Exhibitions - 14/11/08

Nov 14 2008 by Michael Green, Chester Chronicle

EXHIBITIONS

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.

LIVERPOOL: November 15-January 3 - Stanley Hill Retrospective - celebrating the life and work of a silversmith and students he inspired at the Bluecoat in College Lane. Ring 0151 709 4014.

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.

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.

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.