Over the last 17 years Manchester Art Fair has grown into the largest and most successful art fair outside London, with 164 exhibitors, 11,072 visitors and over £781,000 worth of art sold at the 2024 fair.
Organisers, EASELProjects are a small, dedicated & experienced team based in the North of England. For over twenty years they have been delivering exhibitions and events in the areas they are passionate about including art and hospitality.
Gallery and artist stands
Visitors to the fair
Spent on art
The fair continues to be a genuine counterweight to London – and a real part of the art world ecology outside the capital.
Manchester Art Fair is the perfect combination of high levels of curation and quality, set in an iconic venue, filled with discerning and interested buyers. The Fair's seamless organisation is the cherry on top!
I am really impressed with how Manchester’s art scene has developed in recent years. There is no shortage of potential art buyers in the region, and the fair is vital to inspire and develop a significant audience of collectors.
The location is great and the perfect venue, the fair always brings lots of people to the event. The works on offer get more varied every year, there really is something for everyone.
As a gallery, we found the fair to be very well organised, with large numbers of visitors prepared to buy art.
"Manchester Art Fair gives us a great opportunity to meet many more highly engaged art enthusiasts and buyers and is a central part of our calendar every year."
A very well organised show, the team are excellent.
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The City of Manchester
With an international reputation for the visual arts and institutions such as Manchester Art Gallery, The Whitworth, HOME, Manchester International Festival, The Lowry and Aviva Studios, Manchester is the ‘original modern city’.
Manchester has been named as one of 25 global destinations to be included in the Where to Go 2024 list by prestigious US travel publication AFAR, has been named in the New York Times’ 52 Places to Go list for 2024 and is the only UK city in National Geographic's influential ‘Best of the World’ list which annually sets out 25 of the must-see places to visit around the globe.
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Manchester Central
The Fair’s venue, Manchester Central located at the heart of the city centre is served by its own dedicated tram stop, free city centre shuttle buses and on-site parking for 700 cars.
Combing state-of-the-art exhibition facilities and little extras such as dedicated porters and trolleys we aim to make exhibiting as easy as possible. Once the fair’s doors close at the end of a successful day the city centre’s restaurants, bars and theatres are on your doorstep to enjoy!
Audience Overview
spent 1-2 hours exploring the fair.
will visit the fair next year and recommend to friends & family.
come from the North of England.
own more than 10 pieces of art.
spend up to £5,000 a year on art.
are aged 25 and above
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