Summer Newsletter

Hello! 

Being commissioned to make a new piece of work for this year’s Barnaby Festival was a great start to my summer. Thank you so much to those who make the journey to see the work and support me.

For those of you who couldn't make it to Macclesfield to see the work, photographs of the work can be seen here: Barnaby photos. It was decided that the work would be kept at the Grosvenor Centre after the festival had finished. The piece will be exhibited until the 15 September when it will move to my Manchester exhibition.

I was awarded an Arts Council England Grants for the Arts award is May this year. Since I have been busy working on a new body of work (including drawings and works on paper!). The new work will be shown at Piccadilly Place in my solo presentation On Brown & Violet Grounds. Don’t miss it!

Liz

Solo Presentation  |  On Brown & Violet Grounds

25 September – 2 October

On Brown &Violet Grounds is a new body of works by Liz West exploring her fascination with exuberant colour, sculptural form and intense light. Alongside a series of new light-based installations, West will also be exhibiting works on paper for the first time. Using un-conventional industrial and man-made materials, such as: electrical tape, aluminum and mirror, these pieces echo many of the materials utilized within her installation work. West’s two-dimensional explorations are driving new ideas within her practice and signal an important development from the successful colour-drenched Chamber series. 

Coinciding with The Manchester Contemporary, On Brown & Violet Grounds has been produced as a result of Liz West’s research and development award from Arts Council England. Further works on paper will be exhibited within West’s studio as part of this year’s Rogue Open Studios. 

Open 1-9pm daily and by appointment

www.liz-west.com

Piccadilly Place

Unit 4C/D

Manchester

M1 3BS

  

Exhibition  |  Rogue Open Studios 2013

Opening 27th September. Continues 28 – 29 September

Join me for the opening night of Rogue Open Studios, continuing over the whole weekend. Open Studios allows you a peek behind the doors (or curtains) of over 90 artists at work. Once a year Rogue opens it’s doors to the public in it’s Open Studios event inviting fellow artists, curators and the general public to access all areas of the studios while affording members an opportunity to exhibit and offer work for sale.

Liz will be showing new works on paper in her studio as a continuation to her work on show at Piccadilly Place. For more information, including opening times please visit: www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk

Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space

66-72 Chapeltown Street

Piccadilly

Manchester

M1 2WH

Event  |  Bury Light Night

11 October

I am thrilled to be working with The Hamilton Project for Bury Light Night 2013. I will reconfigure my work ‘Consumed’ responding site-specifically to a space in the middle of the town centre.

Bury Light Night is a one night event that last year attracted 28,000 visitors into the Bury town centre to experience light art, culture, live music and artisan markets. 

www.thehamiltonproject.co.uk

Book  |  The Language of Mixed-Media Sculpture

Published in February 2014

Liz West will be published in a new publication written by award winning artist and an associate of the Royal British Society of Sculptors; Jac Scott. ‘The Language of Mixed-Media Sculpture’ will include 30 international artists and be published by The Crowood Press Ltd in February. 

Other artists to be featured are: Andre Woodward, Catherine Bertola, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Liliana Porter, Mary Giehl, Marilene Oliver, Pascale Pollier, Kate MccGwire, Niko Neelova, Michael Shaw, YaYa Chou, Yuebin Gong, Peter Freeman, Paul Moss, Rachel Allen, Eliza Bennett, Awst & Walther, Andrew Burton, Noam Ben-Javov, Ricardo O'Nascimento, Stelios Manganis, Mark Houghton, Janet Curley-Cannon, Cath Keay, Liz West, David Alesworth, Dorcas Casey and Andrea Hasler.  

www.jacscott.com                  

 

Blog  |  Have you read our blog yet?

Liz West and Alana Tyson met at World Event Young Artists in Nottingham as two participating visual artists. After spending 10 days together, they formed a close friendship and joint interest in the future of each other’s careers. Both share many interests, one being obsessive behaviour, which is often implemented in the making of their work.

