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The Lion (01/09/10)

Red Wire members are going to be exhibiting in The Lion Tavern for the start of Liverpool Biennial. The Lion is a cracking pub, and is next to that spinney building on Moorfields Street. Theres 14 RW members at the moment, and we're hoping to fit most of us in there. The viewing is on September 15th, and Ceri Hands P.V is going to coincide down there.

 

The Blog has changed (01/09/10)

Instead of me monopolising the blog, its been opened out to all our members to write what they fancy. Some Red Wire related stuff, some nothing to do with us. Alan and Matt have written already over at http://redwireredwire.com/page2.htm

Logo (31/08/10)

Red Wires 5 year long discussion of logos seems to be at an end, Alan Williams has designed this, which is now The definitive Red Wire Logo, and will be used on The Cooperative's branding and various other things. at last

 

 

New Page: Colette Lilley  (10/08/10)

Colette Lilley has become the 42nd artist to join Red Wire since our inception in June 2005. Having already been based in the studio above us, it hasn't been a long trek for Colette. She takes over from our recent departee Liam Greenall, who is making a name for himself in Hong Kong. Having already transformed her space into a clean-cut studio, Colette seems well settled in already. Artists 43 and 44 are to be announced soon! We're having a fast turnaround at the moment!

 

 

Rude Britannia (22/07/10)

As if joining Red Wire isn't big enough news in one week, Matthew Lloyd, the newest Red Wire member has had his zine accepted in Rude Britainnia's reading room currently showing at Tate Modern. Congrats to Matt.

Red Wire, now with 100% more Matthew Lloyd (19/07/10)

In our revolving door of studio members, the newest to join the motley clan is painter/drawer/illustrator/ ziner Matthew Llyod. Matt is one of two new members- the other is Colette Lilly, but I haven't got any images of hers yet. Colette and Matt will be taking over from Mike and Liams old spaces.

Liam's off to Hong Kong (13/07/10)

Co-founder set to leave Red Wire (02/07/10)

Mike Aitken, one of the four founders of Red Wire back in June 2005 leaves us this month for pastures new. In our infancy Mike did almost all of of the organizing- from the early rent collections, where we would all pay our £17.50 or something in cash (pre-bank account days), to his initiation of the Red Wire Zine photocopied in his dads garage, which he continued to run until the zine finished in 2008.
Mike also played a crucial role in organizing several exhibitions- most notably being North x Northwest- the TATE/ Henry Moore exhibition in 2008 and designed the flyers to One and (one of RW's finest experiences) Roy Castles Vision from Hell - where he committed a musicians nightmare of smashing a load of vinyls.

"take that Erasure"

Mikes primary influence on Red Wire though is the effort gone into rebuilding the studios no less than four times- from setting up the space, building the gallery (twice) and then transforming it into its present state, Mikes effort in the rebuilds has been immense, and I hope to hell we don't have to do it again without him.

In recent months Mike has been focussing on making noise in The Wolstenholme, where is is taking a space to continue drawing too, and Red Wire wishes him the best of luck over there.

Roz Hyde- Images online (02/06/10)

We now have images of Roz Hydes work on this website. One of Red Wirers newer members, Roz's photographs 'allow for no digital cropping of images,  and dependent only on  a home printers inability to deliver its promised identical snapshots'

 

New Member - New Page (01/07/10)

Red Wire's newest member Kevin Casey now has a Red Wire page: you can find him here

Spaces going- E-mail if you want one!! (29/06/10)

 

Red Wire is set to have a couple of spaces going free over the next couple of weeks, so if your interested, pop us a bell at mail@redwireredwire.com

 

Its all Overs (29/06/10)

Red Wire member Ellie Overs is leaving us this month after around a year of being a member. Ellie exhibited in possibly the best Red Wire 'members-only exhibitions' Crapola Central last Biennial, and has always been a prominent member at our meetings.

