Manchester Museums and Galleries Partnership has acquired three artworks by Lahore based artist Waqas Khan. The pieces will be used to welcome visitors in Urdu script to the Whitworth, Manchester Museum and Manchester Art Gallery. Born in 1982, Waqas Khan is produces abstract, minimalist drawings resembling webs. He is inspired by patters of biological organic…
Manchester’s RNCM has collaborated with Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (Paris Conservatoire) to create a dual-language online exhibition commemorating the end of the Great War. Paris-Manchester 1918: Conservatoires in time of war uses research conducted both in Manchester and Paris to present an exhibition on the lives of the musicians…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Women of Science are presenting a digital photography exhibition at the People’s History Museum showcasing and sharing stories of women who work and study in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Currently just 13% of those working in the industry are women, fuelling misconceptions about who can be a scientist or engineer. With this misconception often influencing…
Manchester Jewish Museum has announced that it has received a £2.89m National Lottery grant to held with an ambitious £5m development project. The development works will see the museum, housed inside a former synagogue, gouble in size with new galleries, learning spaces, a shop and cafe built whilst the Grade II listed synagogue will be…
Manchester Museum will take on a whole new life this Saturday as it becomes the scene for a colourful Saturday night in a Congolese village, the resurrection of a Mesopotamian Goddess of love and a day of family fun. The museum will host Flying Carpets, a vibrant, free, family event on Saturday 7 October 2017. The…
