Here to Become

The Bridewell Studios and Gallery, Liverpool 7-14 July 2023

Act 5 of the Material Matters collective was realised in the Bridewell Gallery and was the first show by our four founding artists as a new members’ co-operative.

From our new studio at the Bridewell the title Here to Become arose early in our conversations as a way of expressing the circular nature of authorship and creative expression as a collective. All of us were keen to be circumspect in our outcomes and to create a body of work designed to provoke a series of questions for visitors as apposed to one aiming to provide a set of answers.

The work that emerged from our collaboration was we hope a beautiful synthesis of individual methodologies with an overarching alignment with shared ideas of time and space, matter and spirit, moment and resonance, order and complexity.

Here to Become occupied both galleries in the Bridewell, the courtyard, plus the basement. Our preview evening was on the 6th July followed by two performances: Bod_j_ect by Angelo on the 12 July and a Long Table with all our artists on the 13 July.

Thank you to writers Patrick Kirk-Smith and Dr Catherine Morris for contributing two wonderful pieces of writing reflecting on our work, and to all the guests and visitors who visited and shared in our collective journey.