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Details on this years 2009 Pavement Art Competition will be published on this page shortly!
A celebration of the noble art of Screeving!Organised by UrbanCanvas and supported by Open Culture and Liverpool Culture Company, The Bold Street Trader's Association and The Scottie Press, as part of The Liverpool Irish Festival and The Big Draw.
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What is it?
The 1st open Pavement Art Competition in celebration of the life and times of the Liverpool born Victorian pavement artist James William Carling (1857-1887). The competition is open to all Merseyside based artists and offers the opportunity to showcase your works and talents on the street as part of Liverpool’s Capital of Culture celebrations. This is open to both professional and amateur artists living or working in Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, Wirral, St.Helens and Halton.
In keeping with the work of James William Carling the competition is a ‘traditional’ Italian Street Painting competition involving chalks/pastels ‘screeved’ directly onto the pavement; exactly as James would have done it (paper would have been an expensive commodity to a poor Victorian artist!)
Bold Street (Rope Walks Square outside FACT) between 10am and 5pm Saturday 18th October 2008
The WINNERS
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1st Prize: Artist TERENCE KANE Princes Park, Liverpool 8
IRISH EMIGRANTS ENTERING LIVERPOOL
Original Source David Jacques, Walker Art Gallery
The James William Carling Award a £300 top cash prize together with Trophy (donated by Editions Ltd) worth over £200.
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1st Prize: Artist CLIFFORD SAYER, Liverpool 8
AND GOD CREATED FOOTBALL or IS GOD A RED OR A BLUE?
Original source from the Museums & Galleries on Merseyside
The Adrian Henri Street Art Awards consisting of practical art materials (donated by Derwent Pencil Co, Rennies Arts & Crafts & Jacksons Art Shop) total prize worth over £100
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1st Prize: Artist STACEY KELLY, Billinge, Merseyside
THE REAL LIVERBIRD OF LIVERPOOL
Original source from the Museums & Galleries on Merseyside
The Peoples Prize consisting of poetry books (donated by The Windows Project) & High Street Shopping vouchers (donated by The Bold Street Traders) total prize value of over £100
Other prize winners
James Carling Pavement Art Award- Runner Up- Alan Murray
The Adrian Henri Street Art Awards- 1st Runner Up - Stacey Kelly
The Adrian Henri Street Art Awards- 2nd Runner Up - Christine Edwards
The Peoples Prize Award - Runner up - Alan Murray
Little Chalker’s Children’s prizes in three different age categories.
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WINNER:Olivia from Morton, Wirral (Aged 5) |
WINNER: Connie from
Liverpool 17 (Aged 8) |
WINNER: Kirsty from
Southport (Aged 15) |
Runners Up: Zara from Widnes (aged 5) / Amber from Sefton Park (Aged 8) and Mollie from Bootle (aged 13) All photos from the children's competition can be found on our flickr channel. All prizes will be posted out.
The Judges where:
Phil Redmond (TV producer- Grange Hill & Brookside) Peter Dover (who worked as a pavement artist but is now head of Fine Arts at Liverpool Hope University College) and Ian Jackson (artist, photographer, urban warrior and proprietor of artinliverpool.com)
Judges for The Adrian Henri Street Art Awards for creativity - Catherine Marcangeli (Art Historian and partner of Adrian Henri) and Mike McCartney (photographer and friend of Adrian Henri)
What the people said!
We put out a comments sheet for people to express their opinions about this event. These are just some of the things people said:
“Really interesting event & some great drawings”
“The level of talent on display is quite frankly astonishing”
“There should be events like this often, not just for culture 08 but for the need of something that is incredibly important and recognised”
“Do it again please, and soon!”
“I would pay good money to see this”
“Awesome!”
“Excellent and I love the way you’ve involved the children”
“Fab, simple and well put together”
“Would love to see it again”
What The Artists said!
"Brilliant day, I'm really glad I got the chance to take part and meet some new people, so thank-you very much for organising it"
"Nice one!"
"I'm hoping to take the painting from the pavement to canvas as I enjoyed the event so much and would like a more permanent reminder"
"It has to be said it was an amazing day, thanks again Phil and Cath, it really has inspired me to continue my artworks and my community stuff"
The Prize Giving in Maggie Mays!
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The Carling Trophy Winner Terence
Kane with Phil Redmond |
The People's Prize winner Stacey
Kelly with Mike McCartney |
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The Adrian Henri prize
runner up Christine Edwards with Mike McCartney |
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The People's prize
runner up Alan Murray with director of the
Liverpool Irish Festival Jake Roney |
Many thanks to David Munn for the above photos
We would like to thank the following companies for supporting this event
Utility Design, Rennies Arts, News from Nowhere, Red Lotus Living, Voodou, Eddie Rockets, The Windows Project, Ran Clothing & Footwear, Soul Cafe, Up & Running Sports Store , Quaffs Cafe, Mattas, Maggie Mays (Bold Street Traders) Jacksons Art Shop (Slater Street) Derwent Cumberland Pencil Co. (Workington, Cumbria) Editions Ltd (Cook St) Sayers Ltd (St Johns Precinct) FACT (Ropewalk Square)
You can see more photos for this event by visiting our
Read our interview on
Many thanks to everybody involved but especially the artists who worked so hard to make this a very special event in Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture.
We are sorry if you didn't win but it's the taking part that counts and we hope to see you all again next year, god willing!
Love and Best Wishes
Philip & Catherine (UrbanCanvas)
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Group Shot! From left to right: BACK ROW- Phil Redmond, Mike McCartney, Louise Ellman. FRONT ROW- Catherine McMahon, Philip Battle, Catherine Marcangeli. |
Photo by David Munn
Details on this years 2009 Pavement Art Competition will be published on this page shortly!!
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