Queens Park Leisure Centre

Joan Birkett, Hannah Bold, Paul Cousins, John Fairclough, Frances Heyes & Jacqui Priestley are exhibiting their work in an exhibition at Queens Park Leisure Centre as Platform continue their partnership with St Helens Go Active.  The paintings are on show throughout the centre until 31 August 2013 and range from expressionist drawing to atmospheric landscapes.  Works are for sale, so if you’ve seen a piece of work that you’d like to purchase for your own home, please get in touch exhibitions@platformartsthelens.co.uk

Artwork by Paul Cousins

Artwork by Joan Birkett & Frances Heyes

Photographs by Angela Wilkinson.

Platform Artists exhibit in ‘Homage to LS Lowry’
The Godfrey Pilkington Art Gallery, The World of Glass
Until 20th July 2013

This thematic exhibition features selected works from regional artists whose own artwork places and uses LS Lowry and the many themes of his work in their own art practice.  The exhibition allows Lowry’s work to be seen in new contexts, which aim to increase understanding and appreciation of his, and his contemporary artists work.

Features Platform members: Joan Birkett, Dave Broadfoot, Stephen Brown, Paul Cousins, John Donlon, Isabel O’Rourke.

Platform member Isabel O’Rourke is exhibiting in:

Four Liverpool City Artists, View Two Gallery, Mathew Street, Liverpool.
Opening Thursday 6 June 6-9pm.
Exhibition continues until 15 July 2013.

Featuring:

Frank Green
Colin Holmes
Isabel O’Rourke
Will Simmons

Featured Artist: Rhyannon Parry

Platform member Rhyannon Parry is showing her work at the BA(hons) Fine Art Painting exhibition at St Helens College from 15 - 24 May 2013.  Her work in the show concerns relationships to interior space:

‘Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house’. Gaston Bachellard

My narrative derives from my experiential encounters with interior space. Our identities are a part of our spaces left in traces, moments and memories; space may be viewed as an extension of the self. Through unveiling the traces and imperfections of my own living spaces, the intention is to allow the viewer to consider overlooked moments with space and share my perceptions of beauty. The focus on patterned and textural marks, has further allowed my work to engage and question my continuing relationship with interior space.

Featured Artist: Jacqui Priestley

Platform member Jacqui Priestley is showing her work at the BA(hons) Fine Art Painting exhibition at St Helens College from 15 - 24 May 2013.  Her work in the show concerns memory:

What is memory?

What are memories?

Memory is everything in life except for the thin line of The Present. Michael Gazzaniga.

My paintings are not representations of my memories but still they carry the memory of a moment, of many moments in ‘The Present’. They are the traces of moments, now past, when I took paint and made a mark on paper or canvas or board.

The paintings contrive to deliver a structural narrative that affords stillness and visual respite from our high speed digital age. They are quiet yet purposeful each layer of paint holds the trace of my presence. They are a combination of conscious and unconscious thoughts, planned and unplanned actions. They are intangible propositions given surface by paint.

Industrial Landscapes - Featured Artist week 8

Phil Wilkinson- Industrial Networks

Industrial Networks is an abstract expressionistic painting by Phil Wilkinson that explores a mixed cubist viewpoint that embraces architectural tectonics. The constructional design embraces aspects of prominent structures that are found in catherdrals, crematoriums and factories. Coupled with this, the tectonics features stained glass that is evident with colours associated with patina, rust and clay.

This work features in the current Industrial Landscapes exhibition at the Coffee Stop Cafe in St Mary’s Market.  Why not drop in, have a cuppa and a cake whilst taking in the pictures on display.

Industrial Landscapes
Exhibition continues until 24th May 2013

St Mary’s Market, St Mary’s Arcade, Church Street, St Helens, WA10 1AR
All exhibitions are at the Coffee Stop Cafe, St Mary’s Market. We’re on the rear wall of the cafe, by the  glazed wall, just over the road from the World of Glass.
Open Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 17.00
www.platformartsthelens.co.uk

You are invited to the St Helens College Higher Education Arts, Final Year Show 2013.

Opens 15th - 24th May 2013 9.30am-4.30pm

St Helens College New Build, Water Street, WA10 1PP

www.enterthevortex.org

St. Helens Festival of the Arts

Call for art groups, arts organisations and performers from St Mary’s Market:

“St.Helens Council, in conjunction with St.Mary’s Market are launching
St.Helens Festival of the Arts in the event area of the market. The purpose
of which, is to raise awareness of, promote and to celebrate the diverse
arts landscape of St.Helens

We are looking for creative people, art organisations, art groups,
performers and more who would be interested in exhibiting or performing at
the festival which will take place Saturday 24th August to Saturday 7th
September 2013.

An informal, drop in open day will be held on Saturday 25th May 2013,
10.00am - 4.00pm, for artists to have a look at the venue and the space
available for you to use.

You might want to hold a short exhibition, put on a series of performances,
talks or poetry readings.  You might want to stage a dance performance run
an activity that families can take part in.  There will be walls and market
stalls available to display work and indoor and outdoor areas for
performance and other events.  We’re looking to create an exciting, vibrant
fortnight of activity, so let us know what you’d like to do!

To apply to take part, please complete and submit the St.Helens Festival of
the Arts application form and return before Saturday 22nd June 2013 to
St.Mary’s Market, St.Mary’s Arcade, St.Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1AR, or
email it to themarketsteam@sthelens.gov.uk

We will inform you if you have been successfully selected and provide
detail of the facilities or resources which have been allocated to your
organisation, group or club on or before Friday 5th July 2013.”

The application form is available to download here:
https://docs.google.com/a/platformartsthelens.co.uk/file/d/0B0pg4P8Je9tkczBEUi1wRHZrT3M/edit

Shell Song
A Science Fiction Adventure ebook by Platform member Phill Campbell.

Do you like a Sci-fi story?  Phill Campbell has released his first novel as an e-book and you can buy it here:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/310788