Coven is a mixed media collaboration between Katie Craven and Adam Scovell. The exhibition opens on Friday the 24th of October at 24 Kitchen Street and explores themes of the occult, the supernatural, and the esoteric by placing them in the context of the natural landscape. Influenced by the stories of M.R. James, the films of Kenneth Anger, and the life of Aleister Crowley, the exhibition mixes different forms of media to create a haunted experience derived from the land. Coven includes:
Tarot (2014) – a short super 8 video work by Scovell in collaboration with Liverpool band, BIRD, and with title cards by Craven.
A newly commissioned wall mural by Craven.
A Screaming Breeze (2013) – a printed short ghost story by Scovell with artwork by Craven (£1.50 per copy).
Displays of the original artwork from both Tarot and A Screaming Breeze by Craven.
Screenings of short ghost story, The Coastal Path (2014) by Scovell.
Katie Craven is an illustrator, comic, and street artist from Lancashire, now based in Liverpool. Katie studied a degree in Fine Art at John Moores University (2007-2010) and is currently working as a freelance illustrator. Her intricate illustrations are alluring, beautifully dark representations of the world, involving wonderful, mysterious adventures. Her work has been featured in many publications including OPEN magazine, The Skinny Northwest, Amelia’s Magazine, The Double Negative, and the number one comic book website, Broken Frontier. Katie has produced work for many exhibitions, including collaborations with Art Shaped, Tomo Securities, Liverpool’s Street Art Festival, MarkIt, and Shell Suit Zombie. She has also had numerous solo exhibitions, most recently at Drop The Dumbells launching her first self published graphic novel, Angus & Felix (2013).
Website: http://flameforkatie.tumblr.com/ Contact: fromkatiewithlove@live.com
Adam Scovell.
Adam Scovell is a writer and filmmaker based in Liverpool. He is currently studying a PhD in music at the University of Liverpool and works as a freelance writer on film and film music. He has had work published in over two dozen publications, including The Times and The Guardian, and has had film work screened at the Manchester Art Gallery, FACT, and the Everyman Playhouse. He runs the twice Blog North Awards nominated website, Celluloid Wicker Man, and is currently working on several projects using super 8 film.
Website: http://celluloidwickerman.com/ Contact: flashsco@hotmail.co.uk 3
A Screaming Breeze is a short ghost story about a haunted wind-farm off the north Norfolk coastal town of Cley-Next-The-Sea. It is a 26 page ‘zine with several illustrations and was designed by Sphinx Media. Copies are also available to purchase online here.
The Coastal Path (2014) is a short ghost story film made in collaboration with The Shiny New Festival. It follows a filmmaker who uses a haunted super 8 camera to document a path on the coastline of the west Wirral peninsula.
“Restrained, chilling, beautifully shot. MR James and his dead-men’s binoculars again but its own thing too… I was genuinely alarmed by watching it, and that was in my comfortable white-walled study.” – Robert Macfarlane.
“I found it a clever and inventive film. I do like the use of landscape and nature and I think it was inventive giving the use of super 8 a narrative purpose.” – Saxon Logan.
“That’s an eerie piece. I very much like the use of my favourite place to walk.” – Ramsey Campbell.
Opening Times
Friday 24th October (opening night) – 18:00 – 21:00.
Saturday 25th October – Tuesday 28th October – 16:00 – 18:00 daily.
A Screaming Breeze (2013).
The Coastal Path (2014).
This is an event in which Liverpool’s association with the Horror and spectral genre is amplified. Mr. Scovell’s appreciation of the genre is one of the finest in the city and one in which should be cultivated and enjoyed.