Summer Newsletter

Hello,

I would like to start by thanking everyone for their support towards my first major solo exhibition Chroma, which took place at BLANKSPACE in Manchester over the month of July. An overwhelming number of people attended the exhibition and related events including the preview and artist talk. If you missed it, images of the work can be seen on my website over the next few weeks. Alternatively you can take a look on my Flickr page.

I was so glad to be given the opportunity to make three new ambitious site-specific works within the gallery. Thanks to Mark Devereux for curating the exhibition, Arts Council England and all those that supported my crowd funding project.

There are only a few limited edition Chroma exhibition catalogues left which can be purchased for £10 through my website or by clicking HERE.

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

Cheers,

Liz

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Press

The Independent on Sunday

 

I am very excited to tell you that my entire series of six Trolley photographs will feature in The Independent on Sunday Magazine this week (26 August). Holly Williams’ article Young, Gifted and British offers a sneak preview of some of the best home-grown talent taking part in World Event Young Artists next month in Nottingham.

Williams writes, “…More cheerful are Liz West’s images. A tutor at Glasgow School of Art once told her that every photographic slide should look “like a jewel” – and hers certainly shine brightly. This is serious colour-blocking: the 27-year-old contrasts different masses of uniformly hued objects in a supermarket to make an aesthetic experience out of a consumerist chore.”

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Exhibition

World Event Young Artists

Exhibition runs from 7th - 15th September

I shall be participating in World Event Young Artists 2012 taking place across venues in Nottingham. My work will be exhibited in Nottingham Trent University’s Bonington Gallery.

World Event Young Artists is the very first event of its kind to take place. It is an exciting occasion bringing together and celebrating the talent and artistic excellence of young people from across the globe. In September 2012 World Event for Young Artists will bring a staggering 1,000 young artists (18 – 30 years) from 120 nations to Nottingham. Over a period of 10 days, artists will bring the city to life with creative activity across all art forms including visual arts, music and gastronomy. These artists will have the chance to showcase their practice, exchange ideas and build future collaborations.

www.​ntu.​ac.​uk/​boningtongallery

Bonington Gallery
Nottingham Trent University
Bonington building
Dryden Street
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 4GG

 

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Exhibition

International Association of Quantum Artists

 

Beyond the Material World

Exhibition runs from 20th October – 3rd November

The IAQA is a contemporary art collective exploring the idea of artistic visions which intuitively reach beyond this three-dimensional, material world to explore alternative possible realities through taking a positive approach. This collective are pleased to announce their first exhibition at Bar Lane Gallery in York. The show will explore the statement Beyond the Material World and aims to be inspirational and encouraging others to reach out towards a more positive and sustainable future.

Works featured will move away from dominating fixed theories and measures of conventional science. We are taking the view that art can be viewed as a platform for multiple expressions of social ideals; where art and science co-exist harmoniously. The exhibition strives to have a holistic and egalitarian approach which asks all who participate how we can construct a new outcome or world view together. The works considered provide positive, awe inspiring futures rather than promoting any apocalyptical visions.

http://iaqa.blogspot.co.uk/

Bar Lane Studios

150 Micklegate

City Centre

York

YO1 6JX

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Exhibition 

Rogue Open Studios

Launch 28th September. Continues 29th – 30th September.

It is my pleasure to invite you to this year’s Open Studios at Rogue Artists Studios in Manchester. Join me for the opening night and continuing over the whole weekend. Open Studios allows you a peek behind the doors (or curtains) of 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 29th/30th with the opening party on Friday September 28th from 6-9pm. Opening hours over the weekend are 12pm-5pm Saturday and 12pm-4pm Sunday. Looking forward to seeing you then.

http://www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk

Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space

66-72 Chapeltown Street

Piccadilly

Manchester

M1 2WH

Pre-Launch Interview with Artist about Solo Exhibition 'Chroma'

Short interview-lead film about Manchester based Visual Artist Liz West about her life as an artist, her work and her first solo exhibition "Chroma" at Blank Space Manchester in 2012. Film by Barbara Nickl.


