A PAIR of well-known musicians have teamed up for a new exhibition in Wirral capturing images of Liverpool Bay's coastline.

Double A sides: Exploring Coastal Perspectives features musician, artist and educator John Hyatt's watercolors and musician and filmmaker, Carl Hunter’s Polaroid photographs. 

The exhibition is opening at Merseyside Arts Zone, Vale House, Vale Park, Magazine Lane, New Brighton on Saturday, October 7 and there will be a free drinks reception from 5:30pm – 7:30pm.

The exhibition runs from October 7 to November 3. It is open from 12.30-5pm on Wednesdays and 10am to 5pm on Thursday to Sunday.

Carl, who is the bass player in Liverpool band The Farm, is not only a successful musician but also an acclaimed documentary maker and film director.

His debut feature film, Sometime Always Never, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and starring Bill Nighy, received critical acclaim and premiered at the London BFI Film Festival in 2019. 

Carl has collaborated with Frank Cottrell Boyce on other feature films, including Grow Your Own, which featured Oscar winner, Olivia Coleman and Benedict Wong.

In addition to feature films and numerous broadcast documentaries, he and Clare Heney took the award-winning Polaroids for the Frank Cottrell Boyce novella, The Unforgotten Coat that won the Guardian Children's literature prize and the, Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis, the largest children's literature prize in Europe.

He has also exhibited his artwork internationally and holds a Senior Fellow position in filmmaking at the Institute for Creative Enterprise at Edge Hill University.

Wirral Globe: Polaroid by Carl Hunter Polaroid by Carl Hunter (Image: Karl Hunter)

John is known as the singer/songwriter with legendary Leeds post-punk band, The Three Johns, and more recently as a solo performer or leading his band, Glamogoth.

More than a musician, Hyatt is a polymath specialising as artist, designer, curator, author, and historian. He has founded and directed two successful Research Institutes and directed large civic arts festivals.

As an artist, John has exhibited worldwide. Dubbed ‘the Punk Professor’ by the Guardian for his involvement in cultural practices, pedagogy, industry, urban regeneration, and communities whilst building Manchester School of Art, John is now Professor in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University’s School of Art and Design where he currently works, appropriately, from the John Lennon Building.

Opens Saturday 7th October 2023. There will be a free drinks reception at the opening. 5:30 – 7:30 Exhibition runs from 7th October to 3rd November. Exhibition is sponsored by The Institute for Creative Enterprise, Edge Hill University.