Profiles

Visual arts organisations and projects in the North West region.

Click on details for more information about a particular organisation.

A Family Of

Description: Who we are... A Family Of are eight Manchester based photographers. The nature of A Family Of is to produce work as a true collective. There is no individual authorship of work:- all images are a product of the collaboration, working in this way raises questions and challenges ideas around re-appropriation, copyright and the nature of collaborative work.…

Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival

Description: Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is an energetic regional festival of new cinema and digital culture. A unique partnership between FACT, Cornerhouse and folly, the festival was launched in Liverpool in 2009. In subsequent years it has alternated between Liverpool and Manchester with an extended regional programme across Cheshire, Cumbria and Lancashire. A catalyst for production and experimentation, AND is a call to arms inviting anarchists of the imagination to propose striking perspectives on…

ACIDHIVE

Description: ACIDHIVE is a contemporary virtual gallery space which promotes undiscovered artists through the means of a website. This concept is prevalent in today’s society as technology is advancing at a rapid pace; the main example being musical artists promoting their music on the internet through sites such as Myspace. And now, it seems fitting that art should do the same. This is an adaptation of the norms of a typical gallery set up in which there are plaques of information about the work on dis…

Alison Kershaw

Description: Alison Kershaw is an artist and curator working in Manchester,UK. She has worked with a number of arts and non-arts organisations including Victoria Baths, Pool Arts and Community Network for Manchester. Alison Kershaw is interested in the who, where and why of arts practice, the location of art, the meaning of place and how art interfaces with other realms of life.…