JOY EXHIBITION

JOY - A collection of recycled sculptures by Faith Bebbington 

10th – 16th November 2023, Royal Liver Building, Pier Head Liverpool

dot-art Press Release extract:

Bebbington has a diverse range of sculptures on exhibit including works from her Joy collection which inspired the title of the exhibition ‘Joy’. Faith’s work acknowledges our need to find JOY, as we navigate through tough times. Seventeen new small-scale recycled paper sculptures will be presented. All created with waste paper as the key material. The patterned papers used to create the paper mache surface were collected over time by neighbours, friends and colleagues. 

This will be the first time since showing with dot-art in 2017, that the public with be able to purchase a Faith Bebbington sculpture, something that has been reserved for public commissions only during that time. 

Faith has created many animal sculptures over her career and now debuts five new hybrid, domestic pet-like Creatures; sculptures of stretching, growling and slinking creatures whose fur coats are made from waste plastic milk bottles. 

JOY includes her large-scale public pieces that you may recognise from their temporary homes around Liverpool. “Jimmy” the work horse sculpture shown on Liverpool Plinth in 2021 and “Super Rat” which lived on the Baltic Skatepark wall offering a chance to see public domain works, up close and personal. 

In addition to the exhibition, you will have the opportunity to meet the artist and learn more about her process at events taking place in the Royal Liver Building during the exhibition week. From the opening evening, a lunchtime workshop, to informal chats with the artist while in residence.

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