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Manchester Art Fair 2024

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  • This new display explores the different ways artworks enter the collection and showcases many new works which haven’t yet been on show. In our 200th anniversary year, we are reflecting on how the coll ...
  • Shirley Craven

    06 Apr 2024
    An exhibition of vivid, colour-filled textiles by post-war designer Shirley Craven
  • Set against the backdrop of the 1950s this collection display highlights the challenges faced by the life room tradition from the mid-20th century.
  • A display of newly acquired works on paper by the British sculptor Alison Wilding.
  • 2024 sees the 175th anniversary of the founding of the borough of Oldham. To celebrate, a variety of today’s Oldhamers have selected objects which tell fascinating stories about our area through the y ...
  • Join curator Rebecca Milner to hear stories of lost and misattributed artworks, forgotten artists and mystery acquisitions in this talk about the ‘Cold Case’ sculptures featured in Out of the Crate.
  • The Oldham Open

    20 Sep 2024
    This exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of talented artists living, working or studying in the borough of Oldham.
  • Conor Gavin and Candice Swallow make work that is visually dynamic. It is saturated with colour and imbued with explosive energy. Their works are the result of hundreds of repetitive mark-making gestu ...
  • This autumn Grundy is pairing two artists and artworks from the collection that use light as their medium and two artists whose video works explore repetition and looped imagery.
  • In this exhibition, Huang premiers a new work commissioned by University of Salford Art Collection and esea contemporary. 'Drizzle Between Bricks' was developed during a residency in Manchester using ...
  • STIM CINEMA has been co-created by members of The Neurocultures Collective through years of co-development with artist filmmaker Steven Eastwood and curator Gilly Fox. 
  • The first major survey exhibition by British artist Barbara Walker (b.1964, Birmingham, UK), charts her compelling figurative practice from 1990s to today
  • Songs for the Storm to Come is an immersive sound and multi-screen video installation, by award winning, internationally renowned Greek/British artist, Mikhail Karikis. It focuses on collective and in ...
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  •  40 Years of the Future: Jo McGonigal x Frank Bowling will bring together site-specific ‘spatial paintings’ by Jo McGonigal with paintings and sculptures by Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA.
  • Get involved in The Harris' exciting programme of events located in The Guild Hall, Preston. There's a range of activities for you and your family to get involved with the half-term. All of the events ...
  • For six weeks we invite you, our visitors, users, and members, to be our guides and take part in this interactive exhibition so we can listen to what you think and have to say!
  • STASHED

    14 Nov 2024
    STASHED presents the personal art collection of Short Supply, an artist-led organisation based in the North West of England that creates opportunities for emerging artists and address the barriers cre ...
  • A trio of solo exhibitions from three artists working in ceramics
  • Accompanying event for STASHED - the personal art collection of Short Supply. STASHED asks why more artists don’t consider themselves collectors, and what would happen if they did? 
  • Minute to Midnight

    07 Dec 2024
    We have invited five artists based in the north-west of England to show works which consider the climate emergency, and their role as artists in relation to this. Featuring thought-provoking work by R ...