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Central 5 in main entranceJez Dolan talks to author and curator Gemma Rolls Bentley about how to build a collection with values. -
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Central 5 in main entranceCelebrate the LGBTQI+ community with this vivid collection of artworks that charts queer voices from around the world. With nearly 200 artworks selected by leading LGBTQI+ curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley, this book mixes the high-brow with the low, gallery stalwarts with Instagram stars, and the racy with the fabulous. This is a unique celebration of queer life – a must-have for the LGBTQI+ community, art lovers and anyone interested in the culture surrounding queer identity. -
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Cheshire Art Gallery, Stand 302One of the UK’s most celebrated figurative artists, Mark Demsteader will unveil his highly anticipated, inaugural book, Moorland at Manchester Art Fair.
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Central 5 in main entranceScarlet has been a passionate photographer her whole life and her education culminated in studying photography at the University of Westminster in the early ’90s. She quickly developed her own fresh, documentary style of reportage.
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Central 5 in main entranceMoorland by Mark Demsteader will provide a first-hand insight into his rise as an artist and how, those early years working as a butcher taught him more about the structure of sinew, bone and flesh, albeit livestock not human, than in any subsequent life drawing class. Written by the artist’s friend and former Principal of Oldham Sixth Form College, Nick Brown OBE, Moorland includes in-depth interviews with the artist, alongside an exquisite collection
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Central 5 in main entranceJoin a panel led by Paradise Works director Jessica Bennett talking about the importance of affordable studio space in the city, artworkers being at the centre of our society.
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Central 5 in main entranceThis in conversation between Dominic Bilton, Sarah-Joy Ford and MT Hutchinson discusses the importance of the publication (Un)Defining Queer on museum practice. -
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Central 5 in main entranceHow did Manchester perform its extraordinary turnaround from de-industrialised decline to the nation’s fastest-growing metropolis with its soaring, controversial skyline? -
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Central 5 in main entranceSpinoza’s 2023 book Manchester Unspun is an account of the city’s extraordinary recent transformation, packed with stories of the author’s experiences with everyone from Tony Wilson and Andy Burnham, to Gary Neville and Caroline Aherne.
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Central 5 in main entranceExpect tales of late nights, seedy bars, and sex and drugs and Cubist art. -
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Central 5 in main entrance'Adventure Everywhere' is the seventh book in Dave Haslam's acclaimed Art Decades series. In Adventure Everywhere, Dave Haslam portrays the world of drink, sex, music, drugs, art, and chaos that constituted Picasso’s nightlife.
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