Exhibitions - 7/11/08

Nov 7 2008 by Michael Green, Chester Chronicle

EXHIBITIONS

BIRKENHEAD: September 13-November 9 – Desmond Morris - Lines of Thought - celebrating the anthropologist’s 80th birthday with a retrospective of his acclaimed surrealist paintings at the Williamson Art Gallery. Ring 0151 652 4177.

CHESTER: October 6-November 29 – Newtown Remembered at Chester History & Heritage, St Michael’s Church, Bridge Street Row East. Ring 01244 402110.

CHESTER: October 4-November 30 – From Coal to Carnations: The Evolution of Plants at the Grosvenor Museum Exhibition Gallery One. Visit www.grosvenormuseum.co.uk.

CHESTER: Until February 8 - Evolution of the Female Form: Dress Shapes 1850-2000 at the Grosvenor Museum Costume Gallery. Visit www.grosvenormuseum.co.uk.

CHESTER: Until November 16 – Representation & Abstraction: Contemporary Art from the Collection at the Grosvenor Museum Exhibition Gallery Two. Visit www.grosvenormuseum.co.uk.

CHESTER: Until November 2 – Paintings by Stubbs, Claude and Van Diepenbeck, lent by the Duke of Westminster to the Grosvenor Museum Art Gallery. Visit www.grosvenormuseum.co.uk.

LIVERPOOL: September 20-November 30 - Liverpool Biennial 2008 – Made Up at Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock. Ring 0151 702 7400 or visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool.

LIVERPOOL: September 20-November 8 – Drawings in Gold by Wendy Ramshaw at the Bluecoat Display Centre in College Lane. Ring 0151 709 4014.

LIVERPOOL: May 24-November 2 – Ben Johnson’s Liverpool Cityscape 2008 and the World Panorama Series – artist Ben Johnson has recreated Liverpool’s urban landscape as a collection of more than 3,000 buildings and this exhibition also features his other world cities paintings including Chicago and Paris, at the Walker Art Gallery.

LLANDUDNO: November 1-8 – Spotlight on recent graduates from North Wales at Oriel Mostyn in Heol Vaughan. Ring 01492 879201 or visit www.mostyn.org.

LLANDUDNO: November 14-December 6 – Face Value – bringing together three artists concerned with portraiture - Josie McCoy, Liv Penington and Michael Roberts - at Oriel Mostyn in Heol Vaughan. Ring 01492 879201 or visit www.mostyn.org.

LLANDUDNO: October 2-25 – Final exhibition in the Affrica West series showcases the sculpture and installation art of Amarachi Okafor from Nigeria at Oriel Mostyn in Heol Vaughan. Ring 01492 879201 or visit www.mostyn.org.

MANCHESTER: November 11-January 22 – The Illustrators - The British Art of Illustration 1800-2008 at the Portico Library & Gallery in Mosley Street. Ring 0161 236 6785.

MANCHESTER: November 8-October 2009 – Putting On The Glitz – wallpapers and wallcoverings with that extra something at the Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester in Oxford Road. Ring 0161 275 7450 or visit www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth.

MANCHESTER: October 11-January 11 – Holman Hunt and The Pre-Raphaelite Vision – new exhibition dedicated to the life and work of William Holman Hunt who, together with Sir John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, at the Manchester Art Gallery in Mosley Street. Ring 0161 235 8893 or visit www.manchestergalleries.org.

MANCHESTER: September 26-January 10 – Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism featuring artists such as Frida Khalo and Lee Miller at the Manchester Art Gallery in Mosley Street. Ring 0161 235 8893 or visit www.manchestergalleries.org.

MANCHESTER: September 17-December 14 – Cloth & Culture Now – contemporary international textile art at the Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester in Oxford Road. Ring 0161 275 7450 or visit www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth.

MANCHESTER: July 26-November 9 – The Beautiful Game – highlights from the PFA’s art collection at the Manchester Art Gallery in Mosley Street. Ring 0161 235 8893 or visit www.manchestergalleries.org.

WIRRAL: June 1-October 31 - High Society - paintings by James Tissot – an exhibition of oil paintings depicting Victorian high society with costume and decorative art items at Lady Lever Art Gallery, Lower Road, Port Sunlight. Ring 0151 478 4136.