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AMANDA LOOMES : FORMATION LEVEL
Jan 18 - Mar 24, 2019
An exhibition of moving works exploring the materials, processes and individuals who make and maintain the roads we often take for granted.

JONNY HANNAH : FROM THE DARKTOWN TURBO TAXI
Jan 30 - Apr 7, 2019
A vibrant and colourful exhibition, exploring the alternative reality of Darktown.

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SERENA KORDA : THE BELL TREE
Sep 8, 2018 - Jul 28, 2019
Bluecoat is delighted to be working with artist Serena Korda and Trust New Art, the National Trust’s programme connecting people to places through contemporary art.
Serena Korda works across performance, sound and sculpture to find and highlight ritual in the everyday, which is developed through encounters, conversations and the researching of abandoned histories.
Set in Speke Hall’s ancient woodlands and grounds, The Bell Tree draws on the hall’s hidden history. Korda reconsiders aspects of communion and tradition, including underexplored feminist narratives or ‘herstories’ and alternative histories of folklore and witchcraft. The public commission is at Speke Hall, with a smaller element installed in Bluecoat's garden.
Speke Hall is free to visit with a National Trust Membership.

MATTHEW CORNFORD AND JOHN BECK: THE ART SCHOOLS OF NORTH WEST ENGLAND
Nov 17, 2018 - Mar 10, 2019

JADE MONTSERRAT : INSTITUTING CARE
Nov 17, 2018 - Mar 10, 2019

JOSHUA HENDERSON & VERONICA WATSON: STUDIO ME
Nov 17, 2018 - Mar 10, 2019

BLUE ROOM AT TEN
Dec 1, 2018 - Mar 10, 2019
Bluecoat’s inclusive arts project celebrates ten years of creativity with an exhibition created for the anniversary. Inspired by images from the project’s extensive photographic archive, Blue Room artists have collaborated with Louise Waller and Alice Odgers from Baltic Clay to create a collection of ceramics which reference Bluecoat potter Julia Carter Preston (1926 - 2012), exploring her sgraffito technique. The exhibition also features screen prints created at Bluecoat Print Studio in collaboration with artist Becky Peach. Images and films about Blue Room and Julia Carter Preston are on our My Bluecoat archive website (mybluecoat.org.uk). Blue Room at Ten is part of DaDaFest International 2018.

ARTISTS TALK: NURRACHMAT WIDYASENNA
Jan 31, 2019 to 12:00am talk/event
Indonesian artist Nurrachmat Widyasena talks with curator Adam Smythe about his month-long residency at Bluecoat. Widyasena works in photography, print, textile and installation and draws attention to myths and ideals of space exploration and technology. Supported by British Council Indonesia.
Tickets:£4/3
 
Book via Bluecoat website: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/events/view/events/3936

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QUEER LOOKS
30 June 2018 to Summer 2019
This fascinating display of outfits and oral histories from LGBTQ individuals from Sussex, from the 1950s to the present day, looks at how individuals construct identities, both personal and collective, through dress.
Local LGBTQ communities have informed the content of this display, including the comedian Zoe Lyons, journalist Sophie Cook and trans campaigner Fox Fisher.

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ALLISTAIR COVELL : CANVAS TO CARPET
Feb 8 - May 5, 2019
Abstract, hand-knotted carpets are the centrepiece of Covell’s first major solo exhibition.

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STILL I RISE : FEMINISMS, GENDER, RESISTANCE, ACT 2
Feb 9 - May 27, 2019
Private view Sat Feb 9 1pm - 6pm
Still I Rise is a timely exhibition exploring the history of resistance and alternative forms of living from the perspective of gender. This major group exhibition looks at the many forms resistance can take: from intimate acts to large-scale uprisings, from the late 19th century to the present and beyond.

HAYV KAHRAMAN : DISPLACED CHOREOGRAPHIES
Feb 9 - Jun 2, 2019
Private view Sat Feb 9 1pm - 6pm
Hayv Kahraman’s solo exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion will be the artist’s first in a UK public gallery. Her work explores her experience of living between Western and Middle Eastern cultures: having fled Iraq with her family aged 11 during the first Gulf War as part of the Kurdish mass exodus, the artist migrated to Europe and now lives in the USA. A female figure recurs in her work, representing shared histories between women – particularly women of colour – and building on personal histories of migration.

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CATRINE VAL : THE CHANGING ROOM
Jan 17 - Mar 9, 2019
Private view Fri Mar 8 6pm - 8pm
Catrine Val’s insightful double portraits of women focus on clothing and identity, and on how working environments can limit the ability to express personality,
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TWO LIVES IN COLOUR
Jan 22 - Mar 16, 2019
Celebrating the Fred Dubery and Joanne Brogden Scholarships at Norwich University of the Arts in collaboration with the East Anglia Art Fund (EAAF)

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3-PHASE. MARK ESSEN : BUILD A WALL
Dec 8, 2018 - Feb 23, 2019
Mark Essen is responding with different communities and people he encounters at his studio, Modern Clay, to create a barrier that talks about lives, invisible walls constructed by governments, maintained by factions of society and the media, prohibiting them from being part of wider society. Mark is learning how to make bricks which he hopes will go on to become small scale brick factory which could be run as a social enterprise building company. These bricks will then be used to build a wall in Eastside Projects. Research for the project was supported by New Art Gallery Walsall’s ‘The Building as Material’ artist’s residency earlier in 2018. On 22 September ESP members took part in a Brick Making Workshop with Mark in Modern Clay.

THE RANGE
Jan 26 - Apr 27, 2019
New works by Hashim Ali, Ain Bailey, Beverley Bennett, Adam Farah, Seema Mattu and Zarina Muhammad, curated by Rehana Zaman.

