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Friday, 4 May 2012
Retour à la terre de Liverpool .(scribbled at 14:30 )
With less than 8 hours until I'm next in Liverpool, I actually can't
describe
how excited I am.
It’s not that I don’t get excited by London or anything, but since moving
here I've became rather more appreciative of the north. Being able to walk from
one end of a city to another for instance, is rather cool. Who wants to be
underground all day anyway? The best way to explore is always
en pied. My usual ventures of 'escaping
the city' each weekend have usually ended up with gorming at Lalique’s glassware
at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where you sort of truly feel this great sense
of escapism (I’ve yet to see that room overpopulated…)
Plans for this joyous weekend include…
- Checking out the
Galápagos
exhibition that opened at the Bluecoat yesterday. Marcus Coates is one of the
artists featured, and I am a mahoooosive fan after I first saw one of his performance-come-documentaries
pieces at the Walker Art Gallery a few years back. I popped along to a talk of
his as well, and he’s incredibly good at talking about his work.
-
Leaf on Bold Street. This is just
inevitable; they’ve somehow managed to suck me into this habit of returning
whenever I make a trip up to Liverpool. Their Liquorice cuppa is brilliant!
-Visiting an artist studio or three.
-MelloMello, one of the best gems in Liverpool, has recently refurbished
their premises so that’s on my list of things to see
-There’s an artist talk at The Royal Standard tomorrow morning. I haven’t
been to their gallery/studio space yet so I’m really excited about this!
-and partying, albeit with a tiny bit less alcohol. I’m now gracing the age
of where hangovers are inescapable if I’ve had anything more than two glasses
of wine...
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| Last time I went out. I appear to be doing an impression of Kate Winslet in Titanic |
Have a great bank holiday weekend all! Je t'aime Je t'aime x
www.thisisleaf.co.uk
Labels: ART DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, Galápagos exhibition The Bluecoat, Leaf Bold Street, The Royal Standard Artist Studios
Sunday, 12 February 2012
HEEBIE JEEBIES. .(scribbled at 21:01 )
Okay, so here’s to blog entry number 4 (if you can call
last month's upload of muffins an "entry", hmmm.)
Anywho, for the first time in ages, I caught a train up to Liverpool to
indulge in a long weekend of dancing in Heebie Jeebies, scouring Mello Mello
and Leaf for its latest offer of exquisite green tea and checking out an art
exhibition or two.
I'd been meaning to check out the Gina Czarnecki
exhibition at The Bluecoat for a while too, and as it was in its final week at
the time, I'd have rather saw it in Liverpool before her retrospective appears
elsewhere (following its time in Liverpool, it will then go on to travel to the
Imperial College, the Science Museum and then The Herbert Museum & Art
Gallery)
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I think my SLR is on its last legs.
Image accredited to The Bluecoat, Liverpool. |
This is Palaces, my favourite piece from the
exhibition. Part of her 2009-11 series entitled Wasted; here Czarnecki
has created a beautifully delicate resin sculpture which is adorned by the milk
teeth of children. It really does illuminate this ground floor gallery space,
so much so that I begin to notice passers-by gawping through the window at the
room in front of me:
I find this piece so fascinating, more so than any of the
other works. I also sourced out where all these teeth had come from. Most had
been donated by young children residing in Liverpool, but quite a significant
proportion had been donated from overseas too. She really manages to evoke
these thoughts to the viewer about just how accustomed we are to seeing human
tissue within art. I suppose we never really think about the correlation
between bodily tissue and museums and how essentially the body parts we view in
these environments have been
discarded by
the donor, possibly even forgotten about.
www.thebluecoat.org
www.ginaczarnecki.com
P.S... and after a very hard night drinking my weight in vodka, my BFF Hamish and I spent a chilly Sunday afternoon wandering through Sefton
Park and its thousand Canadian Geese.
Labels: ART DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, Canadian Geese, Gina Czarnecki, Heebie Jeebies, Human tissue in art, Leaf, Leaf Bold Street, Liverpool, Mello Mello, Milk Teeth, Sefton Park, The Bluecoat
I find this piece so fascinating, more so than any of the
other works. I also sourced out where all these teeth had come from. Most had
been donated by young children residing in Liverpool, but quite a significant
proportion had been donated from overseas too. She really manages to evoke
these thoughts to the viewer about just how accustomed we are to seeing human
tissue within art. I suppose we never really think about the correlation
between bodily tissue and museums and how essentially the body parts we view in
these environments have been discarded by
the donor, possibly even forgotten about. 
