Ongoing Exhibitions

The best of the visual arts activity in the North West region currently running.

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Arts by Offenders

Venue: MMU, Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, M15 6BR.

Exhibition Date: Wednesday, 24th Feb 2010 – Tuesday, 16th Mar 2010

Description: Arts by Offenders is an exhibition of artwork produced in prisons, special hospitals and by people on probation in the North West of England. This evocative and thought-provoking collection of over 70 fine art and craft works as well as around 20 creative writing pieces, was …

The Rise of Women Artists

Venue: Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, Liverpool, L2 8EL.

Exhibition Date: Friday, 23rd Oct 2009 – Friday, 19th Mar 2010

Description: Don’t miss this landmark exhibition charting the rise of women artists from the 16th century up to the present day. Paintings, works on paper, textiles, ceramics and sculpture will all be shown, from early painting by 16th and 17th century Italian artists Lavinia Fontana and Elis…

The Non-existence of the Unnamed - Brass Art

Venue: The International 3, 8 Fairfield Street, Manchester, M1 3GF.

Exhibition Date: Saturday, 13th Feb 2010 – Saturday, 20th Mar 2010

Description: Brass Art is the collective name for artists, Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneké Pettican. For their second solo show at The International 3, Brass Art continue to develop the expansive series of watercolour drawings collectively titled, ‘The Myth of Origins’, in which th…

Leo Asemota, The Handmaiden

Venue: Edge Hill Station, , Tunnel Road, Liverpool, L7 6ND.

Exhibition Date: Thursday, 25th Feb 2010 – Saturday, 20th Mar 2010

Description: Leo Asemota came into residence at Metal, Liverpool in July 2009 to advance his longstanding work ‘The Ens Project’. Primarily informed by the Edo people of Benin’s ancient ‘Igue’ ritual of Head worship, the British Empire’s invasion of Benin in 1897 and the essay “An Artwork in …