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Gallery in the Park

• 21st Century Gallery in the Park – the first 6 months
  21st century gallery on the park : The first 6 months from Whitworth Art Gallery
  Posted on 14 May 2013 | 11:42 am
• First sight of the goods lift!
  It might not seem very exciting, but I care for the wellbeing of my team, and let me tell you, a goods lift (and a decent loading bay) were top of my wish list all those years ago when staff got together at the Gallery to shape their vision for our new building. The Gallery […]
  Posted on 13 May 2013 | 11:49 am
• Last week it was the walls… and this week the roof
  For some of each working day this week, I’ve been enjoying getting back into the paper conservation studio, talking shop and assisting with the preparation of drawings for a forthcoming exhibition as part of our summer season. It is proving to be a very satisfying week, not only as I’ve been able to do some […]
  Posted on 1 May 2013 | 3:20 pm

TextilesWhitworth.wordpress.com

• Mixed messages
  Hi I’m Mitzi, currently researching two items that will go on display in July. One is Judith Duffey’s Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing – a contemporary knitted piece linked to questions of home/safety, gender and textile-art. There is so much relevant … Continue reading →
  Posted on 24 June 2010 | 4:22 pm
• Men of Cloth
  Men of Cloth, an exhibition of stitched textiles by Michael Brennand-Wood, Gavin Fry, Matthew Harris, James Hunting, Colin Jenkins and Kazuhito Takadoi, will be at the Waterside Arts Centre, 3 July to 4 September 2010.  Work by a few artists … Continue reading →
  Posted on 22 June 2010 | 11:52 am
• Get TACTILE
  http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/learning/post16/tactile/
  Posted on 16 June 2010 | 4:53 pm

The Land Between Us

• We Face Forward
  I’m one of the curators who is working with Maria Balshaw on the exhibition of West African art that’ll open in June 2012. The exhibition’s called We Face Forward and will show at the Whitworth, Manchester Art Gallery, and the … Continue reading →
  Posted on 18 October 2011 | 5:17 pm
• Bowes Street, Moss Side
  The brick for the obelisk is from terraced houses in the Bowes Street area of Moss Side, near to the old Stagecoach bus shed.  GB Building Solutions supplied the brick, which was them crushed into aggregate by Offerton Sand and … Continue reading →
  Posted on 26 July 2011 | 4:53 pm
• Installing the Obelisk
      Photos: Martin Stalker
  Posted on 9 June 2011 | 5:05 pm

Whitworth Adult Programme

• Alternative Camera Club presents TENT, Saturday 18 May
  Alternative Camera Club presents TENT Saturday 18 May, 1pm. Free This workshop is intended to instigate a forum of discourse and debate about how Greater Manchester can be cultivated as an exciting testing ground that places photography at the core of an interdisciplinary approach to practice and pedagogy. Developed by Adam Murray (Co-founder of Preston […]
  Posted on 13 May 2013 | 1:40 pm
• Exciting Art/Science collaboration…
  Whitworth Art Gallery Art/Science Exchange with Cell Matrix Research Centre Wednesdays 12 June & 10 July, 6pm – 8pm. Free Whitworth Art Gallery and The Welcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research are pleased to announce an exciting new art/science exchange. Join us for these two initial network meetings and take part in creating a new […]
  Posted on 8 May 2013 | 4:25 pm
• How to Dress Well, 15 May
    How to Dress Well live at Whitworth Art Gallery 15 May. 8pm Following last autumn’s release of the rapturously received album Total Loss,  experimental pop producer and singer, and ethereal/R&B artist Tom Krell, aka How to Dress Well, has announced a return to the United Kingdom for a string of new dates in 2013. Following an enormous […]
  Posted on 7 May 2013 | 12:15 pm

