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black and white photograph of a band with their name SPINOFFS typed in the corner

Spinoffs

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Photograph of a white man with white hair, wearing a suit. He seems to be presenting to a group of people (who we don't see) as he's holding a book and looking up as if speaking to a crowd He is smiling,

Music with Peter Rainsford Presents

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illustrated image of a young girl in green surrounded by various mythological figures from Irish folklore. Letters read Brave Maeve.

Brave Maeve: writer reading for kids

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Flat hand holding pile of books

Books and Banter

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"It's A Savoy!" by Jo Morris, image for the New Light Prize exhibition. A black background with a photograph of a hand holding a lettuce straight up. The hand and arm are slightly green-tinted.

COMING SOON: The New Light Prize

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Birkenhead International Film Festival

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An artwork with a roughly hand-shaped outline, with swirled patterns painted within in black and white. Against a pure white background. Artwork by Kirushan Sivagnanam.

Kirushan Sivagnanam: Nightmares

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sketch in colour of a nude man's torso

Life Drawing

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Photograph by Carlo Favore of a true-to-life painting of a red-and-white car light. By artist Helene Appel

Helene Appel: Among Trees, Among Sand Grains

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black and white photograph taken on West Kirby waterfront overlooking the Marine Lake, part of Jonathan Cooper's exhibition series Life Line. Photo shows a bin and we can see right through the gap for rubbish to the other side of the lake, where we see two figures, one pushing another in a wheelchair. The effect is of tiny people walking on the edge of the bin.

Life Line: Photographs by Jonathan Cooper

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graphic design of red geometric shapes (squares, lines, circles) on a yellow background. The shapes are arranged into a 3x3 square grid.

ENDED: Wirral Society of Arts Members Exhibition 2023

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Detail of a watercolour by Rob Davies which appears to show a large human figure looking away from a same-sized island of land. The island is about the same size as the figure and they're both loosely depicted in browns, greens blues and other natural tones

ENDED Rob Davies – Watercolours

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black and white photograph of a set of railings which has been bent, as though perhaps smashed into by a car. Photograph into LCR Photo Awards by Harry Flook.

ENDED: LCR Photo Award Winners

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Collage by Harold Hewitt depicting the upper level of Chester Rows. Painted scene with collage elements of people and pigeons placed over the top

ENDED: Harold Hewitt: Life Is A Collage

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ENDED: observers&makers: pop-up exhibition

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ENDED: Wirral Met Degree Show 2023

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photograph by Igor Chekachkov taken from above (birds-eye view) of a woman playing a piano.

ENDED: Home. Resistance

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photograph from a display case showing two paintings by Keith Gardner of Birkenhead Park.

ENDED: Birkenhead Park 175

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painting of flowers - very light touch and delicate style

ENDED: The Williamson Open Retrospective

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ENDED: The Williamson Open 2023

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ENDED: Kathleen Guthrie and Cecil Stephenson: Life in Abstraction

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nine circles of lace arranged in a 3x3 grid, looking like images of a petri dish through a microscope

ENDED: Michael Brennand-Wood: The Encirclement Of Space

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a black background with a photograph of an astronaut in a space suit

Apollo Remastered

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wooden sculpted & painted relief of a woman's face. She has blonde hair and looks determined. One arm is raised above her head and she is holding something with a wooden handle.

ENDED: Christine Kowal Post: They Think They Are Fallen Angels

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a square of stitched cloth wih a red and pink border & background and in the centre a black circle willed with hearts of various mixed colours

ENDED: The Covid Chronicle

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a small sculptural house sitting within a brick wall niche, looks like outside wall

ENDED: The Forgotten

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ENDED: Wirral Society of Arts Members Exhibition

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sepia photograph from early 20th century of a group of artists sitting at easels and working. Mixture of men and women,

ENDED: Liver Sketching Club 150th Anniversary

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square section of a black and white work by Martin McCoy, abstract white waves cutting through a black space.

