Mister Finch | Those That Pick The Frost Flowers | Liverpool Bluecoat Display Centre | Dec 2018
A quick look of the beautiful 'Mister Finch' exhibition, 'Those That Pick The Frost flowers', at the Liverpool Bluecoat Display Centre. If you can get to Liverpool, go and see this show, it's on until Dec 31st, it's magic! x
Mister Finch installation supported by Granada Foundation & Cass Art
December – Mister Finch installation supported by Granada Foundation & Cass Art / Saturday 1st December 2018 - Monday 31st December 2018
Those that pick the frost flowers…
For the month of December, our window will be brought to life with a unique installation by Mister Finch. This is very generously supported by Granada Foundation and local art supplies retailer, Cass Art.
“Flowers, insects and birds really fascinate me with their amazing life cycles and extraordinary nests and behaviour. British folklore is also so beautifully rich in fabulous stories and warnings and never ceases to be at the heart of what I make. Shape shifting witches, moon gazing hares and a smartly dressed devil ready to invite you to stray from the path.
Humanizing animals with shoes and clothes is something I’ve always done and I imagine them to come alive at night. Getting dressed and helping an elderly shoemaker or the tired housewife. Making things has always been incredibly important to me and is often an amazing release to get it out of my system.
It’s a joy to hunt for things for my work…the lost, found and forgotten all have places in what I make. Most of my pieces use recycled materials, not only as an ethical statement, but I believe they add more authenticity and charm.
A story sewn in, woven in. Velvet curtains from an old hotel, a threadbare wedding dress and a vintage apron become birds and beasts, looking for new owners and adventures to have. Storytelling creatures for people who are also a little lost, found and forgotten.”
– Mister Finch
The Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool
Built in 1716-17 as a charity school, Bluecoat Chambers in School Lane is the oldest surviving building in central Liverpool. Following the Liverpool Blue Coat School's move to another site in 1906, the building was rented from 1907 onwards by the Sandon Studios Society.Based on the presence of this art society and the subsequent formation of the Bluecoat Society of Arts in 1927, the successor organisation laid claim to being the oldest arts centre in Great Britain, now called The Bluecoat.
The school was founded in 1708[3] or 1709[1] by the Reverend Robert Styth (died in 1713[3]), rector of Liverpool, and Bryan Blundell, a sea captain and later twice Mayor of Liverpool (1721--22 and 1728-29). Originally constructed in 1716-17, the building was extended until 1718 to function as a boarding school.[3] By the following year it had 50 children, with room for 100 more, and construction was finally completed in 1725.
After the school moved to a new site in Wavertree in 1906,[1] the building was threatened with demolition. It was rented out from 1907 to the Sandon Studios Society, an independent art school and art society. The building's future still unsecured, it took the intervention of the architect Charles Herbert Reilly, head of the Liverpool School of Architecture. He convinced the industrialist William Lever to rent Bluecoat Chambers in 1909 and subsequently buy it, renaming it Liberty Buildings. Sharing the space with the Sandon Society, Reilly moved in with his School of Architecture from 1909 until shortly after World War I In 1913-14, Lever entertained the thought of a larger building scheme to transform Liberty Buildings into an art centre but, by 1918, got tired with the idea.Lever's death in 1925 again led to proposals for demolition. A successful campaign to raise money for the purchase of Bluecoat Chambers resulted in the establishment of the Bluecoat Society of Arts in 1927 as a charitable trust to run the building.
On 3 May 1941, during the Liverpool Blitz, the concert hall and adjoining rooms were severely damaged by an incendiary bomb and during the following night the rear wing was destroyed by a bomb blast. Restoration took place after the war, being completed by 1951. It was designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building on 28 June 1952.
The Bluecoat Display Centre, a contemporary craft gallery, opened in the rear courtyard in 1959. Being known as the Bluecoat Arts Centre from the 1980s, it is simply called The Bluecoat since 2007. From 2005, the building was further restored and a new wing added. It was reopened in March 2008 to coincide with Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture.
