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Manchester Art Fair 2024

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16 Nov 2024
  1. Building an Art Collection with Values
    Central 5 in main entrance
    Jez Dolan talks to author and curator Gemma Rolls Bentley about how to build a collection with values.
  2. Book Signing with Gemma Rolls-Bentley, author of Queer Art
    Central 5 in main entrance
    Celebrate the LGBTQI+ community with this vivid collection of artworks that charts queer voices from around the world. With nearly 200 artworks selected by leading LGBTQI+ curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley, this book mixes the high-brow with the low, gallery stalwarts with Instagram stars, and the racy with the fabulous. This is a unique celebration of queer life – a must-have for the LGBTQI+ community, art lovers and anyone interested in the culture surrounding queer identity.
  3. Liverpool Biennial
    Central 5 in main entrance
    Marie-Anne McQuay, guest curator for the Liverpool Biennial 2025 chats to Paulette Terry Brien, curator of The Grundy about plans for next year's event.
  4. Book Signing with Mark Demsteader, artist featured in Moorlands
    Cheshire Art Gallery, Stand 302

    One of the UK’s most celebrated figurative artists, Mark Demsteader will unveil his highly anticipated, inaugural book, Moorland at Manchester Art Fair.

    Cheshire Art Gallery
  5. Scarlet Page in conversation
    Central 5 in main entrance
    Scarlet has been a passionate photographer her whole life and her education culminated in studying photography at the University of Westminster in the early ’90s. She quickly developed her own fresh, documentary style of reportage.
    The Arthound Gallery
  6. In Conversation: Mark Demsteader
    Central 5 in main entrance

    Mark Demsteader’s working life began at his family’s butchery and meat packing business – but, after an eye-opening visit to The Louvre in Paris, he began his journey to becoming an acclaimed figurative painter. Find out all this and more in this  interview with award-winning arts journalist and editor Polly Checkland Harding.

    Cheshire Art Gallery
  7. Amplifying Women's Voices: Leadership, Mentorship, and Global-Majority Perspectives in Contemporary Art
    Central 5 in main entrance

    esea contemporary and Manchester Contemporary are pleased to present Amplifying Women's Voices: Leadership, Mentorship, and Global-Majority Perspectives in Contemporary Art, an insightful panel discussion celebrating the vital contributions of women in the contemporary art world.

    esea
  8. Studios in the City
    Central 5 in main entrance
    Join a panel led by Paradise Works director Jessica Bennett talking about the importance of affordable studio space in the city, artworkers being at the centre of our society.
17 Nov 2024
  1. The Importance of Art when styling your Home - Arighi Bianchi
    Central 5 in main entrance
    Join Family Furniture business Owner Nick Bianchi, of Arighi Bianchi, along with leading interior designer Brent Simpson

    Arighi Bianchi

     

  2. (Un)defining Queer
    Central 5 in main entrance
    This in conversation between Dominic Bilton, Sarah-Joy Ford and MT Hutchinson discusses the importance of the publication (Un)Defining Queer on museum practice.
  3. How Art & Culture Defined Manchester
    Central 5 in main entrance
    How did Manchester perform its extraordinary turnaround from de-industrialised decline to the nation’s fastest-growing metropolis with its soaring, controversial skyline?
  4. Book Signing with Andy Spinoza, author of Manchester Unspun
    Central 5 in main entrance

    Spinoza’s 2023 book Manchester Unspun is an account of the city’s extraordinary recent transformation, packed with stories of the author’s experiences with everyone from Tony Wilson and Andy Burnham, to Gary Neville and Caroline Aherne.

  5. Adventure Everywhere: Pablo Picasso's Paris Nightlife
    Central 5 in main entrance
     Expect tales of late nights, seedy bars, sex , drugs and Cubist art.
  6. Book Signing with Dave Haslam, author of Adventure Everywhere: Pablo Picasso's Paris Nightlife
    Central 5 in main entrance
    'Adventure Everywhere' is the seventh book in Dave Haslam's acclaimed Art Decades series. In Adventure Everywhere, Dave Haslam portrays the world of drink, sex, music, drugs, art, and chaos that constituted Picasso’s nightlife.