Previous Exhibitions

Below are details of the exhibitions and events held at the gallery since 2006

Christmas Market

December 2010

Local artists sold their handmade artworks and gifts, Bridewell members opened their studios and all were entertained with music and fed with warm soup, mulled wine and homemade cakes.

 

 

Square Mile

November 2010

The second show as part of Liverpool Biennial Independents  featured new work from artists outside the studios group commissioned to make works in response to the square mile area around the gallery. The work showcased the social, historic and ethnic palimpsest of the L7 area as a fertile environment for the creation and exhibition of contemporary art.

   

Investigation

October 2010

As part of the Liverpool Biennial Independents 2010 'Investigation' the gallery hosted an exhibition of Bridewell  artists new work inspired by the buildings prior use as a police station.

 

KANTHA

July 2010

The gallery hosted a fundraising exhibition for Sreepur, a Bangladeshi women's refuge. Examples of the women's Canta style embroidery work were exhibited along side the work of textile artist Lynn Setterington whose work interprets this traditional technique.

In Every Dream Home A Heartache

May/June 2010

Built on the increased visibility of the Gallery after 'Winterland' we drew together artist's from Liverpool's disparate studio groups for this exhibition. The emotive and poignant works explored the melancholy aspects of domesticity. The parallel purpose of the show was to form new connections between the groups and several projects have since emerged from this.

 

Winterland

December 2009

Featuring established and emerging artists explorations of the psychological aspects of winter. The community choir Hope Street Harmonies performs seasonal songs and Rebecca Joy Sharp played her evocative harp and vocal compositions.

 

Christmas Prescence

December 2008

There in Time

November 2008

Three emerging contemporary artists Tamarin Norwood, Mark Simpson and Emily Speeds work explore human prescence in and relation to the landscape, the traces we leave, the structures we build, the memories we hold and the stories we tell.

Spanning a range of media. 'There in Time' articulates the city's continuous juxtaposition of stillness and motion, history and regeneration, transcience and timelessness: the constant dialogue between landscape and memory.

 

As You See It

August 2008

A selection of works by the service users of Crown Street Mental Health Resource Centre. 'As You See It' takes a grounded approach to the work, displaying it in it's raw state with minimal intervention. Here, art is not just a creative process, but a form of therapy, a positive method of dealing with a mental health condition.

The Liar, The Witch and The Wardrobe

June 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Making More Sense

January 2008

An exhibition of prints and paintings by participants who have experienced a brain injury. A collaboration between Sue Williams, Steve Rooney (TAG) and the Brain Injuries Unit, Mossley Hill Liverpool

   


Christmas Prescence

December 2007

 
   


Group Denique

Liverpool Community College

June 2007



 



Out of Site

Andy Fung

March/April 2007

    


A Faulty Dissection

Sandie Henderson and Sarah Robinson

February 2007

   


How Things Fly

Nichola Pemberton and Sue Goldschmidt

November 2006