announcement of the prizes will be made during an awards ceremony held on Wednesday June 30 (6-8pm). The main prize of £2,000 will be awarded to the overall winner by a panel of judges. The People’s Choice prize of £1,000 will be decided from votes cast by the public and will provide an opportunity for visitors to the exhibition to express their preference. THE JUDGING PANEL
Juan Cruz Head of Department, Art & Architecture, LJMU Art and Design Academy Laura Davis Arts Editor, Liverpool Daily Post Paul Hyland Duncan Sheard Glass Reyahn King Director of Art Galleries, National Museums Liverpool Nicki McCubbing Artist, shortlisted for 2009 Liverpool Art Prize Jay Mitton Managing Director, Arthur Diamond Design Sara-Jayne Parsons Exhibitions Curator, the Bluecoat
EXHIBITION
Friday June 4 to Saturday July 10 at METAL Edge Hill Station Tunnel Road Liverpool L7 6ND OPENING TIMES Tuesday - Friday 2.00pm - 6.00pm Saturday 12.00pm - 4.00pm (closed Sunday and Monday)
free entry liverpoolartprize.com
For further information on how to get to METAL at Edge Hill Station by train please telephone 08457 484950 or visit www.northernrail.org
The five short-listed artists are:
Gina Czarnecki David Jacques James Quin Paul Rooney Emily Speed INSTALLATION MULTIMEDIA
PAINTING / DRAWING FILM
SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION
The exhibition is curated by Jenny Porter, Project Manager, Metal
INSTALLATION My ideas are informed by human relationships to image, disease, evolution, medical research, and advanced technologies of image production. I work collaboratively and have exhibited internationally at major museums and festivals. I am currently artist in residence at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. For the Art Prize I am exhibiting video documentation of my Cell Mass N2 installation and sketches for work in progress on two other large scale projects: ‘Wasted’ is a body of interrelated participatory artworks exploring the life-giving potential of ‘discarded’ body parts. ‘Quarantine’ involves a new video installation, a tropical/medicinal garden and the development of a national sci-art lab.
www.ginaczarnecki.com
Gina Czarnecki
GINA CZARNECKI
MULTIMEDIA My practice engages with the subject of History, its’ narrative interpretations and the interplay between factual and fictional strategies of representation. These concerns also tend towards the exploration of forgotten, marginalised and socially/ politically disruptive occurrences. ‘North Canada – English Electric’ is a follow-on work from ‘Por Convención Ferrer’ (2007-08) recently shown in London & Budapest. A photo essay recording post-industrial topographies and an investigation into the origins of Photographic Stereoscopy are embedded into an allegorical tale dealing with the loss of identity, an attempt to overcome memory and the socio-economic anatomy of two particular landscapes.
www.davidjacques.co.uk
David Jacques
DAVID JACQUES
PAINTING/DRAWING The paintings and drawings I am showing for the Liverpool Art Prize 2010 have been created in response to Edge Hill station and the buildings currently occupied by Metal. This work attempts to bring together some of the narratives and histories, apocryphal and real that have been attached to the building, where past and present intersect. Amongst many possible points of departure, I investigate the waiting room as an interzone, a place of ‘in between’, of eternal waiting. Workmen descend into the Williamson tunnels beneath Edge Hill and First World War soldiers haunt the station. Figures manipulate model railways that travel nowhere except in the imagination of their controllers. I have a studio at the Bluecoat and am currently Associate Lecturer at Leeds College of Art and Design.
www.jamesquin.tumblr.com
James Quin
JAMES QUIN
FILM I currently make text, sound, video and film works that often focus on the presence of the historical past within the ‘voices’ of real and fictional individuals. The works have as their basis the unstable nature of individual subjectivity and identity in relation to place and history, and they often deal in particular with the difficulty of attempting to render historical memory in language or art. All of the works use or reference narrative forms such as short stories, songs, audio guides and letters. For the Liverpool Art Prize I am showing ‘La Décision Doypack’ a 16mm film transferred to DVD, commissioned by Radar and Matt’s Gallery.