Liz West from Barbara Nickl on Vimeo.

Artist Talk - Chroma: Liz West in conversation with Barney Doodlebug

Artist Talk - Chroma: Liz West in conversation with Barney Doodlebug

Wednesday, July 18 at 6:30pm at BLANKSPACE, 43 Hulme Street, Manchester.

You are invited to this In_Tuition special, as artist Liz West talks In Conversation with Barney Doodlebug. Exploring the themes of her work and practice, this is an opportunity to pose your own questions and find out more about what inspires Liz.

The talk is free to attend and no prior booking is required. BLANKSPACE will re-open at 6pm for attendees to view the exhibition prior to the talk.

A drinks bar will be available supported by Sandbar, Manchester.

For further information about the talk and Chroma: Liz West please visit http://www.blankmediacollective.org/chroma

'Games People Play' Exhibition at Nolias Gallery, London

This new exhibition is a playful nod to any games from the Olympics, to the Euros, Wimbledon to board games, toys to political or mind games. The artists have responded to this theme to create a concoction of playful artworks that cavort with your senses and play with your mind…. 

ARTISTS
Nicola Anthony | Paula MacArthur | Irene Bakundukize |  Nolia Devlin | Eldi Dundee | Hope Dundee  | Fan Chiao Ling | Leyla  Folwell | Enver Gursev | Beth Hardman | Het | Tracy Howl | Matt Hardman | Bruno Jamaica | Alexis Johnson | Sanita Kaur | Denia Kaz | Neil Kelly | Morwenna Lake | Maciej Markowicz | Valeriya N-Georg | Chris Parry | Glyn Powell | Ruth Solomons | Liz West

Curated by Gillian Best Powell

Private View: Tuesday, 10 July 2012: 5pm  - 9pm.
Opening hours: 12 - 6pm, Wed - Fri, Sat 12 - 4pm

60 Great Suffolk, London SE1 OBL.  Nearest tube: Southwark Station on the Jubilee line (near Tate Modern), between Waterloo and London Bridge
http://coreatnolias.wordpress.com/ 

Chroma: Liz West | Preview this Thursday (5 July), 6-9pm

Visitors to BLANKSPACE gallery in Manchester will be able to add a splash of colour to their lives when a new, special exhibition opens this July for one month only.

Running from Friday 6 July until Sunday 29 July, Chroma will be Manchester artist Liz West’s first major solo exhibition, celebrating her ambitious new work.

Liz began accumulating coloured objects from the age of seven when she started collecting bottles of bright nail varnish and arranging them in the order of the spectrum on her bedroom windowsill. So began an obsession, which over the last twenty years has seen Liz collect a huge variety of purely coloured objects.

Amongst the work on show at BLANKSPACE gallery off Oxford Road, a horizontal form cuts through four rooms interacting with colour, light and space. Opposite, an opening in the fabric of the space affords the viewer a glimpse into a chamber of infinite objects.

Artist Liz West said:
“I am thrilled about my solo exhibition taking place at BLANKSPACE gallery, as I am now at a point in my artistic career where I feel eager and ready to develop more ambitious, large scale work.”

Following Liz’s successful group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Northern Futures Awards 2010 (People’s Choice Winner) and the Celeste Art Prize (New York), she has now received an Arts Council England award to support Chroma, allowing brand new work to be brought into reality.

Blank Media Collective Lead Curator, Kate Charlton said:
“Chroma will be a great start to the summer as this playful and colourful exhibition transforms BLANKSPACE like never before. Whether you are trained in the visual arts or just know what you like, this free exhibition is sure to trigger the imagination.”

Chroma is curated by Blank Media Collective and is kindly supported by Arts Council England, ASK Developments, Sandbar and Full Circle Arts. Admission to the exhibition will be free. Accompanying the exhibition will be a limited edition exhibition catalogue.

For further information about BLANKSPACE gallery visit the website at www.blankmediacollective.org. To catch more of Liz West’s work be sure to check out her website at www.liz-west.com and follow Liz and Chroma on Twitter: #ChromaExhibition & @LizWest_Art.

