TEN

Liverpool Independents Biennial
The Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University, Creative Campus, 17 Shaw Street, L6 1HP
Saturday 5th July to Friday 10th October 2014

The Cornerstone Gallery is pleased to announce that it will be ten years young this summer.

To mark this occasion the Cornerstone is presenting an anniversary exhibition titled TEN, starting on Saturday 5th July until Friday 10th October 2014 to coincide with the Liverpool Independents Biennial.

The Gallery has hosted seventy-three exhibitions within the last ten years. These exhibitions include the annual Liverpool Hope University Fine & Applied Arts Degree Shows, the Pre-paid Charity Postcard Exhibition and Auctions as well as outcomes from International Residences here at the University.

Degree Show and Pre-paid events aside, over two hundred national and international artists have exhibited within a dynamic, interesting and specifically curated exhibition programme within the last ten years and we are hoping to represent as many of these artists in TEN as possible.

The Cornerstone Gallery’s premise has always been where practice and exhibition are placed at the forefront of the visual arts debate in Liverpool and this underpins the undergraduate and postgraduate Fine & Applied Arts courses at the University’s Creative Campus as well as its contribution to Liverpool’s art scene.

Located in and above the large main entrance to Liverpool Hope University’s Cornerstone building, the philosophy of the Gallery is to act as a platform to exhibit nationally and internationally established artists alongside new and emerging visual practitioners; to provide insights into artistic practice and process at differing stages of development. The Gallery aims to inform, stimulate and challenge.

Ten years and seventy-three exhibitions into its exhibition programme the Gallery has presented a diverse range of shows. These include Extended, a Swedish Contemporary Jewelry exhibition (2008), the Guardian Newspaper’s late and renowned press photographer Don McPhee in You Have What I Saw (2011), John Moore’s Painting Prize Winner Martin Greenland’s New Fiction exhibition in 2010. New Fiction marked Martin’s return to Liverpool since winning the prestigious award in 2006.

A turning point in the Gallery’s exhibition history was Collected (2008), the Cornerstone’s first show in Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year that earned the Times Newspapers rating of second best Exhibition in the country to see that week. Collected brought together an eclectic snapshot of modern and contemporary artworks by nationally and internationally recognised artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries that had been acquired by Merseyside based private collectors over the years.

The Cornerstone continues to present important exhibitions that contribute to learning and contemporary debate within the arts but the Gallery’s foundations were laid by local and emerging talent Liverpool had and has to offer. Tim Ellis exhibited within the annual group show Changing Eight in 2005 and is now featured in the prestigious Charles Saatchi collection. Elizabeth Willow who exhibited in a joint show with Becca Backhouse titled What Big Eyes You Have (2006) was later nominated and awarded the People’s Choice Prize within the 2009 Liverpool Art Prize. Changing Eight 2008’s John Davies was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, an award that recognises a significant contribution to the medium of Photography within Europe. A more challenging exhibition in 2005 titled Insider Art saw the artwork of inmates from HMP Liverpool highlighting the important role art plays in the wider community. The Cornerstone has captured and presented the exciting raw talent Liverpool has had and continues to offer.

TEN is a testament to the artists who have made the Cornerstone what it is today and it is proud to invite sixty-five of these artists back to celebrate what has been a very exciting and thought provoking first ten years.

Other Exhibitions have included work by Adrian Henri, Stuart Sutcliffe, Paula Rego, Eileen Cooper RA, Alan Davie, Terry Duffy, Anne Desmet RA, Lisa Milroy, John Hoyland and Edward Carter-Preston.

Exhibiting artists: Sue Aigelsreiter, Richard Ashworth, Martha Atienza, Richard Bannister, Corrie Barclay, Nicole Bartos, Bryan Biggs, Derek Boak, Michelle Burrows, Margaret Cahill, Howard Coles, Peter Corbett, Pete Clarke, Derek Culley, Gina Czarnecki, Mathew John Deepack, Bembol De la Cruz, Anne Desmet (RA), Sara Devoreux-Ward, Peter Dover, Janice Egerton, Tim Ellis, Franchon Frolich, Rebecca Gouldson, Roger Harvey, Charlie Holt, Ghislaine Howard, Jane Hughes, Emily Johns, Becky Johnson, Barbara Jones, Jason Jones, Julie Jones, Michelle Jones-Hughes, Selwyn Jones-Hughes, Vincent Lavell, Peter Lewis, John Maloney, Richard Meaghan, Cathy Miles, Frank Moore, Kaety Moore, John M. Morrison, Raffy T. Napay, Tony O’Connell, Charlotte Owens, Jane Poulton, Roozbeh Rajaie, Paul Riley, Arthur Roberts, Wayne Robinson, Jacqueline Scholes, Colin Serjent, Tony Smith, David Stanley, Steve Strode, Terry Sullivan, Rachel Sweeney, Nick Sykes, Jason Thompson, Fiona Ward, Claire Weetman, Alan Whittaker, Elizabeth Willow, McCoy Wynne.

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