http://www.redwireredwire.com en-gb redwireredwire.com 2010-9-1T00:00:00Z redwireredwire.com http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#74375 Nice article in Seven Streets with Nathan from Mercy who is organizing The Cooperative. SevenStreets is sitting upstairs in the Bluecoat with Nathan Jones ex School Lane poet in residence and Mercy man at large. Hes project managing The Cooperative a collective of collectives aiming to redress the balance reclaim the city and show those who come that there is more to our biyearly art event than a festival of work from outside the city. The Biennial is rightly an international event so its up to the rest of us to capitalise on the buzz in the city to show just how creative this city is Nathan sayshttpwww.sevenstreets.comeventsandattractionsbiennialcooperativeby Josh 2010-9-1 16:21:23 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#74185 The Borderland collectiveAt St Lukes BombedOut Church on the 1st 5th September. Red Wire artist Matthew Lloyd will be displaying his first ever installation along with four other new contemporary artists. More information can be found here httpartinliverpool.comindex.phpthenews1latestnews4003stlukesborderlandcollective By Matt 2010-8-30 22:23:01 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#74043 Normal 0 false false false ENGB XNONE XNONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Style Definitions table.MsoNormalTable msostylenameTable Normal msotstylerowbandsize0 msotstylecolbandsize0 msostylenoshowyes msostylepriority99 msostyleqformatyes msos... 2010-8-29 11:26:34 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#73654 Firstly dont miss the start of this. I missed the first hour and if it werent for Skys info panel thing I wouldnt have had a clue who was a gangster and who was a cop. Thats basically the story Di Caprio and Mattt Daaamon always to be said in a Team America voice are infiltrators Di Caprio is a cop in the gangsters Damon is a gangster in the cops. Jack Nicholson plays The Joker. A whole load of farcical situations come up both shagging the same woman for example but who cares about that its still full of Scorceses gangster action scenes he could make 300 of these kind of films and they would all be good and theres lots of shooting and scowling and people annoyed with other people and everyone gets shot. end. Funny the film takes over 2 12 hours the review takes under 2 12 minutes. by Josh 2010-8-24 16:00:36 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#72629 Today I have been pissing around with Red Wires logo for the new holding page for the cooperative as our big RW on red looks a bit weird with all the others that people have actually bothered to design. When Mike was a member he always resisted my halfarsed attempts to get a logo and as he was backed up by Amy they won out. Now hes gone though so logos are all the rage at Red Wire HQ. Saying that the new design is only a scribbled biro red wire I did whilst at work. It goes to show how bad the previous version was if this is considered better. Whats your verdict theyre all shit I know but which is less shitour current logoa duller version of the above new logo on blacknew logo on whiteby Josh 2010-8-12 00:56:48 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#71544 Amy and me are set to be working with the wonderful Curve Gallery this Biennial in a curated exhibition with a difference. The original theme was Communism but we have changed it quite a bit into a far riskier but potentially rewarding show. Curve Gallery used to be under us at Red Wire but has now moved next door and is a great space and will hopefully be one of the shining lights of the Independents sector this Biennial.By Josh Tennantvar gaJsHost https document.location.protocol httpsssl. httpwww.document.writeunescape3Cscript src gaJsHost googleanalytics.comga.js typetextjavascript3E3Cscript3Etry var pageTracker gat.getTrackerUA83542341pageTracker.trackPageview catcherr 2010-7-28 17:34:59 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#66088 Red Wire is now up on Google Maps with photos and info and shit.We are in negotiations of changing their name to Google Wire such is the two companies collaborations these days.Check it out 2010-5-25 14:48:07 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#64443 Another piece from the 2006 Red Wire open was Michael Branthwaites toliet rolls that soaked up coloured fluid. The liquid did make an effort to get up the loo rolls until the paper gave way this was a kind of selfdestroying art piece as Branthwaites inticate line drawings were gradully eaten away by the fluid.Michael is now showing in The A Foundations Northern Stars exhibition one work pictured below where his work is more sculpural but maintains the high impact colours used at Red Wire 2010-5-3 16:12:07 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#62936 Elena Louka Johnny LongShown during the 2006 Red Wire Open Elena Loukas work depicted a proud looking black guy holding his cock. It was painted on metal the only painting on metal ever shown at Red Wire and began a strange all be it limited trend of submissions of black nude guys.We showed some great paintings in our submissionbased shows and this was amongst the best for me.Louka is currently showing at Tank Gallery and seems to have moved into projections and film work and her personal website is here httpwww.eleanalouka.co.uk 2010-4-13 17:08:58 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#60840 Gabriel Stones Skull Fear and Optimism recently pointed me in the direction of google reader I use google docs analytics wave gmail so god know why i didnt know about it before and it is proving massively easier than trawling through various blogs I read.It has also made me realise how much our very own Alan Williams updates his blog httpthatwasalmostfun.blogspot.com if you use reader or not I recommend you subscribe almost daily youll receive one of Alans photo manipulation artworks. Below Key 2010-3-18 13:48:51 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#60256 We started with....Michael Aitken Jemma Egan now in The Royal StandardAmanda Ferguson left recentlyPete Formela now teaching somewhereAmy GoringAnnie Houston moved to LondonZoe Langdell moved to London Hamish McLain now in The Royal StandardChris Mills left recently painting from homeJoshua TennantDave Tipping now teaching somewhereMalini Vivian now teaching somewhereEmma Wilkinson now teaching somewhereThen came...Kevin Hunt now in The Royal StandardKaren O Brien Katie Halsall Toby Saunders left recentlyKevin Hunts mate no idea who this guy was but did pay a months rentLinda Pittwood married lives in Garston and works for NMLFran Mason stayed for about a month never really came inNicola Fitzsimmons back in Lpool after studying in LondonLucy Johnston works at NML sings in the band PuzzleBen Small think he went to GermanyNatalie Collins moved away somewhere. Midlands maybeAntony OConnell teaches at Community College never came inDebbie Ryan mosaic Debbie is still making mosaics in LPoo... 2010-3-10 17:33:34 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#60248 Yesterday we cruised past 30000 hits on this website a pretty nice landmark.Yesterday also saw our first meeting under out new guise with 12 of our 14 members there.Alan Williams was put in charge of inventing a Drawing Club which might take place in various venues if it goes ahead along the lines of Draw the Line which takes place in Djangos Riff once a month. 2010-3-10 16:01:52 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#59776 Its nearly a year since I put Google Analytics on this site so Id thought itd be nice to see whose the most visited Red Wire member on here and it turns out we have a Manchester United of Google Analytics amongst us with Amy Goring being the most viewed 7 out of 11 months. Its nice to see two of our newer members leading the way over the last couple of months but its early days in March.April 09 Michael Aitken 36 views May Amy Goring 99 viewsJune Amy Goring 143 viewsJuly Amy Goring 59 viewsAugust Amy Goring 48 viewsSeptember. Amy Goring 62 viewsOctober Chris Mills 43 viewsNovember Anna Lockwood 35 viewsDecember Amy Goring 48 viewsJanuary Amy Goring 62 viewsFebruary Jayne Lawless 51 viewsMarch so far Julie Martin 35 views 2010-3-4 14:20:53 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#59773 This site has basically been a mess for ages various fonts colours sizes positions everything.Now thats no more.. or at least considerably less. All the pages should look the same now so its less like a hodgepodge of eight websites in one.There is already rumbling of Biennial 2010 activities with Mercy leading the way with ideas of how arts groups like us can work together. Much more on this will follow once things are in place.Amy and Mike are continuing to meet with JMU first year students and yesterday gave tutorials to several of them. 2010-3-4 14:09:38 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#59477 Last week for possibly the first time every member was in Red Wire at some point. Dead Good. Its always been a pain in the arse that our space was empty more often than not but its seemingly changed now weve gained 4 sparkling new members. Theres now Jad Fair images on the Automatic Vaudeville page a speedy 6 months after the show opened and theres a new Daniel Johnston book coming out by Everett True of course Daniel exhibited with us with Fear Yourself. Also Jim Buso ex Royal Standard who organized The Winner Takes it All tour in 2008 has brought out a guide to the event featuring Red Wire and The Royal Standards activities during the tour and a transcript of the talk held in Static Gallery at the end. I Josh have loads of copies if youd like one just ask. Lastly the most visited Red Wire members page for February Jayne Lawless with 51 hits. 2010-3-1 13:17:22 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#57375 