ENDED: Sweeney’s Unquiet Islands

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text reading space is the place and the names f the artists, Patric Rogers and Angelo Madonna. Text in red against a black & white photograph background where we see people in long white robes walking away from the viewer and a ig sky with clouds in the distance

ENDED: Space Is The Place

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composite image featuring the Williamson Art Gallery building surrounded by sculptures or birds, animals and people against the backdrop of a bright blue sky with some clouds.

ENDED: Emma Rodgers: Wunderkammer

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painted scene of a large sunset, the sun is low in the sky casting rays into a bright blue patch with clouds at the edges. In the foreground is a path along which a family (including young children) walk, we presume home from a day in fields.

ENDED: An Individual Selection from the Williamson’s Collection

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ENDED: Wallasey Amateur Photographic Society

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Abstract painting in shades of blue, looks like a grid of squares but in the centre where the background is lighter blue the squares flip, turn to red and distort their shape

ENDED: Towards Abstraction

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square photo of a child smiling with their arms outstretched across a wall covered in Ladybird book covers

ENDED: The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists

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Top of a playbill in 1923 reading "Argyle Theatre of Varities" and beginning to list the acts

ENDED: Twice Nightly: The Argyle Theatre Remembered

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black and white background with an abstrct image on it with text over reading "fusion graduate exhibition"

ENDED: Wirral Met Degree Show 2022

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a portrait of a woman wearing full mayoral regalia - red cloak, chain and tricorner hat, sitting at a desk

ENDED: Facing The Subject

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installation of individual household objects cast in white ceramic, suspended from orange ropes

ENDED: Stephen Dixon: Maiolica and Migration

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composite of the six images in Grayson Perry's print series 'Six Snashots of Julie'. All feature the image of a woman, Julie Cope, at different stages and places in her life. Featured image for 'a day in the life' exhibition

ENDED: A Day In The Life

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Square insert of A watercolour of Devils Kitchen. Mountains in the background loom over a lake, of which we only see a little bit, with rocks in the foreground. It's a misty/cloudy day and there's yellow-green heath on the ground.

ENDED: George Cockram

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An off-white sculpture of a fox, photographed against a white background/

ENDED: Brigitte Jurack: What’s Left Behind

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David Hillhouse ‘Shop Front, Birkenhead’

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head of a man with brown hair and a white shirt leaning out a window.

Graham Dean, ‘Foreign Correspondent’

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A scene which appears to be in a hot country. We see a road leading towards a mountain; all of the land is shades of light yellow. The sky is blue. There are two spindly trees, and another casting shadows from outside of the picture frame. Featured image for "Your Williamson"

ENDED: Your Williamson

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Landscape painting of Leo Tolstoy sitting on a garden bench. He is dressed in a long white peasant blouse and has a white beard. On the left hand side are two silver birches.

ENDED: The Great Outdoors

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black and white print of rooftops, include a church dome

ENDED: William T Rawlinson: 1912-1993

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A painting by Mavis Blackburn of a large shed building. Most of the walls are painted in shades of green. Outside is a selection of various objects and a lawnmower.

Mavis Blackburn ‘Garden Shed, Upton Hall’

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Kirket Lane, Bebington, Wirral

Harold Hopps ‘Kirket Lane, Bebington, Wirral’

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Grey, cube and rectangular shapes box-shaped buildings stacked on top of each other with a green hill in the background against a dark sky in broad brushstrokes.

Jack Coburn Witherop ‘Grey Cubic Landscape’

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Resources

Learning, Schools

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A painting of a man in a hi-vis jacket and wooly hat, on a bus or a train. It's dark outside and we can see his reflection in the windows

ENDED: Williamson Open Art & Photography Exhibition 2022

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face of marble Pauline sculpture

Giulio Tadolini, ‘Pauline’

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Torchères

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Evelyn de Morgan ‘Medea’

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Polyphon

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Della Robbia

Della Robbia Ceramics

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Arthur Dooley, ‘Satan’

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Self-portrait of a young man, face full-on, drawn in reddish-orange

Stanley Spencer, “Self-Portrait”

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