I had a absolutely fabulous day out in Liverpool this weekend.
With my son. All to myself.
You really don't have to wander far in this city to find something wonderful to catch your eye and your interest. Even if you don't have a plan for the day, something wonderful is just around the corner. My kind of place!
First we came across a display of entries and winners from the "Capture Liverpool" photography competition. Part of the
Look 2011 International Photography Festival which is running until the end of June I believe. The theme of the festival is "Photography - A Call To Action" , and it is aimed at encouraging people to "pick up a camera, take photographs, explore the art form and have "something to say" through the photographic image."
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| Capture Liverpool Winners - June 2011 |
I didn't know until now, that 2011 is Liverpool's
Year of Social Justice and City of Radicals. The blurb about this reads...."It is ten years since the start of the "war on terror", thirty years since the Toxteth riots, 70 years since the Liverpool Blitz and 100 years since the General transport Strikes in the city. Look11 will reflect this year's issues of political and social debate, celebration and rememberance, urging amateur and professional photographers to examine their photography practice and it's impact in the current social, economic, political and environmental climate." Lots to say then. Anxiety and uncertainty continue for much of society, as cuts to services continue a year into the new coalition government.
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| Capture Liverpool - June 2011 |
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| Albert Dock - June 2011 |
We then went down to the Tate Gallery on the Albert Dock, as I usually do whenever I am in the city. As it's so near, it would really do me good to make an effort to get there more often. Especially as I love it so much! We visited
this exhibition which explores the theme of "inbetween", and was curated by Young Tate (young people aged 16 - 15). Exhibits were grouped into three sections, inbetween generations; inbetween cultures and inbetween spaces.
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| Carl Andre - Venus Forge 1980 |
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| Sarah Jones - The Dinning Room 1997 |
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| Zineb Sedira - Mother Tongue 2002 |
Then upstairs we visited one of the exhibitions in the "This Is Sculpture" series,
The Sculpture of Language (curated by Carol Anne Duffy).
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| Fiona Banner - Don't Look Back 1999 |
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| Richard Long - Two Straight Twelve Mile Walks on Dartmoor England 1980 |
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| Poetry - Sonnet and Interactive Intallation by Carol Anne Duffy |
On the way home we stopped at Crosby Beach to see the
"Another Place" installation by Antony Gormley. I've been wanting to visit this, for quite some time. So glad I finally got there! I will have to go back when the beach is deserted however. Saturday was such a beautiful day that the beach was absolutely packed with families enjoying the sunshine. It was fun to see the figures dotted amongst the crowds, but I would also like to see them when there is no-one else around and again when the tide is just starting to go out.
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| Another Place - Crosby Beach June 2011 |
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| Crosby Beach June 2011 |
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| Antony Gormley's Another Place - June 2011 |
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| Crosby Beach - June 2011 |
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| Another Place - June 2011 |
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| Meeting in Another Place - June 2011 |
I LOVED Another Place (I'm a bit of a Gormley fan really) and the sculpture exhibition at the Tate looks marvellous. I was a mature student in Liverpool and loved visiting the Tate Gallery. Glad you had a good day.
ReplyDeleteThat must have been a great place to study AJ. Love Liverpool!
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