'Light Night' and 21 Steps Exhibition Finale

21 Steps from Newcastle upon Tyne
©2012 Liz Rushard
©2012 David Thomas Crawley
©2012 Up & Coming Art

As part of our closing event at Domino Gallery you can make offers on our artworks. YES make us an offer and we can either say yeah or neigh! 

Simply email us with YOUR BEST PRICE to info@upandcoming.org

Exhibition Finale

Friday 18th May 2012

Closing Event as part of Light Night

Domino Gallery, Liverpool

7:00pm – 9:00pm

The 21 Steps exhibition which has delighted art and music lovers with a 5 week plethora of audio and visual delights, closes its doors with a not to be missed finale, held at Domino Gallery, 11 Upper Newington, Liverpool, L1 2SR.

Four great musicians will be playing as part of our closing event and these will be Stan Ambrose on the Celtic Harp, Megan Thomas a singer songwriter, Jody Cooper a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and Joby Hardwick an acoustic, singer song-writer.

As part of our closing event David Thomas Crawley will be showing, for the first time, a film entitled ‘21 Steps - road to success’ on the steps he has taken in order to get Up & Coming Arts set up as a company. 

T-shirt design for Light Night
Keep your eyes out for these on Friday 18th May 2012 in and around Liverpool city centre as David will be filming with students from LJMU Liverpool Screen School. 
If you would like your chance of owning a T-shirt please contact info@upandcoming.org
PRICED at £15 per T-shirt with all funds raised going directly to Up & Coming Arts set up costs

©2012 David Thomas Crawley
©2012 Up & Coming Arts

People are being asked as part of the Light Night event to #tweetyourfeet @upandcomingarts whilst they walk around the venues on the night. These images will be added to a film David is working on and in the coming months will be shown via ArtPlayer TV and shown in other galleries internationally.

Laura’s Little Bakery will provide a variety of cupcakes, traditional cakes and puddings using locally-sourced ingredients. Laura has a fabulous coffee shop based in the Home Quarter 42 Hanover St, L1 3DN, UK. Cakes will be sold on Light Night for £1 and all funds raised will be given to her chosen charity Claire House.

The exhibition can still be seen up until Saturday 19th May 2012 at Domino Gallery, Liverpool.

Exhibition Finale

Friday 18th May 2012

Closing Event as part of Light Night

Studio 2 Parr Street

12:00pm - Late

As part of Light Night at Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool, L1 4JN our exhibition will still be up during Liverpool Sound City, so those of you attending Liverpool Sound City will still be able to enjoy the work.

The exhibition can still be seen up until Sunday 20^th May 2012 at Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool.

Up & Coming Arts presents: 21 Steps has been sponsored by Worthy Print, Revita-Laser and VoodooDog. 

David Thomas Crawley would like to personally thank the following people for their support: 

Felicity Wren, Gary Adlen, Andrea Mappouridis, Ian Worthington, Steve Dee, Ashanthi Holmes, John Haynes, David Scanlan, Karima Hamache, Matt Jones, Marc Anthony Vries, James Argyle, Vikki Mesham, Maria Mappouridis, George Smith, Ricardo Guerreiro, Sophie Bell, Paula Baines, Lynne Robertson, Drew Garber, Kirstie Roberts, DoES Liverpool and all exhibiting artists and any apologies if we have missed anyone!

STOP PRESS

Are you thinking setting up a business like we are currently doing.

Liverpool DoES Start Ups has an excellent weekend of events running from Friday 18th May - Sunday 20th May 2012. Tickets for this are priced at £20.

Up & Coming Arts team are attending this event and we hope that you can join us too! 

Light Night announced and #tweetyourfeet

Up & Coming Arts presents 21 Steps

'21 Steps from Berlin' 

©2012 Up & Coming Arts

 ©2012 Ophélie Karoni

CLOSING EVENT

Friday 18^th May 2012

Domino Gallery, Liverpool

7:00pm – 9:00pm (FREE)

Domino Gallery will open for our ‘closing event’ of 21 Steps exhibition that will happen as part of Light Night.

