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.

164

Gallery and artist stands

11,072

Visitors to the fair

£781k

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.
 
i newspaper 4* review
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!
Francis Iles Gallery
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.
Frank Cohen  
Art Collector

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.

Cheshire Art Gallery

As a gallery, we found the fair to be very well organised, with large numbers of visitors prepared to buy art.

Clifton Fine 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."
Saul Hay Gallery
A very well organised show, the team are excellent.
Drang Gallery
Manchester Art Fair

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.

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

65%

spent 1-2 hours exploring the fair.

97%

will visit the fair next year and recommend to friends & family.

98%

come from the North of England.

35%

own more than 10 pieces of art.

93%

spend up to £5,000 a year on art.

97%

are aged 25 and above

Marketing Campaign

Posters
Digital and traditional poster advertising sites located in prime locations across the city centre in partnership with Manchester City Council and Jack Arts.
Leaflets
200,000 leaflets delivered through letterboxes by Royal Mail to key postcodes across Manchester and Cheshire.
Social Media
Social media reach of 52,000+ followers and 372,000+ impressions across Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. 

 
Emails
Email campaigns featuring exhibitors and fair news are sent to our exclusive database of 45,000+ subscribers.

Manchester Art Fair 2024 in pictures

Manchester Art Fair 2024

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