In An Abstract Way - Photography by Colin Serjent
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Unity 30th Anniversary Exhibition
Colin Serjent has been asked to take part in a special exhibition at the Unity Theatre
in Liverpool. To mark the 30th anniversary of being in their building on Hope Place
(off Hope Street), all of the artists who have exhibited in the theatre complex over
the past 20 years will be showing one piece of their artwork.
The exhibition runs from 7th September till 20th October 2010.
Taking part in 2010 Liverpool Art Biennial exhibition
I am taking part in a photography exhibiiton, titled 'School Of Photography',
during the 2010 Liverpool Arts Biennial - taking place in the Autumn - in a group
show along with fellow Liverpool-based photographers Jim Connolly and Frank Meaney.
Other local photographers will be involved in the show.
It will be held at the Merchant Taylor's Girls' School in Crosby, Merseyside,
which has a dedicated space for exhibitions.
Focus On Recycling
I
staged a photography exhibition depicting various recycling projects
in Liverpool.
Examples of recycling I have portrayed include the work of C.U.T.S (Communal
Use Textile Studio), run by Beccy Williams, who stages workshops of sewing
and screen-printing using recycled materials; Bulky Bob, which offer a
household waste collection service to residents in Liverpool, which are
then reconditioned and sold at reasonable costs; and Urban Strawberry
Lunch, who create musical instruments from waste materials and found objects.
I also depicted the role of the Liverpool-based artist collective - which
I am a director of - in promoting recycling, for example, showing images
of the two Recycling Weeks they have staged in the city in 2008 and 2009,
as well as the workshops, where the participants made artwork from recycled
items, and exhibitions they held, in which all the artwork was produced
from disused materials.
Focus On Recycling took place at the Liverpool Centre
for Arts Development (LCAD), based on Brownlow Hill, from 26 April to
21 May 2010.
New photographs by Colin Serjent
A series of new photographs, taken during summer 2009, have been added to this website. To view them access the 'Photography' section and click on 'New Work'.
Serjent in Postcard exhibition
Along with sixty other visual artists, including Rolf Harris!, I exhibited at the
'Pre-paid 2009' exhibition, which took place at the Cornerstone Gallery, based in the
Liverpool Hope University campus in Everton.
Following the success of the 2008 event they staged another exhibition and blind
auction of small donated artworks on postcard by artists from Liverpool and beyond.
Once again the proceeds were donated to The Artists' Benevolent Institution.
My photographs at Liverpool 08 Place
Three artists from Red Dot exhibited their work during the summer of 2009 at the 08 Place,
Liverpool's Visitor Information Centre.
The show included nature-based and urban-based abstract photography by Colin Serjent,
acrylic paintings by Jane Fairhurst and abstract expressionist photography by Jon Nash.
My first solo show of my abstract work
I
staged an exhibition of my abstract photography at the Unity Theatre in
Liverpool during February 2009.
I previously had an exhibition of my music-themed photography staged at
the Unity several years ago.
Involved in group show at Liverpool Contemporary Urban Centre
My photography work was featured in a Red Dot group show, titled 'Migration',
at the Contemporary Urban Centre in Liverpool, which ran from December
2008 to January 2009.
I exhibited four new abstract works.
Art-related Recycling Week
I ran a Recycling Week on behalf of Liverpool-based artist collective
Red Dot during Septmember 2008. It was the first-ever Recycling Week to
be staged in Liverpool.
A high profile launch of it took place at St Luke's Church, known locally
as the bombed out church (it was hit by an incendiary device in 1941),
in Liverpool city centre on Friday 19 September.
Liverpool-based Urban Strawberry Lunch ran a workshop, in which participants
created musical instruments from waste materials and found objects.
Red Dot then ran further art-related recycling workshops at the Liverpool
Centre for Arts Development (LCAD) from 22-26 September.
There was also a field trip duriing the week to Gaskell'e recycling centre
in Bootle.
Hearts And Minds - New work on show
A number of my new abstract-oriented photographs were exhibited for the
first time during a new Red Dot show - I am a director of the Liverpool-based
artist collective - held at the Liverpool Academy of Arts. The Academy,
which is based in a former paint factory, is located in Seel Street in
Liverpool city centre.
Titled 'Hearts And Minds', the exhibition featured work by over twenty
of its artists, and included photography, paintings - mainly abstract
-mixed media work and installations.
Hearts And Minds ran from 7th May until 23rd May 2008.
Link up with Arab artists
As well as other members of Liverpool-based artist collective Red Dot (www.red-dotexhibitions.co.uk), I took part in an exhibition at the International Gallery in Slater Street, along with a number of Arab artists, from various Arabian countries, who visited Liverpool in July. They are took part in an Arab contemporary art event, titled PAX (Planet Art Exchange) that was held in the city.
