Open Eye Gallery

Last weekend to catch the #209Women exhibition here at Open Eye Gallery - we're open 10am-5pm all weekend!

Showing on our Digital Window Gallery:
Transformative Moments is a collaborative project, travelling through 5 women’s experiences from different backgrounds: Mary, Heather, Jenny, Usnee and Julie. The project is authored together with Stephanie Wynne.
Achieving a university degree helped Heather regain her confidence. Her project told stories of recovering by using images of personal objects over-laid with scenes from dark city spaces opening up into brighter landscapes.
... ©Stephanie Wynne and Heather, 'Transformative Moments', 2018.
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Our current exhibition '209 Women' is only open for another few days but for those who may not have had the chance to catch it, we have some news.
We have been busy designing a book with Bluecoat Press celebrating all the women that make up the project – both MPs and photographers – who worked together to create images that communicated their identities on their terms.
The book is available now via our Kickstarter campaign for £25.

Last chance to see! Featuring on our Digital Window Gallery until Sunday is Suzanne St Clare with her photographic project Tabula Rasa, created alongside participants in the G.I.R.L.S project. The project exists to help the girls and women build self-esteem and strengthen resilience through artistic expressions.
“Before doing the G.I.R.L.S project I felt sad and unwanted that I didn’t fit in. I was scared to be myself. I know now that I should just be myself and proud of who I am.”

Come along tonight to 'Open Voices: A Celebration' - join our Poet-in-Residence Dr Pauline Rowe for an evening of political speeches and contemporary poetry to celebrate the '209 Women' exhibition and the remarkable women from Parliament. Starts at 6pm - FREE!

THIS WEDNESDAY! Join Open Eye Gallery Poet-in-Residence, Dr Pauline Rowe for an evening celebrating the 209 exhibition and the remarkable women from our public and parliamentary life.
Come along for a night of new writing and poetry honouring the leading women in politics. All are welcome!
10 Apr. 6pm - 8pm. Free. ... https://openeye.org.uk/whatson/open-voice s-a-celebration/
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📡 We're trying to track down a photographer. Can you help?
A message from Laura Robertson, our critical-writer-in-residence:
I'm trying to track down info about their first female exhibiting artist, Anne Lloyd-Morris. Do you remember her? Or know someone who does? Anne was in a group exhibition 5–March 1979, ‘Open Eye ‘79’ (with Terry Duffy, Geoffrey Tucker, John McDonald, Peter Hagerty, Martin Shallcross) and then solo exhibition 1 July–2 Aug 1980, ‘Photographs by Anne Lloyd Morris’. She might have changed her name. Pls get in touch via twitter, @doublenegativeL, or email, laura[at]thedoublenegative.co.uk. Thank you!

Selfhood photography workshop 12 April / 1pm-3pm / free
New Beginnings and Sefton Youth Voice group invite you to join their workshop on black and white still life photography inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe. This will take place at The Atkinson, Southport.
... All welcome. http://bit.ly/2G5Jb2M
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10 April / 6pm-8pm / free Open Voices: A Celebration
In the last week of our current exhibition ‘209 Women’ we would like you to join us in celebration of female, political and artistic pioneers with readings of new writing and poetry.
... All welcome. http://bit.ly/2VrC3Dm
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While you’re enjoying a morning coffee pick up a free copy of Uncertain States magazine. This issue’s theme is ‘We Are’, which aims to challenge the gaps in our understanding of the human experience. Featuring a range of international artists including Ted Oonk whose book ‘When It Turns To The Past’ (pictured) is in our independent shop!
http://www.uncertainstates.com/

Tomorrow / 6:30pm - 8pm / free Eli Regan and Mike Conley present ‘The Other’. A literary evening of writers sharing and reading each other’s work, written around our current exhibition, ‘209 Women’.

Competition! 📯 We're giving away a copy of Yan Wang Preston's 'Forest', alongside the Open Eye Gallery exhibition zines collection. Preston's series is currently up for the Sony World Photography Award. It's free to enter: head here. https://openeye.org.uk/survey-competition /

There's still time to pick up something special this Mother's Day! Come and take a look around our independent shop, we have a wide range of artist books, magazines and gifts. We are open until 5pm.

Chloe Rosser‘s “Form & Function” is a work that allows photography, sculpture and the human body to intersect. Rosser speaks of the increasing alienation and unfamiliarity that we have with our own bodies. Her fleshy sculptures stand out with their imperfections, marks and contours – the parts of ourselves we are inclined to hide in our digitally altered lives. Available in our independent shop! https://www.chloerosser.co.uk/

“My mother was an amazing woman, I wanted to look at the things that made her uniquely her” Celine Marchbank ’s “Tulip” is a project that documents a delicate, haunting record of the final year of her mother’s life. The work, while coming to terms with death, is also a celebration of the bright and cheerful life of Sue Miles. Available in our independent shop! http://www.celinemarchbank.com/

New to our Digital Window Gallery is Stephanie Wynne’s project Transformative Moments, collaborating with 5 women from Wirral Change. It documents and explores the personal moments of changes in these women’s lives, mirroring the national moment when women achieved the vote on 21st November 1918.

Behind the screens: Tabula Rasa
The girls in the portraits become models and photographers in this group project guided by Suzanne. They discussed the style of background and learned from other photographers. Four colours - grey, purple, yellow and blue are selected and painted to backdrop canvasses. The girls selected the portraits by reflecting on aesthetics and their emotional experiences.
Tabula Rasa is currently showing on our Digital Window Gallery.

04 April / 6:30pm – 8pm Join us at our upcoming event, ‘The Other’: An evening of writers sharing stories, work and fostering new friendships.