Exhibitions - 5/12/08

Dec 5 2008 by Michael Green, Flintshire Chronicle

EXHIBITIONS

CHESTER: December 1-January 29 - Pat-a-Cake – The Story of Baking in Chester at Chester History & Heritage, St Michael’s Church, Bridge Street Row East. Ring 01244 402110.

CHESTER: November 22-February 1 – Stories & Structures: Sculpture by Jeremy Turner, senior lecturer in fine art at the University of Chester, at the Grosvenor Museum Exhibition Gallery Two. 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.

LIVERPOOL: December 12-March 22 – Tate 08 Series presents William Blake - The River of Life – selected masterpieces that reconsiders the cycle of life, death and rebirth at the Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock. Ring 0151 702 7400.

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.

LLANDUDNO: December 12-20 – (in)scape – film and photographic imagery by Jo Shapland 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.

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.