Exhibition
Frances Disley 'Pattern Buffer'
13 Mar 2020 – 1 Nov 2020
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Address
- School Lane
- Liverpool
- L1 3BX
- United Kingdom
Pattern Buffer explores the potential of the gallery space to create a restorative environment. The artist layers a wide range of multi-sensory elements to create a setting where visitors feel both rested and re-energised, featuring dominoes, puzzles and tropical plants.
About
As part of Bluecoat’s ongoing commitment to supporting outstanding Northern artists, we are pleased to present a solo show by Frances Disley.
As a starting point for her work Disley has previously used the colourways of a high fashion tracksuit to create a moving painting and a community aerobics class as the setting for a dance performance and installation. She is interested in the things we do to feel better about ourselves, while eschewing the elitism found within the self-care industry with its obsessions with conventional beauty, ideal body mass and self-regard.
For Pattern Buffer, as with many of her previous installations, Disley will layer multi-sensory elements to create an environment that invites gallery visitors to make use of her art works, to pause and rest in comfort in the space, or share a hobby. Reference points for her upcoming solo show Pattern Buffer include dominoes clubs, hair accessories as art, plants which survive from moisture in the air and the Holodeck, a device from the Star Trek science fiction series in which participants engage with different virtual reality environments.