Update for August: What is happening in the car park behind the Travelodge at Marine Point?

 

Local artist Fred Biddulph explaining to an interested member of the public his technique as he creates a huge mural entitled A MOMENT IN TIME. The painting is a Momentary Art Project sited on one side of a Marine Point shipping container located in the car park.

 

 

Former MAP exhibitor in The Three Elements exhibition in 2013, Fred Biddulph (signwriter and mural painter) has been working on a scene of New Brighton with the permission and support of Promenade Estates at Marine Point to create a mural to liven up the rear of the hotel and businesses in the development. Brighten New Brighton is a MAP initiative to bring colour to the grey prom area of New Brighton. There are already several panels on Harrison Drive produced through initiatives from MAP and these will be joined by a large mural with Nicola Taggart of Tag Arts working with Mount Primary School and volunteers to decorate a United Utilities building on the dips.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The completion of the painting will coincide with the installation of more popular colourful benches located along Ian Fraser walk. The bench project is initiated and administrated by the Wirral Older Peoples Parliament with the support of our MAP director Carl Leckey MBE CF FRSA. 

Update for contributors

Dear contributor

Photo by Carl Leckey

Many thanks to you all for contributions to the Wirral Pride of Place Project. The exhibition will be coming down after the closing celebration this Sunday at 6pm. You are most welcome to join us to celebrate what has been achieved over the last 2 weeks. The event will start at noon, with activities planned throughout the afternoon. One of the volunteers, Shelagh, has arranged for her art club to be in attendance. She will be discussing projects like ours which involved community engagement and she is more than happy for others to join in. There will be a mass art chalk drawing for the public to draw on the pavement outside (if bad weather stops this the Light Cinema have offered us their foyer and cardboard to carry on inside) between 1.30 and 3pm and the mayor will be in attendance from 2.30pm. Local poet Eleanor Rees will be reading from her poem about a gull's journey around the Wirral Coastline and there will be music from The Singing Bowl Orchestra and Caroline England. Wine and cakes will be available and you are welcome to bring your own food and drink to share.

At the end of the day if you would like to collect your artworks and let us know you have removed them that would be most helpful. Alternatively arrange with Jan or Chris to come back on Monday afternoon from 3pm to collect them. If you are interested in donating your pieces to The Caravan Gallery archive, again talk to Jan or Chris admin@thecaravangallery.co.uk

Finally, I would like to invite you to the launch of the next exhibition "Spotlight on Wirral" by Mosslands School on the 2nd of July at 6pm. This will be our final show in this unit but never fear, the Momentary Art Project had a cunning plan and we will be coming back at a venue very close to the original as well as expanding our reach to the Floral Pavilion.



Alison
Director of the Momentary of Art Project C.I.C
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STOP PRESS: end of Mosslands school exhibition to be confirmed

Get chalky!

On Sunday 23rd of June as part of the closing celebration for the MAP/Caravan Gallery exhibition, areas of the pavement at Marine Point will be marked off and given titles eg:-

The Black Pearl,

The Lighthouse,

The Sea,

The Beach.

You are invited to draw, using chalk, within the specified areas.

Make your way to Marine Point on Sunday the 23^rd of June between 1.30 and 3.30pm

Bring adults and children who like to draw

Bring coloured chalks (only the kind that will was away eventually in the rain – WHAT RAIN…we don’t have rain??!?!)

Be prepared to enjoy yourself and get messy!

day 23rd of June as part of the closing celebration for the MAP/Caravan Gallery exhibition, areas of the pavement at Marine Point will be marked off and given titles eg:-

The Black Pearl,

The Lighthouse,

The Sea,

The Beach.

You are invited to draw, using chalk, within the specified areas.

Make your way to Marine Point on Sunday the 23^rd of June between 1.30 and 3.30pm

Bring adults and children who like to draw

Bring coloured chalks (only the kind that will was away eventually in the rain – WHAT RAIN…we don’t have rain??!?!)

Be prepared to enjoy yourself and get messy!

The Caravan Gallery

I have just been taking a look at Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale's book "is Britain great? 2" and found a paragraph I wanted to share with you as we gather momentum on the Wirral Pride of Place Project in our unit at Marine Point

"Caravan Gallery Britain doesn't exist in tourist brochures and marketing campaigns or grace the pages of glossy lifestyle magazines; we try to resist the lure of landmarks, must-see attractions and overpriced family fun in favour of undesignated sights and accidental diversions. We understand why 'destination' guides tend to perpetuate single-faceted rose-tinted aspirational versions of places but firmly believe in a more adventurous approach to exploration, a foray beyond sanitised homogeneity, can be equally wirthwhile" the intrepid explorer is forced to question long held stereotypical beliefs and may be rewarded with unexpected discoveries and revelations"

Launched Saturday and now over to you!

Jan Williams of The Caravan Gallery with the THE DEPUTY MAYOR AND DEPUTY MAYORESS OF WIRRAL COUNCILLOR STEVE FOULKES AND MRS ELAINE NOLAN looking at the photographs at the launch of Wirral Pride of Place at the Momentary Art Project unit in Neptune's Marine Point, New Brighton. The project is open daily from 12 til 6 for everyone to join in adding their photos and views to the People's wall and complete a survey.  It will end with a closing finale on Saturday 23rd of June with the Mayor in attendance from 12 to 6pm.

Photo by Andrew hall (director of Momentary Art Project C.I.C)

MAY BLOSSOMING FOR YOUNG ARTISTS

MAY BLOSSOMING FOR YOUNG ARTISTS

Young artists are springing into action to bring a fresh look to shop windows at New Brighton’s Marine Point for three weeks in May. The students from St Mary’s Catholic College, will display their work as part of the Momentary Art Project (MAP) programme. 

 

 

Featuring a range of materials, including textiles, their creations will be seen in the unit next to The Light Cinema and The Hungry Horse restaurant, until May 23.

Included in the display is the work of 17-year-old aspiring fashion designer and sixth form student at St Mary’s, Patrick McDowell. A finalist in the last season of BBC’s Young Apprentice, Patrick was memorably tipped for the top by Lord Sugar, who told him: ‘I somehow think I'm going to hear a lot about Patrick McDowell the designer, and I want you to carry on with that dream’.

To launch the event, the third in a series of MAP exhibitions, there will be a carnival evening on Thursday, 2nd May, from 6pm to 8pm, focusing on the amphitheatre area of Marine Point, close to The Light Cinema. All are welcome to join in the celebrations, which will feature a live dance and music performances, as well as a balloon race to raise money for Wirral Age UK.

The Momentary Art Project is a community interest company set up by volunteers with the aim of bringing art to and from New Brighton, while raising money for local charities.

Their next exhibition will be called 'Wirral: Pride of Place' and will run from June 8 to June 23, with The Caravan Gallery as part of the Look: Liverpool International Photography Festival.

Jacob Bell, was exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery, London, as part of a young artists' exhibition. This has been used as one of the posters to advertise our event in New Brighton.

 

Patrick McDowell's textile portrait of Anna Wintour, the American Vogue editor, which was shown in The Mall Galleries, London, as part of a Royal Society of British Artists' National Students' Exhibition.