Chroma Exhibition Catalogue: Pre-Order

PRE-ORDER LIMITED EDITION CHROMA CATALOGUE
£10 plus postage and packing

Pre-order your copy of the Chroma exhibition catalogue, which will be available in July 2012. This edition of just 100 will be numbered and signed by the artist.

This limited edition book will comprise full colour images of past and present work, including; photographic work, site-specific installation, studio shots and artists sketches. There will be an In Conversation between Liz West and curator Mark Devereux discussing the intentions of the work. Foreword by Lynne Green.

To order this unique artist's book, click on the buy it now button below. If you have any questions please contact Liz or Mark at the email addresses below.

lizziewest_uk@yahoo.co.uk | info@markdevereux.co.uk

BUY IT NOW

My Work on the Cover 'Signs of Life in the USA'

 

Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers 

 

Sonia Maasik (Author), Jack Solomon (Author)

Product details

• Paperback: 710 pages
• Publisher: Bedford Books; 7 edition (21 Nov 2011)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 031264700X
• ISBN-13: 978-0312647001
• Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm

My Work in Oddest Bar (as part of Chorlton Arts Festival)

Location:

Oddest

Dates:

Monday 21 May, 2012 - 19.00-21.00

PREVIEW: Mon 21 May 19–21.00 

EXHIBITION: Thu 3 – Wed 30 May  

Supermarket trolleys as you have never seen them before!

As part of Liz’s colour research she builds collections using invented systems, often relating to a certain colour. In the ‘Trolley’ photographs she has experimented with building collections of block colour in the supermarket, a place where colour is in abundance, in order to understand how colour may look in mass.

Come and smile as you see a shopping trolley acting as an artist’s canvas.

'Still Here' - Exhibition at Untitled BCN, Barcelona

 

In case you happen to be in Barcelona next week, this exciting exhibition opens which includes my work:

STILL HERE

Opens 26 May. Runs 27th May - 6th June

untitledBCN has recently undergone renovations to the space and now present a project of several exhibitions in one, in this markedly pessimistic time these artists continue creating  .... Still Here. The group exhibition includes the work of artists from Estonia, Germany, England, Japan and Spain.

Untitled BCN
c / Topazi 14
08012
Barcelona
Spain

Thank You

Thank you to the following people who kindly donated £10 or more towards Chroma through my Sponsume appeal, I managed to raise just over £500 which will really help with my solo exhibition:

Clare Cochrane

Naomi Kendrick

Jon Cronshaw

Shabana Basheer

D V Cole

Diana Harmer

Karen Boulton

Tracey Hebron

Paul Watson

Kevin Bradshaw

Suzanne Bradshaw

Suzanne Foster

Laura Maley

Andrea Marshall

Michele Pouncey

Helen Hyde

LIZ WEST: CHROMA - PRESS RELEASE

TITLE: Chroma

WHAT: Solo Exhibition by Manchester-based artist Liz West 

WHERE: BLANKSPACE, 43 Hulme Street, Manchester, M15 6AW  
 
WHEN: 6 – 29 July 2012 (Exhibition Launch: 5 July, 18:00-21:00)

INFORMATION:
Visitors to BLANKSPACE gallery in Manchester will be able to add a splash of colour to their lives when a new, special exhibition opens this July for one month only. 
Running from Friday 6 July until Sunday 29 July, Chroma will be Manchester artist Liz West’s first major solo exhibition, celebrating her ambitious new work. 

Liz began accumulating coloured objects from the age of seven when she started collecting bottles of bright nail varnish and arranging them in the order of the spectrum on her bedroom windowsill. So began an obsession, which over the last twenty years has seen Liz collect a huge variety of purely coloured objects.
Amongst the work on show at BLANKSPACE gallery off Oxford Road, a horizontal form cuts through four rooms interacting with colour, light and space. Opposite, an opening in the fabric of the space affords the viewer a glimpse into a chamber of infinite objects. 

Artist Liz West said:
“I am thrilled about my solo exhibition taking place at BLANKSPACE gallery, as I am now at a point in my artistic career where I feel eager and ready to develop more ambitious, large scale work.” 

