St Georges Hall
Initial Plans
In this semester we have been the task to exhibit in one of two public spaces. Either St Georges Hall or The Walker Art Gallery. This decision will determine what sort of work to produce over the next few months. After weighing up the pros and cons of each I resulted in choosing St Georges Hall because of the unique nature of it and its interesting history which will be the subject of my art. I left the Walker Gallery because of its restraints even though it has great reputation within the art culture in Liverpool.
Our first step was to research the background of the building because we didn't do a site visit first. In my opinion this will help because we'll know what to look out for when we do visit, such as locations associated with our research. In groups some went do to look around the building and others, like us, stayed and tried to find out as many odd facts and anecdotes as we could so later we all could share ideas and bounce off others findings. With it's rich history such as it's murder trials and lavish events, over the years the building has seen it's fair share of Liverpool's stars like the creator and the captain of the Titanic. Even though not all the stories can be proven, they gave great inspiration for ideas on what to exhibit.
From my own research I found the building's architecture to be the most interesting part of it's charm. Built in the 1840-50s, it holds a Victorian style mashed up with Greek temples towards the front. The actual details and design of it was based off water mythology. This can be found in its surrounding statues, the dolphins on the lamp posts and most of all in the Great Hall.
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