8 Days a Week

Novas Warehouse

Independent District

Greenland Street

In Eight Days a Week, artists from Liverpool and Cologne are taking part in a unique cultural exchange through an ongoing programme of exhibitions, residencies, films, performances, discussions and publications.

NEW PAINTING FROM LIVERPOOL

Work by Pete Clarke, Neil Morris and by artists from Arena Studios – James Buso, Julie Jones, Paul Luckraft and Sue Milburn

Also exhibited at VHS Köln- Nippes 22.4. 2004 - 20.6. 2004

'And so to making paintings again, we are now told that there are no totalities left with no bigger pictures to believe in. But even so, does it matter, what creative fictions or personal attributes would be necessary to sustain artists making paintings as a viable form of contemporary practice in a media saturated culture. Stubbornness and obstinacy certainly, the ability to allow for contradiction, to be constant and also to allow for changes, an idea of process, development and even destruction and an overriding and illogical sense of confidence that there are still meanings to be made and representations to be fought for.

And maybe just doing it is enough, sustaining your own curious logic, contriving visual events to let things to happen, and perhaps that is what these Liverpool artists are trying to do.'

ARENA Art & Design Association is a non-profit making, charitable organisation, who aim to provide affordable studio space to artists, designers and musicians in Liverpool city centre. Along side this primary aim is the desire to create a dialogue between these practitioners and a wider audience through lectures, workshops and exhibitions. Towards this end Arena members have recently established a gallery space within the studio complex, providing a vital outlet for diverse forms of creative activity.

Arena Gallery and Open Studios are also open during the Biennial, contact Arena Gallery, Arena Studios, 82 – 84 Duke Street, Liverpool L1 5AA, Telephone 0151 707 9879 for information.

‘Eight days a week’ would like to personally thank Liverpool Art School, Lubaina Himid and The University of Central Lancashire, Preston and Roger Morris, P.H. Holt Trust for their generosity and confidence in supporting this current project in New Painting.