Probably my grimmest activity to date in Red Wire was clearing out our blocked sink which included lots of plaster paint seemingly burnt hair two bottles of sink unblocker and chewing gum which moron throws gum down the sink Anyway this is done and Mike has dismantled our bar our trustworthy bar served many a Becks bottle which now lies in pieces and boxes and bags have been cleared in preparation for the build of three new spaces.The build should be taking place within a week. 2010-1-31 13:18:32 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#57363 Thanks to Soup The Tate Staff member Louise Waller for posting this picture of Red Wire member Mike Aitkens piece shown at View Two Gallery last year. Mikes is the Gothic script on paper god knows what it says but this and the rest of his series of gothic script work were taken from his teenage diaries. Looks like mountains on the right but im not sure. 2010-1-31 11:59:56 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#55968 Our proposed move is still on we are meant to be leaving Victoria Street in February and its getting towards Mid January and we have no home to move into.There is still a few candles with possible venues or at least contacts with venues to explore though so we are hopeful one of these will lead us to a new spot.The Picket was a possible venue but this fell though due to us not bein able to agree a price. Anna Lockwood has also decided to leave RW unfortunately the move therefore has claimed its third victim with Chris Mills and Amanda Ferguson leaving in December. On the up side Karen is looking into a possible residency again with Malaga a proposed venue Karen is Red Wires International Branch and found our brilliant residency in Paros during 2008.Sam Savage RW friend and showed in On Growth and Form has a new blog you can find it at httpkingdeep.blogspot.com 2010-1-12 13:45:03 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#52394 In what must be the biggest event since our creation in June 2005 Red Wire is set to relocate its gallery and studios from Victoria Street. Increased rent and our general feeling we have filled all our goals in Carlisle Building has given us the desire to move on. Were currently looking at The Ropewalks and The Baltic Traingle regions of Liverpool both of which seem to want to become a arts district and as they are not far from each other having more galleries in the same area can only benefit both the public and the galleries through increased visitors.Its early days yet and we hope to stay put until February but I dont think there will be any more exhibitions in Carlisle Building and going out Apocalypse Now and Automatic Vaudeville is finishing on a high note. 2009-11-11 13:13:22 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#50401 RW had its first crit in years last week and it was pretty well attended we even had a guest attendee Hamish McLain one of our founding members and now Captain of The Standard.Mike organized this one the first in what is planned to be a monthly event in conjunction with The Standard possibly alternating venues. Mike spoke about his plans to go canoeing with his mate and boil his own piss in homage to Joseph Wright of Derby. I josh also spoke about my pseudonym yes I had to google the spelling of that Simon Alabaster and the recent paintings Ive been working on.The Good NewsFollowing Roxys departure last month we have found a new member Anna Lockwood. Anna took part in TRANSITIONS with Liam Greenall together they make up 23rds of The Magic Collective and Anna will be moving into Tobys old space. Ill stick up more info when I get it. The Bad news Vanessa is leaving us this month as her work schedule at The Bluecoat is heavy so we will be on the hunt for another newb. 2009-10-11 17:27:03 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#50054 When your at uni one of the best things is talking about your art its probably better than making it actually. We used to occasionally have Crits in RW wed sit around and talk about what weve been doing recently. However this fell by the wayside... Until tomorrow night.Mikes been buggering about across America for the past few weeks and now hes back hes organised the first crit in over a year and its meant to take place tomorrow night in The Wire. Plan is to go to our favourite after too The Ship and Tasty. mmmm Cornish Coaster 2009-10-5 17:07:14 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#50039 One of Red Wires traditional problems is goddam flies. Its usually little buggers that accumulate because of the mass of empty beer bottles we store. Since these were removed by me Josh and Joe a couple of weeks ago we have eliminated them but occurred the wrath of a monster fly.This thing was as big as it was black and meandered around the studio for about two weeks.... until this lunchtime.Art Monthly might have lost some of its critical appeal and gone a whole lot more dull but its swatting abilities are as good as ever and after a few swipes and a short chase our little enemy landed on the face of a portrait painting I have been doing for about 6 months. Art Monthly in hand I was faced with the split second decision of whether to take it out and risk a bloodied painting or wait for another opportunity. I chose to hit. I stunned it left the painting intact and it spiraled downwards onto a CType battery. After thinking of a possible way I could kill it using the battery in the style ... 2009-10-5 13:03:18 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#50040 Red Wire began life with a freezer Malini Vivain an original member used in her degree show work. This smelled of mustard gas and made all our beer taste like it was going to corrode your stomach. We finally chucked it out about 6 months after we realised it didnt work and we had been storing beer in what was little more than a white box.The second incarnation of our cooling facilities was The Royal Standard ultra slick windowed bar fridge we borrowed and scratched sorry whilst The Standard were homeless. This was returned ages ago and since then we have operated with a combination of buckets of water once including the luxury of Tesco ice and having beer served straight up warm.Today all this changed... no more concrete dust powdered milk in our coffee no more rotting pizzas in the sink that was gross whoever left that and critically no more wet warm booze. We have a landlord donated fridge its clean it works and it even beautifully fits in our kitchen our kitchen in a piece of wood ... 2009-10-4 13:13:47 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#49209 One of Red Wires newer members Liam Greenall organised tranistions cultural bodiestogether with The Magic Collectives Anna Lockwood which took place on Friday. This was the first one night only performance that has taken place in Red Wire and was a great sucess. The largely improvised event was both a relaxing social event and constantly surprising and impromptu moments. Phallic vegetables were sliced soup was served hearts in were thrown and guests were encouraged to spit pips on a target drawn on Annas chest.and of course lots of wine was drank in what was proper feast for the eyes and belly 2009-9-21 23:40:27 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#47332 Normal.dotm 0 0 1 469 2677 FACT 22 5 3287 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Style Definitions table.MsoNormalTable msostylenameTable Normal msotstylerowbandsize0 msotstylecolbandsize0 msostylenoshowyes msostyleparent msopaddingalt0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt msoparamargintop0cm msoparamarginright0cm msoparamarginbottom10.0pt msoparamarginleft0cm msopaginationwidoworphan fontsize12.0pt fontfamilyTimes New Roman msoasciifontfamilyCambria msoasciithemefontminorlatin msofareastfontfamilyTimes New Roman msofareastthemefontminorfareast msohansifontfamilyCambria msohansithemefontminorlatin Automatic Vaudeville Film Day Red Wire Gallery Sunday 6th September 3pm 12pm 12.30 2.25pm Wesley Willis Daddy of Rock n Roll Daniel Bitten Filmmaker Daniel Bitton turns the... 2009-8-30 14:40:42 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#47109 The Apocalypse is over according to Red Wire. Although Apocalypse Now has finished maybe we would have stood a chance against a Zombie Apocalypse even without the Ultimate Zombie Killing Machine The Hawkinasaurus T500 pictured. Canadian mathematicians have figured out a way to eradicate zombies should we become infested with them.Anyway the model focuses on modern zombies which are very different from the voodoo and the folklore zombies. It takes into account the possibility of quarantine could lead to eradication but unlikely to happen and treatment some humans survive but they still must coexist with zombies but shows that there is only one strategy likely to succeed impulsive eradication. Only sufficiently frequent attacks with increasing force will result in eradication assuming the available resources can be mustered in time they concluded.Read the rest at httpwww.wired.comwiredscience200908zombies 2009-8-18 13:42:22 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46861 Jads Flyers have arrived and is what I am considering a minor miracle they contain almost NO MISTAKES. This a almost unique for a Red Wire flyer. I forgot to put the opening time of the private view on so its not perfect but usually theres no title or image or artist or just a blank bit of card or something.Heres the finished front and back 2009-8-18 11:06:30 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46848 In case you didnt know Daniel exhibited at Red Wire last year so is liable like all our previously exhibited artists to be featured on this site whenever I notice something about them heres from The GrauniadHe may not chase fame but cult songwriter Daniel Johnston is currently receiving more attention than ever. With a movie of his life in