As part of our closing event David will be showing, for the first time, his film on the steps he has taken in order to get Up & Coming Arts set up as a company. We are planning to have live music during the evening and exploring ideas for other performances / events.

David Thomas Crawley will be showing a projection of his 21 Steps film he has taken. This will be shown alongside artists work within the exhibition. People are asked to film or photograph their feet whilst walking around the Light Night, this can be submitted via or social media websites on YouTube, Vimeo and ArtPlayer TV. 

This is a competition to see how many steps you are taking around Light Night. Please upload these to our channel or send your submissions to info@upandcoming.org  subject heading ‘Light Night Competition’


OR for those of you using twitter please #tweetyourfeet #21steps to us here @upandcomingarts

'21 Steps from Oxford' 

©2012 Up & Coming Arts

 ©2012 Andy Roe

'21 Steps from Liverpool' 

©2012 Up & Coming Arts

 ©2012 Lauren Lolzypop

CLOSING EVENT

Friday 18^th May 2012

Studio 2 Parr Street

12:00pm - 6:00pm (FREE)

6:00pm - LATE (Wristbands)

21 Steps is also happening at Studio 2 Parr Street with music from Liverpool Sound City. In order to gain entry to this part of the exhibition wristbands must be purchased via their site.

21 Steps exhibition ends on Saturday 19^th May 2012 at Domino Gallery and Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool.

Artists exhibiting at both venues

Jim Turner, Sooim Jeong, Teresa Wilson, Bernie Howden, Wayne Chisnall, Alice Lenkiewicz, Kimberley Bevan, Simon Adam Yorke, David Thomas Crawley, Jude Hill, James Argyle, Clive Wheeler, Carrie Alisha, Ophelie Karoni, Louise Morgan, Hannah Bitowski, Maria Mappouridis, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Seb Aiken, Alex Corina, Simon Mack, Felicity Wren, Chris Francis, Roman Taher and Marc 
Anthony Vries.

Thanks to Felicity Wren at Domino Gallery and to Ashanthi Holmes, Steve Dee and Jess Lea at Studio 2 Parr Street for being our host venues.

Thanks to our sponsors of 21 Steps Liverpool FC, Worthy Print and Revita-Laser for making this exhibition all possible!

The future starts here and Liverpool will be getting ready for our Sept 2012 launch. Stay tuned Liverpool!

Giant Uncle spotted David

'Giant Uncle spotted David'
©2012 Up & Coming Arts

©2012 Lauren Coombs

What a weekend it was and amazing experience had by all in Liverpool and thanks to Royal de Luxe for the Giant Spectacular weekend!


We announced that we had a competition and have received a few images of David Thomas Crawley filming the Giant Uncle on Saturday 21st April 2012. We are happy to announce that our winners image was taken by local Liverpool photographer Lauren Coombs who caught David in the act of filming. Well done and her special prize will be coming very soon!


We are in the process of planning a closing event as part of Light Night here in Liverpool on Friday 18th May 2012 to take place at Domino Gallery. Further details will be released towards the end of the month. Wonder what we have planned? SSSShhhhhhhhh!!!!!


In the meantime we have our website up and running showing our artists work as part of Up & Coming Arts presents 21 Steps at Domino Gallery and Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool.

Giant weekend

Up & Coming Arts is now starting to take shape.

With 21 Steps show up and running here in Liverpool at Domino Gallery and Studio 2 Parr Street until Sat 19th May 2012.

COMPETITION

David Thomas Crawley will be filming during the weekend of the Giant Spectacular and there will be a prize for anyone that photographs him working hard on a new piece to be shown at Domino Gallery as part of Light Night on Friday 18th May 2012. Further details will be released next week.

