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Cultural Exchange Event
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Podcasts aim to provide snapshot of visual arts in Manchester and North West
A new series of podcasts from artist-run Manifest Arts provides interviews with artists and arts organisers in the North West of England.
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Rogue Studios: can artists still afford to live and work in Manchester city centre?
As the search continues for a new home to house Rogue Artists’ Studios, Bob Dickinson visits a show of work by 11 of the building’s 100-plus artists and asks where next for artists in Manchester’s fast-changing city centre.
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Welcome to Manchester
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Territorial Anxiety
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North West England
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A Q&A with… Nico Vascellari, artist and punk musician
The Italian artist and hardcore punk singer Nico Vascellari presents his large-scale, haunting audio-visual installation, Bus de la Lum, at Manchester’s Whitworth. Dany Louise asks him about the work’s meaning and his wider practice.
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Alternative art education: Islington Mill Art Academy – investigating what artists need
The Islington Mill Art Academy in Salford has been providing a free alternative to mainstream art education since 2007. Sara Jaspan speaks to its co-founder, Maurice Carlin, and gets the views of artists who’ve taken part in the Academy’s ever-evolving investigation of what art education can be.
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Evaluation #2 10 Minute Residency
Point 4 – Interview Booth The final point was an opportunity to interview artists/artist parents/creatives to see if there were any commonalities in there response to the previous questions and ask them specifically about their professional development needs. This is […]
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Evaluation #1 10 Minute Residency
43 participants including adults and children 33 General Public 10 Artists/Creatives Point 1 – Suitcase People where asked if they wanted an International or Domestic residency and noted their responses on luggage labels. The scores for this where International […]
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Behind-the-scenes: In-residence at Paper Gallery, Manchester
One of the great things about being on residency is the creative freedom you have to pursue new work.
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Manchester’s Rogue studios looking for new home as developers move in
Crusader Mill in Manchester, the city-centre home of Rogue Studios for the last 15 years, has been sold to property developers.
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1 Day Research Residency
To learn more about artist residencies I went to London for a research trip and visited Gasworks and Shape Arts. I had tried to make an appointment with Gasworks although with the building only just re-opening this month after a […]
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Don’t say the ‘r’ word
This week I have been firming up dates and plans for my artist parent residency research event at Manchester Art Gallery in November. I wanted to use a space that can accommodate everyone with activities for the children and adults […]
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The Golden Age has gone
This past week has been about listening and taking snapshots of residencies popping up on social media. A good listen was Susan Jones lecture about artists pay since the 90s up until today and it seems that back then it […]
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Its Official
Finally after part self-funding a research trip to Finland, developing the idea over the past 18 months and a second attempt of applying to Arts Council England my project has been funded. I have to start by giving my thanks […]
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Northern Art Carbooty: placing art at the heart of community
Two events in Manchester and Blackpool will feature art, craft, live performance and music, plus special commissions from artists.
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NY Show #3
An exhibition featuring work from resident artists in combination with a show-reel from Prague based artists curated by Mariana Serranová.
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Whitworth Art Gallery shortlisted for Stirling Prize for architecture
The Whitworth Art Gallery follows its recent Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year win with a nomination for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize.
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MIF 2015: Richter / Pärt – a moving and surprising experience
Following an introduction by Manchester International Festival Director Alex Poots and its Artistic advisor Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2013, artist Gerhard Richter and composer Arvo Pärt were inspired to make new work dedicated to each other. Bob Dickinson attended the premiére of this new collaboration at Mancheter’s renovated Whitworth, and discovered one of the highlights so far of MIF 2015.
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MIF 2015: Performance Capture – “I don’t want it to run totally smoothly”
Over the course of this year’s Manchester International Festival, the top floor exhibition space of the Manchester Art Gallery will be occupied by Ed Atkins’ Performance Capture, a durational project revolving around the ongoing production of a single computer-animated video. Luke Healey takes a tour of the exhibition and speaks to the artist.
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Manifest, Manchester: an artist-led art festival for the North West
An ambitious new artist-led festival is taking place across Manchester and Salford this weekend, with studio spaces and major venues hosting a number of projects produced especially for the festival alongside, open studios across both cities. Bob Dickinson meets artists and festival directors Elisa Artesero, John Lynch and Roger Bygott to find out more.
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MIF 2015: Tree of Codes – a mesmerising total artwork
Continuing its cross-artform commissioning process, the Manchester International Festival production Tree of Codes teams choreographer Wayne McGregor with visual artist Olafur Eliasson and musician Jamie XX. Bob Dickinson is mesmerised.
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Manifest Arts Festival, Manchester
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July 10, 2015 -
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July 12, 2015 -
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North West England
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Whitworth Art Gallery wins Museum of the Year prize
This year’s Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery, which reopened in February after a £15m extension.