Following Liz’s successful group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Northern Futures Awards 2010 (People’s Choice Winner) and the Celeste Art Prize (New York), she has now received an Arts Council England award to support Chroma, allowing brand new work to be brought into reality. 

Blank Media Collective Lead Curator, Kate Charlton said:
“Chroma will be a great start to the summer as this playful and colourful exhibition transforms BLANKSPACE like never before. Whether you are trained in the visual arts or just know what you like, this free exhibition is sure to trigger the imagination.” 

Chroma is curated by Blank Media Collective and is kindly supported by Arts Council England, ASK Developments, Sandbar and Full Circle Arts. Admission to the exhibition will be free. Accompanying the exhibition will be a limited edition exhibition catalogue. 

For further information about BLANKSPACE gallery visit the website at www.blankmediacollective.org. To catch more of Liz West’s work be sure to check out her website at www.liz-west.com and follow Liz and Chroma on Twitter: #ChromaExhibition & @LizWest_Art. 

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EDITOR’S NOTES:

Listings

Chroma

BLANKSPACE, 43 Hulme Street, Manchester, M15 6AW
Friday 6 – Sunday 29 July 2012 (Exhibition Launch: Thursday 5 July 2012, 18:00-21:00) Exhibition opening times: Wednesday-Sunday: 11am-5pm | Thursday: 11am-7pm

Further Information

Liz West
Liz West was born in Manchester in 1985. She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2007, where she studied BA (Hons) Sculpture and Environmental Art. In 2010 Liz was shortlisted for the London Photography Award and also the prestigious Northern Futures Awards, winning the People’s Choice Award. More recently Liz was shortlisted for the Woolgather Art Prize 2011 in Leeds and selected for Expectations exhibition and Celeste Art Prize, both in New York. She has exhibited in the CUBE Open, Centre for the Urban Built Environment Manchester and in the Pedder Photography Exhibition, Bigger Picture Gallery London. Other exhibitions include Ambience of Play; greenroom Manchester, At Play 3; South Hill Park Arts Centre, Collagerie; Stew Gallery Norwich, Reduction; Broadcasting House Leeds and Colour; Beldam Gallery London. West Lives and works in Manchester.

Media Contact

For further information, interviews and high-resolution images please contact Mark Devereux, Blank Media Collective Director & Head of Exhibitions
Email: mark@blankmediacollective.org
Phone: 0161 222 6164 | 07739 026504 

Chroma – Solo Exhibition by Liz West | Sponsume

Chroma – Solo Exhibition by Liz West | Sponsume

I am a Manchester based visual artist working towards my first solo exhibition ‘Chroma’ due to take place at BLANKSPACE, Manchester in July this year (5 – 29th July). A Special Edition accompanying exhibition catalogue will also be produced, limited to just 100 copies. The exhibition will include a number of large-scale, ambitious, site-specific installations, made especially for this show.

I am seeking funding towards the development and cost of materials for this ambitious project… that’s where you come in! I have some exciting rewards to offer if you decide to fund my project including Limited Edition photographic prints, signed postcards and studio visits.

I make intensely coloured installation, video and photographic works from arrangements of found materials and consumer goods. In my work, objects are densely arranged in orders or enclosed within constructed spaces, such as cupboards and shelves or in containers such as shopping trolleys and cabinets to form compacted colour masses or gradations. I create sensory experiences in the form of richly saturated installations that immerse the viewer in a kaleidoscopic or optical environment.

I need your help to make this happen. This money will help provide me with a brilliant opportunity and platform to showcase my artwork to a wider audience through the exhibition and publication. Chroma will be an exciting event and exhibition for all to attend; including themed workshops, artist tours and talk.

www.liz-west.com

On Bread Alone Exhibition at Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester

Nexus Art Cafe present their new exhibition 'ON BREAD ALONE' which opens next week and features my work - install is ongoing this week, but join us on Wednesday 18th April from 5pm-7pm to partake in some crusty bread and fresh baked art with us!