©2012 Up & Coming Arts
©2012 David Thomas Crawley

Take a photograph of David working near to the Giant's and email this to info@upandcoming.org with a subject heading 'Giant Spectacular' to claim a prize!

Hope all in Liverpool and visitors to the city enjoy what the Little Giant Girl and the Giant Uncle get up to this weekend!

FACT Connects and linking to Up & Coming Arts

David is busy today at FACT Connects and is working very hard to ensure that Up & Coming Arts gets established here in Liverpool.

We have made plenty of good contacts here today and have just connected to Art Player TV and have opened our new TV channel click here

Yes we have Vimeo and Youtube but as our company now develops we are wanting to work with like minded artists based firstly in Liverpool but even more so further afield.

If you would like to be a part of the Up & Coming crowd and do some filming for us please email us at info@upandcoming.org 

Up & Coming Arts presents: 21 Steps

'21 Steps' 
David Thomas Crawley
Canvas Detail
Spray, Original Shoes, Canvas

©2012 Up & Coming Arts
©2012 David Thomas Crawley

Up & Coming Arts presents: 21 Steps


Sat 14th April - Sat 19th May 2012

Domino Gallery

11 Upper Newington, 

Liverpool, 

L1 2SR

Wednesday - Saturday
11:00am - 5:00pm
OR by appointment

Studio 2

33-45 Parr Street, 

Liverpool, 

L1 4JN

Open Daily
12:00pm - 11:00pm

Artists exhibiting at both venues

Jim Turner, Sooim Jeong, Teresa Wilson, Bernie Howden, Wayne Chisnall, Alice Lenkiewicz, Kimberley Bevan, Simon Adam Yorke, David Thomas Crawley, Jude Hill, James Argyle, Clive Wheeler, Carrie Alisha, Ophelie Karoni, Louise Morgan, Hannah Bitowski, Maria Mappouridis, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Seb Aiken, Alex Corina, Simon Mack, Felicity Wren, Chris Francis, Roman Taher, Marc Anthony Vries and Illy.




Light Night @ Domino Gallery
Friday 18th May 2012
Further details to be announced next week.


Light Night @ Studio 2 Parr Street
Friday 18th May 2012 
Brought to you by Liverpool Sound City

Up & Coming Arts: 21 Step. - Artists, Musicaians and DJs announced

©2012 Up & Coming Arts
©2012 Maria Mappouridis

Here is a little snippet of a painting from one of our successful artists Maria Mappouridis who is showing at Up & Coming Arts presents: 21 Steps exhibition at Studio 2 Parr Street. This exhibition is held at 2 venues Domino Gallery and Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool.

Artists Announced

Jim Turner, Sooim Jeong, Teresa Wilson, Bernie Howden, Wayne Chisnall, Alice Lenkiewicz, Kimberley Bevan, Simon Adam Yorke, David Thomas Crawley, Jude Hill, James Argyle, Clive Wheeler, Carrie Alisha, Ophelie Karoni, Louise Morgan, Hannah Bitowski, Maria Mappouridis, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Seb Aiken, Alex Corina, Simon Mack, Felicity Wren, Chris Francis, Roman Taher, Marc Anthony Vries and Illy.

Musicians 

Qatsi, Fonetiks and We the Undersigned.

DJs 

Orge, Zodiac, Proofio, Mr. Skiver, Simon Mack

The Private View is tomorrow night  at Domino Gallery and Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool. This is a free event and donations will be requested on the door to help pay for bands and DJs expenses. We are pulling together as a new company and have plenty more in store.

CLICK HERE for Guest List.

Maria is has been helping David Thomas Crawley, Director/Artistic Director, Matt Jones, Music Director and Karima Hamache of Your Business Projects to help all this launch come together.

Up & Coming Arts presents: 21 Steps is the third exhibition and will establish the company here in Liverpool. Successful links have been made with Sheffield, Manchester, London and more importantly New York City. Getting ready Liverpool. Come help us party!

