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

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Bluecoat

Liverpool, United Kingdom

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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. 

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