Liz and Alana share their thoughts on this blog, discussing future exhibitions/works and inviting other artists to join in. 

http://haveyoureadourblogyet.wordpress.comhttp://haveyoureadourblogyet.wordpress.com

New lighting for Septembers solo exhibition

'On Brown & Violet Grounds' Solo Presentation by Liz West

On Brown & Violet Grounds is a new body of works by Liz West exploring her fascination with exuberant colour, sculptural form and intense light. Alongside a series of new light-based installations, West will also be exhibiting works on paper for the first time. Using un-conventional industrial and man-made materials, such as: electrical tape, aluminium and mirror, these pieces echo many of the materials utilized within her installation work. West’s two-dimensional explorations are driving new ideas within her practice and signal an important development from the successful colour-drenched Chamber series. 

Coinciding with The Manchester Contemporary, On Brown & Violet Grounds has been produced as a result of Liz West’s research and development award from Arts Council England. Further works on paper will be exhibited within West’s studio as part of this year’s Rogue Open Studios.

On Brown & Violet Grounds

25 September – 2 October 2013

4C/D Piccadilly Place, Manchester, M1 3BS

Open daily 1-9pm and by appointment (Tel: 07746507312)

Rogue Open Studios
27 – 29 September 2013
66-72 Chapeltown Street, Manchester, M1 2W
27 September, 6-9pm; 28-29 September, 11am-5pm

www.liz-west.com

Barnaby Artists 'In Conversation' with Whitworth Curator Bryony Bond

Barnaby 2013 is holding an ‘In Conversation’ event to help conclude the amazing visual arts programme of this year’s festival.

Barnaby's headline artists - Brass Art, Rachel Goodyear and Liz West discuss with Bryony Bond - curator at the Whitworth Gallery - What their experience of working in a town like Macclesfield represents for them.

As part of the discussion we will also examine - What the potential is for the development of visual arts in a town like Macclesfield, what are our aspirations, where do we go next?

Saturday 29th June 

Charles Roe House, Chestergate, Macclesfield
Attendance by invite only 

New Works: collage using reflective materials

I have had a productive day in the studio making new work. I have been expanding on my recent works on paper, progressing by using reflective materials such as plastic mirror, sticky-back mirror and PVA glue in conjunction with my typical saturate hues. I would say these works are more collage than drawings. Here are a few images as a taster of what I have been doing:

New Works on Paper

I have busy making new work in my studio for the last month or so. I wanted to share some new works on paper. These 'drawings' have been helping me develop ideas for future installations and sculptural works.

More new works can be seen here: Flickr.
They will shortly be added to my website: www.liz-west.com

Barnaby Festival 2013 - New Public Art Commission

Barnaby 2013 presents an exciting and contemporary visual arts programme including new site specific commissions by Brass Art, Rachel Goodyear and Liz West. 

Preview: Friday 14th June (6.30 - 9.30pm)

 

Three new contemporary art commissions have been produced for Barnaby 2013, funded by Arts Council England, featuring Brass Art, Rachel Goodyear, and Liz West as part of an exciting and packed programme for this year’s Festival in the heart of Macclesfield. Working in heritage buildings and an empty shop unit the artists reference the historic town of Macclesfield and explore themes of metamorphosis. This year has built upon the quality programming from preceding years, which has previously shown work by internationally acclaimed artists such as; David Shrigley, Ian Davenport, Ian Rawlinson and Nick Crowe.

Commissioned to work in an empty shop unit in Macclesfield’s Grosvenor Shopping Centre, LIZ WEST will use transparent object to create her largest site-specific installation to date, positioning found, disguarded and recycled objects on top of red, yellow and blue light boxes, encased within a Perspex museum-like case. West is influenced by the process of collecting, and her work specifically relates to the desire to gather and assemble objects, using colour and light to transform everyday things into new sculptural forms.

The town’s historic buildings, including Christ Church and Charles Roe House will be transformed by the commissions and an art trail of over 100 participating artists from the area during this year’s extended Barnaby Festival from 14-30 June 2013. Contemporary art will also be brought into the heart of the town's busy retail area, using an empty shop on the town’s main thoroughfare, Churchill Way where local young artists from the 'Magpie Thunder Bureau' project will create a pop-up print workshop and gallery.

Liz West:
‘Consumed’ - 15th - 30th June, Grosvenor Shopping Centre, Macclesfield - FREE 

 

For more information, please visit www.barnabyfestival.org.uk

New Works on Paper

Here's a sneak peep at a couple of my new works on paper. These are some of my preparatory studies for the Barnaby Festival commission.