www.thinair.org.uk
Paul Rooney
PAUL ROONEY
SCULPTURE & INSTALLATION My drawings, sculptures, installations and bookworks draw upon the metaphorical potential of architecture. Architecture is considered both as an emblem of humankind’s futile ambition for permanence and as a container for often vital components of personal memory and identity. Working site-responsively I embed transience within my works through propping, wedging, balancing and temporarily fixing. I am based at The Royal Standard in Liverpool. I recently took part in A Curriculum, a residency programme for eight European artists at A Foundation in Liverpool. Later this year I will exhibit at showreel.com in Milan and in 2011 my first solo show will be at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
www.emilyspeed.co.uk
Emily Speed
EMILY SPEED
The Liverpool Art Prize is organised by Artinliverpool.com in partnership with Metal. Artinliverpool.com is the primary online resource for the Liverpool visual art scene. Our other online activities include the new Liverpool Art Critic blog, the websites for Independents Liverpool Biennial, NICE Festival and others. Apart from the Liverpool Art Prize we are organising the Liverpool Open Studios weekend which we hope will now be an annual event and we produce the Liverpool Art Map. We are delighted to see the Art Prize continue into a third year, becoming a more established and sought-after prize year on year. The short-listed artists represent a huge body of talented, creative people on Merseyside. We hope you enjoy the show which offers a broad range of media and styles which stimulate the imagination and senses. We would like to thank all the sponsors for their wholehearted support, the judges, the Curator, Jenny Porter and, of course, everyone at Metal for offering the space, facilities and great support. Thanks too, to all the artists involved, the exhibitors and all who participated in the nomination process.
Providing time, space and support to artists across disciplines has been at the heart of Metal’s ethos since Jude Kelly founded our organisation in 2002. The Liverpool Art Prize provides a vital platform for Liverpool’s visual artists to showcase their work through an exhibition that Ian and Minako Jackson have skilfully, in just two years, established as an integral part of the city’s cultural calendar. Metal has enjoyed a close relationship with Liverpool Art Prize during its first two years, inviting 2008 finalist Mary Fitzpatrick to exhibit at Edge Hill Station later in that year and in 2009, we were thrilled to see our artists in residence AL and AL win The Liverpool Art Prize.
Thank You Art.
Metal felt both privileged and excited to be asked to host The Liverpool Art Prize at Edge Hill Station and we are looking forward to continue working closely with Ian and Minako in future years. We welcome the chosen finalists, Gina, David, James, Paul and Emily to Edge Hill Station and a warm welcome to you also! We hope you enjoying seeing the artists work in the world’s oldest passenger station.
Ian & Minako Jackson www.artinliverpool.com
Ian Brownbill Director – Metal, Liverpool
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The Walker Art Gallery and National Museums Liverpool are delighted to be involved in this year’s Liverpool Art Prize. The five shortlisted artists selected from a wealth of entries reflect the ongoing creativity in Liverpool and the quality of art on show. We know the value of nurturing artists; indeed the Walker Art Gallery has been holding competitive contemporary art exhibitions since 1877. This year for the first time, and in future years, the winner of the Liverpool Art Prize will go on to be displayed at the Walker Art Gallery. We are proud to be able to showcase the talent developed in this most artistic of cities. Reyahn King Director of Art Galleries, National Museums Liverpool
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Liverpool Art Prize Preview Event in Liverpool ONE We are grateful to Liverpool ONE for hosting our special Preview event with a launch on Light Night (May 14) and continuing up to the start of the main event. The preview consisted of images from all 17 artists that have so far been short-listed for the 3 Liverpool art prizes. We were thrilled to see the works of so many great local artists on the streets of this busy shopping area.