Ellies rotten apples at Crapola

Ellie will be replaced by fellow FACT employee (like both Ellie and me) and photographer Kevin Casey- who is set to build a darkroom in the space. With Dave Penny also joining not too long ago, it seems photography is in vogue at Red Wire

 

Kevin image from 'This conditional nature' series

Open Studios (13/06/10)

Liverpools studios opened thier doors to the public this weekend, and with about 30 people coming through Red Wire's doors for the first time since we redeveloped our spaces it was a great sucess. Most of our members were in the studio making work, and our space has scarcely felt a better place to make work.

 

Open Studios This Weekend (07/06/10)

As part of Artinliverpool.coms initiative to have an Open Studios across Liverpool, Red Wire will be open for the first time since our redesign. Saturday 12th 12-6, before the England match, your welcome to pop round to look at us.

me presents a postcard to Rome (10/05/10)

Red Wirer me presents // Julie Martin disappeared for a few weeks recently, shes back now after spreading me presents postcards throughout Roma. There's a bag load of photos on her facebook if your mates with her, if not- there's a few on her Red Wire page too

 

Penny & Alabaster in The Bridewell (1/05/10)

 

Red Wires Dave Penny and Simon Alabaster are set to feature in the relaunch exhibition of The Bridewell Gallery up in Edge Hill. The show- set to coincide with The Bluecoats Global Studio exhibition features artists accross Liverpools studio groups. The show opens This Thursday (6th May) and is open until late June

Drawing Paper Zine (1/05/10)

 

Mike Carney of Royal Standard has begun a drawing zine, which has its first issue launching this Saturday 8th May. The first issue features Red Wire's Alan Williams as well as a whole host of friends and ex-members including Jon Barraclough, Mike Carney, Baptiste Croze, Jemma Egan, Henry Finney, Madeline Hall, Natalie Hughes, Harry Lawson, Hamish Mclain, Sarah McKevitt, Flis Mitchell, Bernadette O'Toole, Richard Proffitt, James Quin, Laura Robertson, Emily Speed, Topia Gould, Sam Venables, Alan Williams and Ki Yoong.

 

NO WAY HOME images (31/03/10)

Alan Williams's Red Wire page now contains some images from his recent exhibition NO WAY HOME (below) held at The Railway pub. You can check them out here or on his own website

 

NO WAY HOME (24/03/10)

This show is really worth seeing, but you only have until tomorrow to do so. It features a whole host of people I've never heard of, and our very own Alan Williams (who seems to be monopolizing this site at the moment). Its in a great venue, above The Railway, which I hope is used again to show art.

Above The Railway Pub. 'No Way Home' 23-25 March 2010.
Private Viewing Monday 22 March 18-22.00.
Showcases local artists, who work in a variety of media - with an open theme. Featuring the work of Danny Fitzgerald, Catherine Ledwidge, Steph Lloyd, Neil Maguire, Lauren McNally, Arlene Wheeler, Alan Williams, and Georgina Wright

Opening Times: Tues 23 Mar - Thurs 25 Mar. 13-18.00

Address: Above the Railway Pub, 18 Tithebarn St, Liverpool L2 2DT

 

Alan @ Wrong Love (24/03/10)

 

Alan Williams's work from The A Foundations Wrong Love event in February is now featured on this site. Alan's work was some of the work that best fitted audience expectations, and fitted in the small hut in the Blade Factory nicely above Jayne Lawless's piece (shown in an earlier post). More images of Alans Wrong Love work on his Red Wire page.

 

New Work : Dave Penny (24/03/10)

 

Dave Penny - The Angel - Manchester City Library, 2010

Dave Penny has begun a new Wordpress blog (link) which features some of his work from The Manchester City Library where he has been researching and documenting scraps of books that lay neglected during the libraries refurbishment. His Red Wire page now also features some new work.

 

Jayne @ Wrong love (5/3/10)

The WrongLove event held in The A Foundation and orchestrated by Come into Land last month involved 3 of our Red Wire members- Oliver Lomax, Alan Williams and Jayne Lawless. Jaynes work involved dozens of pairs of tights suspended throughout the hut in The Blade Factory and sent shadows throughout the space.  

 

Red Wire Presents 'me presents' 03/3/10

Julie Martin, aka 'me presents', one of Red Wire new gang of members now has a page on this site, which you can see here.

