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Manchester Art Fair 2024

Making the most of the next two months until Manchester Art Fair

Enjoy art events around the Manchester and the North West from our cultural partners.
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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  •  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.
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  • The first major survey exhibition by British artist Barbara Walker (b.1964, Birmingham, UK), charts her compelling figurative practice from 1990s to today
  • In this exhibition, Huang premiers a new work commissioned by University of Salford Art Collection and esea contemporary. It was developed during a residency in Manchester using the Maker Space facili ...
  • 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. 
  • 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.
  • The Oldham Open

    20 Sep 2024
    This exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of talented artists living, working or studying in the borough of Oldham.
  • 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.
  • 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 ...
  • A display of newly acquired works on paper by the British sculptor Alison Wilding.
  • Set against the backdrop of the 1950s this collection display highlights the challenges faced by the life room tradition from the mid-20th century.
  • Shirley Craven

    06 Apr 2024
    An exhibition of vivid, colour-filled textiles by post-war designer Shirley Craven
  • This exhibition gathers together stories written, interpreted, and shared by our volunteers about what captivates them in the collection. From barely touched books at the top of the shelf to the irrep ...
  • 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 ...