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Manchester Art Fair 2024

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16 Nov 2024
  1. Food Court - Located in the hall
    Hirameki ‘Draw what you see’

    ‘Draw what you see’, use your imagination to find inspiration in the blots of colour. Cass Art artists will set up the canvas for young artists to start their own creative journeys.

    Cass Art
  2. Central 5 in main entrance
    Building an Art Collection with Meaning
    Jez Dolan talks to author and curator Gemma Rolls Bentley about how to build a collection with values.
  3. Stand 322
    Screenprinting Demonstration

    Hot Bed Press bring their unique flare for printmaking. See artists create original prints in front of your eyes. Wonder at the transformation as layers are printed over each other and finished editioned prints are produced.

    Hot Bed Press
  4. Cheshire Art Gallery, Stand 302
    Book Signing with Mark Demsteader, artist featured in Moorlands

    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. Central 5 in main entrance
    Book Signing with Gemma Rolls-Bentley, author of Queer Art
    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.
  6. Central 5 in main entrance
    Liverpool Biennial
    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.
  7. Central 6 in main entrance
    Expressive Still Life
    Explore emotive colour and gestural mark-making to re-imagine still life objects in individualistic ways to create highly self-expressive contemporary still life drawings.
    Creative Art Courses
  8. Central 6 in main entrance
    Oil paint for beginners with Cass Art

    Welcome to our beginner workshop on oil paint, come start your creative journey with Cass Art. 

    Cass Art
  9. Central 5 in main entrance
    Scarlet Page in conversation
    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
  10. Stand 322
    Screenprinting Demonstration
    Hot Bed Press bring their unique flare for printmaking. See artists create original prints in front of your eyes. Wonder at the transformation as layers are printed over each other and finished editioned prints are produced.
    Hot Bed Press
  11. Central 5 in main entrance
    In Conversation: Mark Demsteader

    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
  12. Central 6 in main entrance
    Abstracting The World
    Explore ways to create your own abstract art with inspiration from one of Europe’s most influential artists, Piet Mondrian.
    Creative Art Courses
  13. Central 5 in main entrance
    Amplifying Women's Voices: Leadership, Mentorship, and Global-Majority Perspectives in Contemporary Art

    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
  14. Central 5 in main entrance
    Studios in the City
    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. Food Court - Located in the hall
    Hirameki ‘Draw what you see’
    ‘Draw what you see’, use your imagination to find inspiration in the blots of colour. Cass Art artists will set up the canvas for young artists to start their own creative journeys.
    Cass Art
  2. Central 5 in main entrance
    The Importance of Art when styling your Home - Arighi Bianchi
    Join Family Furniture business Owner Nick Bianchi, of Arighi Bianchi, along with leading interior designer Brent Simpson

    Arighi Bianchi

     

  3. Stand 322
    Screenprinting Demonstration
    Hot Bed Press bring their unique flare for printmaking. See artists create original prints in front of your eyes. Wonder at the transformation as layers are printed over each other and finished editioned prints are produced.
    Hot Bed Press
  4. Central 6 in main entrance
    Expressive Still LIfe
    Explore emotive colour and gestural mark-making to re-imagine still life objects in individualistic ways to create highly self-expressive contemporary still life drawings.
    Creative Art Courses
  5. Central 5 in main entrance
    (Un)Defining Queer
    This in conversation between Dominic Bilton, Sarah-Joy Ford and MT Hutchinson discusses the importance of the publication (Un)Defining Queer on museum practice.
  6. Central 6 in main entrance
    Oil paint for beginners with Cass Art

    Welcome to our beginner workshop on oil paint, come start your creative journey with Cass Art.

    Cass Art
  7. Central 5 in main entrance
    How Art & Culture Defined Manchester
    How did Manchester perform its extraordinary turnaround from de-industrialised decline to the nation’s fastest-growing metropolis with its soaring, controversial skyline?
  8. Central 5 in main entrance
    Book Signing with Andy Spinoza, author of Manchester Unspun

    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.

  9. Central 5 in main entrance
    Adventure Everywhere: Pablo Picasso's Paris Nightlife
     Expect tales of late nights, seedy bars, sex , drugs and Cubist art.
  10. Stand 322
    Screenprinting Demonstration
    Hot Bed Press bring their unique flare for printmaking. See artists create original prints in front of your eyes. Wonder at the transformation as layers are printed over each other and finished editioned prints are produced.
    Hot Bed Press
  11. Central 6 in main entrance
    Abstracting our world
    Explore ways to create your own abstract art with inspiration from one of Europe’s most influential artists, Piet Mondrian.
    Creative Art Courses
  12. Central 5 in main entrance
    Book Signing with Dave Haslam, author of Adventure Everywhere: Pablo Picasso's Paris Nightlife
    '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.