Up & Coming Arts presents: 21 Steps
Sat 14th April - Sat 19th May 2012
Domino Gallery, 11 Upper Newington, Liverpool, L1 2SR
Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool, L1 4JN

Light Night @ Domino Gallery
Friday 18th May 2012
Further details released next week. SSSShhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Light Night @ Studio 2 Parr Street
Friday 18th May 2012

Liverpool DoES Start Ups

©2012 Up & Coming Arts
©2012 DoES Liverpool
©2012 David Thomas Crawley

Up & Coming Arts and DoES Liverpool
'Office View in Spring Time'

Up & Coming Arts has now teamed with DoES Liverpool and will be announcing in the Summer 2012 some exciting things that will be happening!

FIRSTLY @ DoES Liverpool, Unit 3, 4th Floor, Gostins Building, Hanover Street, Liverpool, L1 4LN

Liverpool DoES Start Ups - 18th May - 20th May 2012 - weekend event at DoES Liverpool

TICKETS cost £20 (plus booking fee) for the this fabulous event happening that UCA Staff are attending and thanks to Francis Fish for putting on this event. A wealth of knowledge and in helping young businesses to start up here in Liverpool. Let's face it, in times of hardship look at how 'Red or Dead' started out! It's Liverpool, I'm Liverpool and together We're Liverpool!

What is it?

Just when you thought your apathy was safe for another year, and the dream of fun and freedom owning your own business was placed safely behind your glazed eyes on the way to the rat-race job, along comes Liverpool DoES Startups:

• Do you have a business idea burning a hole in your brain?
• Do you want to work with a team of other people taking an idea and transforming it into a business?
• Do you want to learn useful business ideas like the Lean Canvas?
• Do you want to know how to fail fast and find success?
• Do you want to meet people you can work with in a great team that can achieve?
• Do you know you can help the person with the great idea and be a great team player?
• Do you want to do something different?

Artists nearly ready.....

'Smile' 2012

Ophélie Karoni & David Thomas Crawley

Taken at new offices with IMac and conversation between Liverpool and Berlin via Skype

©2012 Up & Coming Arts

©2012 David Thomas Crawley

David Thomas Crawley has been talking to Ophélie Karoni currently based in Berlin, Germany for the past few months. We are pleased to announce that David and Ophélie will be working towards a new project ready titled 'Voodoo Bankers and Cashless Society' to coincide with the forthcoming Liverpool Biennial in September 2012. 


Successful links have been made between Up & Coming Arts and We Are Plural and further announcements will be made in the coming months.


No David has not lost his marbles! Simply seeing a lot of artists work using his IMac in our new offices has created a new piece of work entitled 'Smile' 2012.


Up & Coming Arts presents: 21 Steps announcement of artists on Monday 9th April 2012. Our website will launch on Thursday 12th April 2012


Are you part of the Up & Coming crowd? Launching at Domino Gallery and Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool, UK on Friday 13th April 2012. Unlucky for some but NOT us! Up & Coming Bands and DJs will be announced this week and we have a few that we are so happy about. 


Up & Coming Arts - 21 Steps Real Ale launched brewed specially for this show by artist and master brewer Jim Turner.


FREE event so ensure you fill in our guest list as only 200 available due to the size of Studio 2 Parr Street CLICK HERE

Sponsors for our forthcoming 21 Steps show announced

Up & Coming Arts we are pleased to announce that we have been sponsored by Liverpool Football Club, Worthy Print  and Revita Laser for our forthcoming show 21 Steps. Thanks to our sponsors this exhibition has been able to go ahead with no charges given over to artists on this occasion.

Further work has been done in kind by David Thomas Crawley, Matt Jones at Key Music Solutions , Karima Hamache at Your Business Projects and Marc Anthony Vries at MAV Design that make up the team at Up & Coming Arts (soon to be CIC later in 2012).

