Artist Talk: Lead into Gold by Liv Jarman

Lead into Gold is a debut solo exhibition by Liv Jarman (b.2000, Walsall). Liv welcomes the viewer to push their personal limits of recovery as she investigates the depths of imagination, healing and spiritual themes through drawing, sculpture, found imagery and writing.

Join Liv as she sits in conversation with visual artist Jack Brown, exploring themes present in her practice and lived experience.

Liv Jarman:

Liv Jarman (b.Walsall, 2000) a multidisciplinary artist from Walsall, based in Manchester for eight years with a studio at Paradise Works. I explore the human experience, what addiction does to the body, mind and spirit and how as humans we overcome pain, heartbreak and dysfunction. I want to share my life so you can share yours. I invite the viewer to slow down and reflect on their own life, actions and behaviors and look at the generations before them. I truly believe with action we can change collective consciousness to arrive at a collective state of peace and serenity.

Jack Brown:

Jack Brown is a visual artist working in (and in the spaces between) sculpture, painting, response to site, print, public action, drawing, photography and video.

A multidisciplinary practice mirroring the world it’s drawn from.

New works begin with source material pulled from the edges of our collective reference pools. These starting points are altered, remade or relocated before being cast back into the world as artworks. Meaning emerges in this ‘remaking’, in the collision of source, extraction processes, material, making processes, media, situation, site and public interaction.

Interventions in the wider world, collaborations and manipulations, moments of poetry and flashes of meaning; my practice can be seen as an investigation into ways of making and how those made objects or moments interact with the world around them.

This exhibition is supported by Creative Mentor Network and Arts Council England's Developing Your Creative Practice fund.