The Liverpool Academy of Arts

What's Coming

Fashion Through The Century (1901 to 2000)

The Gibson Girl, Rayon and Straw Boaters, Charleston dancing Golden Girls, the shameless pants suits of the thirties.

Teddy Boys and the flared skirts with numerous petticoats and the Givenchy 'Sack Dress', Mini skirts, Maxi skirts, flares, hot pants and punk.

The yuppie business suits of the 90's and the explosion of exercise wear and leotards ending with the big baggy look popularised by the rap musicians of the 90s.

And that's just a few of the styles they have to choose from.

Opens Tuesday 21st February and runs until the 8th March, Tuesday to Saturday, 12 to 4pm.

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Future Exhibitions

We will be puttting information up in the next few days about our opening exhibition for next year.

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Recent Exhibitions

A ChristmasCarroll

An exhibition of paintings by three artists - June Lornie illustrating 'Alice in Wonderland', Len Ehlen's reflections on 'Through the Looking Glass' and Granelli's "Alice Connections".

This was combined with information about Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddel provided by the Daresbury Lewis Carroll Society.

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Halloween

This was our last Open Exhibition for the year and attracted entries from over fifty artists.

Originally a Celtic festival celebrating summer's end it became associated with ghosts, witches and gools, children's parties, duck apple, carved turnips and chilling tales of the supernatural. The Scottish tradition of children 'guising' was exported to America and then imported back into England as what we now know as 'trick or treat".

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Double Dutch

An exhibition by two Dutch photographers - Daniëlle Verweij and Carla Vermeend .

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Daniëlle is well known for her natural portraits and for this exhibition produced - "Children" - a series of portraits of typical Dutch children .

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Carla's interest lies in nature and she produced two sets of photographs:-

"Dreamscape" - a series of dream like landscape photographs.

"Every week a flower" where a single flower is photographed using a combination of motion, sharpness and blur to get the perfect composition.

The exhibition sponsored the Dirk Kuyt Foundation (yes, the Liverpool footballer) which supports sporting events for the disabled.

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John Sutherst

Previous exhibitions by local artist John Sutherst have shown his breadth of interest which has led to him painting landscapes, still life, figure and life paintings, and abstracts. His works have a wide appeal and we were pleased to welcome him back again with his new collection of works with a theme of 'Figures and Flowers'.

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