It’s been announced that A Foundation in Liverpool is to close.
I’m really sad about this, not only did I have an incredible experience as part of the A Curriculum residency last year, but I am a big fan of their ambitious commissions, beautiful building and role in the Liverpool Biennial. It’s a significant loss for the city.
Read more here:
http://www.sevenstreets.com/art-and-creativity/the-l-word/
Drawing Paper (a newspaper on drawing) is having a pre-launch this Saturday. The brainchild of Mike Carney, an artist working at Royal Standard, the paper will be free and features drawing from 20 artists, myself included. The pre-launch of #1 is from 5-8pm at Royal Standard Studios, Liverpool this Saturday (8th May).
The first issue brings together a diverse selection of work from 20 artists including Jon Barraclough, Mike Carney, Baptiste Croze, Jemma Egan, Henry Finney, Madeline Hall, Natalie Hughes, Harry Lawson, Hamish Mclain, Sarah McKevitt, Flis Mitchell, Bernadette O’Toole, Richard Proffitt, James Quin, Laura Robertson, Emily Speed, Topia Gould, Sam Venables, Alan Williams and Ki Yoong.
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The Royal Standard
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Unit 3, Vauxhall Business Centre, 131 Vauxhall Rd, Liverpool L3 6BN
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Liverpool, United Kingdom
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The A Curriculum exhibition at A Foundation had it’s opening last Friday and happily the Director liked it so much, he has decided to extend it to be open Fridays and Saturdays until 22nd May, alongside the ‘Economy of the Gift exhibition there, so please go down and have a look if you can!
A Curriculum: A one day exhibition
Saturday 1 May, 12 – 6pm
Private view: Friday 30 April, 6 – 9pm
The A Curriculum artists-in-residence will hold a one-day exhibition to present work made in the two months spent at A Foundation, Liverpool. During their time on the residency the artists have attended a programme of talks, and received studio visits, by a number of artists and art professionals. Coming to the end of this period the artists would like to invite the public into their studios which will be returned to an exhibition space for the final day of their
residency.
I’m excited to have been chosen to take part in A Curriculum, a new residency programme at A Foundation in Liverpool, during March – May 2010.
The residency is described thus:
“The programme will be scheduled over two months and will include input from visiting artists, curators, gallerists, collectors and commissioners. A Curriculum will give participants the chance to explore a broad range of perspectives which build a picture of the artist within the wider professional context.”
I will be starting a new body of work; working towards my first ever solo show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park early in 2011. Can’t wait to get stuck in.
I am sitting on a comittee of artists at A Foundation in Liverpool who are making events for artists. Thus far we have had one event – Taxed: Slip and Slide Slam. Based on other events held internationally, we basically reproduce them in Liverpool, next is a reading group with a difference based on the footnotes of the Rhizome chapter in A Thousand Plateaus. The idea is not to read the text, but act as you would as an artist going about their work by following the footnote you are assigned in any direction…
Images from Slip & Slide Slam. More information on the next event: http://www.afoundation.org.uk/afoundation/news.php