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A New Exhibition! -

The Liverpool Academy of Arts at The Corke Gallery

It is now over two and a half years since we had to leave Seel Street and we still have not found any suitable permanent premises, but we are now going to stage another exhibiton. Nick Corke has kindly given us the use of his gallery, The Corke Gallery, during August. We have invited a number of artists who regularly supported us to exhibit with us.

The Corke Gallery is situated on Aigburth Road, on the right just before you come to Aigburth Vale as you head south out of the city centre. Click on the image above to go to their website.

The exhibition will open to the public on the 8th August and run to the 24th, Open Tuesday to Saturday, 1 to 5pm.

The Last Exhibition in Seel Street

Finale

Well, it was the end of the line. We had been in Seel Street for over 25 years - Christmas 2013 marked our silver anniversary - but this was our last exhibition as we had to vacate the building in September.

For our final exhibition we held an open exhibition but this time with no specific theme. We had over three hundred works from one hundred and three artists including Don McKinlay, Adrian Henri, Marc Jones and others. They were mainly from the Merseyside Area although some came from such far flung places as Macclesfield - Trish Trodden and Trevor Bailey have supported us for a long time now.

The Exhibition opened to the public on Wednesday 6th August and rans to Thursday 28th August. Open 12 to 4pm - Tuesday to Saturday.

Just click on the image above to see some panoramas of the exhibition and some samples of the work of every artist who exhibited.

Face Book

As well as our web site we now have a Facebook page. You can see it by clicking on Go to LAA Facebook.

Other Exhibitions prior to our closing

Drawing The Line

Eight members of the Re-view Textile group were "Drawing the Line" with work that was felted, printed, embroidered, constructed, painted, stitched, dyed.

There were coastlines, sea lines, landlines, energy lines, pattern lines, music lines and city grids.

Just click on the image of Rosie Paul's work "Fantasy Seascape" above to see images from the exhibition.

Abstraction

As you might have guessed, the works were totally abstract like, for example, Marie McGowan's "Elements" on the left.

The exhibition had on display over 140 original works created by over fifty Merseyside artists.

Just click on the image of Marie's painting above to see images from the exhibition.

The 12 Keys

Featuredthe work of the BA (Hons) Illustration with Animation second year students, the exhibition had a variety of styles across both video and print, from animated interviews to handcrafted books, pixilated photography to printmaking.

Cat-Tastic

As usual our first exhibition of the year was an Open exhibition this time on the theme of cats.

Nearly sixty Merseyside artists showed us what cats mean to them. We had their interpretations of panthers, lions and tigers through to domestic moggies in paint, ceramics, and other media, all on show for you.

Just click on the image above of Gary Pepper's painting Mr. Majestic to see images from the exhibition.

More Past Exhibitions

Christmas Open 2013

As we were celebrating our twenty fifth year in Seel street we thought we would set a 'silver' theme to last years Christas exhibition.

This exhibition celebrated the longest continuous period of operation that the Academy has had in its two hundred year history. It was reopened in December 1988 by sculptor Arthur Dooley with the help of local businessman Allan Johnstone and June Lornie, since then thousands of artists from Merseyside and beyond have exhibited their work.

Click on the image above to see views of the exhibition.

Jill Zhang

An exhibition of work by Chinese artist Jill Zhang. Jill uses digital photography and the blending of images to create what is the digital equivalent of a sculptor's maquette. Using this as a basis she then painstakingly builds up the image putting layer on layer of oil paint onto canvas to produce a final translucent image which crosses time space and emotion Click on her image above to learn more about her and see samples from the exhibition.

Impasto Art

An exhibition of paintings by local artist Brian Beattie. Brian needs no introduction to regular vistors to the gallery through his mastery of impasto techniques, applying acrylic paint with a pallete knife, he gives all his works a style uniquely his.

You can see samples from the exhibition by clicking on the image above.