 

 Consumed #13, Acyclic spray on paper, 29 x 21cm

 Consumed #4, Address labels & acyclic spray on paper, 42 x 29cm 

Progress on Barnaby Commission

A huge order of Perspex arrived to make part of the Barnaby Commission for The Grosvenor Centre.

It blocked up half my hallway for over a week. I was itching to get it into the studio and start constructing, however other elements of the work needed finishing before I could start this...

I fabricated the bases of the three light-boxes in my studio at Rogue Artist's Studios, they are due another few coats of paint before they are installed in The Grosvenor Centre. My next job is to line them all with foil and attach the lighting elements.

This week I have constructed the three perspex cases... photo's to come in my next post!

Works on paper

From the Beginning of May I started making a new body of work in light if my recent Arts Council England funding award. I have started by making works on paper; this is already helping to generate new ideas for future installations.

 

 Some of the above are preparatory drawings for Consumed; my Barnaby Festival commission.

 

Successful Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Funding

Liz West is delighted to announce that she has been awarded her second Grants for the Arts Award from Arts Council England. This will aid the research and development of a new body of work; funding her practice for another year.

The new work will be shown across two venues to coincide with Manchester Contemporary and Rogue Open Studios (27 - 29th September). New large scale work will be exhibited at Piccadilly Place, with smaller scale work and drawings on show at West's studio in Rogue. Information will be posted on the website shortly. www.liz-west.com

Sping Newsletter

Hello! 

Being commissioned to make a new piece of work to exhibit at Cornerhouse was a great way to start the year. For those of you who couldn't make it to the exhibition FOUR in Manchester, photographs of the work can be seen here:

Liz West Website

Cornerhouse Flickr 1

Cornerhouse Flickr 2

I have since been commissioned to make a new site-specific work, this time for Macclesfield's Barnaby Festival. Lots more information about that below. With recent news of my successful Arts Council England funding award, it's shaping up to be quite a year! 

Happy reading!

Liz

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Award

Grants for the Arts Funding

Liz West is delighted to announce that last week she has been awarded her second Grants for the Arts Award from Arts Council England. This will aid the research and development of a new body of work; funding her practice for another year.

The new work will be shown at this year's Rogue Open Studios (see below for more details) and in other venues across the North. Information will be posted on the website shortly. Keep checking back for updates!

www.liz-west.com

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New Commission & Exhibition

Barnaby Festival

Private View 14th June. Continues 15th - 30th June

Liz West has been invited to make a new site-specific work 'Consumed' for this year's Barnaby Festival in Macclesfield. West will take over an empty shop unit in the Grosvenor Shopping Centre to create a sensory experience using arrangements of found materials and consumer goods. In the work, objects will be arranged in orders and enclosed within constructed containers to form compacted colour masses, simultaneously reinventing the objects' identities whilst questioning how we categorise everyday items.

West is influenced by the process of collecting, her work specifically relates to the desire to gather and assemble objects, using colour and light to transform everyday things into new sculptural forms.

Barnaby has recently been awarded a grant from Arts Council England for this series of site-specific art commissions in Macclesfield. The grant enables nationally acclaimed artists such as Rachel Goodyear, Liz West, Hilary Jack and the artist collective Brass Art to showcase new site-specific commissions for Barnaby this year. 

www.barnabyfestival.org.uk//events

Grosvenor Shopping Centre

Market Place

Macclesfield

Cheshire

SK10 1DY

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Exhibition 

Rogue Open Studios

Launch 27th September. Continues 28th – 29th September.

Join us for the opening night of Rogue Open Studios, continuing over the whole weekend. Open Studios allows you a peek behind the doors (or curtains) of over 90 artists at work.

Once a year Rogue opens it’s doors to the public in it’s Open Studios event inviting fellow artists, curators and the general public to access all areas of the studios while affording members an opportunity to exhibit and offer work for sale.

This year's Rogue Open Studios is over the weekend of September 28th/29th with the opening party on Friday September 27th... Looking forward to seeing you then.

http://www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk

Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space

66-72 Chapeltown Street

Piccadilly

Manchester

M1 2WH

West to create new site-specific work for Macclesfield Barnaby Festival

Barnaby is thrilled to announce that Arts Council England has awarded the festival a grant of £40,000 for a series of site-specific art commissions in Macclesfield’s historic town centre.