Prints & Drawings at Whitworth Art Gallery

• The sky’s the limit
  The Whitworth has teamed up with The Guardian Northener blog to brighten up the online weather forecast with fantastic works from the Prints and Drawings collection. I’m currently working on pulling together a range of works depicting parts of Northern England in various weather conditions. These works will be shown on the website to illustrate [...]
  Posted on 28 October 2011 | 5:15 pm
• Wonders in the Dark: Dark Matters at the Whitworth
  Dark Matters: Works from the Collection is now open at the Whitworth. Drawing on our fantastic  collection of prints, drawings and paintings, this exhibition forms part of the wider Dark Matters: Shadow – Technology – Art exhibition due to open on Saturday 24 September. The exhibition reveals ideas surrounding shadow as captured by artists in [...]
  Posted on 19 September 2011 | 4:43 pm
• Family Allowance
  I’ve been having much fun working on this display of works from the collection. ‘Family Allowance’ is centred on the theme of ‘normality’ and the family. For decades politicians have championed a stable family life as a cure for the perceived spread of moral and social decay in Britain. Today, the state of the nations [...]
  Posted on 4 March 2011 | 9:17 am

In The Mix

• Rescheduled: In the Mix Hack Weekend at MadLab
  Just to let you know that the In The Mix Hack Weekend has been rescheduled for the beginning of June- more info coming soon.
  Posted on 16 May 2013 | 6:18 pm
• In The Mix Hack Weekend at MadLab (17-19 May)
  I’m working with MadLab and a colleague at Manchester Museum, Steve Devine (New Media Officer) to organise ‘In The Mix Hack Weekender’ which will be happening Friday 17-Sunday 19 May! If you are a sound hacker, audio producer, or developer who’s keen to play with Manchester’s richest auditory dataset, then come down! Click here for more […]
  Posted on 11 May 2013 | 8:01 pm
• In the Mix featured in UniLife
  In the Mix was featured in this month’s UniLife (The University of Manchester’s monthly magazine) as part of a series of features profiling ‘Investing In Success’ projects. Investing in Success is £1 million initiative to boost staff development at University of Manchester. Read the feature here:
  Posted on 26 March 2013 | 2:17 pm

Learning @ Whitworth

• Hyperlink at Tate Modern
  On Friday 26 April, we took a group of young people to Hyperlink at the Tate Modern, which was curated by the Gallery’s young peoples group called Tate Collective. Hyperlink was a three-day festival of art, music and fashion in the Tanks and Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.  http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tanks-tate-modern/eventseries/hyperlink The festival launched Circuit, which is [...]
  Posted on 29 April 2013 | 9:41 am
• Imagine your new Whitworth…
  In June 2014 you will have a renewed Whitworth.  A beautiful Gallery, embracing its park and the people who use it – a Gallery that is fit for 21st Century Manchester! Some of the things that are exciting us the most are: The big new landscape gallery, with huge windows and views over the park [...]
  Posted on 26 April 2013 | 2:56 pm
• Siobhan Davies Dance – Partnership Workshop
  Learning teams and our practitioners across the Manchester Partnership were given a real treat this last Monday as we welcomed Marie Forbes, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, to deliver a site specific movement session using our Richard Long exhibition as a catalyst for ‘the journey’. Focusing on ‘inside-outside’ learning, Marie tasked us to find both natural [...]
  Posted on 24 April 2013 | 12:10 pm

Museum & Gallery Green

• Helping out in Whitworth Park
  Last week, a group of staff from the Whitworth Art Gallery spent 3 hours helping the Friends of Whitworth Park with essential gardening and maintenance work. Staff shifted a large pile of mulch which was used around newly planted oak, birch and beech saplings, and also planted around 200 daffodil bulbs. Luckily the forecasted rain [...]
  Posted on 15 March 2013 | 10:49 am
• Sally’s Fairtrade Fortnight Facts no. 9
  Fact no.9 Sweet success: Tate & Lyle are switching all their own label retail sugar to Fairtrade sugar. The move will benefit more than 6,000 farmers from Belize, who will receive Fairtrade premiums of around US $4 million (£2 million) for investment in their community, in the first year alone. Source: http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/press_office/press_releases_and_statements/archive_2008/feb_2008/fairtrade_fantastic_facts.aspx Sally ’2 sugars’ [...]
  Posted on 7 March 2013 | 9:20 am
• Sally’s Fairtrade Fortnight Fact no. 8
  Fact no.8 Fairtrade fans: three out of five people in the UK now recognise the FAIRTRADE Mark (TNS Omnimas 2007). Nine out of ten people have heard of Fairtrade and 65% percent of people in the UK think Fairtrade products should be available in cafés and restaurants as well as shops (OC&C 2007). Sally ‘ [...]
  Posted on 6 March 2013 | 5:17 pm