 

Julie Martin: Postcards

Jad Fair images (26/2/10)

Finally we have Jad Fair images from his Automatic Vaudeville exhibition last August online. It was a great exhibition, and possibly Red Wires final exhibition (at least in Victoria Street, as we have not got a gallery anymore). Together with Fear Yourself, Automatic Vaudeville was one of two shows we held by more famous artist/musicians

 

White Wings (23/2/10)

Its not often theres a new video to put on here, but this is Dave Pennys 'White Wings', a film of a paper plane in suspended animation.  

White Wings from david penny on Vimeo.

 

Newbs pages (22/02/10)

Two of our new members now have their own pages on this site- we now have work by both photographer and sculptor Dave Penny and drawing and mixed media artist Emma Gilmour.

 

Emma Gilmour - Ornithophobia 

Dave Penny (14/02/10)

Our final new member of the recent influx is David Penny, whose Blogspot can be found here. Ros Hyde, Emma Gilmour, Julie Martin and Dave will be moving in over the next couple of weeks, and Red Wire is settling down again after the rebuild.

 

Viewer, Devices for Progress, 70 x 50 cm, Lambda Print, 2009

Wrong Loved (14/02/10)

The Wrong Love event that people have been going on about for seemingly ages happened last night at The A Foundation. Red Wirers Alan Williams (whose slutty images and dildo brought laughter to many) Jayne Lawless's installation of tights (which someone stood next to me named 'stalactights') and a drunken Oliver Lomax live painting, into which a viewer was shoved (pictured, courtesy Jam E Blackburn) featured amongst the events

 

New Members- Emma Gilmour & Julie Martin (13/02/10)

Two new members have joined Red Wire, with one more yet to be confirmed. Emma Gilmour is a mixed media artist who makes large scale digital manipulations whilst Julie Martin aka me_presents often works with D.I.Y printing and book binding, as well as street art and installation. Martin was featured in Issue 8 of our zine

The All New Red Wire (08/02/10)

We have changed our gallery into 3 new spaces, so this marks a landmark in ending our exhibition programme for the foreseeable future. Painters Oliver Lomax, Karen O Brien and Joshua Tennant are to be housed in the new spaces, whilst we have developed several other spaces in the studio side to make them bigger. The result is a much better space for people to work in, and we are currently showing prospective new members round.

New Member- Roz Hyde (08/02/10)

The first of our new members is a fellow 2005 JMU graduate, Roz Hyde. Roz will be taking the recently departed Joe McNultys space. Joe was one of our longer serving members, who exhibited in Fear and Optimism, Roy Castles and Crapola Central as well as co-curating Apocalypse Now. More to follow, and a new Ros Hyde page will be up soon

 

Thoroughly unnecessary opinions (01/02/10)

Red Wire's Joshua Tennants new blog of reviewing books/films/art/games/whatever can be found here 

WRONG LOVE (31/01/10)

Set to be held at The A Foundation on February 13th, Wrong Love features several Red Wire members including Oliver Lomax, Jayne Lawless and Alan Williams. Tickets available here

The Alternative Valentine's Celebration
Dump true love for some unbridled WRONG LOVE.

WRONG LOVE marks a departure from the traditional Valentine's night of misty-eyed smooching. A celebration filled with intimate live art performances, installation pieces, bespoke sessions, video art and all night dancing when you can't take the love anymore. WRONG LOVE will have your head reeling and your heart shaking!

 

 

New Member- Jayne Lawless (28/01/10)

Jayne Lawless joined Red Wire just before all the mess with trying to find a new space. She new has a brand spanking new page on this website here. One of six finalists to the Liverpool Art Prize '09, and an exhibitor in Red Wire's 2006 Open, we are delighted to have her on board

"I have recently returned to the UK after travelling in the USA, Mexico including a period of 10 months study at The Cyprus College of Art. I believe Art should be visually stimulating as well as intellectually challenging which probably puts one foot in the conceptualist camp and the other in the traditionalists - I think good work doesn't or shouldn't need an essay pinned up next to it, we respond when we are stimulated and that is my aim, to make stimulating work"

 

The upheaval claimed some of our members (26/01/10)

The recent turmoil that has surrounded Red Wire regarding the plans for a possible new space has made a few of our members jump ship. These included original members Chris Mills and Amanda Ferguson, as well as new member Anna Lockwood, and now we have found out Hamish McDonald and Joe McNulty are set to move out this month. We are therefore looking for some new members, we have some ideas, but if your reading this thinking 'God I want to join Red Wire', email us, because you probably can!

