Cathy's Art Diary

Annual touring exhibition currently at the World Museum Liverpool which seeks to show emerging talent in the contemporary art world. This was a nicely arranged show with screens of video art round the edge and painting and sculpture in the middle. The quality was a bit mixed and I am afraid while going round a show I don’t really have the time or inclination to watch 20 plus video works. My favourite work was an Art Nouveau style wall plaque by Bee Flowers called “Flow Body I”. It was a really beautiful elegant piece and therefore slightly out of place!   I also liked Rachael Crowder’s “How to dress” which consistent of a silk flag with a male torso on being blown gentle by a fan and grapes. I’m not sure I understand but it was rather lovely. Although I have been rude about the video art I did like Marco Godoy’s work as you came in which set slogans from Madrid rallies to music by Purcell and sung in a theatre by the Echo Protest Choir!

Excellent exhibition at the World Museum Liverpool which looks at the story of music on Merseyside since the end of the Second World War. Although there is obviously some emphasis on the Beatles, it is a very wide ranging exhibition and brought back memories of living there 23 years ago! As well as a good chronology of the Merseyside music scene there was also a section on how music is made and marketed which included a small mock up of a recording school, a mixing desk and a video mock up complete with glitter ball and blow up instruments. There was almost too much to take in and of four of us who went round together we each seem to have remembered different aspects. Review Liverpool Echo