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Promotional video from Málaga Light Spectacular during Christmas
The world-famous Light Spectacular display is coming to Liverpool this Christmas!
From Friday 15 November be prepared to be amazed by Liverpool Light Spectacular, an awe-inspiring 50-metre LED tunnel of light and music show on Church Alley (connecting Church Street to Bluecoat). The Liverpool Light Spectacular show will entertain old and young alike with some of the most popular Christmas tunes synchronised to the tunnel of lights.
Light Spectacular has proven a success across the World including Málaga (Spain) as seen in this video and Oostende (Belgium).
The 10-minute shows are scheduled 4 times a day at 16:30, 17:30, 18:30 and 19:30 until 26 December.
Artist Diane Komater - WIREIST - California Bay Area Figurative Wire Sculpture
Artist Diane Komater WIREIST
GALLERIES
BlueCoat Display Centre, Liverpool, England
The Velvet Da Vinci, San Francisco
Found on Piedmont, Oakland, California
Freehand, Los Angeles
Mowen Solinsky Gallery, Nevada City
EXHIBITIONS
Nieto Fine Art Gallery, Grand Opening, San Francisco, 2010
Contemporary Crafts Market, Los Angeles, 2008
SOFA Chicago, Mowen Solinsky Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2007
Society of Arts and Crafts Boston, Artist Choice Award, Boston, Massachussets, 2007
Mowen Solinsky Gallery, Wired, Nevada City, NV, 2007
Velvet da Vinci, 100 Brooches, 2005, traveling through 2006
CERF, Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Montpelier, Vermont, group show, 2005
The Folk Tree Collection, Pasadena, California, Figuratively Speaking, group show, 2005
Artist's Studio, Oakland, California, Koma Sutra, solo show, 2005
Leapin Lizard Gallery, Bar Harbor, Maine, Season Opening, solo show, 2004
Chatter Box, San Francisco, California, solo show, 2004
Chatter Box, San Francisco, California, Altered Barbie, group show, 2004
Theatre Artaud, San Francisco, California, Metamorphosis, group show, 2003
Articles, Mendocino, California, solo show, 2002
Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California, Chess, Chessman by International Artists, 2003 traveling through 2004
Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California, two person show, 2002
Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California, Tiaras Will Be Worn, traveling group show, 2000 to 2001
Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California, Rock, Paper, Scissors, group show, 2001
Blue Coat Display Centre, Liverpool, England, Wired, group show, 2001
Gallery Metallum, Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden + USA, Group Exhibition, 1999
Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California, Sweden + USA Group Exhibition, 1999
Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California, two person show, 1998 & 1996
The Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, California,Lighting group show, 1989
The Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, California, Chair as Art, group show, 1989
The Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, California, Environments, group show, 1988
The Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, California, Architects, group show, 1988
The Valencia Rose, San Francisco, California, Paintings, Mannequins and Photography, brother and sister show, 1986
North Beach Gallery, San Francisco, California, Painted Mannequins, solo show, 1985
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Instructor, wire class, Creativity Explored, San Francisco
Wire bracelets for the feature films, UNDER THE VOLCANO and GRAFITTI BRIDGE
Wire candleholder for THE SUZANNE SOMMERS SHOW (television)
PUBLICATIONS
The San Francisco Bay Guardian, 1998 & 1995
The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Hairpins, 1990, Pinmanship, 1990 & Objects de Art, 1989
L.A. Weekley, Best Jewelry, 1988
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Liverpool Light Spectacular - Christmas 2019
The world-famous Light Spectacular display has come to Liverpool this Christmas!
Be amazed by Liverpool Light Spectacular, an awe-inspiring 50-metre LED tunnel of light and music show on Church Alley (connecting Church Street to Bluecoat). The Liverpool Light Spectacular show will entertain old and young alike with some of the most popular Christmas tunes synchronised to the tunnel of lights.
Light Spectacular has proven a success across the World including Málaga (Spain) and Oostende (Belgium).
The 10-minute shows are scheduled 4 times a day at 16:30, 17:30, 18:30 and 19:30 until 26 December.
