View Two Gallery art on show for the whole year

Jan 30 2008 by Philip Key, Liverpool Daily Post

LIVERPOOL’S commercial View Two Gallery in Mathew Street has scored something of a first in its field by producing a colourful brochure detailing all of its exhibitions for 2008.

They range from a French photographer’s portraits of female nudes to a first major exhibition by Liverpool-born, Berlin-based artist James Cummins.

The current show by Birkenhead artist Tom Palin, running until February 9, will be followed by work from Mike Rowan, an art school-trained artist who became a labourer but has recently returned to full-time painting using building trade items.

From March 13, Liverpool-born artist Elspeth Hamilton, now Cornwall-based, will show her new water- colours, oils and prints. Richard Meaghan, a Liverpool-based artist, will show his paintings from April 17, based, he says, around his recent holidays.

Irish artist Mike Absalom, whose exhibition My Irish Eyes on Liverpool, was one of the hits of the gallery’s 2007 season, will return with a new show The Peninsula.

His semi abstracts were created after visiting the remote Mullet Peninsula in the Barony of Erris, Co Mayo. From May 15, Eyes & Ears will be a mixture of art and live music with artists selected by gallery owner Ken Martin, who is working on his own drawings and prints of Liverpool..