production a biography imminent from Everett True highprofile UK dates pencilled in and new reissues of his classic 80s albums Hi How Are You YipJump Music and Continued Story as well as the Welcome to My World retrospective compilation Johnston is very much in the spotlight. In the music press a bad word about him is seldom heard. But you cant help feel that a lot of people just get him wrong.full article at httpwww.guardian.co.ukmusicmusicblog2009aug10danieljohnstonvar gaJsHost https document.location.protocol httpsssl. httpwww.document.writeunescape3Cscript src gaJsHost googleanalytics.comga.js typetextjavascript3E3Cscript3Etry var pa... 2009-8-13 00:28:43 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46697 We used to have the blog here but then I decided I wanted one of those Tag Cloud things so we moved over to blog.com.I have come to realize tag clouds arent the bees knees so have come back to this site.And I kept forgetting to write on there so this should keep everything in one place....until I run out of website pages and move it again 2009-8-10 14:39:12 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46677 Just finished the press release for Jad Fairs solo show wihch is a mightlilly scary 3 weeks away. The work arrived through customs and is safe sound and brilliant at Red Wire now.The bastard customs charged us 16350 to get the work but nevermind. The work is not only awesome but ITS TOTALLY NEW and done especially for this show. Below are some examples of the paper cuttings included in the show and theres some paintings too I dont have a scan of yet. The title for the show is taken from one of Jads songs hes made millions of songs and Karen and I have trawled through each album to find our favourite titles. The press release is done and will be sent out soon 2009-8-4 14:01:35 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46676 Jad Fairs work was meant to arrive today its through customs so I guess tomorrow. I cannot wait this is really exciting its great to have established artists like Jad at Red Wire the Daniel Johnston show was really good to have on and this being Jads first UK solo show and all new work it should be a real hit. Karen and Josh me are curating this show and we are currently working on a subtitle and the press release which seems to be taking ages. If your friends with Jad on facebook the work we are showing is one there. 2009-7-29 14:01:11 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46678 Today is Sunday unofficially the world ended two days ago during our exhibition Apocalypse Now. The show went really well arounda dozen people mentioned it was one of our best to date which is really pleasing. Lots of the work was asked about Sarah Harbridges 4 films of her nan approaching death provideda real eye opening experience as did Andrew Hladky incredible painting of a disasterous landscape surely one of the most striking pieces we have ever exhibited. We almost sold out of locusts proving Liverpools appetite for eating bugs is going strong the zombie cake also went down well.A piece about the the food element and other TAXED events is here httpwww.liverpooldailypost.co.ukliverpoollifefeaturesliverpoolarts20090723artusedasfoodinpasthofminifestivalinliverpool9253424219508. Next the film day on saturday turns out the world never ends espcially the art world 2009-7-26 14:02:29 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46675 APOCALYPSE NOW FILM DAY Saturday 1st August. 100 FREE just drop in. Over 18s only. 11.00am Fantastic Planet Ren233 Laloux 1973 Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. In a distant world Oms have been tamed by gigantic Draags. One Om escapes with a Draag information giving headset he then leads the Oms to make life betterBut will the deomizing destroy them 12.20pm Koyannisquatsi Godfrey Reggio 1982 Koyaanisqatsi was shot mostly in the desert southwest USA and New York City on a tiny budget with no script. Its techniques merging cinematographer Ron Frickes timelapse shots with Glass reiterative music crept into the consciousness of popular culture. 1.45pm The Third part of the night Andrzej Zulawski 1971 A nightmarish and surreal masterpiece this is Zulawskis highly influential debut film. Set during the time of the Nazioccupation of Poland and rich symboli... 2009-7-26 13:59:48 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46679 Coris Evans Youve hopefully seen AustralianbornLondonliving artist Coriss work loads by now hers is the 2 crows on our flyers posters website background twitter account press release.. Coris was selected for the national annual exhibition Hatched 20078242 at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art which celebrates the highest achieving recent graduate artists in the nation. Her taxidermied crows Prey come with a bonus bird skeletons that they are eating inspecting looking at. The two crows seem to represent Odins Huginn and Muninn which sat on his shoulders and flew around Earth daily and report the happenings of the world to Odin in Valhalla at night. Each installation allows the viewer to evaluate their own concept of death the dead and the people who were once close to us but are no longer alive 2009-7-23 14:03:18 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46680 Michelle Lord In what has been one of the strangest inclusions into a show Red Wire finally gets to exhibit Birmingham based artist Michelle Lord. Michelle applied to the Red Wire open in 2007 but we decided it wouldnt fit with the other work in the show and as our gallery isnt huge this is always a consideration but her photos inspired by J G Ballard fit really well with this show. Future Ruins is created by making small models of all the TVs and including a mini person its Ballard set in Brum. 2009-7-22 14:04:08 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46682 Andrew Hladky. God this painting is good Andrew work has just been hung and it looks absolutely awesome. He has painted a Hieronymous Bosch yes I had to spell check that inspired triptich of which we have the central and main panel. Painted using a toothpick and oil paint black paint worms invade and devour the residents of what could be an otherise ideal landscape. Just having this piece in the show it would be worth coming for. Its not the piece below but this is another example of his work 2009-7-20 14:06:55 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46684 Fiona Long. On Saturday our first aritst work was installed for the exhibition the work of Fiona Long. Fiona has just finished 2nd year at Wimbledon and her work is kind of more postapocalyptic in that the objects she uses are taken from After Day X and the resulting population will find objects from our time and wonder what to make of and from them. Items are used in alternative ways to their intended use drawers become shelves toothpaste becomes paint etc. IN this way Fiona is Looking into a possible future like this with the future population looking back in a sense brings us back to our present to make us examine and confront our world in a different way. One of our desires for the show was to have some kind of series of work and we received quite a few good submissions of small series most notably photographs but Fionas work fitted this brief perfectly and looks great on our wall. 2009-7-13 14:08:38 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46683 Are video games preparing children for a postapocalyptic future httpwww.youtube.comwatchvVTbYUd1jUc4ampfeaturefvst MaybeWere including this on our film reel 2009-7-13 14:07:53 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46685 Sarah Harbridge As Sarahs work became the second to arrive today shes next to be blogged. This work was the first we saw that was a definate inclusion in fact it changed our ideas of how the show would work because if it was included which it absolutely had to be some types of work just would fit in. Sarahs piece is a four screen TV installation and reflects on human life at its most vunerable state. It asks many questions about the role of the artist and the family both the fragility and longevity of life and our own memories of loved ones. 2009-7-9 14:09:42 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46690 Paul Cureton Pauls work arrived today actulally sparking this blog. He is a Drawing lecturer at Northampton and his brilliantly detailed pencil drawings of CERN in Switzerland realted to our ideas of the beginning of the earth and questions of our existence. his work can be seen here httpwww.artselector.comuserspaulcureton 2009-7-8 14:26:05 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46689 In a never ending quest to be on all the social network platforms Red Wire can now be found on Stumble Upon Check it. Just founda cat catching a bat mid air. Pretty Cool this one httpredwiregallery.stumbleupon.com Oh and apologies for sending out requests to join this thing mistake. Whoops 2009-7-7 14:13:24 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46687 Once youve exhibited in Red Wire you become part of an exclusive team and might be menitoned again at any moment and we like to look after our artists. Any attendee of The Red Wire 2007 Open will remember Helen Blejermans upside down tricksy photos below and whilst reading Art Monthly last months issue I came across one of Helens drawings of a torn artist. The pic can also be seen on the reverse cover. Check it. 2009-7-7 14:10:46 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46692 Laura Collinson. Laura is both the only recent graduate and the only representative from the north included in the main part of the exhibition some videos are included on a film reel. Laura has just graduated from UCLAN so if you went to the show you might have seen her work reminder Stephen Hawking. Her worked made both me and Amy Goring in RW laugh loads. Lauras is the largest sculpture in the show. 2009-7-4 14:27:40 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46694 Rupert White Rupert has been exhibiting since the late 80s and has had exhibitions all over the south coast. He is the editor of www.artcornwall.org Cornwalls version of www.artinliverpool.com. His sculpture is set to be on of the big visibile pieces in the show and reminds me of how Janie Nicolls Fly piece worked in the 2006 open big and attention grabbing. At the moment it is intended to be one of the first things you see but we are having to move things round. 