David is seeking advice from LJMU and other business set ups at this stage to launch a major show this coming September 2012 to coincide with Liverpool Biennial 2012 and Liverpool Independents Biennial 2012. Watch this space.......

Massive thanks to Felicity Wren at Domino Gallery, Steve Dee at Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool for believing in what we are about to do here in Liverpool and to the team at DoES Liverpool for allowing us to set up our new offices.


On Monday 9th April 2012 we will announce our successful artists that will be showing at Domino Gallery and Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool and to musicians, bands, DJs etc that will be playing at our launch on Friday 13th April 2012. CLICK HERE for guest list as only 200 available!

Announcing our New Office Space at DoES Liverpool

Up & Coming Arts CIC now has a new office space based at DoES Liverpool. Thanks to the lads at DoES for allowing us the opportunity to have office space here.

We are still working with Domino Gallery and Felicity Wren, Owner and have some exciting plans in store over the coming months! Stay tuned!

Stay tuned as we are getting ready to launch with 21 Steps on Friday 13th April 2012 at Domino Gallery and Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool.

Our new postal address is as follows:

Up & Coming Arts CIC, Unit 3, 4th Floor, Gostins Building, Hanover Street, Liverpool, L1 4LN

Stay tuned with future developments......

A good site to keep your eye on is www.itsliverpool2020.com 

Up & Coming Arts presents: 21 Steps

Sat 14th April - 19th May 2012
Domino Gallery, Liverpool
Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool

We have had plenty of wonderful submissions and some very good names to add to the mix! We are currently finalising our 21 artists that will be showing as part of our third exhibition 21 Steps. Names will be released in the coming days and our website will launch on 12th April 2012.

If you would like to help the party in Liverpool get started with FREE tickets to our launch on Friday 13th April 2012 at Domino Gallery and Studio 2 Parr Street simply fill in our online form. There are only 200 tickets for Studio 2 Parr Street and Matt Jones - Music Director at Up & Coming Arts (Key Music Solutions) has a few very good bands, DJs and MCs to make the party go with a bang!

CLICK HERE for your FREE ticket for Up & Coming Arts presents 21 Steps launch on Friday 13th April 2012. 1+3=4 so very lucky day for some especially Ladies Day at the Grand National!

Thanks to Liverpool Football Club for sponsoring this show and believing in what David is doing within the city of Liverpool. We will have a few more announcements to make in the coming months!!!!

'21 STEPS' exhibition DEADLINE 01/04/2012

Up & Coming Arts presents: 21 Steps exhibition

Domino Gallery and Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool

Sat 14th April - Sat 19th May 2012

 Sponsored by Liverpool Football Club

Our theme for this exhibition is for the amount of steps that David has taken since his first year of his BA(Hons) Fine Art course. He has revisit a canvas that he made from shoes and this has been the basis and starting point for this exhibition. ANY media can be used and the title is specific to steps taken in order to set this new arts organisation up. Artists can take this theme and use any media they wish for this application process. If you use multi media ie video artists must supply their own equipment.

This is on online application process for the forthcoming launch of Up & Coming Arts fundraising exhibition at Domino Gallery and Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool. Do you want to be a part of the Up & Coming crowd! Links being made with London, NYC, LA and China. Getting ready Liverpool.

OPEN FREE SUBMISSION with 21 selected artists chosen to showcase a piece(s) of work selected and curated by Crawley&Wren.

APPLICATION FORM DEADLINE 01/04/2012 at 23:59

Exhibition times and dates

Sat 14th April - Sat 19th May 2012

21 selected artists will be showing as part of Up & Coming Arts presents: '21 Steps' at Domino Gallery and Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool, UK

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Domino Gallery (Wed - Sat 11:00am - 5:00pm OR by appointement)

Studio 2 Parr Street (7 days 12:00pm - 12:00am OR by appointment)

Selected musicians, bands and DJs/MCs will also be playing at our launch party on Friday 13th April 2012.

