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Image Gallery: In Manchester, Cotton On MCR, Saul Hay Gallery
While it’s been a difficult year for many sectors, the COVID-19 pandemic has proved especially tough for the art industry. Now, as lockdown restrictions begin to ease, galleries can once again prepare to open their doors.
In Manchester is an open call exhibition created after Cotton On MCR identified a lack of opportunities for emerging talent and lesser-known artists in gallery spaces across the city. The exhibition will be Saul Hay Gallery’s re-opening exhibition. Alongside Saul Hay Gallery, Cotton On MCR wants to encourage everyone to get back to exploring the city’s amazing art scene.
Review: John Moores Painting Prize Virtual Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
The John Moores Painting Prize brings together the best in contemporary British painting.
Read the full story..Art Review: How to break the humdrum – Obstructions at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
It’s hardly welcoming. A snide, on-screen solicitor is the only semblance of human contact we encounter during Obstructions, the latest virtual exhibition at Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery.
Read the full story..Image Gallery: Fledge – A Year of Birds, Contemporary Six Gallery, Manchester
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been widespread re-engagement with nature and, in particular, a notable increase in the public’s appreciation of Britain’s native birds.
Read the full story..Picture Gallery: Days Like These, The Lowry, Salford
It’s been another tough week for the arts.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: Manchester Open Exhibition 2020, HOME
The folks over at HOME in Manchester have launched the Manchester Open Exhibition, a major open-entry art show celebrating the creative talent of Greater Manchester residents.
Read the full story..Exhibition Review: 100 Years of Council Housing, Manchester Central Library
Manchester, a city which likes to tell itself it has always led the laggards elsewhere, was building municipal housing long before the introduction of the Addison Act in 1919.
Read the full story..Review: Untameable – Barry Hines, Sheffield University
Incredibly (how?) it is 50 years since the release of Kes, Ken Loach’s classic film about a rough and tumble working class kid, neglected at home and school, who finds, only fleetingly alas, beauty and purpose through the experience of training a hawk.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: Motion Sickness Project Space presents: HERE AND HOW? at Stock Gallery
How the hell did this happen?
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: Second Nature – what is nature anyway? The Portico Library, Manchester
Did you know there’s a secret garden tucked away in an historic Manchester Library within walking distance from Piccadilly Gardens?
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