NEW WORK: 'Repeated Everyday'

'Repeated Everyday'
Wood, Mirrors, LED Lights, Objects, Rug
2012

'Spectrum' Exhibition at Broadstone Mill (in association with Manchester School of Art)

Broadstone Mill Gallery

Spectrum Exhibition

Opening hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 4pm.
Exhibition Date: 21st Mar 2012 - 29th Apr 2012
Organisation: Broadstone Mill Gallery
Venue: Broadstone Mill Gallery, Broadstone Road, Houldsworth Village, Reddish, Stockport, SK5 7DL.
Contact: Gallery, Open Studios
Email: rebeccadixon16@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.houldsworthvillage.co.uk

Artists: Liz West, John Davison, Sarah Middleton

Combining the works of three resident artists from both AWOL and Rogue Artists Studios, Manchester, spectrum aims to illustrate the ways in which differing practitioners use various mediums to explore the distribution and representation of the colours found in personal and public environments.

From the poetic depiction of rural landscapes on canvas, interventions that aim to create contemplative space, to immersive sculpture that investigates the aesthetics of the everyday; John Davison, Sarah Middleton and Liz West all deal with the notion of spectrum and its relationship to our surroundings.

New Work at Broadstone Mill Gallery for 'Spectrum' Exhibition

Consume
Mixed Media Installation
2012

New site-specific work 'Consume' for Spectrum exhibition at Broadstone Mill, Manchester. Opens 21st March 2012.

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I am a Manchester based visual artist working towards my first solo exhibition ‘Chroma’ due to take place at BLANKSPACE, Manchester in July this year (5 – 29th July). A Special Edition accompanying exhibition catalogue will also be produced, limited to just 100 copies. The exhibition will include a number of large-scale, ambitious, site-specific installations, made especially for this show.

I am seeking funding towards the development and cost of materials for this ambitious project… that’s where you come in! I have some exciting rewards to offer if you decide to fund my project including Limited Edition photographic prints, signed postcards and studio visits (visit the link above).

I make intensely coloured installation, video and photographic works from arrangements of found materials and consumer goods. In my work, objects are densely arranged in orders or enclosed within constructed spaces, such as cupboards and shelves or in containers such as shopping trolleys and cabinets to form compacted colour masses or gradations. I create sensory experiences in the form of richly saturated installations that immerse the viewer in a kaleidoscopic or optical environment.

I need your help to make this happen. This money will help provide me with a brilliant opportunity and platform to showcase my artwork to a wider audience through the exhibition and publication. Chroma will be an exciting event and exhibition for all to attend; including themed workshops, artist tours and talk.

Please help spread the word by sharing the Facebook and Twitter links to anyone you think might be interested in funding this exciting project.

www.sponsume.com

'Inside' Exhibtion Info (Flyer)

Inside at BLANKSPACE. Opens 29th March

Friday 30 March - Sunday 29 April 2012, BLANKSPACE, Manchester

INSIDE: 30 March - 29 April 2012
EXHIBITION LAUNCH: Thursday 29 March (6-9pm)
BLANKSPACE, Manchester
Free Entry

Participating artists: Claudia Borgna, Philip Cheater, Drop Collective, Gill Greenhough, Rosie Leventon, David Ogle, Emily Rubner, Liz West and Chris Wright

Within the insular and atmospheric setting of BLANKSPACE gallery, Inside explores the psychological connections we form with our environment, placing the participant within a collection of works that disturb, envelop, and engage. All the works featured in this exhibition are united by themes of absence, loss, memory, fantasy and nostalgia, sparking the imagination and placing the participant both physically and mentally within the viewing space.

Kate Charlton, Blank Media Collective’s Lead Curator states; “Inside gives us the opportunity to bring together a collection of artworks which are going to encourage the audience to interact with pieces in a new and different way. This is an ambitious exhibition, bringing together an eclectic range of artists helping them to showcase works that may not have otherwise have been realised. Inside will set a precedent to what will be another exciting year for the organisation.”