Liverpool Open Studios Saturday and Sunday June 12/13
Featuring many of Liverpool’s finest Artists and their studios. This is an ideal opportunity to meet artists, to discover how and where they produce their work and buy from them directly. Meet and talk to the artists, feel free to ask them about their works, many of which will be for sale. See www.liverpoolopenstudios.com for full up-to-date details. The following studios have confirmed at time of going to press. ARENA STUDIOS & GALLERY SAT & SUN JUNE 12/13 1st Floor Elevator Building, 27 Parliament Street, Liverpool L8 5RN Sunday there is the ‘Make Sundays’ craft event in Leaf Café. Arena Artists: Claire Hart, David Cowey, Roisin Hyland, Anna Benson, Ruth Piper, Claudia Pink,Natalie Bennetts, Erica Hamilton, Rosalind Hargreaves, Naive John, Peter Dover, Christine Toh, Tony Smith, Nick Sykes, Benedict Gordon, Sarah Jane Richards, Ian Yell, Stephen Caine, Lucy Jones, Pamela Sullivan, Louise Morgan, Anna Ketskemety, Lee Donnelly, Jack Welsh, Roslyn Vallejo, Choterina Freer, Derek Culley, Philip Lockhart, Maureen Peacock, Christine Lavin. THE BLUECOAT PRINTMAKERS SAT & SUN JUNE 12/13 School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX With a forty year history of printmaking on site, the Bluecoat now has two fantastic Print Studios open to the public. Local printmakers and regular hirers demonstrate techniques and advise you on how to get involved.
THE BRIDEWELL STUDIOS & GALLERY SAT & SUN JUNE 12/13, 11AM-4PM Prescot Street, Liverpool L7 8UL Jim Loftus - operating his bespoke optical paraphernalia throughout the day. Sian Hughes – Cyanotype workshops (Photogram technique). Details TBC. Steve Hitchin – Stone carving demonstrations. Details TBC. Artists involved: Tabitha Moses, Jim Loftus, Frank Linnett, Damian Cruikshank, Sian Hughes, Steve Hitchin, Janet Wilkinson, Faith Bebbington. CURVE STUDIOS SAT & SUN JUNE 12/13, 12PM-6PM Jerome Building, Top Floor, 61 Victoria Street Liverpool L1 6DE The first opportunity to view Lisa Who’s Studios and the Curve Gallery exhibition space, currently showing works by Liverpool artists: Emily Speed, Robyn Woolston, Lisa Who, Hannah Fray, Colette Whittington and Elizabeth Willow.
ELEVATOR ARTISTS SAT & SUN JUNE 12/13, 11AM-5PM 3rd Floor Elevator Buildings, 27 Parliament Street, Liverpool L8 5RN Sunday there is the ‘Make Sundays’ craft event in Leaf Café. Elevator Artists: Becs Andrews, Richard Ashworth, Steve Best, Ken Bullock, Peter Cameron, Al Eddy, Bill Embery, Charlie Frais, Dave Garnett, Kim Harley, Daniel John, Vincent Lavell, Checkhuo Leung, Jackie McKenzie, Freida McKitrick, Frank Moore, Lindsey Moran, Emma Newman.
RETHINKTHINGS SAT & SUN JUNE 12/13, 10AM – 4PM 1 Ward St, Liverpool, L3 5XX Liverpool based product design agency owned and directed by 3D creative consultant Ilsa Parry, winner of the BBC2 reality documentary “Design for Life” with Philippe Starck. Ilsa is a design educator and is passionate about raising interest and awareness about the importance of design for human development and life sustenance. Product, furniture, lighting and home accessories design.
LIVERPOOL IMPROVISATION COLLECTIVE The Bluecoat, School Lane SATURDAY JUNE 12 10am-1pm: LIC Studio and associate artists will be sharing work in their Open Door event in the Bluecoat.(Performance Space or Sandon Room). 2pm-4pm: LIC Studio open exhibition. SUNDAY JUNE 13 10am-1pm: LIC Studio Paula Hampson devising and rehearsing for forthcoming performance with other dance artists.
THE ROYAL STANDARD SAT & SUN 12/13 JUNE 11am-6pm Unit 3, Vauxhall Business Centre, 131 Vauxhall Rd, Liverpool L3 6BN Exhibition, Workshops and Barbecue. Artists: Andrew Foulds, Andrew Wilson, Baptiste Croze, Emily Speed, Flis Mitchell, Hamish McLain, Harry Lawson, Henry Finney, Jemma Egan, Jim Buso, Kevin Hunt, Laura Pullig, Laura Robertson, Laurence Payot, Leo Fitzmaurice, Lucy MacDonald, Madelaine Hall, Mike Carney, Natalie Hughes, Richard Proffitt, Sam Venables, Sian Green, Stephen Forge, Susan Massey, Zoe Fagg.
