Preview/Review: My Five New Friends – Oliver Braid

Art Feast sent Stephanie Whalley to view the Royal Standard’s latest exhibition My Five new Friends by Oliver Braid.

With the sticky-sweet aroma of Lynx spray, thick and pungent enough to mask the stench of yesterday’s efforts and a deflated quilt, sprawled over the end of a well-worn mattress, exhausted form the night’s struggles, you’d be forgiven for believing you had stepped into the stifling dwelling of an angst-ridden adolescent. In fact, you are standing amidst the latest creation from artist, Oliver Braid and his collaboration with curatorial team, It’s Our Playground, on display until Saturday 3rd March. Continue reading


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Art Feast Sent Josie Jenkins to Review the Galactic Gathering, Kosmica at FACT

Kosmica, a gathering of artists, space engineers, performers and astronomers usually takes place in London but was brought to Liverpool for a special edition as part of FACT’s Republic of the Moon programme. Continue reading


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Review of ‘Homeland’ at Wolstenholme Creative Space

 

Art Feast sent Roisin Hyland down to review the latest exhibition Homeland at Wolstenholme Creative Space

Liverpool may have some of the biggest and the best official galleries outside of London but we also have some of the most impressive independent studio-led spaces in the country. Now a new generation of  Liverpool young bloods have been let loose and they definitely have something to shout about! Continue reading


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Republic of the Moon, FACT, 16 Dec 2011 – 26 Feb 2012

Agnes Meyer-Brandis The Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Facility, 2011 Installation view at FACT as part of Republic of the Moon Photographer: Brain Slater


As the players in the new 21st century race for the Moon line up – the USA, China, India and Russia jostling with private corporations interested in exploiting the Moon’s resources – a group of artists are declaring a ‘Republic of the Moon’: a ‘micronation’ for alternative visions of lunar life. Continue reading


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Art Feast Interviews Emily Speed

Emily Speed

Emily Speed is a sculptor, artist and a maker of books working in Liverpool. Her work explores the temporary and the transient through reference to architecture and the body. She examines buildings both literally and metaphorically, as physical shelters and as containers for memory, bound with the history of their occupiers. Her work is often lonely and isolated with a seemingly short life – Shelters offering the briefest respite and storage to hold only the lightest items. Art Feast caught up with Emily to talk about  her  current and future projects and her time at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Continue reading


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Art Feast interviews Gina Czarnecki

Gina Czarnecki’s career to date encompasses film and installation, with an emphasis on human relationships to image, disease, evolution, genetic research and specialising in advanced technologies of image production. 

Created in collaboration with bio-technologists, computer programmers, dancers and sound artists, Czarnecki’s projects confront issues surrounding the convergence of biology and technology, and the possible corruption of the human genetic mix. 

Ahead of her up coming exhibition in the Bluecoat, Art Feast got together with Gina to talk about inspiration, creation and her latest work Palaces.
 

Congratulations on your upcoming exhibition at the Bluecoat Liverpool. Continue reading


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Drawing Marathon at The Royal Standard

 On Saturday 19th November The Royal Standard in collaboration with Drawing Paper will be hosting a drawing marathon, with 12 hours of activity planned from midday to midnight.

 

Through a series of talks, performances and timed drawing sessions we will be exploring this most primal of mediums and its relationship with, and response to, other creative practices. With planned talks, performances and an ongoing “drop-in and draw” space, you are invited to come along and see what happens as drawing sessions collide and collude with a range of other disciplines in a mash-up of improvisatory revelation. 

From spoken word performances, video and music in the form of electronic soundscapes, experimental rhythmic indulgences, classical renditions and pop soundings we have a day full of activities for you to experience and explore. 

We are keen on direct participation in our experiment but if you’d like to come along to just watch and discuss what’s going on then feel free to drop-in and enjoy the performances, to view drawings in our gallery space and take some refreshment in our knocked-up lounge area. 

We will be opening the gallery again on Sunday 20th November to assess the results of the previous day’s activity so please join us to examine what has been produced. Continue reading


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Bigger and Better – Mitch Epstein, S. Mark Gubb and Chris Steele-Perkins at the new Open Eye Gallery

Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, Nevada/Arizona, 2007 ©Mitch Epstein. Courtesy of the Artur Walther Foundation, Ulm

Sometimes bigger is better and Mitch Epstein’s inaugural show for the launch of the new Open Eye Gallery only goes to prove that point. American Power examines how energy is produced and used in the American landscape. The project began when Epstein photographed a small town in Ohio that was in the process of being ‘erased’ by the American Electrical Power Company. Residents had been ‘paid a lump sum to leave, never come back and never complain in the media or in court if they became sick from environmental complaints’. Continue reading


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Lino Prints and Painting – The Art Books of Henri Matisse

© National Museums Liverpool

Interpretation of literary works through artistic medium became popular in the early Twentieth Century and Henri Matisse’s illustrations, originating in the early 1930s, are certainly amongst the most renowned examples of this art form. The works are courtesy of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s admirable art collection, as part of their Art in our Communities programme, which aims to share artwork with the wider public. They certainly did not fail to provide with this show and as the exhibition promised, there are illustrations and text on display from four of Matisse’s most significant books, spread across two spacious galleries.

Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos (Les Crétois), 1944, which tells the story of Pasiphaé who mated with a bull and spawned a half-bull, half-human creature known as the Minotaur, was another work of literature that inspired Matisse. Henry de Motherland composed the text for this book with accompanied by lino prints, white against black, carved with such fluency and expertise that the line work is undoubtedly Matisse mastery. Linoleum carving was a favoured medium adopted my Matisse as it enabled him to encapsulate the subtle movements of the hand, giving each piece a charming sense of intricacy and craftsmanship. Continue reading


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Curiouser and curiouser Art Feast sent Stephanie Whalley to review Tate Liverpools latest exhibition Alice in Wonderland

Alice Pleasance Liddell, Summer 1858.jpg>> Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) Alice Pleasance Liddell, Summer 1858 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Alice Pleasance Liddell, Summer 1858 Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) Alice Pleasance Liddell, Summer 1858 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Curiouser and Curiouser – the feeling sweeping the nation as Tate Liverpool director, Christoph Grunenberg oversees his final exhibition at the infamous gallery. The daylight diminishes and the Albert Dock cobbles are awash with tottering heels as a towering Alice looms so ethereally, projected onto a waterfront building as the gallery opens its doors to their latest creative venture: Alice in Wonderland. Continue reading


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