Exhibition
Lisa Farmer - In The Window
1 May 2015 – 31 May 2015
Event times
10am-5.30pm Mon-Sat
12 noon - 5pm Sundays
Cost of entry
Free entry
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
American-born artist / designer Lisa Farmer produces leather objects that play with ironic forms and designs. Her labour intensive design pieces are both sculpture and product. Utilising premium vegetable tanned leather and immense craftsmanship, she combines traditional leather-working skills with contemporary technologies, producing avant-garde works distinguished by their originality and timelessness.
About
Lisa’s work investigates such issues as the value of design in craft, the relationship between user and product and the significance of objects as cultural vessels through through which to address current issues. She identifies her role as a catalyst between craft and design, object and user and seeks to stimulate a more conceptual dialogue through her experimental approach.
“Hold fast that which is good”, her most recent body of work, is inspired by Japanese “irezumi” (a form of tattooing) and the grace and beauty of animals found in mythology and folklore. By cultivating a sense of belonging between object and user, this collection supersedes mere function to become a bearer of a higher cultural message. Modern artifacts, archaic yet contemporary. Vessels born from a heritage of wisdom and knowledge, time honored craft that aspires to become a storyteller of human nature.
