Sue Archer

Sue Archer’s work involves mainly textile techniques using paper, fabric recycled and found objects. Often the materials suggest the form of the work and by manipulating the fabric and threads a textured surface is achieved.

Cath Ball

Cath Ball’s sculptures are hand built using a mixture of clay and paper and represent fish life in the Mersey. They are glazed and fired using a process known as Raku. Raku is an ancient Japanese form of firing ceramics and is characterised by crackle and lustre finishes.

Jane Copeman

Landscape is a powerful metaphor for human experience. Observing and recording the fragile forms within the landscape is Jane’s constant preoccupation. The transient, organic forms she takes home make the marks and drawings in her prints. She uses both contemporary and traditional printmaking techniques in combination with photography to make work. In various lights and seasons, glimpsed across fields and woodlands, the Mersey forms an ever-changing backdrop to the walks around her Cheshire home.

Tony Evans

Tony’s exhibits reflect the huge strides made in reclaiming the natural environment from the waste and effluence that once contaminated it; they are made from waste metal sourced on Merseyside and re-cycled to show the resurgence of the native flora and fauna.
Parts of scrap household copper can be identified in Tony’s work, such as the cylinder inlets for eyes of Wild salmon. The interior of an old immersion cylinder is used in his landscape panel - the horizon details were created naturally by the rise and fall of the water level; a piece of art based on water, actually created by the water itself.

Kate Herbert

Working in painted collage, The Last Boatman by Kate Herbert illustrates the people who lived, worked and played around the Runcorn/Widnes divide of the River Mersey through history.

Carys Hughes

What lies at the bottom of the water? How many ripples form when we drop in a stone? Layers of different fabric, broken fragments of a ceramic doll, hand stitching, emulate observations into small pieces of captured moments of the Mersey River

Val Jackson

Val Jackson uses both collage and fabric to explore stories of the Mersey and the people and ships that have passed down it over the years, writing its history as it writes theirs. She includes text both to tell the stories and feature as part of the visual whole.

Barbara Lamb

An investigation into the rooms beneath Cammell Lairds shipyard; another world, silent and still. Echoes of the past surround the place as it slowly reverts back to nature. Once the largest employers in the area, now awaiting regeneration.

Mandy Oliphant

Mandy’s work explores a materials ability to be re-represented; exposing elements of our surrounding that would otherwise go unnoticed. This new narrative being created allows for further engagement with our surroundings and lets us reflect upon the ever changing environment and the transience of man.

Cliff Richards

Ebb and Flow, To and Fro, Come and Go
MerseyMudWare: Collect mud and glass from the Mersey, bake and make pretty objects to use

Mersey Vases: Collect the Mersey and put into glass vases and set on a sunny windowsill. Watch the wonderful changes that occur.

Cathy Rounthwaite

Concerned with structure, line and form, Cathy often references textiles, and has recently explored drawing three dimensionally. Here, she investigates the movement and texture of water, recording patterns created within positive and negative shapes. She works intuitively, the process often as important as the finished piece.

Sue Sharples

Rivers are constantly evolving, in a permanent ‘State of Flux’. This body of work is influenced by the speed and force of the tidal water and its cyclic rise and fall. Flow tides hold secrets hidden below the surface, whilst the receding ebb tides reveal life forms clinging to sea wall s in their plight for survival.

Angela Sidwell

Inspiration for Angela’s work is taken from the marks that she has documented on the banks of the Mersey; created by the pathway of the river as it turns, caresses and cuts through the mud and rocks that it contacts on its journey.

Claire Weetman

Claire has journeyed along the Mersey, from its source at Stockport, documenting the bridges that cross it. She has used string made into sculpture that measures the lengths of the bridges and photographs that show unusual juxtapositions between natural and urban environments.