Matt Jones - Music Director is sorting this out and further details will be released over the coming few weeks. If you are local to Liverpool or know of anyone within this industry please Email: matt@upandcoming.org Subject: 21 Steps Music Launch details.

'LIGHT NIGHT'

Friday 18th May 2012

David Thomas Crawley will be showing a performance video projected onto the window of Domino Gallery from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Hope you can join us for this FREE event.

Studio 2 Parr Street will be showcasing bands from Sound City but work by Up & Coming Arts will be displayed as part of their event.

ANNOUNCING new staff on board

Here at Up & Coming Arts we have successfully made links to Sheffield (the home of the steel). David has now appointed Matt Jones as Music Director (Key Music Solutions) and Marc Anthony Vries as Creative Director (Marc Anthony Vires). Both Matt and Marc have a wealth of experience within their industries and will be ensuring that links between our two great cities will be possible.

It has been a very busy couple of weeks with the GEC 2012 and both David and Karima have been run off their little feet with networking for both their own businesses David Thomas Crawley and Karima Hamache with Your Business Projects and also for Up & Coming Arts.

Stay tuned as further news will be released over the coming week.....

Announcing new staff for 2012 and further developments

Here at Up and Coming Arts (soon to be a CIC) later in the year. We are currently seeking advice from LJMU and Pacific Stream Enterprise for this purpose.

David is happy to announce that he has appointed Karima Hamache of Your Business Projects as Directors Assistant/Admin Manager. Karima has plenty of experience in business and has her own company set up at Basecamp3 here in Liverpool, UK.

David was on BBC Radio Merseyside yesterday with Roger Phillips phone in on BBC Radio Merseyside (scroll to 42.56).

David Thomas Crawley is currently based in Domino Gallery in Liverpool and a big thank you to Felicity Wren for allowing him and Up & Coming Arts to be located there.

Thanks to Gary Adlen at Liverpool FC for sponsoring David to attend the GEC in March 2012 here in Liverpool.

Remember It's Liverpool, I'm Liverpool and together We're Liverpool!

©2012 Up and Coming Arts

©2012 David Thomas Crawley

Sponsors sort

Up & Coming Arts are in the process of setting up as a CIC this year and are currently seeking sponsors for our events this year that will happen as part of Liverpool Independents Biennial 2012. We are seeking advice from LJMU and Pacific Stream Enterprises based in Liverpool, UK.

Up & Coming Arts seeks a Part Time administrator. DEADLINE 31/03/2012

Up & Coming Arts seeks a Part Time administrator. (VOLUNTARY) 20 Hours

DEADLINE 31/03/2012

Up & Coming Arts is setting up as a Community Interest Company later this summer and will be based at Domino Gallery, Liverpool. It will build upon the success of exhibitions in 2008 Up & Coming Exhibition (Crawley & Ali) at Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool and more recent in 2010 Up & Coming: ‘Giz a Touch’ (Crawley & Trappe) as part of Liverpool Independents Biennial.

It is important that candidate be based in Liverpool as this is an unpaid opportunity without expenses. ALL staff at present are working for free but are working hard to gain funding.

The candidate must demonstrate exceptional organisational and time management skills, as well as the ability to multitask, take initiative, and work well under pressure. Strong written and verbal communication skills and an acute attention to detail are necessary. You should have excellent understanding of and experience with Mac / PC operating systems and be proficient in Microsoft Office, and CS3/CS4 packages that include PhotoShop, InDesign and Illustrator. You will have your own laptop with access to high speed internet connection.

The candidate will have a degree in Fine Art, Graphics or some other Arts related course. You will work closely with the Director, Directors Assistant, staff and artists in the organisation of exhibitions at Domino Gallery and in the coordination of other venues in the city of Liverpool and further a field.

Please email a 2 page covering letter FAO: David Thomas Crawley, Director, Up & Coming Arts and a CV with 2 references (telephone numbers and email addresses)
info@upandcoming.org