2009-7-3 14:36:39 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46695 Govinda Azad Sah Nepalese born London based Govindas paintings offer us a spiritual and possibly optimistic standpoint on the exhibition which was one of our criteria when asking for submissions we knew having an Apocalyptic theme would stir the end of the world inspirations and we have some great work that fills this brief but we also wanted some work that offered more of a true meaning of Apocalypse that of a new beginning or a previously hidden element becomming light. Govindas paintings can be seen here httpwww.govindasahazad.com 2009-7-2 14:38:13 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46696 The first artist to be announced for Apocalypse Now is Mark Melvin from London who works with video installation and sound. We have picked one of his pieces using neon and for us offers a form of hope maybe false hope through his specific use of wording and signals youll know what I mean when you see it You can see more about Mark at his website httpmarkmelvin.co.uk 2009-6-30 14:38:45 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46674 Like anyone I google my own name every now and again. I now have two hours to kill so im gonna google our red wire members and see how similar they are. This is set to be one of the biggest wastes of my time Mike Aitken The Cumbrian ginge isgtgtgt httpwww.mikeaitken.comblog Match 310 Mike does now ride a bike but I wouldnt trust him near a board with wheels Vanessa Bartlett Our fire alarm extraordinaire isgtgtgt httpwww.modelmayhem.com721803 Match 710 A model fair enough but Vannys probably a bit white for a RampB singer. Amanda Ferguson our vino verde disposal machine is gtgtgt httpwww.amandafergusonmotorsports.com. Match 410. Mandy can drive but isnt keen so her as a motor sport driver nah. Amy Goring I best be careful here gtgtgt httptinyurl.comll5ozh Match 210. Dont think our Amy would find much use for child day care. Liam Greenall it appears is Mr Google gtgtgt httptinyurl.comlmdb8v Match 110. I dont know Liams eating tastes but our well dressed multimedia artist looks n... 2009-6-18 13:55:56 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#46571 Just looking at the title of this post I can think of an equal number of people who either loosened thier bowels or inadvertandly wailed YEAH and punched the air. This post refers to the forthcoming DVD Dod Sno or Dead Snow which won stuff at Sundance last year seriously though how has this not been covered already Theres loads of good Nazi movies out there everybody has a soft spot for the Nazis now dont they those lovable tykes and their naughty naughty ways. What an awesome idea to mix these guys with zombies coz lets face it zombies make the world go round and set it in Scandanavia where everything looks spooky and theres a recipe for what should be a great film. Its out 31st August heres the trailer Dod Sno 2009-6-16 14:11:40 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#38705 Our friends over at Creaturemag are having a call for submissions for their zines 9th Issue so if your an artists writer etc send it over to them at creaturecreaturemag.com.In other opportunities but for exhibiting try Temporary Arts Space in Halifax where Red Wirer double exhibitors both Red Wire Open 2007 and Your Art Show Bob Milner and Tom Senior are directors. Theres a few different exhibitions you can apply for on their websiteAlso Red Wire member and FACT worker Josh actually this is me has been organizing a collection of zines and lofi publications to go in FACTs main gallery. If you make a zine or anything similar please send a copy over or bring it into FACT for display. 2009-3-25 11:21:23 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#37782 Our exhibition programme has been a bit quiet recently but we are in the process of confirming a very exciting show later in the year.The zine shall hopefully be ready for the forthcoming exhibition at FACT Climate for Change and be featured in the gallery well as Im organizing the space damn right itll be in thereKaren our chief residencyfinder is looking into new residencies we could possibly do next year Karen also found our previous residency on ParosTheres a load of students from Community College using the gallery in a couple of weeks so there will be a show of sorts but they are organizing and curating it all I dont know if they are advertising it or what. It came through RW member and their teacher Oliver and hes hoping to build it into the curriculum for next year as gallery practice. We need another newb as Mandy has relocated in RW. Will be advertising this shortly 2009-3-7 13:43:36 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#35596 We rarely have a metting where alot of people turn up and we get through a lot of stuff but the week we did at The Ship and Tasty. Turns out Debbie is leaving as well as Linda which means we have to do something as yet undecided with the spaces. There was an idea to move everything round whether this will happen I dont knowThe big news is the forthcoming zine which is back in action after a huge delay. For those that dont remember our zine was a major part of RW and its great to have it back. 2009-1-26 22:41:17 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#33767 Sorry for not having written a blog in ages i just couldnt be arsed.Anyway Lindas leaving now after 2 years of being a red wirer. Her space is the sole remaining oneperson spaces and right next to a window. Its 16350 a month if your into moving in the only requirement is that your at least half decent and will come in sometimes. As the gallery is free for quite a while now as we havent organized any shows you can also use this to make work. Mail us if you qualify.Another benefit is its tidy For the first time in a little spell we have been to the skip thanks to Gabes for helping and me josh and moreso Mike whos gone part time so is in there more have had a clearup.Some of us are in a touring exhibition that I am organizing it goes from Bloc Gallery and Work Station in Sheffield to our mate Nick Malyans new gallery in Durham Empty Shop and finally Temporary Arts Space which is corun by Bob Milner and Tom Senior aka Milk Two Sugars who exhibited with us last year in Halifax. Ill have mor... 2008-12-13 17:09:47 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#31835 Songs in the key of Daniel Johnston the event which had bands playing Dans tracks was on Thursday. Blind Rabbit Choir Hackney Carriages A Cup of Tea and Man in the Dark played to an audience of around 6070 people. 2008-11-1 17:18:15 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#31778 Well the exhibition is so far our most sucessful to date we have sold most of the catalogues and 13 prints. Weve had people come from Newcastle East London all over just to see Dans work as its rare he shows in England. It has also had the best press coverage wit The Metro doing a 34 page article about it. Tonight is the Long Night of the Biennal and we have 5 bands playing Dans songs The Ice King of CaliforniaHackney CarriagesMan in the Dark Blind Rabbit ChoirA Cup of TeaIt should be briliant we have flying eyeballs and christmas lights adorning our ceiling and enough beer to sink a boat. We are opening one extra day too due to the popular responce so the final day will now be Saturday 2nd November 2008-10-30 19:16:13 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#30476 Had to delete a few pages as the mrsite website builder only allows 50 pages and we hit the limit so goodbye to The Red Gallery Outside the Wire and Red Wire Shop. Were going to hit the limit again soon so more might have to go WE HAVE A BELL. after 2 years of having accessfree gallery today after hours of struggling i got a bell up and working. yeah theres wires hanging around yeah it interfears with the gargoyles and shit and yeah some prat will cut the wires or somethnig but for today at least you can press a button and we will hear it. amazing The flyers have been ordered for Daniel Johnston to date we have 88 confirmed facebook guests which is way more than normal. The press is going well this should be huge 2008-10-2 22:14:33 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#30275 Last Friday saw the opening of Soup Vs Peripheral and Crapola Central in our spaces Curve also opened with I dwell in possibility. The night went pretty well I thought it is harder to judge how many people came as they were mingling through all three spaces. Our catalogue has also arrived in time for the openings and is without doubt the finest publication weve been involved with. Weve got new lights a blue floor and MDF walls now as opposed to chipboard so the gallery is looking probably the best it ever has done nothing short of a minor miracle after the state it was in following Your Art show theres a video on this page now if you havent seen it Today weve begun promoting Fear Yourself The Daniel Johnston exhibition which opens in about 3 weeks the flyers have been ordered and should be in shops and galleries next week its got skulls on the front. Many of the pages on this site have been updated and Harry Lawsons and Nicola FItzsimmonss pages have gone Ive run out of available pages... 