- Venue
- The International Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, October 7, 2010
- Ends
- Saturday, October 23, 2010
- Address
- 34 Slater Street Liverpool L1 4BX
- Location
- North West England
LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL EXHIBITION. PV Friday 8th October 6pm – 8pm. Kirsty E. Smith makes sculptural works in response to her ongoing fascination with her surroundings, the domestic in particular. Her intention is to create work which resonates on a deeply emotive level and which acts as a vehicle to reconnect with a “place” or memory deep in our subconscious.She is an experimenter and innovator who delights in working with a vast array of materials; juxtaposing the ordinary and luxurious, the cheap and expensive, the reclaimed and recycled.Smith’s abilities to transform these into surreal sculptural forms all contribute to a rich and complex body of work. Her sculptures are vessels which hold and suggest many ideas simultaneously and it is quite possible to believe that Smith’s sculptures have an unseen life of their own.Olwen Holland’s work, Aftermath, is house as theatre. The staging of the crises, small or large, internal or external, brings the surreal and the domestic together. The work draws on many influences, including Dutch still life painting, and the writings of Gaston Bachelard, and J. G. Ballard.Using photography and mixed media sculpture these prizewinning artists transport you to an alternative time and place. Surreal and uncanny narratives unfold. Blink UnBlink is part of S.Q.U.A.T. Liverpool a Liverpool Biennial show curated by Gregory Scott Gurner and Asher Remy-Toledo. Kirsty E Smith website: www.frillipmoolog.co.uk
