A Foundation Liverpool

Category: Public Gallery
Address: A Foundation, 67 Greenland Street, Liverpool, L1 0BY.
Opening hours: During exhibitions we are open Tuesday to Saturday 12-6.
Contact: Clare Warren
Email: info@afoundation.org.uk
Website: www.afoundation.org.uk
Telephone: 0151 706 0600
Facsimile: 0151 706 0601

Description: The A Foundation is a registered charity established by James Moores in 1998. The primary purpose of the Foundation is to support the development, production and exhibition of contemporary visual art and, in particular, to focus on the enrichment and regeneration of Liverpool through culture and the arts. As well as a gallery in Liverpool, A Foundation now has a sister site at Rochelle School in London.

Greenland Street, Liverpool:

Greenland Street is an arts centre located in the Old Port area of Liverpool. The venue comprises three former industrial buildings: The Coach Shed, The Furnace and The Blade Factory, which together offer 2500sqm of exhibition space. The A Foundation has created a welcoming arts centre, which includes a café and bookshop specialising in artists' books. ?
Greenland Street’s mission is to deliver programmes of activity that showcase the very best local, regional, national and international contemporary visual arts practice and we plan to commission up to four major new projects each year. In addition to our visual arts programmes, A Foundation also delivers an annual education and outreach programme that aims to provide a wide range of participants with the opportunity to look at, talk about and make art.
Greenland Street's activities focus on an annual programme of major new commissions by artists who are offered a significant level of practical, financial, administrative and curatorial support to realise ambitious and risk-taking new works. The Foundation is actively engaged in fundraising to enable it to provide artists with the opportunity to create an outstanding work that has the potential to make a significant impact on their future careers. The inaugural Greenland Street commissions in 2006 included Sleep of Ulro by Goshka Macuga, Silent Sound by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Virtually Grizedale by Grizedale Arts and a new architectural commission by Office of Subversive Architecture.