2008-9-28 17:07:32 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#29645 Today Red Wire finally got a new lighting system. Spent most of the day setting it up managing not to blow myself up too. Toby was moving out but now hes not Ellie Overs is joining to share his space instead Ellie will be in the forthcoming Red Wire exhibition in our basement as will Toby.We are mid way through producing a Biennial Catalogoue with funding from Site Gallery JMU. Its got all our exhibitions in the NAN tour and a Open Studios event thing. It sbeing designed by the JMU design pod of Dom Witter and Wendy Legg.The work for our first show Soup vs peripheral has started arriving more will be there monday. The bloody bell wont work and I dont know why.The basement still stinks of piss. 2008-9-13 23:13:21 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#28824 Today I met with our exlecturer from JMU Site Gallery John Byrne about possibly getting a catalogue produced form our Biennial exhibitions this would be cool as hell if it goes ahead. The plan is to have a feature on all our exhibitions and the events which are starting to shape up quite nicely. The long night of the Biennial coincides with the Daniel Johnston exhibition so we should be doing something involving music for that Vanessa plans a closing party for Slowness theres the NAN Biennial Tour The WInner takes it all and and Open Studios weekend which I dont know much about.In minor news ive added the video to the Your Art Show page. The exhibition of our work in the basement is confirmed as being called Crapola Central taken from Phillip Roth and Phillip Gustons name for the American underground junk world like garage sales burger joints...We now have MDF walls instead of chipboard the holes created by Harry Stifled and Hondartzas 2007 Open have finally disappeared alltogether.Our... 2008-8-27 16:54:53 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#28306 The Henry Moore exhibition on September 25th coincides with Red Wire members work opening in our basement. I have just got hold of the keys to the basement and its an absolute dump so if your planning to come to the exhibition get ready for a new kind of art experience one that includes graffiti and abandoned couches.Red Wire has got its first meeting this Sunday for what seems like ages to view the basement and welcome our new members Vanessa Oliver and now Joe McNulty who has replaced Harry.In new work the sixth of Josh tennants eating videos was recently completed one of eating Ski yoghurts for an hour straight.Also Amy Goring has been busy developing her landscape for September which is inspired by shadow puppetry. 2008-8-14 14:38:32 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#28124 If you made Roy Castles Vision of Hell opening hopefully you had as much fun as us. The night went without a hitch nobody fell to their death down Amys underground tunnel I didnt get poisoned from cheese overdose noone eyes were pierced by Mikes flying Vinyl ear drums in tact after the bands and nobody was even offended by Paddys dead rabbit or Roxy and Olivers Shit Cunt.The packed schedule meant people stayed once they were there and we were still busy after the brilliant Real Talk finished.The next thing were working towards now is our show in the basement which is provisionally titled The Cabinet of Leopold Bloom after the Ulysses character. This opens on 25th Sept with the henry moore institute and Soup in our spot. 2008-8-10 15:49:08 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#27972 Roy Castles.... opens this Friday in three days and we so far have only have Laurences work ready to hang. Most of the install as is typical with Red Wire will be done on the day I guess theres only 2 other wall based things going up most of it is performance stuff. Theres only Mike who is having 4 turntable decks a shed of amps stereos and speakers who has a lot to prepare oh and Amy who still isnt sure what shes doingYesterdays Metro featured a really good write up by Kenn Taylor about the show made us sound pretty funkin cool actually. Also I am getting obsessed with Google Analytics. I have been trying to install it for ages and thanks to the I.T guy at FACT we now have it on every page. Its ace to see someone from Iran has checked our site on the first day and we gets loads of hits from London. So far we have U.K USA Belgium Canada Iran Germany Brazil Ireland Mexico and Sweden in our radar which after only two days is pretty sweet. 2008-8-6 13:11:07 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#27565 Well our gallery is finally almost back to normal after the destruction involved in the Like two sugars exhibition. Everywhere has been repainted twice including half the ceiling. We are also improving the back wall by using MDF instead of chipboard.Daniel Johnston played in Manchester last week which was brilliant. Amy is busy on the case this week trying to organize the show which now has a title Fear Yourself taken from Daniels album with Mark Linkous who played with Dan in ManchesterIf by chance your a Daniel fan and can play music please email us if you want to play during the exhibition as were goingt o have bandsartists play his songs for one night.Red Wire was going to hold a group exhibition in the Wolstenholme but as weve got one in our basement we wanted to keep our ideas fresh for that. However Mike Amy Harry and Josh are exhibting there on 8th August in Roy Castles Visoins of hell a exhibition and performative show devoted to breaking world records.Please come along if you... 2008-7-28 15:47:22 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#25347 Amy and Josh are set to hold the next house show this Saturday 14th June.Exhibitors include Amy Goring Josh Tennant Mike Aitken Sacha Waldron Laurance Payot Joe McNulty Paddy Gould Roxy Topia Gabriel Stones Jo Hicks Hamish Mclain Harry Lawson amp Oliver Lomaxpresent all new work. Also I just typed in Red Wire into google and we are number 1 and 2. ahead of Levis Red Wire jeans Captain Beefhearts painting Ghost Red Wire and some Red Wire design company.brill. 2008-6-10 15:56:30 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#23703 Tomorrow night Amy and Myself Josh are set to be in the newest in a series of house exhibitions held in peoples houses. Former Red Wire exhibitors Gabriel Stones Skull and now Roxy Topia A Proper Horrorshow have been involved in house exhibitions and this one is organized by Paddy Gould set to take place on Princes Avenue somewhere. Immediately after coming back from Paros Harry Lawson installed a new piece in The Kazimer and is set to be in another exhibition in 68 Hope Street soon.Chris Mills and myself are also set it be in an exhibition in Blackpool Adrian Pritchard 2006 Red Wire Open has stayed in touch with Red Wire and after an arduous slog of building his own gallery it is now the second biggest modern art gallery in Blackpool and its first exhibition is Futurescapes.Our newest memberOilver Lomax is also set to be in a Bob Dylan exhibtion in Birmingham where his new Englands new trinity of love is set to feature alongsied poems about Dylan. 2008-5-2 23:55:01 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#23043 And so to blog....This is the first ever blog that I have written they aint really my thing.... I mean what to sayWell how about I have seriously fuckin enjoyed myselfA little briefI am the last to write in this blog.... the show opened last night and good god almighty I am now nursing a seriously monster hangover. The PV was a blast. People came. Chat was chatted. The wine flowed freely and plentifully. Fun was had and dancing ensued. The show looks good but I will let you make your own minds up when some pics go up on the site tomorrow.Its kinda sad really our time here on Paros is coming to an end. The island itself is magnificent. Slow easy and charming. I have loved sliding through the crooked little streets hearing life going on through the windows and doors. We have two days left and I plan to explore some more swim in the sea and climb that there mountain....The island definitely had an influence on the work that I have made. I suppose its been a bit of an experiment for me. ... 2008-4-19 17:12:01 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#22943 From here to the other side of the world N 20003915.08m From here to the other side of the world E 20025276.05m From here to the other side of the world S 20025277.69m From here to the other side of the world W 20004004.27m The three most likely supervolcanos to cause a volcanic winter From here to Yellowstone Caldera NNW 9949265.49m From here to Lake Taupo SEEE 17458010.65m From here to Lake Toba SE 8392416.02m The supervolcano most likely to wipe out over 95 of all living things From here to La Garita Caldera NW 10371690.41m 2008-4-17 13:35:57 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#22901 We went to see the Mayor of Paros today Katie Mandy and me to give him the letter of goodwill from the Liverpool Mayor that Katie arranged before we set off for Paros. It was pretty farcical with the three of us trying to explain who we were and why the Liverpool Mayor had chosen to do such a thing the content of the letter thanked the Paros Mayor for the welcome and help that Red Wire had received during our stay but as the Paros Mayor didnt have a baldy clue who we were and was reluctant to end his phone conversation to welcome us it took his second in command to end all round cringy embarrasment and a cheesygrin photo opportunity remedied the situation. We doubt he will be attending the private view. Everyones work is going well so we are planning a day trip for tomorrow to see some more of the island. Weird coincidences and the picking up of each others thoughts has been happening more frequently as time goes by not sure its the influence of Paros itself or just the influenc... 2008-4-16 12:13:25 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#22900 4408 Airports have no time of day or geography. 