WCAF14: 3 October - 1 November 2014
Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival is a cross art form festival with a growing reputation for featuring exciting art forms across disciplines including large-scale performance, live art, exhibitions and digital installations.
The theme for 2014 was 'About Time' - play time, show time, talk time, your time...
Welcoming all generations and audiences from Warrington, the north west and beyond, the festival featured site-specific installations from commissioned artists as well as film screenings, digital workshops, outdoor interventions, dance, guest speakers and seminars.
Hundreds of artists submitted work to the Open Programme for visual arts and photography, with the festival team supported by guest judges Kwong Lee - Director of Castlefield Gallery, and John Volynchook winner of the 2013 Photography Open. Well done to everyone who entered and congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Open:
Photography Open
Winner: Pauline Rigby Time Travel
Runner Up: Hannah Cawthorne Keep the Faith
Art Open
Winner: Ian Rayner-Smith Time Waiting
Runner up: Lorna Fellas Ellen Kelly
For more information contact info@warringtonartsfestival.co.uk.
WCAF14 was delivered by Culture Warrington with funding from Arts Council England, and in partnership with The Gallery At Bank Quay House and Warrington Borough Council. Supported by FACT, HAB Arts, Abandon Normal Devices.