To accompany the exhibition, there will be a hand-made publication featuring short prose and poetry inspired by the exhibition themes. Collating the work of twelve emerging writers, each of the pieces creates a perfect accompaniment to the exhibition experience.

“For me, Inside questions the nature of experiencing an object in space, a primary concern of my practice and one that must be considered when using light as an artistic medium. Light rests on the border between the material and the immaterial, visually perceptible but without physical mass, a volume of light captured in space, an altered perception of materiality and permanence.” David Ogle, Artist

“I am thrilled as well as apprehensive to see how the viewers will relate to the work but certainly looking forward to this step and hopefully to open new doors.” Claudia Borgna, Artist

Inside follows Blank Media Collective’s inaugural and highly successful exhibition, The Title Art Prize, Manchester’s newest contemporary art competition celebrating emerging talent across the UK. Launching at BLANKSPACE gallery, Manchester on Thursday 29 March (6-9pm) and bringing together the work of nine emerging contemporary artists from across the UK and Internationally, this exhibition promises to be challenging and thought provoking. Throughout the exhibition there will be a series of workshops, talks and tours for the public, concluding on 29 April 2012.

FURTHER INFORMATION:
BLANKSPACE | 43 Hulme Street | Manchester | M15 6AW | 0161 222 6164

For further information about the exhibition please email Kate at exhibitions@blankmediacollective.org

| OPENING TIMES:
Wednesday-Sunday: 11am-5pm | Thursday: 11am-7pm | (Closed: Monday-Tuesday)

Inside Exhibition Teaser

inside is coming... from Jamie Hyde on Vimeo.

Art Fist | A Place for Creative People: Artists' Showcase: Liz West

Art Fist | A Place for Creative People: Artists' Showcase: Liz West: I make intensely coloured installation, video and photographic works from arrangements of found materials and consumer goods. In the work ob...

My Work in Canvas & Cream Open Exhibition

Canvas & Cream Gallery, the revolutionary new concept South East London project space, launches its first open submission exhibition on Friday 17 February 2012 at 6pm.

Canvas and Cream is the idea of artist Dr Joanna Gore, along with her daughter, artist Emily Gore and partner Carpenter Paul Rushworth. The business is a family run social enterprise with an arts and environmental focus. The space includes an up-cycled dining room, arts workshop space, artist studios and an alternative therapy room as well as the dedicated gallery/project space, which will be hosting a vibrant creative events program throughout the year.

The Canvas & Cream exhibition was open to all artists living and working in the UK. Seventy eight artists applied for space in the exhibition and seventeen have been chosen to display their works, which range across an eclectic variety of mediums and styles from sculpture and carved glass to painting, digital enhancement and wood-relief prints.

Exhibiting artists include: Amanda Bracken , Andrew Ball , Ashley Hanson , Catherine Jacobs , Clare Winter, Estelle Jauneaud , Euan Stewart, Fay Watson, Hilary Tranter, Hugh Gilmour, Liz West , Mary-Jane Opie , Michael Coombs , Sirpa Pajunen-Moghissi , Susan Eyre, Theo Brooks, Will Frost.

Further information about the artists featured in the Open Submission Exhibition

Andrew Ball
Andrew’s works are elaborate, non-figurative digital compositions, drawing inspiration from characteristics of organic growth and structure, such as plants and architectural elements. His images display an exacting graphic quality, derived from a close interaction of colour, tone and line and an accent on space and light.

Amanda Bracken
Amanda explores aspects of cultural and painterly systems of colour, themes of light and weight, movement and stillness and the shifting nature of language, using 3D art works and drawings.

Theo Brooks
Theo present his collection of footware: “Seductive Qualities of Sneakers”, exploring the themes of desire and obsession within consumer behaviour in relation to urban fashion.

Michael Coombs
Michael make pieces that explore our perception of the world, inviting the viewer to look beyond their first impressions and to discover what is really presented to them. He investigates how we grasp on to objects to give stability to our understanding of an ever-changing world.

Susan Eyre
Working with textiles, print and mixed media, Susan’s practice uses collages to explore commonly held ideals reflected in archetypal romantic scenes and ideas of paradise set against an urban reality. Her interest is in discovering everyday experiences transformed by aspirations for the sublime.