5408 Just because things are outside does not mean that they are free. 6408 Done a couple of drawings 8408 I have woken up with a big swollen eye so at the moment I am recording the sound of the sea but after that I am going to buy some sunglasses. 9408 In the studio trying to get a projector to connect to my laptop without turning into a flickering mess. 10408 In the end the kitten spent one happy night in Harry amp Mikes wardrobe and then me and Harry put him back. 11408 I never seem to be productive for more than an hour. 12408 Just went for beer and sunset with Mike and Harry. 2008-4-16 12:04:36 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#22834 Well this sleepy village is definitely starting to wake up ready for when the ferries descend loaded with tourists. More interesting shops and bars open everyday. It has been nice to be here out of season it is very different from what it is like back home in Liverpool. Back home life is always so busy busy busy everybody rushing around like crazy cretures where here people seem in no rush people always reminding us that there will be a tomorrow. Everybody is creating good art work Josh seems alot more relaxed today after bingeing on his chocolate eggs yesterday I think Harry is out having a forage around the island. Mike got off to a slow start this morning but he has picked up speed as the day roles on. We had quite a session last night on the vino so I think it is true to say we all looked a tad worn this morning. I ventured out earlier and posted my postcards and I managed to get my hands on a Paros life mag which has a article about us it advertises the Gallery and e... 2008-4-14 13:32:22 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#22801 All productive today under a sunny climate surrounded by picturesque views of white houses blue doors cats and dogs feta and bread so much bread. Today Josh ate lots of eggs then threw up interesting but intense experience Amy manned the camera Mike was official photographer. Mike zoomed in on the vomit....Katie ill today but not through art but beads still shimmering Mike now dying canvas weary of the floor. Linda making boats cut finger green paint and candles Mandy drawing and tracing white objects growing in number Harry walking red tshirt and significant rocks on floor Karen knotting and confused Amy still whittleing 7 cuts so far not bad going..... cant wait to see the overall finished exhibition. There are over 500 churches on Paros and at 8.30 this morning was an interesting time on Paros as the churches sounded the church going calls...... but apart from this Sunday is generally quiter and slower pace on the island. Pottering around the streets of Paros a bit like t... 2008-4-13 16:18:55 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#22754 It is a warm hazy day here on Paros and everybody has found their working pace. Harry and Linda are off on an adventure to the marble mines Amanda is plastering Mike is tying knots and ironing Amy is whittling wood Karen is fondling postcards Josh is expanding his stomach capacity through sleepmeditation and I am thinking about stringing some beads together after snoozing on the roof terrace for a while longer. We have had six visitors to the gallery today they included one greek two cubans a pole a belgian and a dutch man. Red Wire is going global Paros itself is a very pretty place to be working in and the quality of light is amazing even on a cloudy day it is blinding and I have never seen so many different shades of blue. I think the locals are warming to us now they are a wary bunch but Grandma old lady from corner shop has officially smiled at us and we are frequently greeted with Kalimera good morning and Yassas hello after being here a week. The Red wire Managerie is growing ... 2008-4-12 12:46:58 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#22707 This place is ace.but to elaborate we arrived about a week ago started with a couple of days finding our feet then visited the gallery were working in. Marbled floors on two levels large balconies mega lighting video and sound facillties and even an annex full of stuff for us to use. Its fair to say we landed on our feet.So far 95 of our meals have included tomatoes bread and feta the beer is sailing down almost as fast as the wine and for myself I am already getting sick of chocolate and I havent begun my task yet.The task is the art.I have been making chocolate eggs since I arrived there was a plan to use white chocolate but although paros has white choclate covered in dark chocolate dark choclate covered in white chocolate white chocolate full of hazelnuts white chocolate cakes pastries and sweets white choclate on its own is proving either expensive or elusive. So after 2 hours of picking bits of nuts out of melted white choc. I resorted to milk choc then to kinder eggs due to time... 2008-4-11 11:21:57 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#21069 Red Wire member Ben Small has left not only Red Wire but England. Now living in Germany Red Wire wishes best of luck to Ben and his career.The new member and painter is long time friend and cohort Oliver Lomax. Olivers Work has also been exhibited accross Germany and he has played many gigs over there with his father folk singer Michael WestonKing. Ill get a new page for Oliver soon as meanwhile his band The Reveers have a myspace here 2008-3-9 13:22:45 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#19741 Our 2006 Open Submisson is still probably my favourite show weve ever had on and I am still in contact with all the artists we featured. Two of the artists we really felt akin with were Bob Milner and Tom Senior aka Milk Two Sugars.Milk Two Sugars regularly produce a wonderful zine which always includes a freebee item on the front and have exhibited at CArt gallery.On Friday 20th June Milk Two Sugars will be taking over Red Wire for a show that by the sounds of it should be an emmense amount of fun and activity.look out. 2008-2-9 12:55:27 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#17337 The Red Wire 2007 Open was the last show for a few months were gonna be gearing up for our Paros residency in April and getting some bleeding work done something that putting on exhibitions hinders quite a bit.The Open had a really positive review by Kenn Taylor in The Daily Post which were more than happy about as reviews are not easy to come by. 2007-12-9 15:27:16 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#17336 Were gonna be in artworld magazine. Artworld is that new magazine that was given away with The Guardian or Times or something and its freaking great. Its first edition had features on Louise Bourgeois and John Baldessari and that takes some beating. Fortunately for them they came to Red Wire. ha.Look out January. 2007-12-7 15:22:52 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#15460 Well that was pretty good. Great to see the two Biennial chiefs there both Paul Domela and Lewis Biggs attended our opening of Welcome to Liverpool. I wasnt sure how this one would play out with it being close to the previous show and being our first oneperson show but it proved our pretty busy indeed with about 30 people still there when the drink dried up.The stand out piece for me was the installation of the tape person on a swing riding over caster sugar. Especially with the almost autisitc pattern of paper plane making the end seemed well urated and thought out. Like a little mystery fairy land with a half personThe night of course like all our shows ended in Fab cafe we should be getting some kind of discount at tha bleeding place.On another note it looks like we have a new member details will be on here soon but sure to say Im well happy with it.Submissions for the Open are now over 40 artists which is beating last years overall total. We are getting some really good photograph... 2007-10-14 14:24:19 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#15072 Although I still havent recieved the email from artjobs about our call for submissions I guess other people have as our hits on this site have gone through the roof. 2nd October we had over 300 hits to the site.So far weve had about 15 submissions most of which I havent looked at properly yet. A Proper Horrorshow went really well with Roxy and Oliver polarising the people in the gallery to the sides which was really funny and more than unique im sure. Personally I prefered the late night performance with Oliver singing Russian operatics with a cake on his head. Not having lights on transformed the space.Next we have our first one person show Nicola Fitzsimmons welcomming us to Liverpool.This is a quick turnover for us with A Proper horrorshow not taken down yet we seem to end years on a flurry of exhibitions nothing artwise seems as good during the summer.Oh and the most exciting thing at the moment for us is we have succeeded in getting a placement in Pathos for the Greek Easter which... 