Blacklers Horse, Liverpool
The famous Blacklers Department Store rocking Horse on display at Liverpool Museum
Christmas in Liverpool
Song: 'Last Piece of Pecan Pie' (instrumental) by Josh Woodward
Annual Gardner Medwin Lecture by Peter Layton
Annual Gardner-Medwin Lecture by Peter Layton
Thursday 31st October
Time : 2.30 -- 3.30pm. at the Bluecoat
We are delighted to announce that acclaimed glass artist Peter Layton will be giving our annual lecture in memory of founder of Bluecoat Display Centre, Robert Gardner-Medwin.
Peter's illustrated talk will coincide with his solo exhibition at Bluecoat Display Centre, celebrating 35 years of the London Glassblowing Studio which he founded.
Peter Layton is one of the world's most widely respected glass artists and he has done more to promote glassmaking as an art form than anyone else in Europe. He has influenced, encouraged and nurtured several of the UK's leading glassmakers and has inspired many more internationally. At the age of 75, Peter remains extremely active in his field and is regarded as the 'grand old man of glass'.
For further information please contact us via email at crafts@bluecoatdisplaycentre.com, by telephone on 0151 709 4014 or by visiting the gallery in person.
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (1st November 2019) Part 2 of 2
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (1st November 2019) Part 2 of 2
Filmed by John Brace .
Authority Chamber, No 1 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP
The agenda and reports for this public meeting can be found on the LCRCA website here .
Present:
Mayor Steve Rotheram (Chair)
Cllr Pat Hackett (Wirral Council)
Cllr Liam Robinson (Transport Lead)
and others
Continues after a battery change at Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (1st November 2019) Part 1 of 2 .
12. Provision of grant support to the manufacturing technology centre's Digital Manufacturing Accelerator 0:01
To consider the report of the Portfolio Holder: Inclusive Economy and Third Sector and the Director for Commercial Development and Investment.
Additional documents:
Restricted enclosure 21 View the reasons why document 12./2 is restricted
Restricted enclosure 22 View the reasons why document 12./3 is restricted
Restricted enclosure 23 View the reasons why document 12./4 is restricted
13. Requested changes to previously agreed SIF Project: City Centre Connectivity 1 0:09
To consider a report of the Portfolio Holder: Inclusive Economy and Third Sector and the Director of Commercial Development and Investment.
Additional documents:
Item 13 - Appendix 1
Item 13 - Appendix 2
Policy
14. Local Industrial Strategy Update 1:36
To consider the report of the Assistant Director, Policy and Strategic Commissioning.
Additional documents:
Item 14 - Appendix One
Transport and Air Quality
15. Developing an Air Quality Action Plan for the Liverpool City Region 16:19
To consider a report of the Portfolio Holder: Transport and Air Quality and the Assistant Director, Policy and Strategic Commissioning.
Additional documents:
Item 15 - Appendix Two
16. Public Question Time 32:53
Members of the public will be given the opportunity to ask questions which have been submitted in accordance with Meetings Standing Orders No. 11. A period of 30 minutes will be allocated for this item. Copies of valid questions will be circulated at the meeting.
Members of the public who wish to submit questions are asked to contact Democratic Services either by:
Email: democratic.services@liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk
Telephone: 0151 330 1330
In writing: Democratic Services, LCR Combined Authority, PO Box 1976, No. 1 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP.
A proforma will be supplied for the submission of public questions which for this meeting must be returned by 5.00pm on Monday 28 October 2019.
17. Petitions and Statements 33:01
Members of the public who wish to submit a single position or statement in accordance with Meetings Standing Orders No. 11 are asked to contact Democratic Services either by:
Email: democratic.services@liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk
Telephone: 0151 330 1330
In writing: Democratic Services, LCR Combined Authority, PO Box 1976, No. 1 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP.
The single petition or statement for this meeting must be returned by 5.00pm on Monday 28 October 2019.
