Jane Hughes of About here is On the Edge

Jane Hughes who is currently showing at MerseyBIO is also part of Future Station at Metal, Edge Hill Station

She will be showing ten drawings from her latest documentary drawing project: On the Edge.

On the Edge is a project aimed at capturing life in the brave small businesses clinging on to life amidst the demolition and regeneration of the Wavertree Road area. The shops have approximately 12 months before they are demolished and many only renew their leases on a 3 monthly basis.

You might be interested in this because it's just up from Mount Vernon behind MerseyBIO, 5 minutes away and it's just such a different world!

The exhibition continues until 20th November and is open on Saturdays from 12 until 4.00pm and Tuesday to Friday times are 2 - 6.00pm.

There are other events happening - nights of music , film and theatre, so it's going to be a lively two weeks.

Jane Hughes: About here

Jane Hughes was born and educated in Liverpool, gaining a first class honours degree in Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University.
Since November 2008, Hughes has been involved in a documentary project at Liverpool Hope University where she has been Artist in Residence. This follows a similar archival project at Liverpool John Moores University.
Hughes’ work has been shown in a number of juried national and international exhibitions. During October/November 2010, a series of her drawings will be featured in an internationally selected exhibition in the Czech Republic.
Hughes’ landscape paintings are all developed from on-site drawing and note making, never using a camera in preference to a much longer engagement with the real experiences of being there.
This may involve moving through, or simply sitting reflectively in the landscape. Sometimes a series of drawings emerges as a finished statement, and at other times they become part of an evolving and reductive process, resulting in acrylic paintings.
Hughes’ paintings concern the purity of the experience, often with all recognisable shapes being stripped away to leave the landscape represented by simple bands of colour.

Our new exhibitors

Our next exhibition at MerseyBIO opens on Wednesday evening
in the incubator building, MerseyBIO
at the Biosciences building on Crown Street, Liverpool.


Susan Meyerhoff Sharples
Wendy Williams
Jane Hughes
Christine O'Reilly Wilson

Our next exhibition: About Here