2007-10-3 17:38:53 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#13709 Aiming for Heights has recieved a couple of really pleasing reviews. The Metros reviewer Nick Holloway gave it 4 stars and Helen Grey for Nerve also was very complimentary you can see Helens review here.Am really happy with these as its the first time we are getting reviews as usually its been previews.The show has now ended next up is A proper Horrorshow the one weve been looking forward too all year it featuers Roxy Topia and Oliver Braid a promises to be electric 2007-8-16 02:06:52 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#12231 Red Wire is set to collaborate with The Works where I used to work to celebrate Liverpools 800th Birthday on September 1st Bold St will get fun. About 20 shops are going to have stalls events giveaways and a parade will march up and down. Red Wire is going all cowboy on you. Were going to have a drawoff against the public 60 seconds for both to draw something picked from a hat say a giraffe or whatever. Oh and were dressed as cowboys and cowgirls.It should be real fun.Other things going on are Rennies are having a streetdrawing Smiffys are facepainting Sayers are giving away pasties and MicroZine are having live music.All this will be followed by the biggest firework display in Europe from the two cathedrals the Liver building and somewhere else I cant remember. The next show in our space is Nicola Fitzsimmons soloshow our first solo show ever and its set to be a art and music crossover. Before this however The Library Project are having an official launch on Thursday July 19th and R... 2007-6-28 15:41:30 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#11717 Thanks to all who attended our most recent exhibition On Growth and Form. I loved the show it had a combination of the things that has worked previously in our exhibitions but the originality that perhaps could only come from artists not working locally. It had the well curated considered touch of RedSkyatNight but with the cool youthful vibrancy of Skull or Stifled. We also had a 250 word article and picture in the Metro which is adding to our slim but existing Press File. Jackson Spragues drawing mixed expressionist mark making with accuracy and vibrancy refelcting neatly against Sam Savages spooky painting which regenrated found imagery adding a new meaning and feel to them. Sarah Woodburn transformed other peoples cast off doodles into her own largescale shark paintings questioning individual expression and authorship while James Irwins Modernist almost Bauhaus sculpture was curated to work with both Alex Crocker and Andrew Chadwick paintings. On the site front updates have been... 2007-6-12 00:14:46 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#11335 Tonight The Arts Organisation had their yearly meeting in Mellow Mellow. We confirmed a date for a Red Wire show in their International Gallery on Slater Street.On August 2nd Red Wire will take over in The International Gallery for two weeks. You will be blasted with emails myspaces facebooks posters adverts flyers and all the other promotional tools we can think of to get as many people there as possible.This is really exciting for us its our first Red Wire show outside our own gallery so its got to be special.In other news Red Wire zine has been featured in the new show at CArt Gallery Huddesfield courtesy of our good friend Bob Milner. The new Zine is made it looks beautiful and will be out soon.In Context The Libary Projects Zine is also completed with the question Is contextualising your work important the feature question.exciting times. 2007-5-30 00:42:14 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#10820 It looks like the green light has gone on for a Gallery Exchange between Liverpools two finest underground galleries studios.Red Wire The WoostenholmeThe Woostenholme Red WireThis should take place later this year sometime and discussions about the project are only beginning but it could well be an extravaganza to blow your socks off. We are already good friends with Woosteholmers and some of my favourite local artists work there so we are well pleased to welcome them to our space.In other news I just received a copy of Kunstbeeld in which we feature in the Liverpool section and are indeed recommended in there so its all joy at the moment you can find a link on the home page.Our zine nearly has the required amount of submissions I think its 21 so it should be the best yet.The Library projects zine is also coming out about the same time 2007-5-12 16:10:11 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#10591 Our next show in Red Wire will be on the 8th June.On Growth and Form is a touring exhibition which is currently in Brighton and is arriving at our gallery for its Liverpool leg.Extract from the On Growth and Form press releaseOn Growth and Form brings together work by six young UKbased artists Andrew Chadwick Alex Crocker James Irwin Jackson Sprague Samuel Savage and Sarah Woodburn. The show takes its name from DArcy Thompsons book written in 1917 analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects. Since the publication of DArcy Thompsons book the concept of growth has undergone serious revision being denuded of its inherently positive connotations whilst within Fine Art faith in form the form an artwork should take per se has also been subject to sustained questioning and recapitulation.On Growth and Form is taken by these artists as a provocation approached in a variety of media using very different processes. As genetic engineering emerges as a r... 2007-5-3 17:17:25 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#10268 Sorry about that previous post it was meant to be a poll but ended up a pile of HTML. We have confimed a date for the show by Oliver Braid and Roxy Topia. Our nonP.C show Homophobic Racist will take place on Friday 14th September and clues to its content and style are in the next issue of Red Wire Zine.This next Zine is looking fabulous so far Roxy and Olivers entry being particulary wonderful and will be a sort of pullout poster. It getting thicker too as we are having more entries.Our next show will probably be a painting show at the end of May Sam Savage and friends who all worked for Damien Hirst shall be coming for the Liverpool leg of his Nationwide tour. more details to follow. 2007-4-20 11:48:56 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#9542 The next Independants meeting is to be held in our space on Wednesday 25th April so we need chairs....This afternoon Dutch art critic Roos van Put came round our gallery and studio. She writes for the leading artist magazine in Holland and is doing a extended piece on artist run spaces in Liverpool so has been to the places youd expect Standard Arena Static etc. A copy of her magazine is to be sent to us in May but itll be in Dutch. Check www.roosvanput.nlAlso visited Imogen Stidworthys talk tonight at her studio in Static where Nick from FACT plugged the Library Project and its possible involvement in Futuresonic this year.In exhibtion news Outsider the wirer Pamela Holstein is involved in the next show at Eggspace in Egg cafe the P.V is next Thursday 7pm.over.. 2007-3-22 23:44:38 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#9155 Stifled an exhibition by final year JMU students Jo Hicks Claudia Lastra and Harry Lawson opened last night. The shows success was further evidence of the importance of using the spaces natural lofi nature to its best. The most immediately striking piece upon entry is Jo Hicks circular fence posts suspended from the ceiling which have a very thretening presence as opposed to the playfulness of Claudia Lastras drawings My space Spy Place for example how true. The most disorientating was Harry Lawsons neverending tunnell made using a oneway mirror and continued to baffle people throughout the night. I really liked this show all its quirkyness a largely unnoticed handmade wotsit lying on the floor for example was reminicent of Skull both in style and content and Skull was hugely successful. It was again well attended making it seem having fewer shows each year is a positive decision in that it makes each show better attended. All in all. congrats to Jo Claudia and Harry. 2007-3-10 13:55:59 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#8963 I have now redone the red wire gallery section too and currently have about 20 items for sale in the shop. Its a hidden page at the moment but will be active soon.Also am thinking of having a Downloads page with Artists essays MP3s and Artist videos on here if i can work out how to do it. I have nowt to do next week so will give it a go then. so stay tuned for freebees.No news just yet on the upcoming activities Stifled on Friday and the upcoming artists talk day planned. 2007-3-4 15:25:55 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#8688 This website now has bit of flash to check it out go to outside the wireThere was a Library Project meeting last night at Red Wire gallery. The Project is going really well so far and is about to apply for funding. There is also a venue in line details will followThere is also a Artists talk set to happen on 1st April with artists talking about thier practice throughout the afternoon and the public invited to have a drink and a listenClaudia Lastras exhibition is set to open on March 9th. Details and flyer to be on here soon.The shop is beginning to get going on here but its going slowly so far.over 2007-2-24 16:32:09 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#8518 Attendees were MikeNicolaAmyLindaand me joshEvery body got chance to speak at length about thier work and its nice to see everyone is still plodding away at work.It helped and encouraged me and sure it did so the others.If you are a studio member please try to make the next meeting as we cant repeat the same people each time.cheers Josh 2007-2-19 17:50:39 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#7903 With regards to the recent rumours about the future of the basement I had a meeting with Tom today.The space is split into two halves the left side is going to be used to house 3 bands the first of which is in the process of moving in now. The whole spot needs a lot of work new electricity and boarding on all walls and thats just a start.The right side has three smallish rooms which could be used as video prjection rooms or small studios for individual artists and one large exhibition space.His plan is to use the space as an exhibition gallery having shows over the weekends especially during the next Biennial.He wanted to have the space finished by summer which is optimistic after seeing it but it could be a major independant venue during the Biennials especially as it has loadsa potential. He did mention about showing some of our work but his priority was getting the space done up to show any number of exhibitions and artists.It could do wonders for Red Wire especially if we plan to... 2007-1-31 16:18:33 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#7235 Attendees to the meeting held on Monday night wereLinda PittwoodKatie HalsallMike AitkenKaren OBrienAmy GoringHamish McLainme Joshua TennantApart from stitching and folding the new mag we discussedThis years exhibitionsThis was the first meeting regarding this year as we knew we wanted to leave it a while until we start exhibiting again. Initial plans are to hold around 45 red Wire organised exhibitons this year this does not include renting out our space to private exhibitons. They includeRed Wire Two The second exhibition by Red Wire artistsRed Wire Open A second Open Submission in the same vain as the firstJMU Graduates Showcasing the best of recent graduates from JMU possible collaboration with other galleriesOther showsClaudia Lastra in FebStudio SpaceWe are currently full.WebsiteItems will be for sale in the future from this website via paypal but not yet.Other newsThere is now two communal heaters is the space. The emit 2kw of heat so arent bad. There is also a regular ... 