The Cornerstone Gallery is proud to present 'Pre-paid', an exhibition and auction of postcard works donated by artists and celebrities who contribute to Liverpool's prestigious cultural life and continuing development.

The contributors' names will be withheld until the preview night on Thursday 4th December, 6pm - 8pm, and the postcards subsequently exhibited for one week only.  Names will not be matched to the cards.

The works will also be available to view at

On Friday 12th December, from 5.30pm to 8pm, a blind auction, hosted by Liverpool's very own and not-to-be-missed Paul O'Keefe, will provide the opportunity for all to bid for those works they are interested in.  The proceeds will be donated to The Artists' Benevolent Institution.  Please click on to Read More for more about the work of the Charity.

This will be a very exciting event, one not to be missed and a great opportunity to acquire a piece of work by a prominent artist or celebrity of our time. Will you be able to work out whose work is whose?

Arena is pleased to announce that it has been successful in two recent funding applications, one a grant from Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services (LCVS) to implement fire safety in our new premises.

The second grant from The Foyle Foundation will enable the Arena Gallery to return in a purpose built Gallery space in our new premises. The Gallery will re-launch early next year and will be launching a full programme supported by the grant.

Arena is delighted by the support of both LCVS and The Foyle Foundation and these developments will contribute to an exciting and memorable 2009 and beyond.

After a highly successful collection of our 2007 limited edition, Arena Art and Design Association is proud to present our range of collectible festive art decorations for 2008.

Eight Arena members have decorated festive baubles to represent aspects of their own creative practises and to depict the creative inspirations in Arena studios during 2008.

The artists have a mixed range of modern and contemporary practises andare established or emerging professional artists. Each unique set is accompanied with short biographies of the artists, their original signatures and contact details so you can keep in touch as their careers' develop.

 Viewable from Thursday 4th December on www.arenastudiosgallery.com. Bids will be accepted from this date via email or post. Bidding closes Friday 19th December at 5pm.

A fantastic opportunity to buy original hand crafted art by exciting local artists.

'HORSE POWER' curated by digital artists AL and AL will be showing at Edge Hill Station during the Liverpool Biennial. 'HORSE POWER' will mark Edge Hill Station as the place from where Stephenson first conceived of replacing horses with machines as a way of transporting people across the Earth. The exhibition will feature a number of important works by international and Liverpool based artists such as Tim Macmillan's ground breaking bullet time photographic video work 'Dead Horse' which captures a horse at the moment of assassination from 360 degrees. The film went on to inspire the Oscar winning special effects in 'The Matrix' movie. Screening in Edge Hill's new cinema space on platforms 3 & 4 is Malcolm LeGrice's dreamlike materialist film 'Berlin Horse'. The exhibition will also feature emerging talent from Liverpool, including Naive John's extraordinary oil paintings of Centaurs. Archive material includes a film by the Ferrari car manufacturer showing how their engines are built. The exhibition will explore how the horse, although replaced by the engine during the industrial revolution, continues to be an enduring symbol of power.

Horse Power will feature works by AL and AL, Iain Andrews, Katriona Beales, Anna Benson, Toby Clarkson, Ferrari, Malcolm LeGrice, Naive John, Steven Klein, Philip McHugh, Tim Macmillan, Grant Morrison, Eadweard Muybridge, Wolfgang Peterson and Tony Smith. 

HORSE POWER is the first in a series of exhibitions inspired by Edge Hill Station, the first passenger railway station in the world. Until 1 November OPEN WED-SAT 11-3pm (or by appointment)

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My superlambanana is in wednesday's Liverpool Echo on page 15. It made me smile to see its picture. Look out for it.

 A super stampede of colour-drenched public art is set to raise the 'baa' for Liverpool's European Capital of Culture year. Originally commissioned by the Liverpool Culture Company, Go Superlambananas is the most ambitious and all-inclusive public art event in the UK this year. For the next 10 weeks, the city will come alive with 119 mini-icons appearing on round-a-bouts, street corners and even inside major buildings such as Liverpool Town Hall. The finishing touches to the herd were completed at the Matchworks factory, which was where the original SuperLambBanana was created 10 years ago.

Councillor Warren Bradley, Leader of Liverpool City Council and Deputy Chairman of the Liverpool Culture Company, said: ''Go Superlambananas is one of the most eagerly awaited events of our capital of culture year and I'm sure it won't disappoint. It's involved so many people and will touch so many more. I've no doubt it will put a smile on the city and strengthen the feel good factor sweeping the city this year.'' The public are being urged to get up-close and personal with the Superlambs. Trail maps and souvenir guides will be available right across the region in travel centres, tourist information centres, libraries, museums, galleries, and the 08 Place.

If you would like to meet my superlambanana it is number 23 on the map and can be found in the Cotton Exchange Couryard by Old Hall St. It is called The Superlovebanana and is sponsored by Liverpool Registration Service.

Rheinwärts

Eight Days A Week is also presenting 2 further Exhibitions in Cologne.

'Malerie und Plastic'

Tine Wille, Köln and Margareta Schöning, Liverpool curated  Dr Martin Turke, Art Historian Köln at the Kyotobar, the award winning Architectural Gallery Space, Gereonswall, Köln designed by Johannes Schilling, 4 May - 6 June.

'New work from Liverpool'

Saturday at the Grand National.

It was freezing and snowed later that night. I hope everyone who went had a good time. I had a great day and my sister managed to give one of my postcards to Timmy Murphy after he won the National. I am sad about Mckelvey though, he was a lovely horse.

Today is the start of the racing at Aintree racecourse. If you are going to Aintree over the Grand National weekend have a look for my paintings, they are in the Equestrian centre.