November 2001 Poached Drawlab Tony Knox. Neil Winterburn. Sue Milburn. Allan Worswick. Ken O'Hare. John O'Neil. Andy Johnson. Gail Dowin stuw & clair. Franices. Keith.

Drawlab is a graguate artist scheame by ST Helens collage of Art, this programe was fonded by wane Roberson and is EU funded, all the artist’s logo’s were silk screen printed on to wallpaper border & repeated throughout the space about to inch’s above the floor giving a sense of group unity .the wallpaper boarder where also fly postard throught the city.

Poached at the egg November 6th to 24th
'Poached' is an exhibition of fine art produced by a group of art graduates who are based at St. Helens College, and is being held at the Egg Gallery in Liverpool, Newington street (off bold street)
Section about drawlab
The 12 talented artists have been successfully participating in the European Social Funded 'Drawlab' project, which offers both financial support and the opportunity to continue their work, to a selection of graduate art students from across Merseyside.
In addition to this the project also aids them in the transition from student to professional artist and raises the profile of both the individual and art in the community, an important step for any art graduate
Poached Tony Knox stated
"The plan is for the group to tour the work working towards Liverpool biennial 2002”
with Poached because of the diversities of the artists works, I realised that there needed to be something to bring all 11 artists work together, so all the artist’s logo’s were sink screen printed on to wallpaper border & repeated throughout the space about to inch’s above the floor giving a sence of group unity”
Tony Knox currently work at the egg is “Elvis has left the Building” depicting an American wrestler the Honky Tonk man while on tour in the north west, are silk-screened onto wallpaper the once famous Elvis themed Impersonator seems out of time, showing the pantomime of wrestling also quirky images of the wrestlers are placed throughout the space on windows, make the work surtal it changes the feel of the space at different times of the day you don’t realise that a face of a wrestler with red contact lens has been stareing at you the whole time you been drinking your tea etc.
“It’s important to make art work transform a gallery space, by making art fun it becomes less initiating to the viewer
tony Knox and Suesan Millburn , gail downy are all currently showning at the sefton open.

John O’Neil “Bank holiday weekend” is scene of the pub culture depicting mob type mentality where the pubs are lose there identity it’s a typical drunken Saturday free for all “
A body of 11 works by John O’Neil are permanently at the Casser bar (the Dockers Bar).

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Tony Knox (Curator)

EggSpace, 16-18 Newington Buildings, Newington, Liverpool, L1 4ED, England.