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Capital Development at The Whitworth Art Gallery

  • Gathering of Strangers
    This fantastic artwork by Nathan Coley has recently been donated to the Gallery by a very generous donor. What better way to welcome our visitors from all over Manchester and beyond to the new Whitworth in 2014! Gathering of Strangers is a light work which will sit above the new entrance from the park. Coley’s [...]
    Posted on 22 March 2012 | 2:08 pm
  • Sarah Price – Rising Star of the Horticultural World
    We are delighted to have appointed Sarah Price as Landscape Consultant for the project. We are very lucky to have such a rising star working on the project and Sarah has some great ideas for making the landscape around the Whitworth very beautiful indeed! Sarah’s latest project is the Telegraph Garden at Chelsea. You can [...]
    Posted on 27 February 2012 | 3:01 pm
  • Where there’s a will…
    The Whitworth’s new building is set to continue the important role the gallery has played in Manchester for over a hundred years. The Gallery and the collection would not be in the city at all if it weren’t for a number of generous benefactors who left funds and artworks to the Gallery in their wills. [...]
    Posted on 6 November 2011 | 12:16 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

  • Get knitting for a good cause!

    Posted on 8 May 2012 | 1:03 pm
  • WEA Peripheral Vision
    Lovely video looking back at our involvement with the WEA’s fantastic Peripheral Vision project. Great experience with some brilliant learners. For more information on the project please click here…
    Posted on 8 May 2012 | 11:18 am
  • Crafternoon Tea Party, Saturday 12th May. FREE
      Crafternoon Tea returns in June, to book please call 0161 275 7450 or email whitworth@manchester.ac.uk. More details on the June to September sessions to follow shortly.
    Posted on 25 April 2012 | 4:17 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

  • Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds
    I’m currently in London to meet Huw to listen to the Manchester Museum and John Rylands Library soundscapes that he has been working on. I’ll have updates tomorrow! Whilst I was wandering around the Wellcome Collection shop today, I came across a very apt book, ‘Sonic experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds‘. In the ‘Guide [...]
    Posted on 15 May 2012 | 6:27 pm
  • Reel to Real: Giving the Pitt Rivers Museum’s Sound Collections a Voice
    ‘Reel to Real: Giving the Pitt Rivers Museum’s Sound Collections a Voice’ is a great project that Huw told me about. ‘No human sense is more neglected in ethnographic museums than sound. This project will make available for the widest use, both in and beyond the museum space itself, the important soundcollections of the Pitt Rivers Museum. [...]
    Posted on 14 May 2012 | 12:54 pm
  • ‘Krysko & Kashiwagi…in the mix’ on film!
    Here are some films of the ‘Krysko & Kashiwagi…in the mix’. You can see me intuitively beat matching with my gramophone! I’ve been experimenting with my gramophone glitching and looking forward to future collaborations.
    Posted on 19 April 2012 | 6:34 pm

Learning @ Whitworth

  • Big Draw 2011 – Trailblazers Award Winners.
    Whitworth Art gallery has been selected for a Campaign for Drawing ’2011 trailblazer award’ which recognises ‘inspirational organisers and institutions that have committed to the Big Draw in the long term, and use it as an experimental platform’ for our October event – Molecular Drawing – Join the Dots. The Big Draw team received ‘an [...]
    Posted on 10 April 2012 | 9:04 pm
  • Sewing Schools Together!
    A second schools art project for our current exhibition, Global Threads, is near completion. ‘Sewing Schools Together’, a project name courtesy of a year 5 pupil from Medlock Primary, has been a four week adventure in which the participating schools (Crab Lane, Birchfields, Heald Place and Medlock Primary) have circulated sewed on textile designs, all [...]
    Posted on 10 April 2012 | 2:31 pm
  • Global Threads Dance Performance, Cheshire Primary Schools
    A performance by children from Cheshire Primary Schools for their Global Threads project. The movement and dance event was performed in front of invited guests, parents and their teachers. The children’s act portrays the ‘life of a cotton picker’ and was the result of a two week adventure with Primary Schools linked to Fallibroome Academy [...]
    Posted on 6 March 2012 | 3:00 pm

