AFTER more than two years’ silence, Liverpool’s Arena Gallery has re-opened.
This time, its home is within the Elevator Building, on Parliament Street, where its inaugural exhibition, Coller Elective, launched last week.
The gallery’s original base, on Duke Street, was closed when the area was taken over by Liverpool One developers.
Coller Elective presents four contemporary artists who work in collage.
They aim to tackle the historical and current implications associated with the medium in fresh and challenging ways. Katriona Beales draws inspiration from model-making for theatre, with her childhood dolls house and a treasure trove of early to mid-20th century photographs of Liverpool, while Fiona Curran creates artificial spatial planes that refer to Utopian and dystopian scenes.
Tracey Eastham constructs paper collages that are concerned with landscapes made up of stereotypes. Finally, Ben Washington is concerned with how people experience space both physically and conceptually.
COLLER Elective is at the Arena Gallery until May 16.