Wilf Frost
Wilf is a seasoned veteran of the urban art movement and continues to reinvent his work as his views and the world changes. Currently his vibrant canvases incorporate people and animals in urban settings, with intriguing narrative themes.

Hugh Gilmour
Hugh’s sculptures and installations fuse the natural such as stone, wood and shell with the manmade and often kitsch elements of plastic, ornaments and beads.

Ashley Hanson
Ashley’s paintings are investigations into the dialogue and tensions between opposites: between the curved and the linear, liquidity and solidity, male and female, the natural and the man-made.

Catherine Jacobs
Catherine presents ‘Above and Beyond’, a new series of mixed media abstract landscape paintings on wooden blocks, created using an experimental process that combines the building up, layering, painting, washing away, re-layering and re-painting of materials with cross hatching drawing techniques.

Estelle Jauneaud
Estelle’s work derives from a fascination with exploratory graphics, and her creations emerge from the nexus of art and design. She is passionate about working and experimenting across multi-disciplined mediums and artistic sectors.

Mary-Jane Opie
Mary-Jane’s work studies the emotional relationship between humans and animals and explores the fine line between ‘adored pet’ and ‘power exerted over a dumb animal’. The viewer is invited to explore the canvas by means of details and ‘stories’ that take place in the background - enjoying the action but also becoming part of the joke.

Sirpa Pajunen-Moghissi
Sirpa’s paintings are suggestive of the hazy lines and shapes that evoke the snow-covered landscapes of her native Finland. In her latest work Sirpa uses her mother’s Seija-Marita Guttormsen’s woodcuts as a starting point to create memories and moments frozen in time.

Euan Stewart
Euan’s predominant subject is anatomy and a desire to map the human body and human condition. His work is driven by sequences, resulting from a life’s passion for the illustrated page.

Hilary Tranter
Hilary’s work experiments in mixed media, being open to accidentals. Her initial inspiration is rooted in observation, an experience, a fleeting moment or mood.

Fay Watson
Fay specialises in wood engravings, exploring the use of formal patterns and textures to convey aspects of her designs, and investigating the way the characteristics of the engraved line can influence and alter the original concept.

Liz West
Liz makes intensely coloured installation, video and photographic works from arrangements of found materials and consumer goods. Objects are densely arranged in orders or enclosed within constructed spaces to form compacted colour masses or gradations,

Clare Winter
Clare’s work probes the ageing body, society’s attitude towards older people, the history of understanding our bodies and, in turn, what it is to be human.


Further information about Canvas & Cream and how to reach us is available at www.canvasandcream.com

'Fixation' - Wolstenholme Creative Space

FIXATION
Curated by Joe McNulty
16 – 26 February 2012

Wolstenholme Creative Space
11 Wolstenholme Square
Liverpool
L1 4JJ

Featuring:
Kit Abramson, Diana Ali, Casey Carlin, Nicola Dale, Julie Dodd, Kirsty Evans, Chris Fagan, Lesley Halliwell, Nicola Hands, Joanne McClellan, Ben Roberts, Beth Ross, Matt Spencer, Dominic Thorpe, Samantha Vinsun, Liz West, Ruth White, Sam Venables

Fixation Exhibition at Wolstenholme Creative Space

FIXATION
from Thursday 16 February 2012

My work will be included in the exciting exhibition, Fixation. I have been selected to show the newly completed 'Trolley' series; showcasing all 6 photographs.

Fixation is an exhibition showcasing work of an obsessive nature - presenting work from a variety of sources in an exhibition that is diverse but cohesive in theme and media; producing a focal point for dialogue and reflection. Fixation closes with a special event on Sunday 26 February, check back for more details.

