Rogue Women

Stand: 119

Rogue Women at the Manchester Contemporary 2026 is organised and curated by Jen Orpin - Rogue Artists' Studios

Exhibiting artists

Jen Orpin

Margaret Cahill

Julie Cassels

Jo Clements

Ruth Murray

Rebecca Davy

Ali Friend

Stef Trow

Heather Alderson

Michelle Leigh

Evita Ziemele

Lindsey Bull

Rachael Addis

Sarah Feinmann

Jenny Steele

Sue Reddish

Emmer Winder

Susie MacMurray

Maddy Venus

Claire Dorsett

Location

Manchester

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Emmer Winder is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist with over 20 years’ experience teaching and facilitating socially engaged community workshops. Her personal practice is deeply political, reflecti …

Claire Dorsett (b.1985). Lives and works in Manchester. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting at The University of Brighton in 2007 and from MFA Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art …

Stefanie Trow is a Manchester-based contemporary artist working across painting, drawing and printmaking. Her practice explores the relationship between the human psyche and the natural world, drawing …

Sue Reddish - mixed media textile artistSue explores the intersection of material waste and urban space, creating urban abstract landscapes using repurposed commercial clothing waste—remnants of fast …

Michelle Leigh is a painter & printmaker working in oils, watercolour, etching & woodcut. She creates richly imaginative works weaving together myth ,memory & everyday experience. She studied Fine Art …

Julie Cassels a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores textiles, clothing, and the way fabric has been depicted and reinterpreted throughout art history. Working with photography transferred …

A Royal College of Art graduate and former Derek Hill Scholar at the British School at Rome, Ruth has exhibited widely, including at Saatchi Gallery, the Barbican and the BP Portrait Award.

Maddy Venus is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice moves between drawing, textiles, printmaking, sculpture and rug-making. Her work has developed from an observational drawing practice, with re …

Based in Manchester, Jo is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist whose work explores neuroscience, memory, identity and human connection through sculpture, textiles, drawing, film and digital proc …

Alison Friend(b. 1973, UK)Alison Friend is a British artist known for her whimsical, anthropomorphic animal portraits. A graduate of Nottingham Trent University with a degree in Fine Art and Printmaki …

Jenny Steele is a Scottish visual artist who has been based in Manchester for 15 years. Her practice uses heritage weaving techniques to create tactile, evocative and joyful sculptures, exploring cele …

Lindsey Bull lives and works in Manchester, UK. Her work explores different states of psychologies through figurative painting. Investigations into fashion, performance and costume, come together to c …

Jen Orpin (born Surrey, England,1974) lives in Manchester, studied at Manchester Metropolitan University (BA 1996) and has had a studio and full time painting practice with Rogue Artists’ Studios sinc …