RED WIRE SAT & SUN JUNE 12/13, 12PM-6PM Carlisle Building, 69 Victoria St. Liverpool Open Studios in the recently redesigned space. Artists: Michael Aitken, Emma Gilmour, Amy Goring, Liam Greenall, Katie Halsall, Roz Hyde, Jayne Lawless, Oliver Lomax, Julie Martin, Karen O Brien, Eleanor Overs, Dave Penny, Joshua Tennant, Alan Williams.
June 2010
A month of art in Liverpool Alongside the Liverpool Art Prize there are several exhibitions and other art events. Many featuring Liverpool based artists. Listed here are just some of the highlights. GLOBAL STUDIO EXHIBITION 9 APRIL – 20 JUNE 2010, THE BLUECOAT From Linz to Liverpool, artists from different parts of the world will be collaborating for the Bluecoat’s new exhibition. Global Studio showcases the work of Liverpool artists who have forged international networks outside the city, alongside their global colleagues. Over 30 artists have been invited to develop exhibition proposals, resulting in five different yet connected displays by artists from Austria, France, Germany, Japan, Pakistan and Merseyside, working in printmaking, video, painting and installation. Roohi Ahmed, Pete Clarke, Georg Gartz, WuonGean Ho and Carl Rowe highlight the impact of globalism in contemporary printmaking. Their presentation is accompanied by residencies in the Bluecoat print studio by Neil Morris and Wuon-Gean Ho
Liverpool artists’ collective POST – Katriona Beales, Jennie Cunningham, Cecilia Kinnear, Susan Meyerhoff Sharples, Amanda Oliphant, Claire Weetman and Robyn Woolston exhibit alongside Claudia Czimek, Marlene Haderer, Haruko Maeda, Gerlinde Miesenboeck, Barbara Musil, Beate Rathmayr and Karo Szmit, seven artists from Linz.
Heartbeat of Death – Haruko Maeda, The Bluecoat
Jemma Egan, Kevin Hunt, Hamish McLain and Laurence Payot from Liverpool studio group The Royal Standard interrogate how they operate as artists, living and working in Liverpool. Nicolas Moulin, Bernadette O’Toole, James Quin, Henry Tietzch-Tyler and Christine Arnold, artists from Liverpool and Berlin investigate space through architecture, time, history and psychology. Installations from Lin Holland, based on her experiences during a recent residency in Karachi, and by her host in Pakistan, Sadia Salim. All the worlds [seeing me seeyou) – Katriona Beales, The Bluecoat
Untitled – Bernadette O’Toole, The Bluecoat
TATTWHOO JUNE 3 – 27, CONTEMPORARY URBAN CENTRE An exhibition of contemporary tattoo design.
OFF CENTRE ARTISTS JUNE 10-24, CONTEMPORARY URBAN CENTRE Liverpool Community College end of year show
FINE ART DEGREE SHOW UNTIL JUNE 4, LJMU ACADEMY
PIECES BY NICOLE RENÉE UNTIL JUNE 11, DOT ART
STUFF UNTIL JUNE 20, EGGSPACE Solo show by Leon Ellis Jakeman. Curated by HeadSpace and Leon
ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION UNTIL JUNE 11, GOSTINS Exhibition by Liverpoolgallery.com
Cyanotype – Sian Hughes, AA2A
AA2A EXHIBITION UNTIL JUNE 4, COMMUNITY COLLEGE ARTS CENTRE AA2A Exhibition in the windows of Liverpool Community College Arts Centre. 4 artists in residence Karen Ball, Felice Beilin, Claire Freeman and Sian Hughes THE GALLERY EXHIBITION UNTIL JUNE 5, THE GALLERY LIVERPOOL Art Exhibition featuring many local artists JELLY MOULD PAVILIONS UNTIL JUNE 6, SUDLEY HOUSE Memorials commemorating the ongoing contribution of the people of the African Diaspora to the history, culture and fabric of Liverpool, by Lubaina Himid PETE CLARK – ARTISTS TALK JUNE 8, 6pm THE BLUECOAT
MATERIAL LANDSCAPES JUNE 12, 10AM-4PM, THE BLUECOAT A 3D collage master class led by Amanda Oliphant and based on her studio practice of drawing, tracing and layering. Will focus on the search for nature in a city environment
PERSISTENCE OF VISION FROM JUNE 18, FACT How does memory influence what we see?
