Shoebox Bedrooms - Your Artwork Seen By The World

On Saturday 14th August 2010, 11-4pm at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, I ran an adult workshop which invited participants to create a room in a shoebox. After a brief background into my practice, my group set to work on their personal creations. I even received a completed shoebox from someone who couldn't participate in the workshop but had made one earlier, which was wonderful! It was an incredibly enjoyable afternoon and hopefully the first of many artist workshops that I will be running in the future.

The photographs of the completed rooms are now in the hands of Dr GR Barker-Read, Head of Academic Quality and Standards at The University of Leeds, who will be recreating each room in Second Life for an online exhibition that the whole whole can visit. A huge thank you to Layla at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery for inviting me to host the event!

Save the date - XXX Get Off At Edge Hill

Thursday 22nd October, 6.30pm- 9pm

Metal will be launching the newly renovated Edge Hill Station, a creative space for art, events and conversation in Liverpool. There will be an opportunity to see inside the historic grade II listed buildings at Edge Hill, the oldest passenger station in the world. This is the site where George Stephenson’s Rocket set off with the Prime Minister on board, the day the Liverpool to Manchester Railway opened for business. The transformed Engine Room, Boiler House and Accumulator Tower will be open all evening for guests to visit.

XXX Get Off At Edge Hill

Taking as their starting point the well known scouse phrase ‘Get off at Edge Hill’ Metal’s artists in residence AL and AL have curated a site specific group exhibition that explores sexual and industrial metaphors in painting, sculpture and film This exhibition will run until 5th December.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS
– AL and AL
– Hayley Louise Goodsell
– Kenneth Anger
– Sebastian Buerkner
– Toby Clarkson
– Nicki McCubbing
– Crystal DeBeers
– Marcel Duchamp
– Johnny Ferral
– Richard Meaghan
– Jodie Mellor
– Jenny Porter
– Man Ray
– George Albert Smith
– Imogen Stidworthy
– Hannah Wilkes

WORK AND PERFORMANCES TBC

The renovation has been made possible through the support of Kensington Regeneration, Merseytravel, Network Rail, Northern Rail and Railway Heritage Trust.

We do hope you can join us.