upstream': an exhibition by not just collective
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Not Just Collective was formed in
2012 by members of Liverpool Biennial's
volunteer team to provide a platform for
exhibiting their own work. We have
continued as an independent collective,
welcoming new members and
collaborating with other groups.
'Upstream' is our sixth exhibition and
draws inspiration from water. Our show
explores the character and resonances
of this most essential ingredient of life.
Throughout the duration of the show we
will be hosting a series of activities and
workshops drawing on the themes of
the exhibition.
Launch Night Saturday 22nd November, 7PM
Art Club discusses Upstream Sunday 30th November 2PM
Meditation Monday 1st December 4PM
Film screening/Food share Monday 8th December 7PM
Showing ‘Rivers and Tides’ and ‘Blue Gold’.
Please bring food to share (preferably non-
packaged and vegetarian).
Andy Johnson
Waterscapes #1- 9
Video (6mins)
2014
This is a series of videos shot this year
which were originally taken for the
amusement of Facebook friends but
has developed into something more
meaningful.
I am interested in how moving images
sometimes can be similar to still
images whether photographs or
paintings.
I worked for Liverpool Libraries for
nearly 40 years before taking a
redundancy deal. Since then I have set
up an Art Club, begun storytelling and
producing art with Not Just Collective.
Tom George
Manhole
Video (6mins)
2014
This is part of an ongoing project looking at
work and masculine identity.
The subterranean water system is a metaphor
for the elusive nature of masculine identity.
Traditionally male-dominated industries such
as civil engineering offered clearly defined
masculine roles for generations. But mass
unemployment through the 70s and 80s and a
changing job market has led to a much-
discussed ‘crisis of masculinity’ as men
struggled to identify with clear, positive roles.
At the same time the manhole cover became a
focus for debates around language and gender
roles.
Tom George is a musician, writer and
videographer.
Kitty McKay
Tap
Mixed media
2014 This piece is reflective of how I view water, fragility
and impermanence. Water pours into our natural
world, powering a beautiful machine of
regeneration.
A continuous cycle of life and death, beauty and
decay, Investment and sacrifice. I wanted to
explore how something as simple and domestic
as a tap could be so vital and life giving. I am
fascinated by ecology and how the natural world
around us emulates our human vulnerabilities.
We are impermanent, our state of mind
is impermanent, our world is too.
Kevin Newbold
Photographs
2014
Water physically makes up most of what
we are…yet most of who we are is
metaphysical…
In a trance like meander I am drawn to
water in so much of my photography…
whether it be showing a scene of
tranquility or beauty, or capturing a
moment of happiness or sadness. These
images are depictive of some of those
moments since our last Not Just Collective
showing.
@kevnewbold
kjnewbold@gmail.com
Tony OConnell
'I pay homage to all the shrines and places
in which the Bodhisattvas have been'.
(Part 3)
Photo Record Of Performance/
Pilgrimage and Mixed Media
2014
I am concerned with the imagery of religious hierarchy
and seek to reclaim and subvert often oppressive
language from the position of the excluded and the
outsider. I transform images from my Christian
upbringing into queer ritual. I explore Buddhist
ceremony and symbols to open new dialogues and
paths forward. I choose new saints and Bodhisattvas.
In summer I visited the Alan Turing statue in Manchester by Glyn Hughes as part of
my ongoing sequence of LGBTI secular pilgrimages to offer water and to sit at the
feet of the saint.
Saint Alan Turing, whose work saved millions of lives, who was martyred by the
judiciary – Ora Pro Nobis
Steph Rooney
Secret Terrace
2014
This 1890's terrace house, and its resident, are part
of a housing co-operative. It gives home to food,
water, ideas...the basics. A place to retreat, share,
connect and nurture change. This show is one of
several pop-up events that will be hosted in the
space.
My work (life) involves uncovering the shared
wisdom upon which we interact. Facilitating
authentic communication and promoting well-
being for people and the planet. Working towards a
new philosophy for modern living. Finding practical
and sustainable solutions to the problems we face.
Distilling ideas into positive action.
Sean Robertson
85
Brick
2014
Contained within the solid walls of a terraced
house, individual bricks which have been altered
by their exposure to the sea, transformed from
manufactured uniformity to random shapes
determined by nature. The bricks have been
placed in a straight line at the start of the
exhibition, you are invited to move them within
the exhibition space.
Nicola Roscoe-Calvert
Studies for a triptych, ‘And But for
the Heavenly Music All was
Marvellously Still’
Mixed Media
2014
`It's gone!' sighed the Rat, sinking back in his
seat again. So beautiful and strange and
new. Since it was to end so soon, I almost
wish I had never heard it. For it has roused a
longing in me that is pain, and nothing
seems worth while but just to hear that
sound once more and go on listening to it for
ever. No! There it is again!' he cried, alert
once more.
Entranced, he was silent for a long space,
spellbound.
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