CultureShop Manchester

• You Can Never Have Too Many Squirrels.
  
  Posted on 30 April 2013 | 7:52 pm
• Fossil Foods!
  We’re getting rather excited about the opening of our new Museum gallery Nature’s Library at the end of this month. In preparation we thought we’d knock up some fossil cookies, as seen on Martha Stewart’s website using the new plastic bug collection in our shop. Unlike the bugs themselves, our results were delicious. Nature’s Library opens 27th April.
  Posted on 15 April 2013 | 5:38 pm
• Paper Chairs
    Artist Vincent Tomczyk creates extremely realistic looking sculptures  primarily out of paper. I am currently working on a series of paper chairs. I am interested in how personal chairs can become over time – almost taking on the characteristics of their owners. Chairs provide a sense of dignity – from hand carved stools in Africa, to thrones [...]
  Posted on 3 April 2013 | 7:05 pm

Whitworth Parklife

• Friends of Whitworth Park: Whitworth Art Gallery Dig – Ken Shone report 2012-11-26
  This was the second day of a limited programme of excavation to follow up an evaluation that Oxford Archaeology had done earlier in the year. The site had been cleared in the dig areas to give easy access to the … Continue reading →
  Posted on 5 March 2013 | 1:28 pm
• Heald Place Primary School Poetry Workshop
  On the 18th June 2012, members of the Whitworth Park Archaeology and History Project, in association with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Centre, took a poetry workshop to Heald Place Primary School. We began by introducing the pupils to … Continue reading →
  Posted on 5 March 2013 | 12:58 pm
• The Whitworth Art Gallery Development – Archaeology Consultancy by Oxford North
  As part of the Whitworth Art Gallery’s exciting plans for development (see http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/capital/), an archaeological assessment was undertaken by the archaeological consultants Oxford Archaeology North (a division of Oxford Archaeology: http://www.oxfordarch.co.uk). Several trenches were opened at the back of the … Continue reading →
  Posted on 5 March 2013 | 12:55 pm

Student Engagement Manchester

• Would you like to be a Student Curator for the WOW (Wonders of Whitworth) Student Social?
  Role: Student Social Curators  Event: WOW (Wonders of Whitworth) Student Social, Friday 7th June, 7:30-10:30pm Would you like to co-curate a Student Social at Whitworth Art Gallery to celebrate the Whitworth Art Gallery’s past, present and future; from 1958, when it became part of University of Manchester to Summer 2014, when the gallery reopens as [...]
  Posted on 23 April 2013 | 9:43 am
• Tomorrow: TACTILE TOO Launch at Whitworth Art Gallery
  Reblogged from Tactile Textile Resources: TACTILE TOO Launch Whitworth Art Gallery 7 March 2013 4 – 6 pm Please do pop along to see TACTILE TOO… TACTILE TOO is a contemporary textiles handling resource, showcasing the work of emerging Northwest textile makers. It can be used alongside the existing resource TACTILE in the gallery, or [...]
  Posted on 6 March 2013 | 2:14 pm
• In The Mix Soundscapes on Soundcloud!
  Reblogged from In The Mix: Listen to the soundscapes that Huw has created for Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Museum and John Rylands Library on Soundcloud! Read more… 2 more videos Listen to new commissioned soundscapes that animate the University of Manchester's cultural wonders.
  Posted on 3 March 2013 | 3:40 pm

