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Manchester Art Fair 2024

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  1. Hirameki ‘Draw what you see’
    Food Court - Located in the hall

    ‘Draw what you see’, use your imagination to find inspiration in the blots of colour. Cass Art artists will set up the canvas for young artists to start their own creative journeys.

    Cass Art
  2. Hirameki ‘Draw what you see’
    Food Court - Located in the hall
    ‘Draw what you see’, use your imagination to find inspiration in the blots of colour. Cass Art artists will set up the canvas for young artists to start their own creative journeys.
    Cass Art
  3. Building an Art Collection with Meaning
    Central 5 in main entrance
    Jez Dolan talks to author and curator Gemma Rolls Bentley about how to build a collection with values.
  4. The Importance of Art when styling your Home - Arighi Bianchi
    Central 5 in main entrance
    Join Family Furniture business Owner Nick Bianchi, of Arighi Bianchi, along with leading interior designer Brent Simpson

    Arighi Bianchi

     

  5. Screenprinting Demonstration
    Stand 322
    Hot Bed Press bring their unique flare for printmaking. See artists create original prints in front of your eyes. Wonder at the transformation as layers are printed over each other and finished editioned prints are produced.
    Hot Bed Press
  6. Screenprinting Demonstration
    Stand 322

    Hot Bed Press bring their unique flare for printmaking. See artists create original prints in front of your eyes. Wonder at the transformation as layers are printed over each other and finished editioned prints are produced.

    Hot Bed Press
  7. Expressive Still LIfe
    Central 6 in main entrance
    Explore emotive colour and gestural mark-making to re-imagine still life objects in individualistic ways to create highly self-expressive contemporary still life drawings.
    Creative Art Courses
  8. Book Signing with Mark Demsteader, artist featured in Moorlands
    Cheshire Art Gallery, Stand 302

    One of the UK’s most celebrated figurative artists, Mark Demsteader will unveil his highly anticipated, inaugural book, Moorland at Manchester Art Fair.

    Cheshire Art Gallery
  9. Book Signing with Gemma Rolls-Bentley, author of Queer Art
    Central 5 in main entrance
    Celebrate 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.
  10. (Un)Defining Queer
    Central 5 in main entrance
    This in conversation between Dominic Bilton, Sarah-Joy Ford and MT Hutchinson discusses the importance of the publication (Un)Defining Queer on museum practice.
  11. Liverpool Biennial
    Central 5 in main entrance
    Marie-Anne McQuay, guest curator for the Liverpool Biennial 2025 chats to Paulette Terry Brien, curator of The Grundy about plans for next year's event.
  12. Expressive Still Life
    Central 6 in main entrance
    Explore emotive colour and gestural mark-making to re-imagine still life objects in individualistic ways to create highly self-expressive contemporary still life drawings.
    Creative Art Courses
  13. Oil paint for beginners with Cass Art
    Central 6 in main entrance

    Welcome to our beginner workshop on oil paint, come start your creative journey with Cass Art.

    Cass Art
  14. How Art & Culture Defined Manchester
    Central 5 in main entrance
    How did Manchester perform its extraordinary turnaround from de-industrialised decline to the nation’s fastest-growing metropolis with its soaring, controversial skyline?
  15. Oil paint for beginners with Cass Art
    Central 6 in main entrance

    Welcome to our beginner workshop on oil paint, come start your creative journey with Cass Art. 

    Cass Art
  16. Scarlet Page in conversation
    Central 5 in main entrance
    Scarlet 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.
    The Arthound Gallery
  17. Book Signing with Andy Spinoza, author of Manchester Unspun
    Central 5 in main entrance

    Spinoza’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.

  18. Adventure Everywhere: Pablo Picasso's Paris Nightlife
    Central 5 in main entrance
     Expect tales of late nights, seedy bars, sex , drugs and Cubist art.
  19. Screenprinting Demonstration
    Stand 322
    Hot Bed Press bring their unique flare for printmaking. See artists create original prints in front of your eyes. Wonder at the transformation as layers are printed over each other and finished editioned prints are produced.
    Hot Bed Press
  20. Screenprinting Demonstration
    Stand 322
    Hot Bed Press bring their unique flare for printmaking. See artists create original prints in front of your eyes. Wonder at the transformation as layers are printed over each other and finished editioned prints are produced.
    Hot Bed Press
  21. In Conversation: Mark Demsteader
    Central 5 in main entrance

    Mark Demsteader’s working life began at his family’s butchery and meat packing business – but, after an eye-opening visit to The Louvre in Paris, he began his journey to becoming an acclaimed figurative painter. Find out all this and more in this  interview with award-winning arts journalist and editor Polly Checkland Harding.

    Cheshire Art Gallery
  22. Abstracting our world
    Central 6 in main entrance
    Explore ways to create your own abstract art with inspiration from one of Europe’s most influential artists, Piet Mondrian.
    Creative Art Courses
  23. Book Signing with Dave Haslam, author of Adventure Everywhere: Pablo Picasso's Paris Nightlife
    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.
  24. Abstracting The World
    Central 6 in main entrance
    Explore ways to create your own abstract art with inspiration from one of Europe’s most influential artists, Piet Mondrian.
    Creative Art Courses
  25. Amplifying Women's Voices: Leadership, Mentorship, and Global-Majority Perspectives in Contemporary Art
    Central 5 in main entrance

    esea contemporary and Manchester Contemporary are pleased to present Amplifying Women's Voices: Leadership, Mentorship, and Global-Majority Perspectives in Contemporary Art, an insightful panel discussion celebrating the vital contributions of women in the contemporary art world.

    esea
  26. Studios in the City
    Central 5 in main entrance
    Join 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.