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BROKEN SYMMETRIES
Nov 22, 2018 - Mar 3, 2019
This major co-production is a partnership with Arts at CERN (the arts program of the largest particle physics laboratory in the world), FACT, Liverpool, and three other international art organisations: CCCB, Barcelona; le lieu unique, Nantes; and iMAL, Brussels. The show - which features ten new commissions by international artists working between the fields of art and science - opens at FACT, Liverpool in November 2018 before touring to Spain, France and Brussels.

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MARK FELL : THE CONCEPT OF TIME IS INTRINSICALLY INCOHERENT
Jan 20 - Apr 21, 2019
Fell takes inspiration from the town’s Victorian seafront arcades to create a new sound and light installation, as well as a permanent sound commission for the train line from London to Southend.

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DAZZLE & THE ART OF DEFENCE
Feb 13 - Apr 25, 2019
A look at the use of Dazzle designs painted on WWI U-Boats.

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LAUREN GAULT : DRYE EYES
Feb 1 - Apr 13, 2019
Private view Fri Feb 1 6pm - 8pm
Grand Union is delighted to present drye eyes, the first solo exhibition in England by Lauren Gault.
 
drye eyes comprises a series of sculptural moments, through objects and sound. This new body of work explores the potential of material and the in-between state through an eclectic mix of substance; glass, metal, water, sound, gel, neoprene, sand, fabric and light.
 
Alongside the exhibition there will be a public programme responding to the work involving writers, scientists and musicians through performance, screenings and conversation.

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OPEN EXHIBITION
Jan 19 - Mar 2, 2019

TINA DEMPSEY : JOY
Jan 19 - Mar 2, 2019

ANNUAL SCHOOLS EXHIBITION
Jan 19 - Mar 2, 2019

BLACKPOOL ART SOCIETY
Jan 19 - Mar 2, 2019

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CATHERINE GOODMAN : EVE
Jan 19 - May 6, 2019
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by London and Somerset based artist Catherine Goodman. Goodman was artist-in-residence at Hauser & Wirth Somerset from January to May 2018 and many of the works in the exhibition were made during her residency.

MATTHEW DAY JACKSON : PATHETIC FALLACY
Jan 19 - May 6, 2019
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is pleased to present, ‘Pathetic Fallacy’, an exhibition by Matthew Day Jackson. The exhibition consists of works conceived during his time as artist-in-residence at the gallery in Somerset since August 2018, and is presented in a range of mediums, including: painting, drawing, sculpture, furniture, and installation.

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MODERN NATURE : BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE HYMAN COLLECTION
Jul 13, 2018 - Apr 22, 2019
The Hyman Collection is the private collection of Claire and James Hyman. The Collection seeks to support and promote British photography through acquisitions, loans and education. In 2015 britishphotography.org was launched to provide online access to British photographs in the collection and as a learning resource to increase international awareness of British photography.

SCHOOL PRINTS
Jan 19 - May 1, 2019

MAGDALENE ODUNDO : THE JOURNEY OF THINGS
Feb 16 - Jun 2, 2019
Kenyan-born Magdalene Odundo OBE is one of the world’s most esteemed ceramic artists. This major exhibition will bring together more than 50 of Odundo’s vessels alongside a large selection of historic and contemporary objects which she has curated to reveal the vast range of references from around the globe that have informed the development of her unique work.

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COLOUR SNAP
Jan 3 - Feb 7, 2019
Private view Wed Jan 23 4pm - 6pm
Colour Snap is a group exhibition exploring the endless ways in which colour shapes our world. Encompassing installation, moving image, painting and textile work by artists Rhys Coren, Jacob Dahlgren, Anna Mac, Anna Ray and Liz West, the exhibition encourages physical, emotional and personal responses to colour.
 
Colour has a profound effect on us even though we may not be aware of it. Colour represents, more than any other attribute of our visual experience, a place where both physical properties and personal experiences are interwoven in an intimate way. This group exhibition brings together five national and international artists to investigate their playful approaches to colour.

LIZ WEST : OUR COLOUR REFLECTION
Feb 6 - Mar 19, 2019
Artist Liz West brings a site-specific installation to St Albans Museum + Gallery.

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HAROON MIRZA : REALITY IS SOMEHOW WHAT WE EXPECT IT TO BE
Nov 30, 2018 - Feb 24, 2019
This is the most comprehensive exhibition of work by Haroon Mirza in the UK to date, filling Ikon’s exhibition spaces with moving imagery, sculptural installation and electronic sound. Involving smart sampling, sometimes through collaboration with other artists, Mirza’s practice overall is characterised by a knowing eclecticism and sheer physical impact. His (mis)understanding of the nature of human perception – of what and how we see and hear – is demonstrated and combined with countless possibilities of meaning, and so his aesthetic proposition is more to do with messages received than those transmitted, circumscribed by our constitutions, testing the limits of what we can experience and what we think we know.
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MATTHEW KRISHANU : A MURDER OF CROWS
Jan 8 - Mar 10, 2019
Dozens of Matthew Krishanu’s painted crows will be displayed throughout Ikon’s neo-gothic premises. Always painted singly and never in flight they appear almost anthropomorphic on their twin legs, whether looking directly at the viewer or stepping away.
 
Mischievous, malevolent and sometimes comical, Krishanu’s birds are partly inspired by crows in art and literature; for example, ‘Crow’ by Ted Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe’s raven, or the mythical crows of trickster tales. Inspired by bird watching in England, they are also signifiers of Krishanu’s childhood in Bangladesh where crows were always close by, cawing in trees or pecking at rubbish dumps.
 
The exhibition coincides with Matthew Krishanu’s The Sun Never Sets at MAC Birmingham (12 January – 10 March 2019).

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