TALK VOILÁ JUNE 15, 6PM, THE BLUECOAT The Royal Standard
SHANGHAI EXPOSURE UNTIL JUNE 19, BLUECOAT DISPLAY CENTRE Featuring Liverpool jeweller Anthony Wong
ABSTRACT PAINTING EXHIBITION UNTIL JUNE 17, GALLERY4ALLARTS Derek Culley & Terry Sullivan
THIS MATTER UNTIL JUNE 19, THE ROYAL STANDARD Curated by Harry Lawson, Claudia Lastra and Lucy MacDonald
NATHAN JONES JUNE 18, 8-10PM, THE BLUECOAT Nathan Jones presents: Revolutions in Form #2 Nathan Jones ends his year as Poet in Residence at the Bluecoat with a celebratory poetic lecture. He is joined by invited artists who, like him, place interdisciplinary activity at the heart of their practice
In-Between Gaze – Mizuki Watanabe, FACT
CULTUREPOOL AT THE ART PRIZE JUNE 26 METAL AT EDGE HILL STATION Join culturepool for a chance to chat to some of the artists and find out more about their work. This is a FREE event but booking is required so that we can organise refreshments! See www. culturepool.org.uk for details. GOLDEN AGE OF LETTERING FROM JUNE 26, BLUECOAT DISPLAY CENTRE Features Liverpool artist Christine Toh
IN EVERY DREAM HOME A HEARTACHE UNTIL JUNE 20, THE BRIDEWELL Featuring artists from The Bridewell, The Royal Standard, Red Wire, Arena, Post Illustration by Freida McKitrick, LOACA at the Bluecoat
IF YOU CAN HOLD YOUR BREATH FROM JUNE 18, CERI HAND GALLERY ‘If You Can Hold Your Breath’ group exhibition
LOACA FROM JUNE 26, THE BLUECOAT COURTYARD LOACA Monthly contemporary craft and art fair
Redtube – Leon Jakeman, Eggspace
CALIDAD JUNE 26, LARK LANE Calidad Monthly Art, Craft & Design event
looking ahead Pablo Picasso – Hands Entwined III, © Succession Picasso/DACS 2010
Dancer – Emma Rodgers, Walker Art Gallery
FROM SKETCH TO SCULPTURE UNTIL JULY 6, WALKER ART GALLERY Wirral sculptor Emma Rodgers THE RISE OF WOMEN ARTISTS UNTIL AUGUST 1, WALKER ART GALLERY Charting the progress made by female artists from the 16th century up to the present day, the exhibition is made up entirely of the gallerys own holdings and includes a number of local artists HIGH KICKS AND LOW LIFE UNTIL AUGUST 8, WALKER ART GALLERY Over 50 Toulouse-Lautrec prints on loan from the British Museum
PICASSO: PEACE AND FREEDOM UNTIL AUGUST 30, TATE LIVERPOOL Peace and Freedom reveals a fascinating new insight into the artist’s life as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace LEWIS’S 5TH FLOOR: A DEPARTMENT STORY UNTIL AUGUST 30, NATIONAL CONSERVATION CENTRE A contemporary fine art photography exhibition featuring images taken in one of the UK’s oldest department stores and Liverpool institutions by local photographer Stephen King ESCAPYSM UNTIL AUGUST 31, 3345 PARR STREET Solo show by St Helens based Tony Bishop GLASS, METAL & FIRE UNTIL AUTUMN 2010, WALKER Ruth Ball (local enamel artist)
to2011
Early in 2011 the winner of this year’s prize will display work at the Walker Art Gallery, a fantastic opportunity for the successful artist. Meanwhile, Ian & Minako at artinliverpool.com will be organising the 2011 Art Prize. They plan to ask for nominations during the early part of the 2010 Liverpool Biennial which runs from September 18 to November 28. Many Merseyside artists will be exhibiting at various venues during the Biennial so this will be a good opportunity to see some of their work and encourage artists and nominees to participate. For news about the Liverpool Art Prize visit:
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