Meet one of the artist’s behind Taylor Town trail
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00:00Founded in 2012, Make CIC is home for many artists and makers in the city.
00:05Offering a creative environment and providing equipment to emerging artists,
00:10when they outgrew their original premises, they moved to Liverpool's North Docks in 2016.
00:15You get to know people in the art community a lot better because you're seeing them every day
00:19and it's nice to hear what other people are doing and listening to all these kind of crazy projects
00:26that you would be like, I never even thought that would be a thing and there's people doing it here
00:29so anything you can imagine, it's happening.
00:31One of those creatives who works here is collage artist Cath Rogers.
00:36Cath credits her mum for instilling a love of art into her.
00:39She's a really good drawer herself so I think I grew up seeing that art was something
00:43that you could do and enjoy from really young.
00:46Discovering her love for collage as a teenager in art school,
00:49she found herself drawn more and more into the medium.
00:53It just kept coming back to collage for me because I could make something really exquisitely detailed
00:57or I could pick two or three images, put it together and it could still be something
01:01and I could have a bit of fun with it, you can have a bit of comedy with it sometimes
01:06because no one can be bad at it really.
01:08You can be exquisitely good at it and really refined in how you use the materials
01:13and you can also be super brand new and make something amazing.
01:16After living in London for a decade, Cath decided to come back to her hometown.
01:20There's a real spirit of getting behind people that want to try something new or set up something new
01:25and obviously we've got this kind of heartbeat of creativity anyway
01:28where there's just this huge legacy of music and culture underneath us
01:33so I think the belief in bringing something new that didn't exist before
01:38is kind of in the DNA of being a Liverpudlian.
01:41Liverpool City Council's Culture Liverpool team partnered with Make CIC
01:45to curate a bespoke Taylortown trail ahead of Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour arriving in the city in June.
01:52For this, Cath created a giant black and white mural
01:55made up of hidden nods to the tortured poets department
01:58which is the 11th studio album by the America's Singer-Songwriter.
02:02The brief was obviously to take one of the albums in The Eras
02:05and to make a visual representation of it.
02:08It started off small, under the size of my cutting mat
02:12and then was able to be blown up because of other great creatives
02:16who could help me get a good quality scanning of it.
02:20His name's Dallas Prince, he's just unbelievable.
02:23So we were able to make this little vintage collage
02:26into this massive thing that was printed on metal
02:29and was really transferred into a commercial piece of artwork
02:33that could be in the centre of town.
02:35It was a really amazing moment to see.
02:38Alongside her collage making, Cath has a residency at Alder Hey
02:41where she does one-to-one work with patients.
02:44She also does art therapy work in men's prisons.
02:47I think this Taylor project's opened my mind to see that actually
02:50art viewing and people connecting with art in public spaces
02:53is a really important part of also getting people's connection to art
02:57and mental wellbeing a bit more established.