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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.
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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.
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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 entranceJoin Family Furniture business Owner Nick Bianchi, of Arighi Bianchi, along with leading interior designer Brent Simpson
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Stand 322Hot 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.
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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.
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Central 6 in main entranceExplore emotive colour and gestural mark-making to re-imagine still life objects in individualistic ways to create highly self-expressive contemporary still life drawings.
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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.
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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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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 entranceMarie-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.
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Central 6 in main entranceExplore emotive colour and gestural mark-making to re-imagine still life objects in individualistic ways to create highly self-expressive contemporary still life drawings.
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Central 6 in main entrance
Welcome to our beginner workshop on oil paint, come start your creative journey with Cass Art.
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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 6 in main entrance
Welcome to our beginner workshop on oil paint, come start your creative journey with Cass Art.
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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 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.
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Central 5 in main entranceExpect tales of late nights, seedy bars, sex , drugs and Cubist art.
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Stand 322Hot 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.
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Stand 322Hot 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.
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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.
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Central 6 in main entranceExplore ways to create your own abstract art with inspiration from one of Europe’s most influential artists, Piet Mondrian.
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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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Central 6 in main entranceExplore ways to create your own abstract art with inspiration from one of Europe’s most influential artists, Piet Mondrian.
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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.
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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.