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EXHIBITIONS
Inspired Responses 10
17 Jan - 21 February
The arts development team’s innovative
programme of artists in schools residencies
celebrates its first decade. Expect a high
level of talent and extraordinary art works
from young people at Cavendish School,
CRMZ, Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy, St
Chad’s High School and Wade Deacon High
School, with artists Jeni McConnell, Sarah
Nicholson, Cathy Rounthwaite, and Maria
Tarn.
Photo: Ormison Bolingbroke Academy at
Hazlehurst Studios with Cathy Rounthwaite
Living Data - Michael Takeo Magruder
28 Feb - 18 April
Living Data is a new solo exhibition by the visual
artist Michael Takeo Magruder that explores the
creation of evolving virtual/physical artworks
which are generated from the ubiquitous artefacts
of the digital domain. Derived from the vast and
ever-changing sea of collective data that underpins
our everyday existence, this work considers how
emerging technologies –from Internet services to
social media content – arise from and feed back
into the real world, reflecting (while affecting)
contexts and situations within our globalised,
information-rich society.
Both beautiful and thought provoking, the
pieces in the exhibition creatively blend modern
computer systems and networks with traditional
forms of visual art. The result is a selection of
digitally hybrid paintings, sculptures, videos and
installations that give visitors an opportunity to
experience new ways of seeing and interacting
with the ephemeral realms of ‘living’ data which
are now an increasingly fundamental part of
contemporary life.
Michael Takeo Magruder (b.1974, US/UK) is an
internationally recognised visual artist who works
with digital and new media including real-time
data, immersive environments, mobile devices
and virtual worlds. In the last 15 years, Michael’s
art has been showcased in over 250 exhibitions
in 30 countries. In 2010, Michael was selected
to represent the UK at Manifesta 8: the
European Biennial of Contemporary Art
and several of his most well-known digital
artworks were added to the Rose Goldsen
Archive of New Media Art at Cornell
University.
Photo: Dataplex Economy City; Michael Takeo
Magruder
Karl Blossfeldt Art forms in Nature
25 April - 31 May
A Hayward Touring exhibition which presents an
original portfolio of 40 photogravures from 1932,
entitled ‘Wundergarten der Natur’, edited by the
artist and published in the year of his death. The
exhibition presents an opportunity to witness an
exemplary set of Blossfedt’s signature close-up
images of plants and flora.
Blossfeldt (1865-1932) is regarded as one of the
defining photographers of the twentieth century
for his exceptional contribution to the art through
his intricate botanical photographs. During his
career, which spanned over three decades and
included 6,000 photographs, Blossfeldt developed
homemade cameras and lenses which enabled him
to magnify his subjects by up to 30 times. In doing
so he captured the microcosmic aesthetic of his
specimens and revealed the underlying structures
of nature, which until then remained unexplored.
All images part of ‘Wundergarten der Natur’,1932
© Estate of Karl Blossfeldt
Courtesy Hayward Touring
Historic photographic processes by
Black Glass Studios
25 April - 31 May
Niki Carlin creates beautiful images using vintage
photographic processes including wet plate
collodion and cyanotype. To complement the Karl
Blossfeldt exhibition Black Glass Studios based at
Hazlehurst Studios in Runcorn will be creating a
display of unique works detailing the techniques
being revived in the 21st century.
11th Halton Open Art Exhibition
6 June - 18 July
Our annual opportunity for all visual artists
living, working or studying in Halton to share
their creativity with our audience. Works in all
media and styles welcome. Entry forms will be
available in April. We are pleased to be working
in partnership again with The Studio, who will be
hosting the 11-17 category of the Halton Open Art
exhibition
(Photo: 2014 winner of the visitors’ choice prize:
Paul Skelton - All Good Things).