Arena Studios & Gallery

Arenas 10th Annual Auction

Roisn — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:08:52 +0000

Arenas 10th Annual Auction is on its way and there is some fantastic art work up for grabs! The auction itself will be held from 7pm onwards with viewing from 6pm. We have artwork donated from all of this years shortlisted Liverpool Art Prize artists alongside work from some of the biggest names in the city. If you cant wait untill the 4th of March we have set up a special website where you can view the work http://arena-art-auction-2012.tumblr.com/ and if you just cant wait – you can always email a bid through!

Arena Auction 2012 – Call for submissions

Jack — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:08:33 +0000

Arena Studios and Gallery would like to invite Merseyside artists to submit work for our 10th annual charity auction to be held this year in conjunction with The Liverpool Art Prize month.
Artists can submit up to 3 images of their work fo…r selection. Artwork should be no bigger than 60cm x 60cm, there is no restrictions on media and 3D work will be considered. All submitted work will be viewed and selected by a panel consisting of members from the Liverpool Art Prize Consortium. Due to time restrictions on the night it is likely that only one piece of artwork from each artist will be selected however this may not always be the case. Successful artists will be notified by email and requested to deliver their artworks to Arena Studios. Work will be catalogued, photographed and posted on both Arena’s and the Art Prize Consortium websites and across all the usual social media networks. Work will be on display in The Elevator Bar in the week running up to the auction. It will be possible to register and submit bids prior to the event via e mail.
Important Dates & Deadlines
Tuesday 20th March 2012: Call for expressions of interest.
Friday 6th April 2012: Deadline for submission of JPEG images.
Monday 9th April: Successful applicant will be notified by email.
Friday 13th April: Submission of artworks to Arena Studios for photographing.
Monday 16th April: All selected artworks and artist details posted on web and social network sites.
Monday 30th April: Work will be on display in The Elevator Bar, Parliament Street.
Friday 4th May: Auction Night. Viewing and registration from 6pm. Auction 7pm till 10pm.

Arena take a 30% commission from each sale and the money raised is put back into Arena Studios & Gallery to help continue the development of our free art exhibition and events programme.

Please submit all JPEG images to pamela.sullivan@hotmail.co.uk

Dead Mint by Alan Williams, Sam Venables and Mike Aitkin

Jack — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:07:06 +0000

Using a multitude of references, from the wilfully obscure to the brazenly open, D E A D M I N T collects the work of three Artists who take a blackly humorous and gleefully irreverent smash and grab of the history of contemporary art.

Private View: Thursday 29th March 2012 – 6pm Onwards with an after party downstairs at Elevator Bar with cheap drinks and Foods available and the finest doom laden jazz funk greats from DJ Damo aka The Muscle Himself.

Exhibition opening times:

11AM – 5PM
Friday 30th March
Saturday 31st March
Thursday 5thApril
Friday 6th April
Saturday 7th April

For a sneak peak, click on the link below…

Dead Mint at Arena Gallery

Chiz Turncross at Arena Gallery

Jack — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:14:32 +0000

From Friday 16th to Sunday 25th March Chiz Turnross will be taking over the Arena Gallery for Equinox. The show will unravel with the artist carrying out his practice in the space and in a back to front twist, will culminate in a private view on Thursday 22nd March. Turnross works with gloss paint, video and music and this gallery takeover shows no bounds. Equinox turns our interest to the making of Turnross’s work, the materials he uses and the ‘by products’ of his processes. If you’re still unsure about what’s going to happen during Equinox, you’re not the only one, but that’s what we’re excited about.

16th – 25th March 12pm – 5pm
Private view 22nd March 7pm

Acetate After Party Update

Jack — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:02:25 +0000

*PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE FOR THE AFTER PARTY*

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to move the exhibition after party to Camp & Furnace, Greenland Street. It is still FREE entry with Nick Power (The Coral) playing top tunes from 9pm till late.

Acetate Steps exhibition private view is still at the Arena Gallery from 7-9pm. 1st floor Elevator Building, Parliament Street.

We look forward to seeing you all

Acetate Steps

Jack — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:15:39 +0000

Arena Studios and Gallery will be taking part in The Visual Arts in Liverpool weekend from the 2nd to the 4th of March.
Acetate Steps is a site specific installation and sound piece created for the event by Arena artists Carol Ramsay, Pamela Sullivan and Iain Yell. The piece celebrates the mix tape, a rite of passage for every teenager sitting in their bedroom creating a compilation of songs for a friend, soul mate or someone who just out and out broke their heart! Across the generations this ritual has been performed, from the little plastic 90 minute cassette to i tunes, a list of songs has been created by all of us …just to say that what can’t be put into words.

Exhibition 2nd – 4th March

Private view Friday 2nd March 7-9pm

After party @ Camp and Furnace, Greenland Street featuring DJ Nick Power (The Coral) 8pm – late, FREE ENTRY.

Open Studios

Jack — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:15:39 +0000

Arena will open its studios as part of the Threshold Festival on Sunday 12th February between 11am – 5pm. Entrance is through the Elevator Bar on Parliament Street. Come one and all!

Jack — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:11:04 +0000

We are currently developing an exciting and dynamic programme of exhibitions and events for 2012.

Happy New Year!

Jack — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:08:30 +0000

2012 will be an exciting time for Arena as we prepare to celebrate our 30th anniversary with a series of events and exhibitions currently being planned and we also aim to have a shiny new website soon. More news to follow…

Julie Dodd – Inner Beauty

Jack — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:37:53 +0000

Arena Studios and Gallery are proud to present ‘Inner Beauty’ an exhibition of work created by our current artist in residence Julie Dodd. The piece consists of approximately 800 pieces and is ‘a response to the artificial way beauty is perceived as only skin deep. The pattern was inspired by microscopic images of inside the human body and was constructed using layers of ’skin’ from images of models in magazine pages (fashion, beauty and glamour)’.

Private view – Friday 2nd December 6pm – 9pm

Gallery Open – Thursday 1st – Saturday 3rd
Thursday 8th – Saturday 10th