Private View: Thursday 16 February, 6-9pm

Exhibition Opening Times:

17 18 19 23 24 25 26 February 12-4pm

WCS | Wolstenholme Creative Space
11 Wolstenholme Square
Liverpool, L1 4JJ

info[@]wolstenholmecreativespace.com

Talk for Textile Dept. Students for the Repeat Symposium at Norwich University College of the Arts

A while ago, Dr Hilary Carlisle (Dean of Faculty of Arts and Design) and Nick Rodgers (Course Leader) for BA Textiles invited me to give an artist talk to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students as part of their Repeat Symposium.

I discussed how I approached making work in different contexts, and illustrated this with examples of work made over the past 5 years. Initially, I talked about my collecting and how this influences my practice. I then discussed links with collecting to my work, including; 'Complementary Chart', a photographic project which involved making a work in the form of a 36exp. contact sheet where I arranged purely coloured objects in colour sequence, and how it was presented in an exhibition at the EASA HQ Gallery, Manchester. I then discussed 'Trolley's', a performance which was developed as an experiment with block colour in the supermarket. I then discussed my 'Chamber' installations and how rigorous in planning I have to be when constructing these on site, I also gave reference to the use of repeat in my work, as using mirrors in the 'Chambers' reflects the objects into infinity. I also showed them 'Aqua Chroma' a pattern based installation made from 3000 bottles. Lastly I showed the work of three artists that inspire me to make the work I do (based around large immersive created environments using colour or a mass of everyday objects). David Batchelor, Tara Donovan and Yoyoi Kusama all featured. There was time at the end for questions, and I was pleased that students were engaged enough to ask some excellent questions.

Other speakers were: Drusilla Cole; Keith Albarn and Claire Hart (Sanderson - Fabrics and Wallcoverings)

I thoroughly enjoyed giving the talk, and the positive responses from students and staff afterwards suggested that they found it most interesting and useful. I would really like to do more talks and would like to become more involved in teaching, so let me know if you (or someone you know) could provide such opportunities!

Here's a bit about the accompanying exhibition:
http://www.nuca.ac.uk/thegallery/diary

Associated with the prestigious textiles course at NUCA, who have created artefacts in response to the theme of 'Repeat'. Some works have been selected from current designers' output, whilst other exhibits have been produced specifically for the show. This show offers an opportunity to explore the notion of 'Repeat' within the practice of textiles design.

'Repeat' has been conceived and curated by University College academics Dr Hilary Carlisle, Dean of Faculty of Arts and Design, and the Course Leader for BA Textiles, Nick Rodgers. The exhibition draws on a range of contemporary textile practices and includes drawing, textiles, product, video, installation and design work.

'Repeat' refers to a fundamental theme within textiles and surface design and acknowledges its close association with textile manufacturing processes. In this show, exhibitors have been challenged to respond to the theme of 'Repeat' in relation to their own practice.

Martyn Blundell's video work explores the repetition of imagery and structure, whilst the work of John Macaulay exposes the repetition of everyday tasks in the form of screen-printed fabric. Designer Sarah Angold demonstrates her love of repetition and multiples in her lighting design and Nick Rodgers explores textile design through an investigation of numerical systems.

The show is accompanied by a symposium for students, which takes place on 25th January 2012.

Exhibitors include:

Les Bicknell
Martyn Blundell
Dr Hilary Carlisle
Jane Eastwood
John Macaulay
Zoe Miller
Louise Richardson
Jill Rodgers
Nick Rodgers
Grainne Swann
David Tudge
Alison Willoughby

Visitor information

Tuesday 10th January – Saturday 28th January
Open 12pm - 5pm (closed Sunday and Monday)
Exhibition open to the public, admission free.

Featured Artist on Cental Stn. Website

My recent Trolley's project was selected by Central Station as their Featured Artwork in the 50x50 showcase as day 44/50:
Please have a look at the work and join this fantastic network of creatives:
http://thisiscentralstation.com/featured/4450-trolleys/

Here's what they said about my work:
"Liz West works as a visual artist, making large scale site-specific installation work. Her Trolley’s project is an experiment in building collections of block colour.

We strongly suggest taking a look at the full project here and finding out more about Liz’s work here.

And if you would like to see her work in the flesh, Liz’s work is currently being exhibited at Kitsch, Bristol."