Exhibitions & Showcases
LACi New Creators
LACi – Lancashire Arts & Crafts Initiative, promotes the work of some of the most exciting fine art and contemporary craft graduates.
The LACi group is a partnership of museums and galleries with a special interest in contemporary art and new design. Members include commercial galleries and museums with their own art and design collections.
Over a hundred artists and makers have exhibited with LACi over the eight years of our development. Artists and makers who have participated in the initiative as new graduates include Penelope Batley, Loretta Harmer, Sarah Morpeth, Hannah Tofalos, Bethan Lloyd Worthington and Richard Sweeney - to name but a few!
Participating Venues
Astley Hall Museum & Art Gallery, Chorley
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery, Blackburn
Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington
PAD, Preston
Platform Gallery, Clitheroe
Rossendale Museum, Rossendale
Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Burnley
LACi venues and artists, together with the region's universities, work to showcase the high quality of art and design to communities across the North West.
This year LACi New Creators will tour two shows, one Jewellery and another Contemporary Craft, across some of these venues. The dates are as follows:
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
26 September - 24 October 2009
Jewellery
PAD, Preston
1 December 2009 - 9 January 2010
Jewellery
Contemporary Craft
Fine Art:
Hannah Cox,
Dominic Foster,
Ellie Love,
Louise Loveridge,
Natasha Pinnock,
Carrie Thaker and
Eleri Jones
Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington
16 January - 14 March 2010
Contemporary Craft
Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
27 February - 10 April 2010
Jewellery
Fine Art: Dominic Foster
5 June - 24 July 2010
Contemporary Craft
Fine Art: Ellie Love and Tommy Stables
Platform Gallery, Clitheroe
20 March - 15 May 2010
Textiles: Rachel Louise Evans, Nastasha Pinnock and Carrie Thaker
Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Chorley
26 March - 9 May 2010
Fine Art, Textiles and Furniture: Lyndsey Donald, Edward Thomas, Joanne Johnson, Glennis Hulme, Sarah Abbott, Humaira Mahmood, Ellie Love and
Richard Hughes
Rossendale Museum, Rossendale
17 April - 23 May 2010
Fine Art: Tommy Stables
Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
5 June - 24 July 2010
Contemporary Craft
Fine Art: Ellie Love and Tommy Stables
Jewellery
Hannah Louise Pittman
Fiona McAlear
Jennifer Bird
Amy Wood
Deana Baker
Contemporary Craft
Amanda Mercer
Anna Whitehouse
Christopher McVerry
Deborah Cadwallader
Elisa Robinson
Holly Lawton
Jennifer Ellis
Kate Earlam
Mary Willis
Nadine Martyniuk
Thomas Davies
For more information on the LACi artists download:
LACi09-10_Poster.pdf and
LACi09-10_Exhibiting-Artists.pdf
LACi artists are graduates of
The University of Central Lancashire
(UCLAN), Manchester Metropolitan University, Liverpool Hope, the University of Cumbria and Blackburn College.
