Profiles

Visual arts organisations and projects in the North West region.

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100th Monkey

Description: 100th Monkey is a fluid community of artists looking to provide resources for ourselves and others. Brought together as ’14 Gifted Children’ during our university days, we found ourselves institutionally homeless after three years. Seeking structure, we formed 100th Monkey, named after a disputed theory of parallel evolution/shared experience. MISSION STATEMENT: v To exhibit in unused/non-traditional spaces v To take contemporary art to new audiences v To run a gallery space with a progr…

Alchemy

Description: Alchemy is the Museum's first sustained research programme for artists. Alchemy initiates and facilitates artists access to The Manchester Museum and The University of Manchester. Principally, we support four Alchemy Artist Fellowships, curate interventions in permanent galleries, host events and help make possible the loan of Museum collections for contemporary art projects. Through supporting artists research and the creation of new work, Alchemy aims to reinvigorate Museum displays, enco…

Apartment

Description: Apartment is an artist-led project and exhibition space in a one-bedroom council flat in a sixties tower block in central Manchester. Artists show work alongside the everyday objects in the flat and make work in response to issues surrounding the location of the space. The space is co-run by artists Hilary Jack and Paul Harfleet; the current resident who continues to live alongside the activities that occur.…

Art Gene

Description: Art Gene is a new artist led initiative established in 2002. Pursuing curatorial and creative excellence Art Gene provides high quality managed studios, and a spacious contemporary gallery. Art Gene Mission Statement To establish a facility of local, national and international significance for artists and art led initiatives, dedicated to the production and exhibition of new works of contemporary art, through the provision of affordable managed workspaces, and a gallery. History A…