About this Event
Ali Barker - Synaesthesia and the Theatre
Join dot-art and LAF24 Artist Ali Barker for a 45 minute tour and talk about her experience of synaesthesia and her past theatre residency.
Saturday 17th August, 12:00pm - 12:45pm
FREE Event
Location:
Liverpool Art Fair, Royal Liver Building
Time:
12pm - Arrival
12:10pm -Meet the Artist, learn about the works on show and their practice
12:35pm - Questions
About Ali Barker
Ali Barker creates visual representations of music and sound in colour, inspired by her experiences of the phenomenon of sound-colour synaesthesia. When Ali listens to music, she perceives notes of the musical scale as specific colours, expressing these through abstract paintings. Ali is also an orchestral musician in her spare time, playing violin and viola. The music that she performs inspires some of her paintings; other works are inspired by the wide range of music she listens to, or by music chosen by a client for a commission.
Ali often works with patterns and geometric forms, creating works derived from translations of the written music or analysis of recorded sounds. Other paintings are expressive synaesthetic responses, made by directly applying the colours to the paper or canvas while listening to a specific piece of music, or a combination of these styles.
Ali is also inspired by architecture and skylines including complex cityscapes; however, she chooses to omit much of their detail and represent them as simplified forms. This is an area of her practice she has been expanding to include interior and exterior architecture of specific places. She then combines this with her experiences of being in those spaces, working with her same specific colour palette. During Ali’s residency at Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres (September 2023 – February 2024), she created a series of paintings responding to the contrasting architecture of the two theatres.
About Liverpool Art Fair
Liverpool Art Fair is an annual event, aiming to showcase a wide range of affordable original art by a plethora of local artists; providing a unique insight into the region’s creative talent and the opportunity for everyone, from seasoned collector to first time art buyer, to own their own piece of the Liverpool art world.
Pre-pandemic the event ran for eight years, launching in May 2012 as part of the inaugural Liverpool Art Month, at the then brand new Camp and Furnace. In 2017, we relocated to the Pier Head, in a purpose-built gallery constructed from five shipping containers! In 2019 we took Liverpool Art Fair to Metquarter, where it ran for 80 consecutive days.
In 2023 we were delighted to partner with the Royal Liver Building for the long-awaited return of the event, and its unqualified success means we are back for 2024, celebrating our 10th anniversary! In total we have welcomed over 55,000 art lovers to our events and showcased work by almost 2000 artists. Come along and experience the work of some of the region’s most talented visual artists, and with prices starting at just £20 you won’t leave empty handed!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Royal Liver Building, Pier Head, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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