Highlights: 5 - 11 August, 2024

New Art Highlights of the week includes: Ronnie Danaher, Iain Hales, Yoonjung Kim and Samantha Jones

Like a Prayer (WIP), 2024

Ronnie Danaher

A film in the style of a music video exploring the legendary Saint Wilgefortis, inspired by the cult classic song Like a Prayer by Madonna, donk music, the Leeds queer scene, and purgatory.

Koshi Nage, 2022

Iain Hales

Jesmonite, MDF, ceramic tiles, grout and aluminium.

“Koshi Nage” is inspired by suffragist Edith Garrud’s use of jujitsu in teaching women self defence. Garrud (1872-1971) played a central role in training the WSPU’s Bodyguard Unit, known popularly in the press as the “Suffrajitsu”

The work’s colour-pallet is derived from the colours used in UK Suffragette movement’s insignia - purple, white and green.  The blocky architectural fragments are redolent of the bricks suffragettes carried in their handbags and used to smash windows as part of their protests.

Soft Tetrahedron Activity, 2021

Yoonjung Kim

Embroidered fabric triangular pyramid pouch, traingular pyramid headdress, smock, 36 small stuffed triangular pyramids

Homebaked, 2010 - 2020

Samantha Jones

Co-led the artistic development of  ‘Homebaked’  - a Liverpool Biennial commission with Dutch Socially engaged artist Jeanne van Heeswijk.  ‘Homebaked’  is a durational project in Anfield , Liverpool, which was presented at Liverpool Biennial Festival and is an internationally recognised exemplar of artist led community urban development. Samantha was also the embedded artist researcher culminating in her doctorate in durational art practice.