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Art-related Recycling Week
I will be running a Recycling Week on behalf of Liverpool-based artist collective Red Dot during Septmember 2008. It will be the first-ever Recycling Week to be staged in Liverpool.
A high profile launch of it will take 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 will be running a workshop (12pm to 5pm), in which participants willl create musical instruments from waste materials and found objects.
Red Dot will then run further art-related recycling workshops at the Liverpool Centre for Arts Development (LCAD) which is based at Franceys Street (off Brownlow Hill) from 22-26 September.
The programme of workshops at LCAD has yet to be finalised. Further information will be posted on this website, the Red Dot site www.red-dotexhibitions.co.uk and the Nerve magazine site www.catalystmedia.org.uk during August.
There will also be one or two field trips during the week, for example, to a recycling centre.
If anyone is interested in taking part in the Urban Strawberry Lunck workshop or the workshops at LCAD, please contact me, Colin Serjent, email; colinserjent@hotmail.com or phone 077 5952 5075.
I am also looking for subject ideas for the series of workshops, and for people to contact me who might be interested in running a workshop.

New Solo Exhibition
There will be a solo exhibition of my photography at the Unity Theatre in Liverpool during February 2009. Specific dates have yet to be finalised.

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 at 36 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), which I help run, I will be collaborating in producing new artwork with a number of Arab artists, from various Arabian countries, who are visiting Liverpool in July. They are taking part in an Arab contemporary art exhiibition being held in the city.

Early in 2007 my work was included in a group exhibition 'Loop:Overview 07' at the Cornerstone Gallery in Liverpool. The theme of the show was abstraction.

I have set up a link between this site and the New York based Agora Gallery (www.Agora-Gallery.com) site. As a director of Red Dot Exhibitions, I have also set up a similar link between the Liverpool-based artist collective and Agora.
I am also proposing to link up with the ARTisSpectrum magazine,which is published biannually by Agora, with the aim of having my work profiled in the publication.

I was involved in two exhibitions during the Independents section of the 2006 Liverpool Arts Biennial. Sue Milburn and I - we both run the Liverpool-based artist collective Red Dot Exhibitions - were involved in a joint exhibition of new abstract photography, titled 'Artisers' at the Almiro Gallery in Waterloo, Merseyside (see review www.catalystmedia.org.uk).

My work was then later included in a Red Dot group show, with its name as the title of the exhibition, at the Roscoe Street Art Gallery in Liverpool city centre (see review www.catalystmedia.org.uk).

Earlier in 2006 both myself and Milburn were involved in another joint exhibition, titled 'Shadowtime', at the Ikonography Gallery in Mathew Street, Liverpool (see review in the Catalyst Creative Media website www.catalystmedia.org.uk).

At the beginning of 2006 my work was included in a group show 'Pride Of Liverpool' at the Met Art Gallery, based off Castle Street in Liverpool (see review www.catalystmedia.org.uk).

In the summer of 2005 I was involved, together with Sue Milburn, in an exhibition titled 'S & M', held at the Museum MAN Gallery in Rodney Street in Liverpool city centre. It presented a visual biography of both our lives (see review www.catalystmedia.org.uk)

Museum MAN director Adam Nankervis said "The interrelationship between these two people and the bonding between them came through (in 'S & M'). There was a naked and honest process involved in the way they staged the show."

At the end of 2005 a number of my new images were featured in a Red Dot exhibition 'Spellbound', held at the Liverpool John Moores University School of Art & Design in Hope Street.