| Local
Legacy a Success
Written by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
Images (c) Aritsts.
11 December 2007.
Artists
Jo Derbyshire, Rob Davies and George Lund, associate members
to Transvoyeur, have took part in the ‘Local Legacy’
exhibition curated by Peter Worthington. This is currently
held at Liverpool Centre of Arts Development in association
with the South Bohemia Gallery, which Worthington is the
Founder, Director and Curator.
The
exhibition opened on 14 November 2007 with the private on
the 15 November. The collection of art displayed included
a selection of diverse talent from the local arts community
in the city of Liverpool and surrounding regions. This has
been an ultimate success with artists selling their art
to private and public collectors, including Lund and Derbyshire.
Derbyshire’s
unique abstract expressionism was bought by the Liverpool
Centre of Arts Development itself for their permanent collection.
Davies
contributed to the exhibition his take on the iconic of
American western cinemagraphics transformed into paint on
canvas.
Lund’s
vibrant naïve renditions in figurative and abstraction
were purchased by Prof. Peter Roberts OBE, part of the Academy
for Sustainable Communities, to be displayed in their organisation
premises.
Lund
has further been commissioned by Liverpool Centre of Arts
Development for a series of murals. These are scheduled
to commence early 2008 and to tie in the run up to Liverpool
European Capital of Culture 2008. These will be to the external
of the company premises and to advocate art in the urban
space.
The
exhibition continues through to February 2008.
For
further information on the artists and organisations:
Artists:
Jo Derbyshire: www.joderbyshire.co.uk
George Lund:
www.lundart.co.uk
Rob Davies: www.robertdandavies.com
Peter
Worthington: www.freewebs.com/southbag
In association with Liverpool Centre for Arts Development:
www.cadt.co.uk
Artists
in affiliation to Transvoyeur: www.transvoyeur.com |
Art
by Jo Derbyshire ...
'Simply
Lennon #2' (Mixed media on paper), 2007. |
The
Liverpool Academy of Arts
ComeTogether 2007
7th
- 31 August 2007,
Monday - Saturday, 12.00 pm - 5.00 pm.
36
Seel Street, Liverpool, England.
Tel. No.: +44(0)151 709 0735
Email: sales@la-art.co.uk
Website:
www.la-art.co.uk
For
more information on the diverse talent exhibited at the
Liverpool Academy of Arts go to: www.la-art.co.uk
To
view the art of Jo Derbyshire go to:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk |
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
www.transvoyeur.co.uk
www.freeweb.com/southbag
|
Call
for Submissions ...
When
the City Speaks: The City is a Stage.
Part (3): Paris Brief.
Jo Derbyshire (Curator)
August 2007
Part
(2): Paris Brief.
Cut
off Date: Friday 31 August 2007.
When:
August 2007.
Where:
Paris, France.
Activity:
Independent/group research in Paris (France) and submission
to Curator. Artists to individually or as a group to go
out into city for a two hour period and explore the city.
Artists are to collect and research imagery and objects
inspired by the urban space. The choice of media is optional.
Proposed
Research Themes
Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel), Musee du Louvre, Musee d'Orsay,
Notre Dame Cathedral (Cathedrale de Notre Dame de Paris),
Arc de Triomphe, Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre (Sacre-Coeur),
Pere-Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise), Sainte-Chapelle,
Musee Rodin, Decorative Arts Museum (Le musee des Arts Decoratifs),
Centre Pompidou, Hotel des Invalides, Musee de l' Orangerie,
Quai Branly Museum (Musee du Quai Branly), Musee Marmottan,
Palais de Tokyo, The Catacombs (Les Catacombs), Le Marais,
Opera Garnier, Musee National du Moyen Age-Thermes et Hotel
de Cluny, Hotel de Ville, Place de la Concorde, Pantheon,
Museum of Eroticism (Musee de l'Erotisme), Musee Nissim
de Camondo, Tour Montparnasse, Angelina, Musee Picasso,
Montmartre, Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Shakespeare and Company
Bookstore, French National Library (Bibliotheque Nationale
de France), Musee Carnavalet, Champs-Elysees, Sewers of
Paris (Les Egouts de Paris), Montmartre Cemetery (Cimetiere
Montmartre), La Cite des Sciences et de L'lndustrie, Palais
Royal, Musee National des Arts Asiatiques - Guimet, City
Museum of Modern Art (Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris), Basilique de St-Denis, La Grande Arche de La Defense,
la Conciergerie, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Ile
St.-Louis, Saint-Sulpice, Place Vendome, La Madeleine, Institut
du Monde Arabe, Pont Alexandre III, Place des Vosges, Musee
des Arts et Metiers, Musee de la Musique, Montparnasse Cemetery
(Cimetiere Montparnasse), Place de la Bastille, Musee Maillol,
Eglise Saint-Sulpice, Harry's New York Bar, Museum of Natural
History (Musee d'Histoire Naturelle), Canal St-Martin, La
Cinematheque Francaise, Bercy Village, Maison de Balzac,
Maison de Balzac, Rue Cler and more …
Timetable
August 2007
Creative Research:
To research art in the urban space and produce visual dialogue.