2007-1-10 11:37:28 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#7031 Nearly back to normal now in the studio just a few pieces still not returned and am concentraing on improving this site rather than playing Championship Manager as I am bottom of the league and about to be relegated. Just wrote to Ian Jackson artinliverpool.com and we are now in the listings section which is good. Have been improving the links section today its not my fault the pictues are in wierd places its mrsites dont know why but tis the hardest bit to do with pictures but at least its better. Dunno when the new mag is getting stitched should be this week I think. The photos from the last exhibition should finally be on here next week.tis all 2007-1-3 15:56:23 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#6399 It looks like we have filled our gallery again after the departures of Dave Tipping Jemma Egan Pete Formela and Emma Wilkinson. Our BRAND NEW MEMBER is Nathan Pendlebury you can check out his work at www.erpenstudios.co.uk. 2006-12-9 21:52:29 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#6334 That might be pushing it but I would say with all honesty it was my favourite. Lacked all that poncy upitsownarse crap that featured in so many shows this year admittedly mostly the internationals but also some independant places. Difficult to have a favourtie piece as work tended to bounce of other pieces quite well. Did like the flies alot though.Thats it for a while now we will be working on a schedule for next year as with these four shows we have quickly become one of the main independant studiogallery spaces in Liverpool theres not too many about tho. So we need to carry that forward into next year. 2006-12-6 14:43:44 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#5815 We have decided all accepted artists and have infomred them all. The flyer poster is a piece in the exhibition by an artist from Glasgow namely Janie Nicoll. They should be out and about this weekend with an accompaning poster with artitsts names on. We have accepted artsits from all over Sunderland Glasgow Ipswich London only two are from Liverpool so it should be a fresh show to celebrate the ending of the biennial. If youve missed the past shows shame on you we have saved the best till last. 2006-11-14 16:24:10 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#5607 RedSkyAtNight was held this Friday and went down very well. The show was undoubtedly the most slick and professional to date with art that explored the colour Red in exciting and varied ways. A personal favourite John OHares work maintained it sincere edge and although it was mostly purple explored the intense and sharp nature of the colour more than the physical reality of being Red. Every show we seem to be drawing in Liverpools artworld with people from the Bluecoat FACT and the Tate present. We have been sent more than enough submissions for the Open and will be reviewing them on Monday. Many from around the country 2006-11-5 19:31:30 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#5412 Due to the unfortunate news that original members David Tipping amp Jemma Egan are leaving it means there is a studio space going free if anyone is interested. Its not too expensive for 16335 for 12ft wall space and it sin a pretty good spot. Redsky is on Friday too and I cant wait partially because I always get steaming at these things but mainly because this is the one alot of people have been getting excited about and Im sure Vicky and Martyn will deliver.i also saw some of the work today and so far it looks mega 2006-10-29 02:55:06 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#5109 Skull opened on Friday to a great success. Over 200 people came and many stayed very late which was great considering it was a Friday night. Personally I thought the night and work was excellent and maintained the cooperative spirit in which it was made. Edwin and Toms live monitor link to London with Edwin occasionally shouting Live from London was both original and summed up the cooperative nature of the show. A personal favourite was the piece depicted on the flyer of binbags with smiley faces stuck to the front kind of happy trash it both looked dirty and clean being garbage in a gallery reminicent of Gavin Turks latest piece Waste but less cleancut and more authentic to its material and surrounding.All work maintained the cool style of the show and could have been authoured by any of the artists and indeed most were created not by the individual but by the team this process underlied the concepts of and giving unity to the show as a whole rather than meaning being isolated to indi... 2006-10-16 19:49:49 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#4999 Described as Sonicboom Metal mayhem and soon to be playing Magnet Bow amp Arrow will be playing Skull this FRIDAY 13TH. Although they have a new singer this will be an instuMENTAL gig and something to shake your ass to. The curators Gabes and Andy are installing some work today and building some of the work in there.Also i have submitted this site to google loadsa times without much success but i just typed in redwire art and it was numbers 1 and 2 brilliantIn other news same news the Metro are contiuing thier support of our activities as Skull is featured in todays art section Thanks to Steve Pill for putting us in there.Submissions for Issue 6 of our increasingly famous artzine are currently being accepted send these to the hotmail address and it should be out in about two weeks. 2006-10-10 14:28:02 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#4768 Today I spoke to both camps and thankfully all seems to be going well. Most of the Skull work is complete the flyers are going to a printers there is a new flyer apparently which shall be mysterious a theme that seems to run throughout Skull. A brand spanking new band may be playing a short set but in keeping with the mystery they have no name.RedSkyatnight are also well underway Alan Dunn has submitted some work which is great to hear together with quite a number of other artists. The poster for RedSky will be available soon. Also a guy from the Metro inquired about the event which is better than us going to them and there is a call for entries on artinliverpool.comIn other news we are meeting Gaynor Evelyn Smith on Sunday. Gaynor has had work in many countries and exhibitions including both Hong Kong and Venice biennials and she may be doing a performance in our gallery later this yearall good then 2006-9-30 16:00:03 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#4617 Yesssssssssssssssssssss. It went brilliant. thankfunk for that. All the effort over the past month or so was worth it. Finally left at about 3am I think Dont remember the last couple of hours. Loads of people showed up that you see at these kinda things you know who you are and got offered another exhibition for Redwire artists Gaynor Sweeny may be using the space for one of her performances featured on Art in Liverpool and in the Metro. The past week has been really exhausting and sometimes you doubt the sanity of all the strain for only one night but by golly it was worth it and it really set the ball rolling for the second show in there. If you came i hope you enjoyed it and PLEASE leave a comment about anything you likeddisliked because Skull is coming up soon 2006-9-23 13:14:00 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#4547 Yeah so painted most of the studio floor today with Hamish Tibble Natalie amp Amy. Finished the walls and the build so just the rest of the floor and lighting to do. Oh and the whole putting up art thing. Also did most of the publicity tour this morning putting up posters.We have a red bar. a red door. red posters. there is a hidden theme to our show... 2006-9-19 22:58:47 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#4414 Yep thats right Red Wires 5th magazine is printed photocopied and is half stitched yes thats right luxury stitching again no expense or time spared by us lot. Grab one at the usual places. If you dont know by now where be ashamed.The spot is going well. mostly painted now just got to put up the walls which is the biggest job. otherwise buy booze. drink booze. forget all.... 2006-9-13 02:10:52 http://www.redwireredwire.com/page2.htm#4266 Just got back today so its the middle of the night and I am 100 jetlagged. Apparently the studio is well underway for being built Gabriel and Andy are helping set the place up and Mike and myself are collecting the wood we need to build build build using the age old technique of man with a van. My own artwork is only half finished as well as submissions for the next magazine in a couple of days. Sending out invites for the Open Submission show tommorrow too soo if you dont recieve one send an image to this site and they will be reviewed in due course 2006-9-7 04:35:23