Exhibitions - September 2 onwards

Aug 29 2010 by Michael Green, Chester Chronicle

EXHIBITIONS

CHESTER: September 18-November 28 - 10-10-10: 50 Years of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - an exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Cheshire author Alan Garner’s celebrated book based in Cheshire’s Alderley Edge featuring archaeology from the area and other objects that inspired the novel at the Grosvenor Museum Exhibition Gallery Two. There is also the first chance to see the portrait of Alan Garner by Andrew Tait, commissioned specially for this exhibition.

CHESTER: September 11-January 9 - Reap and Tillage: The Vikings in Cheshire - an exhibition which explores the Viking heritage of Cheshire, looking at why they came here, how they lived and the evidence they left behind at the Grosvenor Museum Exhibition Gallery Two.

CHESTER: July 24-July 17 2011 - Workwear: Dressed For The Job - this small exhibition looks at both practical clothes and ceremonial uniform, contrasting a labourer’s cotton smock with a footman’s gold-braided livery and a hair stylist’s simple dress with an alderman’s fur-trimmed fown at the Grosvenor Museum Costume Gallery.

CHESTER: July 3-September 12 - Georgian Chester: The City in Art - The appearance of Georgian Chester was transformed between 1714 and 1837 as the medieval gates in the city walls were replaced with new archways, the canal was constructed and The Groves were laid out. Come and enjoy the elegance and grandeur of Chester’s Georgian architecture as depicted in watercolours, drawings and prints at the Grosvenor Museum Exhibition Gallery Two.

CHESTER: June 28-September 30 - When We Were Very Young - photographic exhibition of early childhood in Chester at Chester History & Heritage, St Michael’s Church, Bridge Street Row.

CHESTER: June 25-September 23 - Paintings by Gainsborough, Claude and van Diepenbeeck lent by the Duke of Westminster at the Grosvenor Museum Exhibition Gallery One.

LIVERPOOL: September 16-October 16 - No Sign of Helicopters - Nick Crowe and Ianm Rawinson present a new body of work exploring issues of containment and release at the Ceri Hand Gallery in Cotton Street. Ring 0151 207 0899 or visit www.cerihand.co.uk.

LIVERPOOL: September 18-November 28 - Touched - Liverpool Bienniel’s international exhibition, showcasing new commissions and several key works previously unseen in the UK, at various venues throughout the city. Visit www.biennial.com for details.

LLANDUDNO: August 7-September 26 - (In)Scape- choreographer Jo Shapland explores the qualities of architectural spaces through the body and movement, developing film and photographic imagery by her approach to drawing and choreography at Oriel Mostyn, Vaughan Street. Ring 01492 879201 or visit www.mostyn.org.

LLANDUDNO: May 22-September 4 - We Have The Mirrors, We Have The Plans - an exhibition featuring 25 artists and artist partnerships, all with their different preoccupations and all working in different ways to try to make sense of what it means to be alive today, at Oriel Mostyn, Vaughan Street. Ring 01492 879201 or visit www.mostyn.org.

LLANDUDNO: May 22-October 16 - The Junkyard Museum of Awkward Things- an exhibition of work by the self-styled Junkman from Africa who will spend three months in residence creating the Junkyard Museum, the first time it will have been seen outside Nigeria, at Oriel Mostyn, Vaughan Street. Ring 01492 879201 or visit www.mostyn.org.

MANCHESTER: September 1-29 - As I See It - exhibition of works by Stockport-based artist Jan Cartain, demonstrating her love of landscape, impired by the places she has visited at home and abroad, at the Portico Library & Gallery, Mosley Street. Ring 0161 236 6785 or visit www.theportico.org.uk.

MANCHESTER: Until February 20 - Intuition - the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road. Victor Musgrave and Monika Kinley chose to collect artwork they felt was genuinely original and made by artists outside the mainstream. The result is a collection of more than 800 drawings, paintings and sculptures. Ring 0161 275 7450 or via www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk.

MANCHESTER: September 25-January 23 - The Land Between Us: place, power and dislocation - an exhibition exploring today’s notions of landscape and identity by juxtaposing historic and contemporary works of art at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road. Ring 0161 275 7450 or via www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk.

RUNCORN: August 21-October 6 - Playful Order - artist Jeni McConell explores Halton’s collections from Norton Priory Museum, Catalyst Museum, the Town Hall and Halton Libraries at The Brindley, High Street. Ring 0151 907 8360 or visit www.thebrindley.org.uk.