UPSTREAM

AN EXHIBITION BY

NOT JUST

COLLECTIVE

AT THE SECRET TERRACE

Not Just Collective was formed in

2012 by members of Liverpool Biennial's

volunteer team to provide a platform for

exhibiting their own work. We have

continued as an independent collective,

welcoming new members and

collaborating with other groups.

'Upstream' is our sixth exhibition and

draws inspiration from water. Our show

explores the character and resonances

of this most essential ingredient of life.

Throughout the duration of the show we

will be hosting a series of activities and

workshops drawing on the themes of

the exhibition.

Launch Night Saturday 22nd November, 7PM

Art Club discusses Upstream Sunday 30th November 2PM

Meditation Monday 1st December 4PM

Film screening/Food share Monday 8th December 7PM

Showing ‘Rivers and Tides’ and ‘Blue Gold’.

Please bring food to share (preferably non-

packaged and vegetarian).

Andy Johnson

Waterscapes #1- 9

Video (6mins)

2014

This is a series of videos shot this year

which were originally taken for the

amusement of Facebook friends but

has developed into something more

meaningful.

I am interested in how moving images

sometimes can be similar to still

images whether photographs or

paintings.

I worked for Liverpool Libraries for

nearly 40 years before taking a

redundancy deal. Since then I have set

up an Art Club, begun storytelling and

producing art with Not Just Collective.

Tom George

Manhole

Video (6mins)

2014

This is part of an ongoing project looking at

work and masculine identity.

The subterranean water system is a metaphor

for the elusive nature of masculine identity.

Traditionally male-dominated industries such

as civil engineering offered clearly defined

masculine roles for generations. But mass

unemployment through the 70s and 80s and a

changing job market has led to a much-

discussed ‘crisis of masculinity’ as men

struggled to identify with clear, positive roles.

At the same time the manhole cover became a

focus for debates around language and gender

roles.

Tom George is a musician, writer and

videographer.

Kitty McKay

Tap

Mixed media

2014 This piece is reflective of how I view water, fragility

and impermanence. Water pours into our natural

world, powering a beautiful machine of

regeneration.

A continuous cycle of life and death, beauty and

decay, Investment and sacrifice. I wanted to

explore how something as simple and domestic

as a tap could be so vital and life giving. I am

fascinated by ecology and how the natural world

around us emulates our human vulnerabilities.

We are impermanent, our state of mind

is impermanent, our world is too.

Kevin Newbold

Photographs

2014

Water physically makes up most of what

we are…yet most of who we are is

metaphysical…

In a trance like meander I am drawn to

water in so much of my photography…

whether it be showing a scene of

tranquility or beauty, or capturing a

moment of happiness or sadness. These

images are depictive of some of those

moments since our last Not Just Collective

showing.

@kevnewbold

kjnewbold@gmail.com

Tony OConnell

'I pay homage to all the shrines and places

in which the Bodhisattvas have been'.

(Part 3)

Photo Record Of Performance/

Pilgrimage and Mixed Media

2014

I am concerned with the imagery of religious hierarchy

and seek to reclaim and subvert often oppressive

language from the position of the excluded and the

outsider. I transform images from my Christian

upbringing into queer ritual. I explore Buddhist

ceremony and symbols to open new dialogues and

paths forward. I choose new saints and Bodhisattvas.

In summer I visited the Alan Turing statue in Manchester by Glyn Hughes as part of

my ongoing sequence of LGBTI secular pilgrimages to offer water and to sit at the

feet of the saint.

Saint Alan Turing, whose work saved millions of lives, who was martyred by the

judiciary – Ora Pro Nobis

Steph Rooney

Secret Terrace

2014

This 1890's terrace house, and its resident, are part

of a housing co-operative. It gives home to food,

water, ideas...the basics. A place to retreat, share,

connect and nurture change. This show is one of

several pop-up events that will be hosted in the

space.

My work (life) involves uncovering the shared

wisdom upon which we interact. Facilitating

authentic communication and promoting well-

being for people and the planet. Working towards a

new philosophy for modern living. Finding practical

and sustainable solutions to the problems we face.

Distilling ideas into positive action.

Sean Robertson

85

Brick

2014

Contained within the solid walls of a terraced

house, individual bricks which have been altered

by their exposure to the sea, transformed from

manufactured uniformity to random shapes

determined by nature. The bricks have been

placed in a straight line at the start of the

exhibition, you are invited to move them within

the exhibition space.

Nicola Roscoe-Calvert

Studies for a triptych, ‘And But for

the Heavenly Music All was

Marvellously Still’

Mixed Media

2014

`It's gone!' sighed the Rat, sinking back in his

seat again. So beautiful and strange and

new. Since it was to end so soon, I almost

wish I had never heard it. For it has roused a

longing in me that is pain, and nothing

seems worth while but just to hear that

sound once more and go on listening to it for

ever. No! There it is again!' he cried, alert

once more.

Entranced, he was silent for a long space,

spellbound.

Now the river is rich, but her voice is low.

It is her Mighty Majesty the sea

Travelling among the villages incognito. Ted Hughes, The River in March

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