Friday 31 August 2007
Submission:
Final outcome to be sent to Jo Derbyshire, the Curator,
no later than 31 August 2007.
Ensure each piece is clearly market: ‘WTCS Paris’
and include:
-
Name.
- Postal address.
- Email.
- Telephone number/mobile.
- Curriculum Vitae.
- Artists Statement (no more 250 words).
- Title of piece, media, dimensions and date produced.
- Prepaid return packaging.
Send
your submission to:
F.A.O.:
Jo Derbyshire (Curator)
Re: Submission to WTCS Paris
The South Bohemia Art Gallery
196 Smithdown Road
Liverpool
Merseyside
L15 5JT
UK
Outcome
All art produced will be exhibited at an online exhibition
at www.joderbyshire.co.uk
with a galllery exhibition to be announced to show the collection
of submissions.
If
you are interested in participating email Jo Derbyshire
at aprilskies1204@aol.com.
For
further information on this project go to either:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
or www.transvoyeur.com.
This
programme is in three cities:
Liverpool, June 2007.
London, July 2007.
Paris, August 2007. |
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
www.transvoyeur.co.uk
|
When
the City Speaks: The City is a Stage - London Exhibition,
at the South Bohemia Gallery, Liverpool, England, Curated
by Gaynor Evelyn and Sweeney and Jo Derbyshire, 14th
September 2007 - 26th September 2007. To
be Rescheduled .... New Dates to be Announced
Artists
from London, across Britain and abroad, have contributed
to a creative research initiative 'When the City
Speaks - The City is a Stage', conceived by Jo
Derbyshire. This research and cultural platform has been
co-curated by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney and Jo Derbyshire.
This
programme is in three stages and commenced with Liverpool
on 30 June 2007 and continued to London on 22 July 2007,
where artists collectively and in their independent practice
explored the urban space of the city. From this cultural
enquiry, each artist derived a piece of art work to denote
their experiences of the city space. The next stage to this
creative research is scheduled for Paris in August 2007.
The
art produced now forms a collection and is to be exhibited
at the 'South Bohemia Gallery' (Liverpool, England) to delineate
the artistic perceptions of the urban environment in a gallery
context.
This
exhibition will run from 14th - 26th September 2007.
Opening: 14th September 2007, 7.00 pm on wards.
To
be Rescheduled .... New Dates to be Announced
Jo
Derbyshire
(Curator of When the City Speaks Programme and Resident
Curator of South Bohemia Gallery)
Email: APRILSKIES1204@aol.com
The
South Bohemia Art Gallery
196 Smithdown Road
Liverpool
Merseyside
L15 5JT
UK
Peter Worthington
(Director of South Bohemia Art Gallery)
Mobile: +44(0)7791145190
Further
information on the When the City Speaks Programme is available
at:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
Associate
exhibitions programme:
www.freewebs.com/southbag
Affiliate
to Transvoyeur.
www.transvoyeur.com
When
the City Speaks - The City is a Stage
Concept
Artists will become the flaneur - city walkers for the day
- using the urban space as a stage and the psycho-geographic
setting to create art derived and inspired by it.
Context
To create artefacts of what they have seen, found and experienced
and memorised on the day of the walk. The situation will
be an impromptu one, so the work made on the day will formed
from the urban exploration.
Objective
The focus will be the city as a hybrid culture and the artists
to examine its sub-cultures, such as the graffiti artists,
tattoo artists, city icons and whatever is considered as
an underground scene, the banal everyday things that often
goes unnoticed and more; utilising the visual language and
symbolism in the city space.