18. Minutes of the Transport Committee held on 12 September 2019 33:08
Liverpool Clayton Square
Liverpool Clayton Square and the pensioner rollerblading Geoff Dornan.
Anna & Joe - Doubletree Chester Wedding
The Beautiful Anna and Beaming Joe, held at the gorgeous Doubletree Hilton, Chester.
Walter Keeler Ceramics Exhibition Highlights | GOLDMARK
Highlights from the opening of the Walter Keeler Major Ceramics Exhibition at Goldmark.
Walter Keeler has singularly transformed the face of British functional studio pottery, and what I have always loved about it is its Englishness. In literally re-shaping the language of tablewares in the 1970s and 80s, of giving it new and exuberant form, he has celebrated so richly its own history, from the 17th and 18th century salt glaze potters of Fulham and Nottingham to the tortoiseshell colours of Thomas Whieldon.
Walter has brought to modern pottery so much of the expressive spirit of the English workshop and factory, a fascination with the design and mechanics of pots that goes back to his youth, riverbank-combing for clay shards on the Thames Estuary. Anyone who has examined his inventively improvised thrown and assembled pieces from the 1960s onwards will have got a very strong sense of other kinds of tradition, a delight in constituent parts, of junctions and joins, of extrusions, sections and so forth. His pots have an engineering that is as suggestive of lathes and drills and metal components as of the potter’s wheel. It is no surprise that he draws on a much broader love of industrial and craft history and its objects, not just the long story of our pottery making. His work has a precision and crispness that owes just as much to the life and beauty of good factory wares as to the spirit of the studio.
Like the potter there is an eternal youthfulness, a perennial sense of excitement about these pieces, whether we are looking at the comparatively austere (but always playful) salt glaze, inkwash and creamware shapes or the sumptuous spectacle of his baroque Whieldon ‘cut branch’ forms. Walter’s maverick work is so very humane, adding another dimension to our dining tables, to our shelves, to our lives. I have known him for thirty years, and in that time his pots have always looked so fresh, constantly moving and evolving, broadening our perception of the potter’s art.
David Whiting, October 2017
What is Goldmark?
A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website goldmarkart.com where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
At we publish beautiful films and articles for new buyers and seasoned collectors alike, with new content posted every week.
See something you like and you can head over to goldmarkart.com, our online shop, where we sell an extraordinary range of art and ceramics.
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Walter Keeler Exhibition Invitation | GOLDMARK
On Saturday 18th November 2017 Goldmark will be opening its first major exhibition of ceramics by Walter Keeler. Walter Keeler (b 1942) is a British studio potter best known for his salt glaze pottery. Keeler was born in London and attended Harrow School of Art, where he was trained by Michael Casson. Writer Oliver Watson described him as ‘one of the most important and influential potters of the 1980s’. Keeler’s work is held in a number of public collections including Victoria & Albert Museum, National Museum Wales, American Craft Museum, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
'Working towards an exhibition is a very strange business, because it implies that you have a vision for this space and that this collection ofwork is going to convey something quite specific. You've got some reason for having this show that is going to send people away different from the way they came in. What really happens is I go out into my workshop and I make pots, and the pots accumulate in their own special way. I haven't made them to any purpose other than my need to make pots, though I've tried to include a variety of forms, big and small.
I suppose inevitably it is going to reflect me, which is kind of daunting. I haven’t reinvented myself in order to make a cohesive exhibition, so if it's not cohesive it's because I'm not cohesive. I hope above all it reflects my feelings about the business of being a potter, of making things for other people.'
What is Goldmark?
A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website goldmarkart.com where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:
At we publish beautiful films and articles for new buyers and seasoned collectors alike, with new content posted every week.
See something you like and you can head over to goldmarkart.com, our online shop, where we sell an extraordinary range of art and ceramics.
