POST founder member

Robyn Woolston

has been short-listed for the

LIVERPOOL ART PRIZE 2012

http://liverpoolartprize.com/?p=535

The shortlist was whittled down from the 48 entries received by the organisers following an open call fornominations. The highly qualified panel of judges, which this year comprises of: Mike Stubbs, CEO and Director of FACT, Laura Davis, Arts Editor of the Liverpool Daily Post, Sook-Kyung Lee, Curator at Tate Liverpool,and last year’s winner artist Markus Soukup, with Ian Jackson of ArtinLiverpool.com as chair.

'SHADOW / LIGHT' (2011)

'FIELD OF DREAMS' (2011)

'ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY?' (2011)

'FRIEND OR FOE' (2011)

Jenny Porter, Project Manager at Metal and curator of the Liverpool Art Prize exhibition said; "The judges have done an excellent job this year of choosing four diverse and extremely talented artists as finalists for this, the fifth, Liverpool Art Prize. We're really excited to be involved again and are working hard to make this year's prize the centre of a variety of creative activity from Liverpool based artists. I can't wait to start working with the artists to see what ideas they'll have for the buildings at Edge Hill Station."

More information can also be found at

http://www.robynwoolston.com/

See also http://www.metalculture.com 

Invisible City, work in Schiedam, NL by Claire Weetman

POST member Claire Weetman recently travelled to Schiedam, Netherlands to produce a new performance drawing at an event called Invisible City. This event, held at Ruimte in Beweging, brought together artists and performers and saw Claire produce three new drawing interventions.


Motus:Immotus is a development from the work 'Passing, Watching, Waiting, Following' and 'Static:Moving' which were produced on Hauptplatz, Linz as part of POST's riPOSTe exchange in Austria. Claire has since been awarded an Artists Access to Art Colleges residency with Salford University where she will develop Motus:Immotus for a UK audience.



You can read more about Claire's work in Schiedam on her a-n blog.
New work in Schiedam was supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

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Film Festival Selection / November 2011

'ET IN ARCADIA EGO: THERE IS DEATH EVEN IN UTOPIA' (2010) has received an Official Programme Selection:

Aesthetica Short Film Festival in November 2011

Directed by Robyn Woolston, the film provides a candid reflection on mortality and is the product of residency work undertaken during Post's 2010 exchange and exhibition 'Riposte'. To view the film follow the link below & keep an eye on the official festival website for further details: http://www.asff.co.uk/

http://vimeo.com/10653866

Previous Screenings:

- RUSHES Film Festival / T E N D E R P I X, Tenderpixel Gallery, London (10)

- RIPOSTE: A 'POST' EXCHANGE as part of GLOBAL STUDIO shown at:

• Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK (04-06/10)

• Maerz Arts Association, Linz, Austria (07-09/10)

POST MEMBER IN ISTANBUL

Cecilia Kinnear is currently working in Istanbul as part of the 5533 Working Table project. Whilst there she is liasing with Post's contacts; Nancy Atakan, Gulcin Aksoy, Yasemin Nur Toksoy and Gozde Ilkin for the upcoming Trading Station exchange.

OD SMECA DO UMJETNOSTI - Susan Meyerhoff Sharples in Croatia

Exhibition title: OD SMECA DO UMJETNOSTI
Gallery: LOZA GALLERY, MEDULIN, CROATIA

POST artist Susan Meyerhoff Sharples recently developed an artist exchange linked to childhood toys. Inspired by an experience at a fairy-tale grotto during her residency with POST in Linz, Austria, Susan began to research people's memories of their toys.

Several artists responded to her call-out, and seeing a link between their work and their well-loved toy, Susan asked them to create a piece of work in response. Artists who responded from Croatia invited Susan to exhibit the works at the Loza Gallery, Medulin.



As a result of this visit, Susan created 'SUSTENANCE -feeds the body and the soul'. On this encounter Susan says;

"Whilst I was there I was commissioned to create a site specific piece from found objects. It was to reflect the town and its community. I was overwhelmed by the hospitality of the people whilst I was there. I was given fresh fish from the fishing boats, wild asparagus from the coastal flora and vegetables grown in their gardens. For the main structure I used two pieces of wood previously part of a fishing boat, mesh from the mosquito net of an old door and garden ties. Jointly these elements epitomised the community and how it respects and works with nature and its resources."

POST artists features at Threshold Festival

Susan Meyerhoff Sharples, Claire Weetman and Robyn Woolston all exhibited work as part of the Threshold festival at Liverpool's CUC 11-13 February 2011.

Susan Meyerhoff Sharples - The Object of Things (Installation)
Photograph: Art in Liverpool.com

Claire Weetman - Space Between (Drawing in Lightbox)

Robyn Woolston - Field Of Dreams (2011)

45,000 plastic bags / Site Specific Installation

Film accepted into University collection

'ET IN ARCADIA EGO: THERE IS DEATH EVEN IN UTOPIA' (2010) (Film Still) (Dir: Robyn Woolston)

University of the West of England Research Repository, Bristol has accepted 'ET IN ARCADIA EGO: THERE IS DEATH EVEN IN UTOPIA' (2010) into its archive.

http://vimeo.com/10653866

The film was created as a direct result of the POST exchange with Linz during 2010 and with the kind support of the Mauthausen Memorial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp

As well as being kindly supported by an Arts Council England grant.

Artwork Published in Post Graduate Publication

Installation work by Robyn Woolston has been included in the Manchester Metropolitan University research publication:

http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/courses/books/pdfs/miriad.pdf

'TIME AND TIDE...' Mersey Basin, an Exhibition, Art + Design Academy, John Moores University Liverpool (02/10)

Artists at work

A feature on the practice of POST artist Cecilia Kinnear appears in the national magazine for John Lewis Partnership this January:

Cecilia Kinnear creates conceptual art, including an installation for Liverpool's 2008 Capital of Culture celebrations.

The Warhol-inspired work saw 2008 tins of scouse (a traditional Liverpool stew) rather than Campbell's soup, on display around the city.

The John Lewis Liverpool Partner used to make her living as an artist - but now enjoys the freedom to create work without commercial restraints.

'I've continued my art practice alongside my career in John Lewis,' she says. 'There's less pressure to sell my art, so I'm able to explore concepts and branch out into different media.'

This means she rarely works in her studio these days, and is as likely to start thinking up ideas while sitting in a café or out running.

John Lewis is also often a source of inspiration. 'At work, I'm always thinking about brands, about the way people behave... it really influences my art and sparks new ideas.'

Her art has taken her far from home. 'I helped set up an artists' collective called POST (www.postliverpool.com) and we've followed the Capital of Culture around Europe, from Liverpool in 2008 to Linz in Austria, and then to Istanbul this year,' she says.

Cecilia acknowledges the role the Partnership plays in her work/art balance. 'I've received a Bursary of Excellence from the business (which provides support and financial help to Partners who meet specific requirements). 'The commitment is two-way,' she says. 'From me to the business, and back again.'