Gallery 2021
Below you will find the works of art submitted to the Liverpool Acoustic 24 Hour Art Challenge 2021. They were each inspired by this year’s Threshold Festival theme ‘retrospective’.
- Naomi Dyer – Layers of our past
- Sarah Corcoran – Retro-Flection
- AL ‘Bluesman’ Peters – My Blues Angel
- Gary Duck – The Southport Variant
- Joseph Dyer – From the Big Bang to the Future
- Mike Goodwin – One of Us
1. Naomi Dyer – Layers of our past
Looking back into the past is like looking back through layers, or growth rings of a tree. Every year, growth rings are laid down, concentrically out from the middle. Some layers are thick, some are thin, they may have different qualities, but all contribute. Events in the distant past are even recorded into the double helix of our DNA. Looking back can be painful, cutting the memory tree to it’s heartwood. At the present time, all these layers make up the full retrospective picture. I chose pencil crayons for their natural, organic feel.
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2. Sarah Corcoran – Retro-Flection
For me the word ‘retrospective’ immediately conjures; all the times, you may have missed opportunities to say exactly what you think, to stand up for yourself, and with the benefit of hindsight those witty retorts missed in heated debate.
This piece represents the process of self reflection, the mental clutter of over thinking everything you could have done better, or differently… and just letting it go.
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3. AL ‘Bluesman’ Peters – My Blues Angel
In retrospective looking back as my Blues Angel takes a break during the pandemic after many years of gigging playing Blues and Rythm and Blues. Unfortunately I had no fresh drawing paper but think that the paper used adds to the myhological texture. I must admit that I did go to Liverpool Art School many moons ago.
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4. Gary Duck – The Southport Variant
Internal madness projected this obscurity.In the previous year 2 variants had been blamed on foreign countries despite no links to travel. This represents the need to retrospectively rename our variants in a less xenophobic manner.
A modernised colourful southport pier with a variant being owned (holding a southport scone and southport clothing) is in direct contrast to the blaming of outsiders & resistance to modern things that has seen southport rot.
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5. Joseph Dyer – From the Big Bang to the Future
My picture is looking back into the past as far as the Big Bang. “Retrospective” made me think of the past in space, and reminded me of a picture in my space encyclopedia.
I chose to use sharpie pens because they give a really thick and satisfying intense shade of colour.
P.S. I’m age 10, I have permission from my parents to enter this artwork.
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6. Mike Goodwin – One of Us
This collage uses fragments from two of my old watercolour paintings to produce a pop-art, retro-style image referencing fashions and music from previous eras.