 

Staying Put >> Under a different guise (24/01/10)

As you might have heard we have been looking for an alternative venue since around last October. There were a few possibilities, but instead we have decided to stay where we are, and transform our space into an arts studio only spot (basically installing 3 new spaces in the gallery). We are also taking this opportunity to rebuild our studio side, so a whole load of work is going to have to be done over the next couple of weeks.

 

The Originals (27/11/09)

Red Wire started on 2nd June 2005 with its members being Mike Aitken, Annie Houston, Amy Goring, Emma Wilkinson, Chris Mills, Joshua Tennant, Dave Tipping, Pete Formela, Hamish McLain, Zoe Langdell, Amanda Ferguson & Malini Vivian (maybe Kevin Hunt too, but I think he was a bit later).

Gradually time has taken most of these members, our present studio move has claimed another two, that being Chris Mills and Amanda Ferguson- thus leaving just Mike, Amy and Josh from this original cast. Chris is set to concentrate on his teaching and will paint from home, meanwhile Amanda is taking a hiatus to reassess her practice while she moves house. Best of luck to both.

Soaptank Studios (27/11/09)

Two Red Wire members are exhibiting at the forthcoming Xmas exhibition to be held at the newly founded Soaptank Studios in Warrington on 5/6th Decemeber. Both Joshua Tennant and (sadly soon to be departing Red Wire) Chris Mills will be showing new work that will also feature in an arts auction. More at www.soaptank.co.uk

Relocation Relocation Relocation (22/11/09)

Red Wire is currently looking for a new home, which will see us move from our studios at 69 Victoria Street. We have been at Carlisle Building since we graduated in 2005, so this is a huge undertaking, but early signs are promising, and we have been scouting locations, and contacting property owners of Liverpool. Hopefully we will have a new place up and running in the not too distant future.

JMU Talks (21/11/09)

Mike Aitken and Josh Tennant gave a presentation this week about Red Wire to about 40 JMU First Year students at their new building in the Cathedral Campus. This was first contact with the students, whom which we will be developing a drawing module in the new year. Also taking part are Metal ,The Royal Standard and Wolstenholme Projects, all of which also presented

Anna Lockwood (28/10/09)

Red Wire has itself a shiny new member, in the shape of Anna Lockwood. Anna was 50% of the 'Transmitions' performance held in Red Wire around a month ago, and members were invited to spit grape pips on Anna's targeted bare chest. She is also involved with The Magic Collective, as is Liam Greenall. with whom she sometimes collaborates.

We're delighted to welcome Anna, and will be revealing another new member shortly.

Dead of the Night - Chris Mills (19/10/09)

This painting was partly influenced by a painting called Villa by The Sea by 19th century symbolist painter Arnold Bocklin. Bocklins' original painting features a ghostly white female figure in the foreground overlooking a stormy sea, which I have changed to a road featuring a car driven by a ghostly white figure. The exterior wall of the house was also semi inspired by Frank Lloyd Wrights' The Enis House  which also featured in the opening credits of William Castles' The House On Haunted Hill (1959). I am now also influenced stylistically by the work of contemporary UK painter Geraint Evans who has a very detailed and narrative style.

 

 

Emails (17/10/09)

Our Emails are being annoying, and a bit screwy, so apologies if you can't get through.

NAN Films (02/10/09)

It took one hell of a long time to realise these were in exisance, but two films were made for our collaboration with The Royal Standard last year in the NAN Winner takes it all? tour, in which we invited about 20 odd artists to view the Capital of Culture and '08 Biennial. You might recognise some of us and the Standards in them...