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Exhibitions & Showcases

Current Showcases

The Chapel Gallery provides around twenty exhibitions and showcases each year. Our current programme of showcases is below.

Click to enlarge: 20 Years of Design - Photography by Michelle Lund

20 Years of Design:
19 September -
24 October 2009



 
This year marks 20 years of the West Lancashire Design Awards and this showcase demonstrates that creativity, innovation and quality are constants in obtaining well designed architecture.

Click to enlarge: Matt Roby - An Imaginary Landscape

Imaginary Landscapes,
Youth Open 2009:

31 October 2009 -
2 January 2010

Our annual Youth Open celebrates the creative talents of the regions young people and this year’s theme is Imaginary Landscapes.

For inspiration, visit Matthew Roby’s ‘The Big Draw’ workshop on the same theme, Saturday 10 October, 10am - 12noon and 1pm - 4pm!

Download an Application Form:
Imaginary Landscapes.pdf

Click to enlarge: Angie Thompson - Hannah

Drawn In -
Angie Thompson:

9 January -
20 February 2010
 
Angie is the winner of the West Lancashire Open Exhibition 2008, People’s Prize with her hugely popular ‘Hannah’, a sensitive portrait of her daughter.

Here she exhibits a collection of her portraiture and illustrative works: a showcase full of character and charm.

Click to enlarge: Dominic Foster - Man in the Window

LACi New Creators:
27 February –
10 April 2010
 
LACi, the Lancashire Arts & Crafts Initiative, spotlights the work of some of the most exciting fine art and contemporary craft graduates in the North West – these are the names to watch!

Exhibiting Artists: Photography by Dominic Foster. Jewellery by Deana Baker, Jenni Bird, Fiona McAlear, Hannah Louise Pittman and Amy Wood.

For more information on LACi visit the LACi page on this website: LACi New Creators

Click to enlarge: S.K. Stevens - Night Storm

S.K. Stevens:
17 April -
29 May 2010
 
A showcase of expressive landscape paintings.

Each work is a complex blend of memory and direct observation that sensitively conveys the artist’s physical and emotional experience of a particular place and time.