The touring exhibition, on at the Mead Gallery at Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, was curated by Melissa E Feldman who flew in from Seattle for the opening, and explained how she found the connection between the earlier works of artists working mainly in California, such as Larry Bell, Robert
Irwin, James Turrell and Maria Norman, and the group featured in the exhibition.
Whereas many of his colleagues, including Robert
Irwin, James Turrell, and Doug Wheeler, dispensed with the art object in order to fashion ethereal, seemingly immaterial environments, Alexander took an opposite tack, condensing atmospheres into hard chunks of resin and polyester.
PORTADOWN YOUTH: Matthew Coaton, Adam
Irwin, James Donaldson, Dane McCullough, Calum Reid, Jamie Rusk, Craig Archer, Matt Creighton, Curtis Murphy, Harry Davey, Daniel Greer, Joel Buchanan.
Plays by Vincent Amelio, Matt Crowley, Elizabeth
Irwin, James James, Jack Karp, James McLindon, David Meyers, Thomas J.
His friends Daniel O'Brien, Connor
Irwin, James Rigby, Ross Greenwood and George Styers collected pounds 2,500 for Liverpool Unites by running last year.
Current pupils at the school were joined by five of Rhys's friends, 11-year-olds Connor
Irwin, James Rigby, Daniel O'Brien, Ross Greenwood and George Styern, who have now started high school.
His friends Daniel O'Brien, Connor
Irwin, James Rigby, Ross Greenwood, and George Styers have entered the race to run in memory of their friend.
Connor
Irwin, James Rigby, Daniel O'Brien, Ross Greenwood and George Styern, all 11, grew up with Rhys since they met on the first day of school aged just four.
Connor
Irwin, James Rigby, Daniel O'Brien, Ross Greenwood and George Styern all grew up with Rhys - and have been firm friends since they met on the first day of school as four-year-olds.
In my own literalism (which was deepened by the literalism of process and site-specific art), I didn't attend enough to how this illusionism, however transformed, might be preserved in Minimalism, even expanded by it--and, further, released everywhere, in the dispersive opticality of the Light and Space art that floated on Minimalism (especially on Flavin), with Robert
Irwin, James Turrell, and others.
Connor
Irwin, James Rigby, Daniel O'Brien, Ross Greenwood and George Styern, all 11, made friends with Rhys on their first day at Broad Square school, Norris Green, aged just four.
Bob Wareing; Melanie and Stephen Jones read a message left at the scene of the shooting of their son Rhys; Friends of murdered Rhys Jones, from left, Connor
Irwin, James Rigby, Daniel O'Brien, George Styern and Ross Greenwood Pictures: JASON ROBERTS/jr240807rhys-1; A floral tribute to Rhys Jones on Fir Tree Avenue, Croxteth; A photograph showing Rhys Jones, seated right, left among flowers and toys at the scene of the shooting