The grant, spread over two years, enables nationally acclaimed artists such as Rachel Goodyear, Liz West, the artist collective Brass Art, and Macclesfield-based Hilary Jack to showcase their work this year.

New site-specific commissions for Barnaby 2013, include:
HILARY JACK who will create an installation in the Savage Tower using silk thread salvaged from Spurcroft Mill in Macclesfield, which recently closed. Jack will weave a series of large-scale ‘webs’ inside the tower, using a traditional ‘pin and thread’ technique to highlight the town’s jacquard silk heritage. The webs will also symbolise the entrapment of Macclesfield anchoress Dame Joan, who lived in the tower in the early 16th century. The colours of the silk – gold, red, purple, royal blue and white – are associated with religious ceremony and will catch the light, throwing shadows and creating a sense of the otherworldly.

LIZ WEST will use single-coloured objects to create her largest site-specific installation to date, covering the floor space of an empty shop unit in the Grosvenor Shopping Centre with the flotsam and jetsam of life. West is influenced by the process of collecting, and her work specifically relates to the desire to gather and assemble objects, using colour and light to transform everyday things into new sculptural forms.

BRASS ART will exhibit ‘The Messengers No 2’, three gigantic inflatable heads (each measuring 3 meters in length), in Christ Church. The heads, inspired by classical images of Hypnos, the god of sleep, are created using biomedical facial scans of the three artists who make up Brass Art. One of the heads was commissioned for the Tatton Park Biennial in 2012.

Internationally acclaimed artist RACHEL GOODYEAR will show a collection of beautiful drawings and a rarely seen film in Charles Roe House on Chestergate. ‘Thought Spill’ is a series of intricate sketches that have been framed and clustered together to form a narrative. The film, ‘Woodman 2011’ was originally created for her solo show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Viewed in a darkened room, the strange solitary figure on the screen is given a life by subtle changes to the illustration and a haunting sound track.

The Grants for the arts award will also fund new commissions for Barnaby Festival 2014, including proposed work by The Owl Project, ceramicist Tom Barnett and contemporary sculptor Laura Ellen Bacon, as well as opportunities for the public to engage with artists at both festivals.

Anna Riordan, Barnaby Visual Arts Director, says: “This award represents a significant development for Macclesfield Barnaby Festival in terms of impact, ambition and public engagement. It will enable us to secure more nationally recognised artists and to form partnerships with other commissioning bodies for 2014. By engaging with the community, building partnerships and drawing on a regional audience we hope it will contribute to a cultural renaissance in Macclesfield.”

Taken from www.barnabyfestival.org.uk
Barnaby Festival runs from 14 - 30th June 2014

Axisweb & Artplayer's Film about Artist Liz West

In July 2012 Axisweb were the lucky recipients of Artplayer's £5K video services competition. They thought they'd use this to highlight a success story that one of their artist members received through Axisweb's opportunity service. Liz West applied for an open call to exhibit at Cornerhouse, Manchester which resulted in her being selected for 'Four', an exhibition developed by Cornerhouse's young curators Liz Gibson, Alex Leigh and Neetu Roy. In this film created by Artplayer, Liz talks about the benefits of being a member of Axisweb and the new work she's created for the exhibition.

A big thank you to Mike at Artplayer, Axisweb, Liz West and Marisa Draper at Cornerhouse for making this film possible!

'Four' runs at Cornerhouse, Manchester until 24 February 2013

axisweb.org/artplayer-film
cornerhouse.org/art/art-exhibitions/four
artplayer.tv

Studio Play (development)

I am currently working on new ideas in my studio (Rogue Artists Studios - Manchester). I am starting on a new exciting body of ideas that will hopefully lead to some developed/new work. I wanted to share with you some recent ideas I have been having (below). I aim to keep posting to keep you up-to-date with what I have been making.

Liz West new commission in FOUR exhibition at Cornerhouse

Introducing FOUR...

The next exhibition to feature my work will be FOUR.

Liz West will be part of FOUR, an exhibition of four new commissions specifically created for the Cornerhouse show including work by Tristram Aver, Nicola Ellis, Kate Sully and Liz West.

Curated and developed by Cornerhouse’s Young Curators team, three talented people from the Greater Manchester region, FOUR will feature inspiring and thought-provoking art that has been carefully selected from over 600 international applications.

