Susan Meyerhoff Sharples returns to de-junk

"I have been working on a few pieces this year - a christening gown created from a wedding gown, an old tradition almost lost."

Roy Lewis: Latest commission

Roy Lewis was recently commissioned to create a Bull's head by a local restaurant in Heswall, Beef Grill and Bar. He created it from exhausts, re-enforcing bars, flat sheet of metal salvaged from a friend's old cooker, a suzuki bandit brake disc, a landrover con-rod big end, some subaru gears, Ford Thunderbird bumper bolts, Yamaha RD350Lc exhausts....and the parts list goes on...

Hoping we will get something along these lines for de-junk, re-junk 2013 in the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead

LAST CHANCE

Dear Friends, colleagues and art lovers of Wirral
Last chance to view de-junk, re-junk exhibition in Birkenhead Park tomorrow (Friday) 9 til 4.30pm.

Many thanks to Wirral Council for their support and thanks to the Birkenhead Park Rangers and volunteers and our own volunteers and to you our audience who have boosted our view that this is a fabulous enterprise and worth building.






Alison

PS We are already planning "de-junk, re-junk 2013"

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Birkenhead Park Visitors Centre, Birkenhead Park, Park Drive, Birkenhead, Merseyside CH41 4HY

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Promoting de-junk through Festival of Firsts

My banner to advertise de-junk show made with all the labels from the Welly Road gets the Boot in project - from all the flowers with bunting made of bouncy castles, vinyl aprons and flowers of toothpaste tubes and plastic strapping, two pouches for leaflets made from a plastic bag from a safety vest and a boots the chemist beauty bag from Erica Wilcox, nothing thrown away! Lots of stuff used from my Granny's sewing box.
Banner donated from Barbara Singleton via Derry Hunter and letters glued on with help from Gill Alleyne. 

 

Marie Louise WIlliams of Wellington Road Studios

 Marie is a full-time artist based at Wellington Road Studios in Oxton. She is passionate about the environment & sustainability & campaigns for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.

“I create installations from recycled & reclaimed materials, paint, drawing, shadows, photography & text. Inspired by quantum physics, music & environmental concerns, my work makes tangible the invisible underlying patterns of the universe.”

Marie holds a BA in Fine Art from the Wirral School of Art & a BA in Chinese Culture, Philosophy & Russian from Durham University. She has taught art workshops to adults & children across Merseyside since 2004.

'Spring Theory No. 2:
inter-colour territory'
re-energised & re-composed cot-mattress & couch springs, hanging basket, reclaimed telephone and electrical wire, coffee plunger, can tops,  odds & ends wool and donated end of tin enamel paint.   Price on Application

Stella Jones

Stella graduated from Liverpool Hope University with a Bachelor of design in textiles and wood, she has worked in lots of different media, including papier mache.

Her papier mache figures previously had the clothes hand stitched from remnants of material .

The figures Stella is currently making have been made using newspaper, wire and a little tissue paper. Stella wanted to show what can be achieved with the variation of colour and pattern in newspapers and a little creativity.

Barbara Harrison

Barbara Harrison

I am a visual artist. My digital practice is strongly underpinned by the aesthetics of painting, and is informed by art history, cultural studies and sociology.

Title: Apocalypse Teatime

This no-budget, lo-fi, Pop Art style digital collage is made from low-res stock photos found on the internet. All the images are manipulated using second-hand Photoshop Elements 7.

Theme: the vintage mirror remembers the domestic dysfunction and thwarted aspirations it has witnessed throughout its rural and suburban lifetime from pre-1940s to the present day. The mirror first belonged to my father's mother and came to the Wirral when the family moved here in the fifties. The mirror has experienced at least 4 addresses and must be over 80 years old.

Theresia Cadwallader back for a second year

Theresia Cadwallader

Theresia is a jewellery designer, maker and art projects organiser. She studied Jewellery Design at Wirral Metropolitan College and gained BTec with Distinction in 2009.