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TWITTER
INSTAGRAM
PINTEREST
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Last Sane Man: Tanya Harrod
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, Tanya Harrod's life of the British potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) describes a man of paradox: a modernist who disliked modernity; a husband and father in love with a younger man; a colonial servant who despised Empire; an intellectual who worked with his hands. Dubbed 'the last sane man' by Angela Carter, his pottery in Cornwall became an outpost of the counter culture. 'Harrod is the perfect biographer for such a complex and gifted man' (AS Byatt). 'Her biography is as passionate as its subject. It is wonderful' (Edmund de Waal). Art historian Tanya Harrod gives an illustrated talk on Cardew's work as a potter and on his unconventional life.
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This event was part of the Charleston Festival 2014 and took place on 21st May 2014.
Please note that there may on occasion be strong language and some content may not be suitable for younger audiences.
Clayton Square
Clayton Square, Liverpool
The Haunted Graves Yard.
One of the replica Machines I build please see my other links for more of the coin operated mechanical machines I build.
In the old days early 1900s these machines were found in arcades and around Sea side piers every where.Normally set at the price of 1d. The replicas I build can take Decimal coinage too.Please see my other Machines (Link) Haunted manor, Laughing Sailor,Ask the demon a Question and Others.
Walter Keeler - Fragile?
Did you ever expect to visit a ceramics exhibition and be asked to bring your vinyl collection along with you? Or to be invited to walk over and destroy one of the exhibits?
Fragile? showcases the beauty and diversity of contemporary ceramic practice. The exhibition ranges from traditional vessels to works which explore the nature of ceramic as a material.
The exhibition brings together key works from the collection of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, including ceramic works by Richard Deacon and Felicity Aylieff, as well as featuring pieces from the archaeology, industry and botany collections.
Also on view are works by four Wales-based artists – Claire Curneen, Walter Keeler, Lowri Davies and Adam Buick – shown together with specially-commissioned films that delve into each maker’s creative process.
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Wnaethoch chi erioed feddwl y byddech yn ymweld ag arddangosfa gerameg lle byddai gofyn i chi ddod â’ch casgliad finyl gyda chi? Neu y byddech yn cael cyfle i gerdded dros un o’r gweithiau a’i ddinistrio?
Mae Bregus? yn edrych ar harddwch gwaith cerameg gyfoes, mewn arddangosfa sy’n amrywio o lestri traddodiadol i weithiau yn archwilio natur cerameg fel deunydd.
Mae’r arddangosfa hon yn dod â gweithiau allweddol o gasgliad Amgueddfa Cymru ynghyd, gan gynnwys gweithiau cerameg gan Richard Deacon a Felicity Aylieff, yn ogystal â darnau o gasgliadau archaeoleg, diwydiant a botaneg.
Hefyd i’w gweld mae gweithiau gan bedwar artist o Gymru – Claire Curneen, Walter Keeler, Lowri Davies ac Adam Buick – ynghyd â ffilmiau wedi’u comisiynu’n arbennig sy’n taro golwg ar broses greadigol yr artistiaid.
Portfolio Careers by Dr Maureen Bampton at Rising Stars 2014 Symposium
Keynote: Portfolio Careers: Contemporary Crafts over the Past Thirty Years
Dr Maureen Bampton, Director, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
Making the most of career opportunities that present themselves, and examining emerging contemporary makers career patterns.
Rising Stars 2014 is produced by New Ashgate Gallery in partnership with Milton Keynes Arts Centre and Smiths Row, a-n The Artists Information Company and University for the Creative Arts. It is supported by Arts Council England and Billmeir Charitable Trust. We would also like to thank all speakers.
New Ashgate Gallery was originally established in the late 1950s. It has been located in the centre of the Farnham Craft Town in a seventeenth century listed building in Waggon Yard since the 1970s. Today, New Ashgate Gallery provides an unparalleled resource for Farnham, Surrey and beyond. It is the destination for viewing and buying the best of affordable contemporary art and craft by established and emerging artists and makers. The Gallery curates an exciting programme of exhibitions and is dedicated to champion the best contemporary art and craft in the market place. As a not-for-profit charity, it also fosters emerging artists and makers through mentoring and touring exhibitions, working in partnership with organisations such as Crafts Council.
An Interview with Mr Finch
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