Liverpool Biennial v. World Event Young Artists

Liverpool: 242 artists in 27 locations for 72 days.

Nottingham: 1000 artists in 37 locations for 10 days.

Having been lucky enough to have attended both these major art events within the last few months, I feel that there are several comparisons to be made between the two. Maybe the Liverpool Biennial would be been a completely different experience had I been a exhibiting artist as I was for the World Event Young Artists (WEYA) in Nottingham, but both depended on the viewer or participant giving a lot of time, energy and dedication to seeing the ‘whole’ thing rather than just a snippet.

I have heard first hand from the people who only managed a ‘snippet’ of both, and the story was not good. They felt that the promises made in advertisements and general hype around the event was far more than what it actually delivered. I can see how this can be true. In order to fully appreciate the Biennial or the World Event you had to be prepared to immerse yourself in the art. Don your best walking shoes; make sure you packed a waterproof coat (and sun-cream – always living in hope); camera; event leaflet/guide; and some food… after all I am talking about long days here. Oh, and for me it helped if you took a friend along for the ride. It’s always great to have conversations about what you have just seen, whether it be positive, negative or indifferent.

For the World Event Young Artists the organisers made sure the artists were in the city for the full 10 days of the festival. This certainly helped enrich our experience. There was nothing else to do except throw yourself into seeing and doing. Every morning was spent walking around the city intentionally searching for or stumbling upon venues hosting the visual art side of the event. I normally managed between 3 and 5 a day; so much depended on how close together in proximity the galleries or spaces were. In the afternoon workshops were programmed or a matinee of a performance was attended (musical/theatrical/other). The evening was spent eating with new friends made at the event and going to another performance (mainly at Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham Trent University or Market Square). The days certainly went quickly as they were action packed. Although we were all rather tired towards the end of the 10 days – everyone knew it was totally worth it.

Liverpool Biennial opened on the last day of WEYA, meaning sadly I couldn’t get to the Biennial launch events (instead I was at the WEYA wrap party at Nottingham Contemporary – ah-hem). I did however; make the short un-arduous journey from Manchester to Liverpool once I got home form the World Event. One day is not enough to see a Biennial that is for sure. I went back for second day of Biennialing – and I really packed it in. Unfortunately I didn’t even touch on The Independents really – only making it to one: the Fallout Factory, which is a great little space that I intend to visit again. The guys running the space were friendly and enthusiastic about what they were planning, although I couldn’t help feel at only two months old, they had a lot to contend with and lots to learn still. Fallout Factory reminded me of Surface Gallery in Nottingham – very similar size space, run voluntarily and pretty central within the city.

The use of interesting spaces and usually not accessible for the general public were used as venues in both. In Liverpool there was notably Liverpool John Moores University Copperas Hill Building (old Royal Mail sorting Office), The Cunard Building and The Munro which were exciting for me (as a nosy parker) to explore and encouraged me to think how I, as a site-specific installation artist, might make work and respond to that space. At the World Event I was charmed by Primary, an artist’s studio and gallery facility that has been transformed from an old primary school, as the name suggests. If I were a Nottingham-based artist I would crave a studio space there. It is THE most exciting space I have seen for a long time. Other studio’s were used as venues in the Biennial and World Event: The Royal Standard in Liverpool and Backlit and One Thoresby Street in Nottingham… All places where you could see there were artist communities and spaces available to make work of all scales. For these venues to be used in the two events seemed natural.

As well as studios, bigger, more established gallery spaces were taken over by participating/selected artists. Conventional gallery spaces in Liverpool such as: Tate Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Victoria Gallery & Museum, The Bluecoat and FACT were used (some successfully, other less so – a nod to the Bluecoat here is necessary as there Biennial exhibition was a triumph). The Tate pulled out old pieces from their permanent collection much to my disappointment, for me this wasn’t in keeping with the ethos of the Biennial – of bringing new ideas, work and artists to the city. They surely have more budget than the artist-lead spaces to curate and develop a special exhibition – yet it was the smaller galleries that were pushing themselves and introducing us into international or lesser-know artists. Bravo to them.

