Hello!
Being
commissioned to make a new piece of work to exhibit at Cornerhouse was a
great way to start the year. For those of you who couldn't make it to
the exhibition FOUR in Manchester, photographs of the work can be seen
here:
I
have since been commissioned to make a new site-specific work, this
time for Macclesfield's Barnaby Festival. Lots more information about
that below. With recent news of my successful Arts Council England
funding award, it's shaping up to be quite a year!
Happy reading!
Liz
Grants for the Arts Funding
Liz
West is delighted to announce that last week she has been awarded her
second Grants for the Arts Award from Arts Council England. This will
aid the research and development of a new body of work; funding her
practice for another year.
The
new work will be shown at this year's Rogue Open Studios (see below for
more details) and in other venues across the North. Information will be
posted on the website shortly. Keep checking back for updates!
Barnaby Festival
Private View 14th June. Continues 15th - 30th June
Liz
West has been invited to make a new site-specific work 'Consumed' for
this year's Barnaby Festival in Macclesfield. West will take
over an empty shop unit in the Grosvenor Shopping Centre to create a
sensory experience using arrangements of found materials and consumer
goods. In the work,
objects will be arranged in orders and enclosed within constructed
containers to form compacted colour masses, simultaneously reinventing
the objects' identities whilst questioning how we categorise everyday
items.
West
is influenced by the process of collecting, her work specifically
relates to the desire to gather and assemble objects, using colour and
light to transform everyday things into new sculptural forms.
Barnaby
has recently been awarded a grant from Arts Council England for this
series of site-specific art commissions in Macclesfield. The grant
enables nationally acclaimed artists such as Rachel Goodyear, Liz West,
Hilary Jack and the artist collective Brass Art to showcase new
site-specific commissions for Barnaby this year.
Grosvenor Shopping Centre
Market Place
Macclesfield
Cheshire
SK10 1DY
Exhibition
Rogue Open Studios
Launch 27th September. Continues 28th – 29th September.
Join
us for the opening night of Rogue Open Studios, continuing over the
whole weekend. Open Studios allows you a peek behind the doors (or
curtains) of over 90 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 28th/29th
with the opening party on Friday September 27th... Looking forward to
seeing you then.
Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space
66-72 Chapeltown Street
Piccadilly
Manchester
M1 2WH
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