Outcome
The cultural examinations by each artist will then be represented
through a chosen mode of expression and media on sections
of paper to convey their experiences. This could be through
text, painting, drawing, collage, photography, etc..
Programme
This programme will run in three cities, starting with Liverpool
(UK) in June 2007 moving to London (UK) and then Paris (France).
Liverpool, June 2007.
London, July 2007.
Paris, August 2007. |
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
www.transvoyeur.co.uk
www.freeweb.com/southbag
|
Review
... When the City Speaks: The City is a Stage - Liverpool
Exhibition at the South Bohemia Gallery, Liverpool, England,
Curated by Jo Derbyshire.
Written
by Tony Knox.
Photographs by Tony Knox.
11 August 2007
‘Due
to the alternative nature of the space explored and removed
from the conventional concepts of a studio or gallery, the
spontaneous nature of urban space with a fusion of activities
all on the go, the project becomes more one of the concept
and experience rather than the end piece produced by each
artist. Similar, the art becomes a residue itself and an
annotation of the artists experience in this research project
of urban space’.
This
was the introduction by Jo Derbyshire, the Curator, on the
current exhibition at the South Bohemia Gallery on Smithdown
Road, Liverpool, England.
There
was presented an array of art in eclectic explosion across
the walls of the gallery. Each work merged with next forming
one large installation. It reminded me of sketch book work
and conveyed the experiences of each individual artist through
their visual dialogue on art in the urban space. The amalgamation
of art moving into the next communicated the journey of
the flaneur to have the viewer engaged and explores and
dissect each piece of art.
On
the night of the private view, Friday 10 August 2007, George
Lund provoked an impromptu performance and adopted only
his yellow feathery mask, which usually belongs to the rest
of Funkadelic suit. He enticed co-artist, Gaynor Evelyn
Sweeney, to spontaneously join him in a dance to the sounds
of Bolero by Bizet. They came together to waltz and then
moved to gesture to the art on the walls, turning to each
other again spun out of the gallery entrance and took the
performance into the streets. Eccentric, bewildering, enticing
and fun, the onlookers laughed bemused and confounded to
the antics of the two artists.
The
exhibition has work from many different creative practictioners,
such as writers, visual artists, musicians and more. The
artists who contributed to this research project were Colin
Binns, Claudia Brookes, Sarah Brookes, Peter Carr, David
Chalkey, Ingrid Christie, Sarah Cox, Jo Derbyshire, Kate
Eggleston-Wirtz, Kofi Fosu, June Rose H, Tony Knox, George
Lund, Eddie Lyons, Gaby Malcolm, Steve McKay, Karen McLeod,
Elaine Stapleton, Natalie Russell, Lucia Andrea Sweeney,
Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, Andrew Taylor and Peter Worthington.
This
exhibition will run from 10th - 22nd August 2007.
Jo
Derbyshire
(Curator of When the City Speaks Programme and Resident
Curator of South Bohemia Gallery)
Email: APRILSKIES1204@aol.com
The
South Bohemia Art Gallery
196 Smithdown Road
Liverpool
Merseyside
L15 5JT
UK
Peter Worthington
(Director of South Bohemia Art Gallery)
Mobile: +44(0)7791145190
Further
information on the When the City Speaks Programme is available
at:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
Associate
exhibitions programme:
www.freewebs.com/southbag
Affiliate
to Transvoyeur.
www.transvoyeur.com |
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
www.transvoyeur.co.uk
www.freeweb.com/southbag
|
When
the City Speaks to Jo Derbyshire.
Written by Lucia Andrea Sweeney.
08 August 2007.
‘When the City Speaks’ has been a cultural research
programme explored by Jo Derbyshire from her earlier and
independent practice as an artist through to opening it
up curatorial to other practitioners.
The impetus has been to creatively explore the concepts
of art in the constructs of the urban space and particularly
alternative spaces of the pubic realm and readdress through
a gallery context.
The
current development in this programme is ‘When the
City Speaks: The City is a Stage’ and founded on artistic
research in the city environment and consider in terms of
the flaneur (The term "Flâneur" comes from
the French verb flâner, which means "to stroll".
A flâneur is thus a person who walks the city in order
to experience it).