In Nottingham a slightly different story – every venue was taken over by WEYA artists – an eclectic mix of national and international artists with varying levels of craftsmanship, age and experience were all exhibited side-by-side. Nottingham’s best-known galleries were used, including: Bonington Gallery (where my work was), Lakeside Arts Centre (where Alana’s work was), New Art Exchange, Nottingham Castle and the Lace Market Gallery. The decision to exhibit our work in these type of venues made by the galleries and event organisers was refreshing, and allowed us as artists to be taken as seriously as other more prestigious names.

I thoroughly enjoyed both and am glad I made the effort to attend. For both the World Event and Liverpool Biennial there was a real buzz created on social media and within my artistic circles. I am so glad that I gave both the time they deserved. As a participating artist in WEYA, I know how important it felt that people were making the effort to go search out your work in a city full of things to explore.

Press Release: ' The Div/sion of Power' Exhibition

INSTITUTE OF TEMPORARY ART PRESENTS FLETCHER MOSS ART GALLERY WITH THE DIVISION OF POWER, AN EXHIBITION WHICH, FOCUSES ON THE STRUCTURES OF CURATORIAL PRACTICE PLACING THE ARTIST, CURATOR INSTITUTION AND AUDIENCE UNDER EXAMINATION.

SUPPORTED BY THE DIDSBURY PASONAGE TRUST UNDER THE CURATORIAL DIRECTION OF HIGGINS AND RENSHAW, DIRECTOR OF IOTA JOHN LYNCH WILL PRESENT WORK BY ARTISTS PRACTICING IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND.

THE EXHIBITION WILL OPEN 16TH NOVEMBER 2012 AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE 25TH NOVEMBER 2

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Adopting its title from a governmental blueprint to define the separation or division of power between constitutional authorities to establish a balance within the body politic. Reference is made to the separation of powers; within this context we define the roles as artist-curator- institution- audience.

After splitting the practice of curation and of exhibitions themselves, the exhibition represents the idea of a gallery reinstated. Fletcher Moss Art Gallery (Didsbury Parsonage) was once a branch of Manchester City Art Gallery. At its peak Fletcher Moss Art Gallery exhibited works of Goya, Lowry, Turner and other eminent artists of the time. Fletcher Moss Art Gallery closed its doors for the last time in the late 1980’s, the space since languishing in the care of the local authority.

The Institute of Temporary Art in association with Higgins & Renshaw presents the idea of Fletcher Moss Art Gallery returning. The ‘temporary’ notion of exhibitions within contemporary society in many ways exemplifies the relationship of curatorial practice (within the four stages stated) as having fluidity.

The exhibition challenges the audience and the artists, providing the opportunity for them to reappraise and reconsider the nature of conventional exhibition etiquette. IOTA will present work by over 40 artists, which is specifically commissioned to respond to the space and its environs.

‘The Division Of Power is an exhibition that aims to examine the very nature of curatorial practice. In many ways it is a research methodology, which we are presenting to the public. The discussion about curatorial practice is a key topic, which is seemingly becoming a catalyst for debate and intrigue in this area.

The exhibition can be viewed as a complete examination of institutional critique in its presentation. This exhibition has been developed to shine a spotlight on the four key stages involved in the process of curating this exhibition. The artist, curator, institution and audience become part of a wider conversation about the very nature of Fletcher Moss Art Gallery, and by extension all artistic institutions’.

EXHIBITION: THE DIVISION OF POWER

DATES: 16TH NOVEMBER – 25TH NOVEMBER 2012.

PREVIEW: 16TH NOVEMBER 2012. TIME: 17:00 – 21.00

VENUE: DIDSBURY PARSONAGE, STENNER LANE, DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER, M20 2RQ.

ENTRY: FREE

Autumn Newsletter... Coming up 2013!

Hello,

Below is a quick update of various exhibitions and events that I am involved with in next few months and into the new year. Exciting times ahead!

Liz

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Exhibition

Institute of Temporary Art

Div/sion of Power

Opening 16th November

Exhibition runs from 17th - 25th November

Liz West will be part of 'The Div/sion of Power' exhibition, curated/hosted by the Institute of Temporary Art at Didsbury Parsonage Trust. West will be making a new performance work on the opening night... don't miss it!

