Art @ Eighth Day

What's On The Walls at Eighth Day Café
We are proud to feature Lee Middlehurst during March as he combines in his work art and environmental awareness.

It has been estimated that around 2,500 tonnes of unwanted CDs are being thrown away every year - a substantial portion of the waste being sent to landfill.

The aim of this exhibition is to highlight the ever increasing need to recycle and enrich our environment.

The café is open as usual.

About the artist:
Lee Middlehurst is an artist, a writer and an academic.

From late 2007 he began intensively creating the CD/DVD art pieces.

The six week exhibition at the Touchstones art gallery in Rochdale (4th April to 17th May 2009) proved to be extremely popular among people from a wide variety of ages and backgrounds with 140 visitors submitting written compliments about it. Several more also spoke directly to Lee.

The next exhibition was at the Royal Exchange Theatre’s art gallery in Manchester (1st September to 3rd October 2009). Concerning this exhibition, Lee and his artwork was the subject of a TV interview taken by a reporter for a new internet TV channel/website called Tin Can. He was also interviewed on Channel M as well as on Radio Manchester.

In 2010 the third exhibition was at On The Eighth Day in Manchester (1st to 31st March). This exhibition showed Lee’s rapidly developing, inventive artistic techniques, using CDs/DVDs in unusual ways.

Referring to his CD/DVD art works, Lee describes, “However good any photo taken of any of these pieces is, it can only give you an idea of the picture and not what it looks like in reality. Each piece looks different according to the type of light on it, the time of the day and the angle you look at it.”

Lee's other website, featuring a range of his skills, is www.keeray.dsl.pipex.com

If you are an artist looking for gallery space please contact Clare on 0161 273 1850.

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