Theresia’s hand made jewellery pieces are made from various materials, new, recycled and found objects. She uses metals including gold, silver, titanium, copper, aluminium, precious and semi precious stones, fabric, paper, wood, found objects and recycled materials.  Most of her copper pieces are made from recycled water tanks, wires stripped from cables, aluminium from drink cans or obtained from scrap yards, paper from magazines, tetra pack, milk bottles, metal tubes, plastic tubes, leather from off cuts, food packaging, and other materials found in most households.
 
This is the second year Theresia has taken part in ‘de-junk re-junk’ exhibition.

Theresia has been showing and selling her work at various exhibitions including Oxton art Fair, The Six Rooms Gallery for Independents Liverpool Biennial, Williamson Art Gallery, Oakmere Studio Cheshire, Liverpool, Cambridge, London and around the country.

Her future exhibitions include “Canvas for Youth “ a charity event at Mid Cheshire College, Hartford from 18 - 21 July 2012 and Oxton Art Fair at Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead in December 2012.

Theresia accepts commissions.
www.theresiacadwallader.com

Artist’s Statement:

Swifts...

When I returned home having been away for a while and having been through a very difficult year, I noticed the birds in the garden, the Swifts flying around as if they were greeting me. In the Spring and Summer we see the Swifts returning from far away countries, but how some will never returned....and we say good bye to them....

The Swifts, like my family, scattered in different part of the world, we get together from time to time but this time not all of us are there...

Theresia Cadwallader

Roy Lewis returns with his Mech'art

 

ROY LEWIS MECH’ART

Roy has been making functional decorative items for over 20 years, and is in the process of making the transition from the creation of his candlesticks and sundials being a purely hobby to a business . Roy recycles old worn out car, motorcycle or any machine type parts. No one piece is the same as another, he can either make something similar or bespoke to your own personal taste.

He specialises in candle holders but has made a few sundials and flowers made of stainless steel cutlery that can be placed outside without the fear of corrosion.

Roy has also given technical assistance to other artists with his fabrication and welding experience.

Bernie explores addictions in his piece for de-junk

Bernie Howden

Artist statement

I achieved my Fine Art Degree in 2009 at Wirral Metropolitan College. My work involves the surreal side of art in this particular instance using the recycling theme to convey the message of addictions that we all experience in one form or another, we can be achieve a high standard by using materials that have been discarded and can reach the inner echelons of the mind to inspire people to act and react to the use of the  recycling theme to help our planets future continue for the children of future generations as it is their  heritage.

B J Howden

Addictions

£ 50

Works coming in for de-junk - featuring Jacqui Chapman

Jacqui Chapman

B.A. (Hons) Fine Art

My work explores the relationship in us between identity and territory and demonstrates that they are integral to what we are. As an immigrant from South Africa I am interested in the idea of homeland, living in exile and national identity as influenced by landscapes and as told in close up histories, in literature, philosophy and art, while investigating my own foundations where contradictions of transience and permanence exist.

In this work, Requiem, I remember my friend. She was only 42 when she died. Our daughters were best friends age 7. It is about our last walk up Moel Famau for a windy picnic before she became ill.

Reclaimed floorboards from a demolished girl’s school in Wallasey, having had their own history, form the implacable box, in contrast with the fragile book I made from a drawing /painting  I worked on during the year she was in hospital.  

Printed: Ink -jet on Lokta paper 1/1

Having had a successful career in advertising for 13 years as a senior Art director, I retrained in England and qualified in 2006 with a first class B.A. (Hons) Fine Art Degree from Wirral Metropolitan College, (validated by Liverpool JMU) followed by a Fellowship in 2007. My work is exhibited widely in the North West of England, nationally and internationally, most recently in the Florence Biennial 2011.

For more information please visit my website or contact me should you be interested in a commission or to view other collections of my work.

website: www.jacquichapman.com

email:  jacqui@jacquichapman.com