Museum & Gallery Green

  • Turing’s Sunflowers
    Families and volunteers have been planting Turing’s sunflowers in the Museum’s allotment and to take home over the Easter holidays – Monday 2 April to Friday 13 April. As it was so wet over Easter some of this planting took place in -doors – hence our photographs below. We’re really pleased to be involved in [...]
    Posted on 8 May 2012 | 10:11 am
  • Great Green Roof coverage in the Manchester Evening News
    12.05.02_Manchester Evening News[1].PDF
    Posted on 2 May 2012 | 1:08 pm
  • A Special Visitor
    We had a visit from a lovely mallard duck last week who decided to have a good look around the Museum allotment! We hope he enjoyed it as much as our visitors do!
    Posted on 23 April 2012 | 4:59 pm

CultureShop Manchester

  • Awesome Tapes From Africa
    Brian Shimkovitz was on a Fulbright scholarship in Ghana when he got hooked on the cassette culture of the region. Street vendors hawked West African recordings in myriad genres, from highlife to African disco, old left-field soul to curious local pop. Shimkovitz started a blog, Awesome Tapes from Africa, and a record label to share his [...]
    Posted on 16 May 2012 | 8:01 pm
  • Jewel Caterpillar.
    A beautiful photo of the Jewel Caterpillar (Acraga coa), snapped by Gerardo Aizpuru near Cancun, and submitted to Project Noah. Be sure to click through for other views. Wow. Photo take in a mangrove area , found this Stoning translucent caterpillar lay on a Red Mangrove tree leaf this morning early. Just can believe there [...]
    Posted on 15 May 2012 | 8:17 pm
  • Homing Turtle
    85-year-old Holland Cokeley found a turtle in his back yard. He picked it up, and recognized it as his son’s turtle. “I picked it up, and I thought ‘Oh geez, this is Jeff’s turtle!’” said Cokeley. “It’s been here for 47 years, and it still has the same the same markings on it!” Jeff was [...]
    Posted on 10 May 2012 | 8:31 pm

Whitworth Parklife

  • The 2011 Dig: The view from an old architect – by Ken Shone
    I suppose I approached this with a lot of baggage! When we first started the Friends group, I had seen with Julian Tomlin, the early photos and the postcards from Bruce Anderson’s collection and I felt as though I knew … Continue reading →
    Posted on 6 February 2012 | 10:22 am
  • UniverCityCulture Video
      Our project features in this new film by the UniverCityCulture project, which aims to make research from the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures that is about Manchester’s culture and heritage, more visible to students, staff, and visitors.
    Posted on 13 December 2011 | 9:54 am
  • October 2011
    During the excavation, we were contacted by Manchester Academy’s Deaf Class, whose classroom overlooks the park. The students were very interested in the excavation but were unable to organise a field visit, so after the end of the dig, we … Continue reading →
    Posted on 23 November 2011 | 10:21 am

a musing platform

  • Do you want to be part of Manchester’s explosion of West African art and music during the opening Bank Holiday weekend in June?
    We are seeking to recruit a team of student volunteers to support the opening weekend of music events, previews, talks and art activities in some of the city’s best known galleries (Friday 1-Monday 4 June 2012). We are especially keen to recruit French speakers or people with a connection to West Africa who might be [...]
    Posted on 11 May 2012 | 2:21 pm
  • Artist Talk: Liz Rideal tomorrow
    Artist Liz Rideal will discuss her practice, including her work featured in ‘COTTON: Global Threads’, Whitworth Art Gallery at 6:30pm with refreshments served from 6pm. Free, no need to book, drop-in.  
    Posted on 9 May 2012 | 2:48 pm
  • Student Social for ‘COTTON: Global Threads’ film
    Over 200 students came to the Student Social for ‘COTTON: Global Threads’ on 16th March. It was a fantastic night with music from Bug and Leaf & Newismoos DJs, upcycling workshops and was a fun and social way for students to engage with the exhibition and each other. Thanks to Ear Trumpet for filming the event and Richard Manning for taking these [...]
    Posted on 18 April 2012 | 4:29 pm

Archived blogs

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

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