Manchester Open 2024 to launch at HOME Manchester
Greater Manchester’s largest open art exhibition will open in February at HOME Manchester, running until the end of April.
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New exhibition on drumming opens at HOME Manchester
A new HOME Projects exhibition, Flash Bang Wallop, has opened at HOME Manchester with Manchester photographer Chris Payne exploring drumming. Flash Bang Wallop imagines and recreates the early memories and self-perfecptions of drummers in a series of portraits featuring some of the most iconic players of the past 50 years. Drummers who have participated in…
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HOME Manchester to hold new open-submission art exhibition
HOME Manchester has announced that it will host a new open-submission art exhibition featuring contemporary artwork from more than 500 Greater Manchester artists. The exhibition is inviting anybody who lives in Greater Manchester to submit their artwork for consideration, with £10,000 worth of prizes on offer. The Manchester Open Exhibition will celebrate the creative talent…
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Two new exhibitions open at Home Manchester
Two new exhibitions open at Home Manchester this weekend featuring site-responsive work and multi-media maximalism. Darren Nixon: Coming soon to your screen (pictured) opens on Friday 9 November, whilst John Walter: CAPSID launches on Saturday 10 November. Darren Nixon: Coming soon to your screen The new site-responsive work by Darren Nixon is a large-scale painting over…
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Home Manchester hosting new solo show by Turner Prize-nominated Phil Collins
Home, Manchester, will host a solo show and new co-commission by Turner Prize-nominated artist Phil Collins. Launching on Saturday 7 July and running until Sunday 16 September 2018, the exhibition will showcase everyday hardships, struggles and solidarity refracted through the prism of popular culture, pop music and documentary. Collins’ work is inspired by cinema, public…
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Artists with disabilities take over Manchester Art Gallery
A new Live Art installation created by artists living with disabilities takes place on Thursday at Manchester Art Gallery. The new production Affirmations is presented by Proud and Loud Arts and has been developed in partnership with the University of Bolton and Arts Council England. The work offers a perspective on the impact of social…
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Blown Air Captured in Glass at Manchester Craft and Design Centre
A series of multi-coloured, rippling glass sculptures have gone in display at Manchester Craft and Design Centre featuring the determined breaths of a glassblower. Seldom included in the finished product, the newly commissioned sculptures by Manchester-based makers, Jahday Ford and Joseph Hillary use innovative digital design and traditional glassblowing techniques to visualise the blown air…
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Touchstones Rochdale acquires new artworks
Three new artworks have been added to Rochdale’s public art collection, after Touchstones Rochdale secured funding from both Art Fund and the James Handley Bequest to acquire new works by artists Susan Collis, Clare Kenny and Jessica Rankin. Rochdale’s collection of artworks has grown to more than 1,600 items. The pieces have been acquired after…
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Last chance to see Jessica Rankin’s textile, drawing and printed word in Rochdale
White Cube artist Jessica Rankin’s evocative textile, drawing and printed word work is currently on display at Rochdale’s Touchstones. Reflecting on her relationship with her poet mother, femininity and the colonial plundering of art treasures, her first solo show outside London, Stone/Folding, comes to a conclusion on Saturday 16 December. All newly commissioned pieces, the…
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Manchester’s Whitworth announces series of exhibitions for 2018
Manchester’s The Whitworth has announced a series of exhibitions and shows for 2018 including internationally acclaimed artists John Stezaker, Alison Wilding and Isaac Julien. 2018’s programme of exhibitions will also include textile shows exploring the gallery’s design traditions, exhibition cloth from the Islamic World to new monumental stitch works by contemporary artist Alice Kettle. The…