• God’s Bridge Project
  I’ve just heard I have been picked as one of the artist for the ‘God’s Bridge’ project with Tanya Kovats. I’m really excited, the project begins a week today on […]
  Posted on 22 April 2013 | 11:52 pm
• ‘Through’ Neo:gallery22
  April 18th – 2nd June – Neo:gallery22, The Market Place, Bolton The exhibition opening is combined with Neo’s open studios on Saturday 4th May 4-6pm “The ‘process’ in process art […]
  Posted on 14 April 2013 | 11:09 pm
• Hand made futures – Contact theatre/Blankspace Collective
  1 May – 18 September       ’Hand made futures’  Contact Theatre/Blank Media Collective,  Manchester    Selected group exhibition ’Hand-made Future’ which will showcase artists working with craft or process led […]
  Posted on 14 April 2013 | 11:01 pm

Museum Meets

• Lost and Found: Museums at Night Whitworth Art Gallery part 2
  Thank you to everyone who donated objects for the Richard Wentworth installation last night at the Manchester Museum and Manchester Art Gallery for Museums at Night. You can see more images here. http://pinterest.com/creativetourist/museums-at-night-lovecollecting/ http://pinterest.com/mcrartgallery/lovecollecting-manchester-art-gallery/ Richard is curating the objects for the Whitworth Art Hours tonight, 17 May, from 7.30pm. There will also be live music […]
  Posted on 17 May 2013 | 1:39 pm
• Museums at Night digital game
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  Posted on 13 May 2013 | 10:58 am
• After Hours on Thursday 16 May – Stockport College
  Over the past three years, the Arts, Design and Media department at Stockport College has forged a reciprocal relationship with Manchester Museum, taking creative inspiration from its rich resources and producing visual material for display in the museum and beyond. The work included in After Hours: Nature’s Library (part of Museums at Night: Lost & […]
  Posted on 11 May 2013 | 10:24 am

Admire/Desire

• Results of Admire/Desire Survey
  Admire/Desire has now been deinstalled to make way for the next show, so now is a good time to sum up the results of the survey which was undertaken by near 50 visitors to the exhibition aged between 14 and 77. Firstly I can reveal that there was no one overall favourite picture, though Charles … Read more
  Posted on 19 August 2010 | 9:19 am
• And a different Private to Public
  I recently spent a week in a beautiful, family run hotel with a wonderful history and a remarkable art collection on the coast in Catalonia. Spending time there really brought to life for me the extraordinary pleasure of living (albeit temporarily) with art. I was also intrigued by the collection as a whole. Personality and … Read more
  Posted on 21 July 2010 | 6:33 pm
• One month left to see Admire/Desire
  It is frightening how quickly time passes and, as soon as one show is installed, it’s time to think about the next one. ‘Unstable States: The Visual Representation of Water’ will be the next display in the Pilkington Gallery at the Whitworth. This display will investigate Ruskin and his guide to landscape painting, Modern Painters.
  Posted on 20 July 2010 | 6:16 pm

Unstable States

• Garlic Bread? Are QR codes the future of the mobile internet?
  You may have already seen these square pixely things on products or on TV? There is currently some debate about whether QR codes will take off as an easy link between physical objects and online information accessed with your mobile … Continue reading →
  Posted on 24 January 2011 | 12:10 pm
• Art of the Sea
  Tonight on BBC4 we have another chance to watch Art of the Sea at 20:00.  In this episode the poet Owen Sheers looks at the work of writers inspired by the sea including Joseph Conrad, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Robert Louis Stevenson and … Continue reading →
  Posted on 12 January 2011 | 7:36 pm
• Reflections on Wet Sand
  My inlaws take an evening constitutional on the beach near their home in Nambucca Heads. With Turner’s painting ’Reflections on Wet Sand’ in mind I went along hoping to capture the sunset and figures reflected on the beach.  I didn’t manage a masterpiece, … Continue reading →
  Posted on 8 January 2011 | 3:46 am