Liverpool Tate and Walker Gallery

The department organised a student trip to Liverpool so we could visit the 'John Moores' prizewinners and Tracy Emin at the Tate, with never having visited Liverpool it was an all round great trip to a beautiful city with some fantastic art work.

I took photos of my favourite paintings from the John Moores exhibition at the Walker gallery shown below, I was also taken aback by the amazing white cherub and roman goddess sculptures in the classic gallery below, the detail is impeccable.

As for Tracy Emin's work It had a lot of depth into the meaning whilst being quite unexciting to look at, the piece was based on a bout of depression that Tracy went through in her life, all around the bed were used condoms, cigarette ends and empty vodka bottles, the basis of the piece is the bed. Something that was a constant for her throughout her depression and the main home of her mental illness.

For me, being a geometric abstractionist and very interested in Mondrian I was thrilled to see an exhibition not quite opened up yet but containing a red yellow and blue compositional piece from Mondrian ready to be hung on the wall; that was the highlight of the trip for me.

Below are a selection of photos from the trip including the Tracy Emin bed.