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Wooden bowl by Michael Murphy.
Exhibition
In the Window - Michael Murphy
1 Oct 2024 – 31 Oct 2024
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Sunday
- Closed
Free admission
Address
- the Bluecoat
- College Lane Entrance
- Liverpool
- L1 3BZ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- By car: Follow signs for Liverpool City Centre. We recommend parking in Q-Park, Hanover St. Or alternatively, Liverpool ONE has three new car parks: Q-Park Strand Street, Q-Park Gradwell Street and Q-Park John Lewis. Disabled Parking: There are 3 designa
- By plane: Liverpool John Lennon Airport has a regular bus (click here for further details) with Liverpool City Centre, or a taxi ride is approximately seven miles.
- By train: Liverpool Lime Street is the main intercity station. It is approximately a 10 minute walk to the gallery. Chester - Liverpool Lime St 43 minutes Manchester Oxford Road - Liverpool Lime St 47 minutes London Euston - Liverpool Lime St 2 hours 7
Bluecoat Display Centre are pleased to announce that our featured ‘In the Window’ artist for the 2024 Liverpool Irish Festival is Michael Murphy. His work will be in the window on College Lane throughout October 2024.
About
Michael’s practice is rooted in the use of traditional tooling to produce modern and innovative forms in both furniture and sculpture.
His current body of work centres around the death of the Ash tree. We watch as our hedgerow is forever transformed, a piece of nature soon to be confined to memory. His work aims to use these Ash trees and immortalise them in sculpture, exploring the limits of how thin he can turn them, having them drift into a liminal space between existence and non-existence which is the state of their species. These works have a sense of ritual about them, Michael likes to think of himself as exhuming the tree, gathering up it’s limbs and allowing them to be reborn as tactile objects.
