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Liverpool Festival of Drawing
The first workshop for Liverpool Festival of Drawing took place on Friday at the Victoria Museum and Gallery lead by Paul Gatenby. A wonderful day enjoyed by all attendee’s…festival continues throughout July, see link for a look at the other workshops. http://liverpoolindependentartschool.co.uk/workshops-and-courses
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Submission: Grrl Power
Proposal put forward for Grrl Power exhibition to be held at Constellations, Baltic Triangle, Liverpool during August 2016: …she makes… Alison Little is a North-West based fine Artist. Through her creative practice, Alison deals with the subject of sexual violence, disability and marginalised sections of society on a regular basis. Her most recent commission was…
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Hidden Gems
Hidden Gems is a new Arts Publication to be launched in Liverpool this July: Liverpool Biennial brings hordes of internationally renowned artists to exhibit in Liverpool. But, during the two years between each festival there is a huge community of artists, designers and creative minds working out of small studios and tiny galleries, making world…
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Festival of Drawing Launches
Liverpool Independent Art School is an independently run school for the scribblers to the seasoned pros, run by some of the best creative talent Liverpool has to give. We try our best to support other local independent spaces, so as well as a passionate group of lead tutors, you’ll be getting an insight into the workings…
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Childhood
Childhoo The character and events in this dipiction are fictional and not based on real people or actual occurances: The Pan, the Oppressor and Our Saviour So what do we remember in life first, how are our memories formed? From smell, from sight, from touch, from what we hear, from indifference or from danger? My…
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Got a Salmon (On Prawn)
Sarah Locus 1994 Got a Salmon (on Prawn) is currently being exhibited at Liverpool’ Bluecoat Gallery from the 9th April to the 19th of June for the Double Act: Art and Comedy exhibition. This exhibition explored humour through the visual arts looking at the way a funny experience can also be cruel and hateful. Sarah…
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Crochet Pigs
Just thought I’d take a look back at these delightful crochet pigs created for my debut solo exhibition held at Arts Hub in Lark Lane in 2014. The pig family were a phenomenal success and I will look to show again.
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Remember Art School
An extract from the fictional novel: Casual Nexus, where we are taken back to Art College at the turn of the Millennium, non or the character or events in this extract are based on real life: Straight Kate A Wednesday day, the small white travel alarm that Kate had brought back from working in Greece…
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Emin and Bourgeois
An extract from the non-fiction book: Predators, Survivors, Creativity where I look at the relationship between Tracey Emin and Louise Bourgeois. ”Louise Bourgeois was a French artist who spent much of her artistic working life in New York. Similarities can be drawn with Emin in terms of a difficult upbringing: her father was…
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Apple Picker Bag
I worked on this Apple Picker Bag several years ago, using Rag Rugging techniques I used reclaimed upholstery fabrics to create this unique form.