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Review of 'Poetry Installation' by Poet/Artist Andrew Taylor, Part Loft Space Project, Liverpool, England, Curated by Jo Derbyshire.
Written by George Lund, Image by Jo Derbyshire.
05 February 2007.

The setting is a residential property in the south of Liverpool, with views of Liverpool's waterfront - the street which has provided the backdrop to films and TV programmes. On entering the property you are taken through the Living room with paintings by Lund and Derbyshire depicting Liverpool's waterfront. The room upstairs houses a profile of the artist and a photographic image of Derbyshire taken of one of the main roads off Liverpool's waterfront.

The gallery itself is covered with Taylor's work stuck randomly to the wall. On an easel in the corner is one of Taylor's books 'Cathedral Poems'. Taylor's poetry as exhibited in this urban setting explores the layers of life and the setting of this renovated house echo's these layers of time. His poetry remembers a forgotten past that stretches from Merseyside to London. Dimensions of nostalgia, reflective memories swept into surreal visions of places, faces and past times. It encapsulates the long gone feelings of children, innocence almost like the echoes of a past within the house and the gallery itself. There is a human spirituality within the environment the poetry laments to corridors of the past.

The exhibition by Taylor runs from 04 February 2007 - 10 February 2007.For further information contact:
Jo Derbyshire (Curator of Loft Space Project) on aprilskies1204@aol.com or 07946353251.

The 'Loft Space' curated by Jo Derbyshire continues with:

11 February 2007 - 17 February 2007
Pastel Series by Peter Worthington.

18 February 2007 - 24 February 2007
The Place Where We Live by June Rose H.

25 February 2007 - 03 March 2007
Old and New (Things You See, But Don't See, Every Day) by Jazamin Sinclair and Karen Henley.

4 March 2007 - 10 March 2007
City, Regeneration, Redevelopment and Waste, ACEO's by Jo Derbyshire and Peter Worthington.

11 March 2007- 17 March 2007
Nietzsche's Urbanised Icon by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney and Tony Knox.

18 March 2007 - 24 March 2007
Social Commentary on Urban Space, Place Within by Rob Davies.
When the City Speaks (Performance in the Room) by Laura Baxter.

25 March 2007 - 31 March 2007
Liverpool and Cologne by Natalie Bennett.

01 April 2007 – 07 April 2007
Escape from Genesis (The Canon of theHuman Body, Society and Culture) by Lucia Andrea Sweeney.

15 April 2007 - 21 April 2007
From New York to Liverpool and Back Again (Femmes du Futur) by Kofi Fosu Forson with collaborations from Dawn Cherie, Carolyn Day and Nadja Hoyer-Booth.

22 April 2007 - 28 April 2007
Overview of Loft Space: Salon (on-line publication and exhibition).

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