-Features 2006
Ben Parry and Jacques Chauchat
Ballet Mechanique – Ben Parry and Jacques Chauchat. by Leo Wood Huge changes to the physical and social fabric of the city of Liverpool are taking place. In reaction to these changes, Jump Ship Rat (JSR), a local art collective, have chosen to explore Liverpool 08’s prevailing cultural theme ‘City in Transition’, and to make
Cape Farewell- Art and Climate Change
Cape Farewell : Art and Climate Change by Peter Hagerty Does citizenship demand responsibility? Historically social responsibility has revolved around the local polis in the maintenance of control and order, but today the sphere of concern is global and while the creationists, the multinationals and the oil companies in particular conspire to undermine and evade
Curator David Hancock
I’ll Be Your Mirror – Curator David Hancock by Leo Wood Since the birth of representational art, people have been painting portraits as a way to represent and understand humanity. And yet as artist David Hancock sees it, our understanding of portraiture is both limited and stifling. Hancock has chosen to explore and challenge the
In Another Place
In Another Place Submissions In Another Place As Antony Gormley’s iron men sculptures near the end of their long stay on Crosby Beach more and more people are photographing each other with the life-size statues. Some confront the sculptures; others treat it as a member of the family. The sculptures have been dressed up, occasionally
On Adam Nankervis
Curating the curious On nomadic, necessary, impermanent, collective, obsessive and spontaneous strategiesThe sociable art of Adam Nankervis by Alex Hetherington Australian-born, Liverpool-based artist Adam Nankervis works with a collision of tactics, an array of tensions and assemblage, a merger of disputations, negotiations and dialogues and a broad wealth of visual art vocabulary that connects his
On Gino Saccone
Asylum’s Turnstile / The Protective Procession by Alex Hetherington An asylum seeker can be thought of as status sought by a person physically present within a country, having fled their own on grounds that are detrimental to their person, liberties or well being. Further, the individual must have a well-founded fear of persecution on the
On Gregory Scott-Gurner
The Art Organisation (TAO) : On Gregory Scott-Gurner by Cecilia Andersson In conversation with Sarat Maharaj, the Chilean artist Mario Navarro spoke about his work in response to the quick pace of the contemporary art world. His most recent work, which is the result of having worked collaboratively with a group of people who have
On Max Zadow – Abled Artist
On Max Zadow : Abled Artist by Tim Birch “I haven’t got an art degree and there is a certain amount of snobbery around that… I came to this through work first of all as a journalist with BBC News & Current Affairs.” So states Max Zadow as we meet inside the FACT café. Well
On Michelle Wren
On Michelle Wren by Tim Birch “I went to Goldsmith’s but I don’t really think of myself as a Goldsmith’s graduate.” Michelle ‘Mosh’ Wren laughs –the first of many knowing smiles flashing across her bright, open, youthful face. Instant intrigue: not only did ‘our Mosh’ attend the trendy art school she got a First.“I only
On Nadim Karam
Only Dream Bombs, Wandering, and the Watercolour War Corres(des)pondent. On Nadim Karam by Alex Hetherington Sometimes the best way to get to the truth of war is to switch off your `television, stop listening to the radio, dispense with your online connection, drop the RRS feeds and stay away from the abundance of LIVE coverage
On Nina Edge
Real Life, the Private and the Public : On Nina Edge by Alex Hetherington Liverpool-based artist Nina Edge’s life is her work, in a way that could in principal be related to the ongoing, mammoth Real Life projects of Glasgow-based artist Ross Sinclair. Like him she works with modern motifs, symbols of the institutions that