Liver Sketching Club

The liver Sketching Club is now providing a rolling exhibition of Members’ work in the 7th floor Corridor at Gostins Building. In it we try to display examples of the variety of Members’ interests and artistic activity. Come and browse at your leisure throughout the year. You may like to comment on your experience at our Email address.

The Club is now preparing to mount its annual Exhibition at the Coach House, Calderstones Park from July 13th to July 26th
We always enjoy this venue, especially when the weather encourages families into the Park. In recent years we have enjoyed engaging the children in artistic activity during the middle weekend of our Exhibition and we hope to build on that again this year on Sunday July 19th (1pm-4pm). Children will be invited to make a picture recording what they see and do in the Park and all their pictures will be exhibited with our own for the second of our two weeks.

The Club enjoyed a unique Exhibition opportunity in 2008 arising from the happy accident of the Club studio on the 7th floor of Gostins Buiding directly overlooking the Liverpool 1 development site. This provided a birds-eye view of the demolition and building work over a 3-year period which introduced Members to many intriguing facets of modern large-scale construction work. Over time a large body of artistic work accumulated (not to mention an extensive photographic record) and this was brought together in the Club’s Exhibition ‘The Building of Liverpool 1’ which was mounted in the Corridor outside the studio in September. The Exhibition was supported by the Grosvenor Company and opened by Rod Holmes their Chairman. Sales were well up to expectations although it was disappointing that the Construction Companies and others did not take the opportunity to grace their Boardrooms with some of our most notable exhibits and despite our best efforts at personal contact. Balfour Beatty PR people visited and placed an article in their House magazine. Some of the exhibits can be seen elsewhere on this site.

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