Talks & Classes 2023

Join a conversation between Paulette Brien (Curator at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool), and Artist and Disability Arts and Rights activist, Tony Heaton OBE - as they unpack some of the key concerns within the artist’s practice and explore the disability arts movement, past and present.

Artist and Creative Facilitator Georgie Fay will demonstrate the art of Etching

Artist Lois Gilbert will be inking and printing fine tonal images with photopolymer plates.

Explore emotive colour, distorted shapes, and gestural mark-making to express inner moods and feelings from chaos or sadness to joy or hope.

Rogue Women Jen Orpin Margaret Cahill Julie Cassels Lindsey Bull Ruth Murray Emmer Winder Andrea Booker Jo McGonigal 

An introduction to the art of Gyotaku and the history of this art form from it’s origins in Japan.  A print will be taken from a line caught Anglesey Bass showing how the fish is prepared for printing and a few tips and tricks if you fancy trying this out at home. 

Creative intelligence is developed by moving our hands, our bodies. Artists draw to think, artists draw to resolve ideas through convergent thinking.

Come and hear about Castlefield Gallery’s 40th anniversary year of programming coming up in 2024 which will see the return of art works from the gallery’s very early days being shown alongside new works by a younger generation of artists. Matthew will discuss examples of how and why artists are finding it important to revisit and reimagine the past in their work and how this might inform the way we think about the future.

This presentation is an introduction to Liam Spencer’s work, and an exploration of the Irwell and its valley from its source in Rossendale to its destination at Salford Quays and the Manchester Ship Canal. Paintings, drawings, photography, and film will reveal its post-industrial landscapes and the wildlife which thrives there, often discreet and hidden from view.

Tom & Chris from Cass Art will be demonstrating illustration with Fine Liners and Paint Markers, using various themes to produce graphic and illustrative artworks.

Tom & Chris from Cass Art will be demonstrating illustration with Fine Liners and Paint Markers, using various themes to produce graphic and illustrative artworks.

Polly Checkland Harding talks with Victoria Coleman, the artist behind this year's cats on the Manchester Art Fair creative for 2023.

Creative intelligence is developed by moving our hands, our bodies. Artists draw to think, artists draw to resolve ideas through convergent thinking.

Artist and Creative Facilitator Georgie Fay will demonstrate the art of Etching.

Travel the journey from Realism to Abstraction and create your own abstract art with inspiration from one of Europe's most influential artists, Piet Mondrian. Suitable for adults of all abilities

Artist Lois Gilbert will be inking and printing fine tonal images with photopolymer plates.

 KnownOrigin x eBay

How Manchester’s art scene, combined with the cities technological excellence spurned the “digital art marketplace” KnownOrigin.

An in-conversation with artists Chad McCail and Amrit Randhawa (Taxi Cab Industries), chaired by Robert Parkinson (the Whitworth)

Cork & Canvas Presents Paint Your Mate Picasso Style 

My artistic inspiration draws from various sources, as much from the techniques of the Old Masters as it does from our ever evolving contemporary culture. My primary aim is to create paintings which d ...

Join Williams BMW on a journey through art and nature with three professional artists working in and around the Peak District National Park, who created an immersive backdrop for their installation at this year’s Manchester Art Fair.