Introduction To Multi-Media For Disabled People

Red Dot are staging eight workshops, specifically aimed at disabled people, relating to different aspects of multi-media. The workshops will cover the following subjects:-

Making a modern day photo album
Designing a poster
Video and animation
Printing a photograph or painting onto a T-shirt
Making a very short film
Mask making
Manipulation of a photograph
Making an audio and music mix/tape

The workshops will be staged - one per day (10-30am to 1-30pm) between Monday 6th September - Thursday 9th September and Monday 13th September - Thursday 16th September. The day of each workshop will be finalised shortly.

There is NO CHARGE to attend the workshops. People can attend more than one workshop.

Following the workshops an exhibition of a selection of the work created during the sessions will be held. This will run from Monday 20th September to Friday 1st October.

The workshops and exhibition will be staged at the Liverpool Centre for Arts Development (LCAD) based on Brownlow Hill in Liverpool city centre. The building has full access for disabled people.

Transport will be provided (minibuses or taxis) to bring disabled people to LCAD and then back home.

For more details about the workshops contact project co-ordinator Colin Serjent 07759 525 075 or email colinserjent@hotmail.com

Introduction To Social Networking For Disabled People

Red Dot are staging six workshops, specificaly aimed at disabled people, relating to various aspects of social networking. The workshops will cover the following subjects:-

Facebook, FlickR, Use of mobile phone cameras, YouTube, Blogs, Twitter

The workshops will be run - one per day (10-30am to 1-30pm) from Monday 11th October - Wednesday 13th October and Monday 18th October - Wednesday 20th October. The day of each workshop will be finalised shortly.

There is NO CHARGE to attend the workshops.

The workshops will be staged at the Liverpool Centre for Arts Development (LCAD) based on Brownlow Hill in Liverpool city centre. The building has full access for disabled people.

Transport will be provided (mini-buses or taxis) to bring disabled people to LCAD and then back home.

For more details about the workshops contact project co-ordinator Colin Serjent 07759 525 075 or email colinserjent@hotmail.com

New exhibitions by Jane Fairhurst

Red Dot member Jane Fairhurst stages a solo show, titled 'Transition', at Gallery Oldham during the summer.

For over a century artists have used found objects and everyday items not normally considered as art, to inspire new transitions in their work. In this exhibition Jane exploits the availability of mass-produced children's toys to explore themes of current affairs, global politics and the environment.

Placing a new twist on the traditional children's toy, she uses brightly coloured toys to create mixed media sculptures. Darkly entertaining, the artworks play on different emotions, creating an exhibition that will be both humorous and sinister.

As well as the transition of items from real life to art, the exhibition title also refers to the development of Jane's move to collaborative practice with fellow artist, Tim Fielding. Fairhurst_Fielding won the West Lancashire Art Prize in 2009 with their mixed media city sculpture, 'Zing Xong'.

Transition runs from 24th July until 5th September. Mon-Sat 10am - 5pm. Sun 10am - 4pm.

Gallery Oldham is based in the Cultural Quarter in Greaves Street.

Along with Tim Fielding, Jane is then exhibiting as part of the 'DIY Integrated City' during the 2010 Liverpool Arts Biennial.

Serjent in 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.

Focus On Recycling

Red Dot member Colin Serjent staged a photography exhibition depicting various recycling projects in Liverpool.

Examples of recycling he 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.

He depicted the role of Red Dot 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.

Other proponents of recycling he featured in his exhibition include Pop Boutique, based in Whitechapel - who sell clothing created from recycled fabrics; the Moocha Lounge - who serve hot drinks in cups made from renewable resources; Otterspool Household Waste Recycling Centre; and Valley Fields Environmental Services.

Focus on Recycling took place at the Liverpool Centre for Arts Development (LCAD) from 26 April to 11 June 2010.

Art Is For Everyone

Red Dot staged an art project for young disabled people during May/June 2010 at the Liverpool Centre for Arts Development (LCAD). Titled 'Art Is For Everyone', it consisted of six workshops, providing participants the opportunity to learn a basic introduction to visual art techniques. Subjects covered were animation, collage, mosaics, drawing, sculpture and jewellery.

An exhibition was then held featuring all the artwork created in the workshops running from Monday 17th May to Friday 21st May.

Colin Serjent in Biennial exhibition

Colin is taking part in a photography exhibition, titled 'School Of Photography', during the 2010 Liverpool Arts Biennial. He will be taking part in a group show along with Jim Connolly and Frank Meaney. Other photographers will be asked to participate in the show.

It will be held at the Merchant Taylor's Girls' School in Crosby, which has a dedicated space for exhibitions.

Wendy Williams exhibitions in 2010

My work centres around the environment - how we treat it, and the way it responds back. I am greatly concerned about how we pollute the landscape with man-made materials.

Recognising that the average carrier bag may take up to a thousand years to decompose, I set out to reuse the discarded waste.

For the 2010 Liverpool Arts Biennial, I will be exhibiting at The Gallery, Stanhope St. Liverpool, Blackburne House, at METAL Edge Hill Railway Station and at Tate Liverpool.

New photographs by Colin Serjent 1/12/2009

A series of new photographs, taken during summer 2009, have been added to this website.

To view them access 'Photography' section on my home page and click on 'New Work'.