The brief was to deliver artwork featuring a montage of performing artists based on the LIMFestival outline to 'Celebrate greatness, discover the new, inspire the next.' I provided three linking canvas panels for the exhibition entitled 'It's a Sound City'. The panels feature a linking montage of artists performing at the festival against a back-drop of some of Liverpool's great and famous landmarks The children dancing in the foreground represent the next generation of potential singers, dancers and artists being inspired by the current generation of artists.
'It's a Sound City'
Acrylic on Canvas Panel 1
'It's a Sound City'
Canvas Panel 2
'It's a Sound City'
Canvas Panel 3
'It's a Sound City'
LIMFestival Pop-Up Art Gallery
Albert Dock, Liverpool
The following year I was commissioned to produce a piece of live art to publicise the second music festival. Portraits of the artists performing at that year's festival were drawn in charcoal onto large scale letters spelling out the LIMF abbreviation. The work was carried approximately 24 hours before being unveiled to the local media and press outside Liverpool's St George's Hall. The mural was then completed inside St George's Hall on full view to the visiting public over the next two weeks before being placed on display next to the main stage at the actual festival itself in Sefton Park.
"Liverpool International Music Festival commissioned Liverpool illustrator Marc D Lewis to represent some of the key artists and themes of Liverpool International Music Festival 2014. In fitting with our focus on collaboration, Marc worked to bridge the world's of music and art by doing a piece using charcoal.
Filmed by Mark McNulty in St.George's Hall over a 12 hour day, this piece went from conception to realisation in under 24 hours."
LIMF Mural outside St George's Hall, Liverpool
Ian Broudie meets Ian Broudie
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LIMF Mural on stage inside St George's Hall
LIMF Mural on display at Sefton Park
All images © Marc D Lewis 2015