The
initial stage was set in Liverpool (UK), where a collective
of artists entered the city and responded accordingly with
their creative insight from which each derives a piece of
art. This work will be shown as a large installation across
the walls of the South Bohemia Gallery (Liverpool, England),
each section interlinking to convey the lineage of experience
from one place to another and reflect visual dialogue, signs
and semiotics of media and urban cultural annotation we
encounter.
Derbyshire
explains in an interview with Lucia Andrea Sweeney more
the purpose and structure of this curatorial intiative from
the onset of her own art to the broader insight of the shared
creative expeirence it has evolved:
Sweeney:
The upcoming exhibition of 'When the City Speaks
- The City is a State' is a programmed for three cities
and launches with art produced on the theme of Liverpool
from local and international artists. Can you explain the
concept behind this brief?
Derbyshire:
I chose the three cities Liverpool, London and Paris for
the personal connections to me, but each are cultural beds
of a hive activity. Although random, all have an interesting
history in arts and culture. ‘When the City Speaks’
is forms part of my research into urban culture and hybridity.
I use the city environment as a stage for people to explore,
take in and utilise in their work.
Sweeney:
What has been response and level of art produced
by the artists who have contributed to this project?
Derbyshire:
It has been a good response. It is funny, as a lot of people
are choosing to take photographs and paint and collage over
the photographs. So, it will be an interesting turn out.
The artists have chosen different methods, but the fundamental
is the creative experience and not so much as the object
of art as the end product, but some have chosen a more spontaneous
approach, while others have initiated final produced art
piece. This will be an interesting turn out, because there
are similarities in how some have expressed there outcomes
and others different.
Sweeney:
You are both Curator to this project and Artist
too. How do the roles differentiate to the objectives of
cultural dialogue?
Derbyshire:
I cant really separate the two as the project came from
an inherent thing. Something that has been in my mind to
do for the last ten years. Its like the cities I visited
did really speak to me and I re-interpreted this as an artists
in a kind of chaotic way using a collage of photographs,
household paint, city scapes and more. As a Curator, I used
narrative and research to achieve this. It was going on
all at the same time so hard to separate for me.
Sweeney:
What work have you produced and what has been the creative
process to encapsulate your own artistic interpretation
to art in or derived from the urban space?
Derbyshire:
I have produced an array of art around the subject of urban
space. These have ranged from large abstracts of mixed media
paints on canvas to denote sense of fusion, transition and
hybridisation a city space can convey to the senses and
on a similar ethos take these concepts and express through
live art project that have similarly allowed other participants
to contribute in the creativity.
Sweeney:
You consider the term 'flaneur'. Can you explain how the
term has been researched and embodied in your work and that
of other artists?
Derbyshire:
I also consider the situationism but in post-modern terms
and what that means today. Particularly, Liverpool is the
changing urban environment and how the buildings are making
people react. I have noticed in a lot of the work that people
are more attracted to the old buildings, sub cultures like
that within Quiggins, graffiti and fly posters. Something
not conducive with the public image of new buildings, Capital
of Culture and regeneration, and more, but I suppose if
this is considered as a culture it is an homogenised version
of something the artist don’t consider worthy or worth
mentioning about
Sweeney:
Liverpool in particular has been in a transition
with the regeneration and lead up to the European Capital
of Culture 2008. Have these changes influenced your own
insight as Curator and Artist? If so, how? Does this current
creative initiative align to these, whether inspired or
reactionary?
Derbyshire:
I have discovered something interesting and the focus has
been on the old, the established and the hidden rather than
the new. Perhaps this is because the old is revered, known
and understood. I think there is a lot of resilience and
resistance to the new as there are areas of Liverpool becoming
the forgotten town whilst the wealthy move in with disregard
to people’s history or community. I am not fully against
change. I think Liverpool is looking a lot better with some
redevelopment but if a councillor suddenly moves into a
city apartment whose builders they voted in favour of at
a planning meeting, I’d be asking for an enquiry.
Its
probably happened in the area I grew up in where a build
firm kind of won the rights to build irrespective of the
show the building will cast and views the high rise block,
but again the wealth derived has something to do with this
the individual can be forgotten when economics come into
the equation so can our social and cultural history –
it’s a bit like the 60’s and 70’s revisited.
On the other handm I do like the changing skyline and Liverpool
is moving with the times a bit I just think a bit rapidly
and without much thought.