West states, "As a live performance I want to arrange my vast collection of single-coloured objects inside Didsbury Parsonage. I will respond to the space around me when assembling my collection. After I have finished my arrangement (using my own systems) I will open the work up for public engagement. I would like other people to arrange my collected objects using their own invented systems. Others could potentially use alternative spaces, tactics and select or deselect objects. This work questions how we each make choices, selections and categorise the everyday. Using found objects (recognisable from the world around us), each person reinvents the objects’ identity by including it in this ever-evolving work."  

Fletcher Moss Art Gallery

Didsbury Parsonage

Stenner Lane

Didsbury

Manchester

M20 2RQ

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Exhibition

Cornerhouse

Four

Opening 25th January

Exhibition runs from 26th January - 24th February 2013

Liz is pleased to announce that she will be part of FOUR, an exhibition of four new commissions specifically created for the Cornerhouse show including work by Tristram Aver, Nicola Ellis, Kate Sully and Liz West. Curated and developed by Cornerhouse’s Young Curators team, three talented people from the Greater Manchester region, FOUR will feature inspiring and thought-provoking art that has been carefully selected from over 600 international applications.

West's new work will reference the domestic, presenting the vessel of a second-hand wooden wardrobe allowing the viewer a glimpse through the partially open doors. Inside, a video work will be mirrored to infinity, creating an immeasurable landscape within the wardrobe, alongside an endless expanse of single-colour objects that will glimmer and entice audiences to look further. The piece will continue the artist’s investigation into the use of physical constructs to experience the viewer’s own emotional and psychological relationships with colour.

http://www.cornerhouse.org/ 

Cornerhouse

70 Oxford Road

Manchester

M1 5NH

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Blog

WEYA After Ours

weyaafterours.wordpress.com

Ongoing

Liz West (UK) and Alana Tyson (Canada/UK) met at World Event Young Artists (WEYA) in Nottingham as two participating visual artists. After spending 10 days together at WEYA, they formed a close friendship and joint interest in the future of each other's careers. Both share many interests, one being obsessive behaviour, which is often implemented in the making of their work.

Liz and Alana intend to share their thoughts post WEYA on this blog: explaining how the World Event has helped them, discussing future exhibitions/works and inviting other WEYA artists to guest blog and join in the fun.

  

http://weyaafterours.wordpress.com

  

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Book

Revolutionary Sculpture Book

By Jac Scott

Published in 2014

Liz West is delighted to announce that she has been selected for inclusion in a new publication written by award winning artist and an associate of the Royal British Society of Sculptors; Jac Scott. ‘Revolutionary Sculpture: New Attitudes in Mixed-Media Art’ will be a visual feast featuring 30 international artists. The book will be published by The Crowood Press Ltd in 2014. 

Other artists selected are: Andre Woodward, Catherine Bertola, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Liliana Porter, Mary Giehl, Marilene Oliver, Pascale Pollier, Kate MccGwire, Niko Neelova, Michael Shaw, YaYa Chou, Yuebin Gong, Peter Freeman, Paul Moss, Rachel Allen, Eliza Bennett, Awst & Walther, Andrew Burton, Noam Ben-Javov, Ricardo O'Nascimento, Stelios Manganis, Mark Houghton, Janet Curley-Cannon, Cath Keay, Liz West, David Alesworth, Dorcas Casey and Andrea Hasler.

www.jacscott.com

'The Div/sion of Power' Exhibition at Fletcher Moss Art Gallery

I will be part of this exciting exhibition 'The Div/sion of Power' curated by the Institute of Temporary Art at Didsbury Parsonage. I will be doing a performance work on the opening night... don't miss it! 

"As a live performance I want to arrange my vast collection of single-coloured objects inside Didsbury Parsonage. I will respond to the space around me when making my arrangement. After I have finished my arrangement (using my own systems) I will open the work up for public engagement. I would like other people to arrange my collected objects using their own invented systems. Others could potentially use alternative spaces, tactics and select or deselect objects. This work questions how we each make choices, selections and categorise the everyday. Using found objects (recognisable from the world around us), each person reinvents the objects’ identity by including it in this ever-evolving work."

Hosted by the Institute of Temporary Art at Fletcher Moss Art Gallery (M20 2RQ)
Preview is on Friday 16 November 2012, 17:00 to 21:00. Performance by Kathryn Edwards.
Open from Saturday 17th November to Sunday 25th November 11:00 to 16:00