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Shifting Horizons @ Digital Window Gallery

27 March - 31 March 2024

PLATFORM: ISSUE 6

26 March 2024

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Saturday Town: Launch Event

10 April 2024

Exhibitions

Coming Soon: Saturday Town

11 April - 18 May 2024

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PLATFORM: ZINE LAUNCH EVENT

21 March 2024

Home. Ukrainian Photography, UK Words: Tour

4 March - 28 February 2025

Exhibitions

Home: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words @ New Adelphi

4 March - 8 March 2024

Past Events

CREATIVE SOCIAL: IN THE ABSENCE OF FORMAL GROUND

2 March 2024

Exhibitions

We Feed The UK @ Exterior Walls

8 February - 31 March 2024

Past Events

Contrail Cirrus: the impact of aviation on climate change

7 March 2024

Exhibitions

Tree Story @ Liverpool ONE

16 February - 1 May 2024

Open Source #27: Saffron Lily – In The Absence of Formal Ground @ Digital Window Gallery

6 February - 31 March 2024

Past Events

Contemporary Photography from Ukraine: Symposium @University of Salford

4 March - 5 March 2024

Past Events

Is Anybody Listening? Symposium: Commissioning and Collecting Socially Engaged Photography

29 February 2024

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Different approaches: Artists working with scientists

15 February 2024

Events

LOOK Climate Lab 2024: All Events

18 January 2024

Exhibitions

Diesel & Dust @ Digital Window Gallery

18 January - 31 March 2024

Events

Tree Walks Of Sefton Park with Andrea Ku

21 January 2024

Past Events

Artists Remake the World by Vid Simoniti: Book Launch

31 January 2024

Past Events

Shift Liverpool Open Meeting

6 February 2024

Past Events

We Feed The UK Launch and LOOK Climate Lab 2024 Celebration

8 February 2024

Past Events

Cyanotype workshop with Melanie King

17 February 2024

Past Events

End of Empire: artist talk and discussion

22 February 2024

Past Events

Book Launch: What The Mine Gives, The Mine Takes

24 February 2024

Past Events

Local ecology in the post-industrial era: open discussion

14 March 2024

Past Events

Waterlands: creative writing workshop

23 March 2024

Past Events

Plant a seed. Seed sow and in conversation with Plot2Plate

16 March 2024

Past Events

Erosion: panel discussion

9 March 2024

Past Events

Waterlands: an evening of poetry and photographs

23 March 2024

Events

Force For Nature Exhibition

27 March - 28 March 2024

Voices of Nature: Interactive Performances

28 March 2024

Past Events

Sum of All Parts: Symposium

27 February 2024

Exhibitions Main Exhibition

LOOK Climate Lab 2024

18 January - 31 March 2024

Past Events

MA Socially engaged photography Open Day event

1 February 2023

Past Events

Tish: Special screening and Q&A

13 December 2023

Past Events

Book Launch: A Look At A New Perspective

23 November 2023

Events

Community workshops @ Ellesmere Port Library

6 November - 5 February 2024

Past Events

Book Launch: ‘544m’ By Kevin Crooks

30 November 2023

Past Exhibitions

Bernice Mulenga @ Open Eye Gallery Atrium Space

17 November - 17 December 2023

Past Events

Bernice Mulenga: Artist Talk

18 November 2023

Past Exhibitions

Local Roots @ The Atkinson

14 October 2023

Exhibitions

Community @ Ellesmere Port Library

26 October - 11 April 2024

Past Events

Critique Surgery for Socially Engaged Photographers

6 November 2023

Past Events

Deeds Not Words: panel discussion

12 October 2023

Past Exhibitions

Deeds Not Words @ Atrium Space

3 October - 22 October 2023

Ode To Our Space @ Digital Window Gallery

29 September - 23 December 2023

A Look At A New Perspective @ Digital Window Gallery

29 September - 23 December 2023

Past Events

Book Launch: Crow Dark Dawn

19 October 2023

Past Events

Exhibition Launch: A Place of Our Own

28 September 2023

Reflections

12 September - 22 December 2023

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© Matthew Finn, Untitled, originally commissioned for Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 from the series Mother (1987- present)
© Matthew Finn, Untitled, originally commissioned for Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 from the series Mother (1987- present)
© Matthew Finn, Untitled, originally commissioned for Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 from the series Mother (1987- present)

Autumn Writing Workshop

We concentrated on Matthew Finn’s exhibition for our second Autumn workshop, reading Seamus Heaney’s lines from Clearances that begin, like so many of Matthew’s photographs, in the kitchen:

 

When all the other were away at Mass

I was all hers as we peeled potatoes…

 

We were in the company of a very different mother with Julia Kaldorf:

 

I learned from my mother how to love

the living, to have plenty of vases on hand

in case you have to rush to the hospital…

 

and with Ruby Robinson we meet a mother and daughter on a sad yet momentous day out, a day of escape from the psychiatric unit:

 

…She said she’d been talking to Jesus and God

because she didn’t want to go to hell, although,

she said, correctly, we’ve been through hell

already, haven’t we..

 

And we saw the frail ageing and motherly concern in the elderly mother in Richard Jarette’s My Mother Worries About My Heart.

 

There was a sort of mediation between the poems we read aloud and then the reverence with which we looked at Matthew’s photographs each of us contemplating what it means to be an adult child, to have a mother, all those things unspoken, unsayable.

 

We finished with our own messages for our mothers, one of which, by Gareth Roberts, read:

 

I’m inspired by the way you coped with Dad’s death.

I’m inspired by the way you set about reinventing yourself.

I’m inspired by the way you used technology to find someone.

I’m inspired that I can’t spend Christmas with you.

I’m inspired that you are happy again.

 

For links to the poems we read for Mother:

 

From Clearances by Seamus Heaney

https://apoemforireland.rte.ie/shortlist/clearances/

 

What I learned from My Mother by Julia Kaldorf

http://etyistheword.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/what-i-learned-from-my-mother-julia.html

 

My Mother Worries About My Hat by Richard Jarette

http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/columns/detail/572

 

My Mother by Ruby Robinson https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/57459

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