In
brief, Culture Company, well no surprises there, you cant
create culture and art it exists any way on many levels
and with money or not it will continue. The Tate is brilliant
we have one in the city and the Turner Prize coming up,
so that is positive. Emin and Blake feature in my collage
and are very much becoming iconic figures of Liverpool.
Sweeney:
The next research projects and exhibitions are scheduled
for London (UK) and Paris (France). What do you hope to
realise from the overall programme?
Derbyshire:
How the urban environment is important and influential on
not only my work, but work of others. How the environment
is constantly changing proving that the camera does lie
in one sense. I will have to see how it develops and I think
I will have a lot of time reflecting on this.
Sweeney:
What do you envision for the next stage of development?
Derbyshire:
The project is one that has and allows for an organic
development in how it evolves. From the shared experiences
of this current programme will determine how indeed the
next stage of ‘When the City Speaks’ expands
and evolves.
This
exhibition will run from 10th - 22nd August 2007.
Opening: 10th August 2007, 7.00 pm on wards.
Jo
Derbyshire
(Curator of When the City Speaks Programme and Resident
Curator of South Bohemia Gallery)
Email: APRILSKIES1204@aol.com
The
South Bohemia Art Gallery
196 Smithdown Road
Liverpool
Merseyside
L15 5JT
UK
Peter Worthington
(Director of South Bohemia Art Gallery)
Mobile: +44(0)7791145190
Further
information on the When the City Speaks Programme is available
at:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
Associate
exhibitions programme:
www.freewebs.com/southbag
Affiliate
to Transvoyeur.
www.transvoyeur.com |
When
the City Speaks: The City is the Stage … London Brief.
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
www.transvoyeur.co.uk
www.freeweb.com/southbag
|
When
the City Speaks: The City is a Stage - Liverpool Exhibition,
at the South Bohemia Gallery, Liverpool, England, Curated
by Jo Derbyshire, 10th August 2007 - 22nd August 2007.
Artists
from Liverpool, across Britain and abroad, have contributed
to a creative research initiative 'When the City
Speaks - The City is a Stage', conceived by the
Curator, Jo Derbyshire.
This
programme is in three stages and commenced with Liverpool
on 30 June 2007, where artists collectively and in their
independent practice explored the urban space of the city.
From this cultural enquiry, each artist derived a piece
of art work to denote their experiences of the city space.
The
art produced now forms a collection and is to be exhibited
at the 'South Bohemia Gallery' (Liverpool, England) to delineate
the artistic perceptions of the urban environment in a gallery
context.
This
exhibition will run from 10th - 22th August 2007.
Opening: 10th August 2007, 7.00 pnm on wards.
Jo
Derbyshire
(Curator of When the City Speaks Programme and Resident
Curator of South Bohemia Gallery)
Email: APRILSKIES1204@aol.com
The
South Bohemia Art Gallery
196 Smithdown Road
Liverpool
Merseyside
L15 5JT
UK
Peter Worthington
(Director of South Bohemia Art Gallery)
Mobile: +44(0)7791145190
Further
information on the When the City Speaks Programme is available
at:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
Associate
exhibitions programme:
www.freewebs.com/southbag
Affiliate
to Transvoyeur.
www.transvoyeur.com
When
the City Speaks - The City is a Stage
Concept
Artists will become the flaneur - city walkers for the day
- using the urban space as a stage and the psycho-geographic
setting to create art derived and inspired by it.
Context
To create artefacts of what they have seen, found and experienced
and memorised on the day of the walk. The situation will
be an impromptu one, so the work made on the day will formed
from the urban exploration.
Objective
The focus will be the city as a hybrid culture and the artists
to examine its sub-cultures, such as the graffiti artists,
tattoo artists, city icons and whatever is considered as
an underground scene, the banal everyday things that often
goes unnoticed and more; utilising the visual language and
symbolism in the city space.
Outcome
The cultural examinations by each artist will then be represented
through a chosen mode of expression and media on sections
of paper to convey their experiences. This could be through
text, painting, drawing, collage, photography, etc..
Programme
This programme will run in three cities, starting with Liverpool
(UK) in June 2007 moving to London (UK) and then Paris (France).
Liverpool, June 2007.
London, July 2007.
Paris, August 2007. |
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