Relationship

Reflection

A stunning collection of work from a group of Liverpool's emerging Art Students attending Liverpool's John Moore's university. The show features drawing, installation, painting, sculpture and video art. From various locations throughout the UK, these Students challenge such notions as Location, Interaction, Religion, and what they mean on a personal level, under the main theme of 'Relationship'.

The artists are listed below. Again just click on the name to go to their section.

Cahal Argue

Connor Bloomfield

Tom Burbidge

Louise Crowe

Kate Crowther-Green

Hannah Day

Gill Donley(Davies)

Erin Grimley

Bethany Hitchin

Antonia Jones

Janine Kimmance

Liriya Lee

Debrea Lewis

Sarah Little

Hannah Malone

Tanya McCann

Debby Miller

Dennis Outten

Rose Parish

Pip Preece

Rebecca Quellin

Hazel Rowe

Lucy Somers

Mark Tierney

Lucy Westall

David Whiteley

Or why not just browse through them? Just click on an image to see it full size in our viewer.

The exhibititon opened to the public on the 27th April 2011 and ran to Friday 13th May. Open Tuesday to Saturday 12 til 4pm.

Cahal Argue

In the beginning was the word - but what of the tongue to talk it, the ear to hear it the eye to see and label it?

Cahal's objects consider the spaces between word and image - the process whereby the viewer conjures their own relationship with what they are looking at - The image creating words as much as the words creating an image.

Connor Bloomfield

Connor is a multimedia artist taking inspiration from the inscriptions of the body which can define and make a person's character and story.

He is showing the different relationships existing between friends and acquaintances with identifying marks that have been acquired over time throughout the process of knowing and learning one another.

Tom Burbidge

Tom has always worked in mark making using different mediums with varying qualities to represent each property of the material in question.

E.g In his collection of self portraits he concentrated on the relationship the material used has with the aesthetic of the art work.

Louise Crowe

Louise is primarily interested in aspects of psychology relating to the 'self' exploring issues such as memory, perception and the sub-conscious.

The work on display uses animation to convey her daily routine with various pieces of symbolism suggesting that there are other parts of her to be discovered. Visitors are invited to write something which says something about themselves.

Kate Crowther-Green

Her works relate to movement and process through the use of photography and printmaking. Her interest in the process of relief print making led to further representation of the dramatic movements created through light and photography and even the movement involved in the printing process itself.

Her work covers the unpredictable effects of these processes and breaks down the relationship between how we envisage a finished image and how it actually turns out and how this can change our understanding of the image itself.

Hannah Day

Her work explores the relationship between the mind and reality, memories and facts. Taking inspiration from the IKEA phenomenon of organising every aspect of life into a 'flat pack' storage she draws connections between this and the way the mind stores information and memories which have perhaps been confused or misinterpreted.

Gill Donley(Davies)

Her work is about our relationship with text. Particularly her discovery, at the late age of thirty nine, that her problem had a name - dyslexia. She explores the difficulty of the dyslexic condition through the distortion and alteration of text giving the viewer a window into a world of someone who sees text differently.

Her manipulation of text making it as difficult as possible for the reader to access brings into question perceptions about what it is to be able to read, what makes text legible and how illegibility can affect a person's life.

Erin Grimley

Erin's work is based around structural space, organic forms and shaping the body. Using photography she captures the contrast between the fluid and the rigid. She is constantly trying to give the body a stronger significance that the space it is presented in.

Bethany Hitchin

Bethany uses her work to express her sensitivity and interest in conservation, animal welfare and other global issues. She often uses found images and reworks them using different techniques and media to bring out the importance of our relationship with nature.

Antonia Jones

Antonia experiments with uniting photography and sculpture to develop the qualities and properties of the two dimensional, transforming them into elegant sculptures.

Janine Kimmance

Janine uses Floriography, a flower symbolism used in the Victorian era, in her work which has at its core the exploration of the relationship between herself and others close to her.

Liriya Lee

Liriya's works with photography and figurative painting. She depicts the moments of a relationship between a man and a woman from the woman's perspective.

Debrea Lewis

Debrea's work investigates the relationship between cities and green space. There is a green legacy in cities from an age before the emergence of the motor car and their conspicuous consumption of goods and services. These green spaces are still used and enjoyed by communities and can be perceived as the lungs of a city.

These ideas are expressed through her passion for print-making using both drypoint and silkscreen methods.

Sarah Little

Her work is about our modern obsession for communication when we are so engrossed in using the technology that links us to each other that we become ignorant of what is going on around us and unaware of the natural beauty that surrounds us.

Hannah Malone

Hannah explores the link between perception and the superficial. The materials and shapes in her sculptures have been chosen for the particular connotations they have.

She uses changing light and shadow to challenge perception - the mood of the sculptures change to reveal a different aspect of its personality when a light is shone on them.

Tanya McCann

Her work is about the relationship between reality and the supernatural. Using photography her work focuses on Liverpool's most haunted locations and their history.

Debby Miller

Debby's work explores the multiple complex layers of self - the individual - that makes her who she is. Some are open to public view whilst others are hidden deep inside.

Through the process of the application, removal and reapplication of the paint she strips back and reveals (or hides) something of herself. The colours signify the varieties of feelings and emotions she has experienced through out her life.

Dennis Outten

Dennis is a multi disciplinary artist whose work focuses on human interactions in a social and metaphysical sense. He works with sculpture, installation, performance, film and photography using the medium best suited to his ideas.

Rose Parish

Rose specialises in photography, drawing and painting. Her paintings are mainly worked with oil on canvas or board. She has worked with experimental digital landscape photography for many years and is studying how drawing effects can compose and be relates to her paintings.

Pip Preece

Pip uses innovative layering of canvases to reflect the detachment and overstated representation of relationships and situations.

The multi canvas compositions are intended to reference the tagging process, however on another level they denote the artificiality of a situation distancing and providing the solitude of the subjects.

Rebecca Quellin

Rebecca's work relates to illness and disease taken from personal experience and is based on the idea of cells spreading and growing.

The works are intended to make people think about what could be going on inside their bodies and that they should not overlook even the smallest thing.

Hazel Rowe

Hazel has a keen interest and love of texture. To achieve her effects she makes good use of her skills in the use of gesso and layering of oil pastels, watercolour and acrylic. Also wax and materials such as hand made silk paper, dyed fabrics, netting and other paper are skilfully and delicately worked in using a freehand sewing machine.

Lucy Somers

Lucy's paintings are grounded in colourist works from observation, painted in luscious impasto with the dense body of a work being essential to its impact.

She captures the momentary glance at a corner where an unrecognised toy is caught as simply a block of colour or a sock poking out from under a bed becomes an abstract jerk of the brush.

Mark Tierney

Using mutimedia methods Mark constructs a lineage of work that depicts our relationship with structures, institutions and formalism within a conceived 'Socially Constructed Society'. From beginning to end a structure of narratives can depict the formula society has created to exist within a conciousness.

The work depicts a socio political theme that holds relevance to this period in time. The narrative offered is in video format making poignant use of image and sound.

Lucy Westall

Her work is continually drawn back to her childhood in Cyprus particularly colours and textures.

Her 'Through the Window' series explores the colours, textures and surface tensions within an image and then extends to the tactile nature of the frame itself composed from driftwood. Glass is used to persuade the viewer to look though both the glass and the image itself.

David Whiteley

David's work is inspired by the ever evolving and organic nature of the city of Liverpool.

He uses found objects taken from the cities streets where each object contains within itself a previously established narrative making his collage a point of convergence of different 'lives'.

The Liverpool Academy of Arts

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