Events in the Gallery at Bankley Studios Manchester

Gallery Opening Times: Saturday and Sunday 29th & 30th October and 5th & 6th November.

Other viewings by appointment only.
Contact Carolyncurtismagri@hotmail.com

Bankley Gallery and The Windows Project are hosting an exhibition of photography by Michael Jacobson-Hardy from America.

The event celebrates the opening of The European Prison Education Conference taking place at The Midland Hotel in Manchester at the end of October. Delegates from many different countries will be visiting the gallery to see the photographs, which given an amazing insight into prison life.

17-18th, 24-25th September and 1-2nd October
11-5pm

Preview Friday 16th September 6-9

We are really pleased to be hosting an exhibition from Arena Studios and Gallery from Liverpool for our annual Open Weekend and beyond.

Artists will be drawing in the gallery during the preview and exhibiting a mixture of drawings and installation pieces which will be both innovative and challenging.

Exhibition 30th July - 14th August 2011

Gallery Open Saturdays 30th July, 6th August, 13th August 1.00 - 6.00pm
Preview Friday 29th July 6-8pm


Creative hands foundation in partnership with Oxfam will be showing the work of two Sure Start women's groups in South Manchester who have been exploring the value and their personal experiences of unpaid work.

Further information can be obtained from m.lindsay@creativehandsfoundation.org

2nd July - 16th July 2011
Opening evening 2nd July from 3pm onwards

Gallery open Sat & Sun 2 & 3, 9 & 10 and 16 & 17th July 2011 11.00 - 5.00pm

Workshop 9th July 1.00 - 3.00pm

Through wide expanses of texture, collage and colour stretched across the walls and floor, Garth Simmons creates an environment of dislocations and skewed perspectives. His juxtapositions of scale and finely interlaced pattern transform the gallery space into a fully immersive, cerebral landscape.

http://garth-simmons.blogspot.com/

Opening Friday 27th May 2011 6.30 - 9.00pm

Gallery open 28th & 29th May - 4th & 5th, 10th & 11th June 11-5pm


Pursuing the Narrative is a collaboration between two Manchester-based practitioners, writer and artist Jo Manby, and artist Gary James Williams. This exhibition explores the narrative of the written word, installation and the moving image, examining the blurred frontier between written and visual fictions.

Jo Manby is a freelance writer and artist who writes various types of fiction. She works in painting, sculpture and drawing and has extensive experience of gallery curating and project management.

Gary James Williams exhibits internationally, working in a broad interdisciplinary practice. Williams’ work enquires into the creative potentials of the narrative structure, the arena of storytelling and our relationship with the material and the ephemeral.



Photo credits

Pursuing the Narrative drawing © Jo Manby 2011

Preview Event sponsored by Barefoot Wine

Opening Friday 18th March 2011 7.00 - 9.00pm

Artists Discussion Saturday 26th March 2.00 - 4.30pm

Gallery Open Sat & Sun 19th, 20th and 26th, 27th March and Sat & Sun 2nd, 3rd April 10.00 - 4.00pm

A participatory photography project gives insight into how two different communities of high school students from India and England occupy and define their personal space.

www.sangitamistry.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/monixa.creations

Preview Event sponsored by Barefoot Wine

Opening Friday 12th November 7-10 pm

Open Sat & Sun 13 & 14, 20 & 21, 27 & 28 Nov 1.00 - 5.00pm or by appointment,
phone Philip Kennedy on 0161 434 9320

Local artist Philip Kennedy shows carvings, fabrications and paintings from the past 5 years exploring figurative and gestural themes with an emphasis on partial and fleeting aspects of the real world


www.philip-kennedy.com

Saturday 23rd October 2010
12.00 - 4.00pm
Suitable for all ages

Come and have a go to help draw and build a city that surpasses all others through imagination and creativity. Through drawing, collage and sculpture, add to the skyline with your own architectural masterpiece; a floating park of the future, a farmpartment or a museum of pencils – anything to make the most diverse and creative city in the world – in Levenshulme!


Please be aware - children must be accompanied by an adult.

Part of Levenshulme Festival: www.levenshulmefestival.co.uk

Open Studios 2010
Sat 25 September 11.00 - 6.00pm
Sun 26 September 12.00 - 4.00pm

Processed Limitations
Sat & Sun 25 - 26 September 12.00 - 5.00pm
Sat & Sun 2 - 3 October 12.00 - 5.00pm

Preview for both events
Saturday 25 September 6.00 - 9.00pm

The yearly event when artists open their studio spaces to the viewing public. This year, the event is accompanied by "Processed Limitations" the drawing practices of Stephen Ashdown, JoMcGonigal and Evangelia Spiliopoulou - all recent graduates of Manchester Metropolitan University's MAFA - the work is conceptual, visually dissimilar and technically diverse with a highly individual aesthetic outcome.

Opening Fri 3 Sept 6 - 9
Open Days Saturday, Sunday 4 & 5, 18 & 19 1-6pm
Coffee and Cake Event Sun 12 1-6
Closing Down Sale Sat 18 1-6

Axel Bottenberg is supported by Imitate Gallery in association with Bankley House Studio Gallery. Imitate's Director describes the work: "With a punchy penchant for insane ideas, Bottenberg bolts together a dizzying array of imagery incorporating both classic and contemporary iconography in a technically brilliant visual mashup"

For more info or to arrange a purchase contact 0161 850 0123, info@imitate.org.uk website:
www.axelbottenberg.co.uk

Open weekends 17, 18, 24, 25 July 11-4pm
Other times by appointment only tom24evans@yahoo.com


Thomas Evans, Laura Simms and Fiona Campbell challenge the traditional 'white cube' approach to art exhibitions with box-like galleries within Bankley Gallery . They explore the idea of the 'peepshow' or 'raree (rarity) to enable unusual visual experiences.

For more information:
www.M19.moonfruit.com

Carolyn Curtis Magri and Charlie Ryder

03 July - 04 July 2010
This weekend event opens with a lunch at 1pm on Saturday 3rd July.

Carolyn Curtis Magri and Charlie Ryder explore the experience of being in a prison from two sides of the divide with posters and performance. Carolyn is an Art and Design Tutor in Offender Learning and Charlie, an ex-offender.

You are invited to an exhibition of new works by painter Fadil Ademi.

Monday 15 March - 31 March 2010
Every evening from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Fadil works in oil paint and oil pastels creating images that explore colour and form within still life.

The works featured in this exhibition are exciting, current and bold.

We hope to see you there.

For more information, please look here:

http://fadilademi.blogspot.com/

Iain Andrews

20 November - 6 December
Saturday and Sunday 12 - 5 pm

Preview: Friday 20th November 7 - 9pm

Talk by the artist: Saturday 21st November 2pm

At Bankley Studios & Gallery

To coincide with his forthcomming appearance on BBC2's Saatchi's Best of British
Manchester based painter Iain Andrews will be showing a selection of new works.

Andrew Gilmore

23 October - 8 November 2009
Saturday and Sunday 12 - 5 pm

Preview: Friday 23 October, 19.00 - 21.00
Wrap party: Friday 6 November, 19.00 – 21.00, performance at 20.00

The exhibition is about contrasts. You see an attractive woman strolling through town, wearing designer clothes you automatically assumed she has everything you want: status and wealth and happiness. It's often far from the truth.
Western culture blows up our superficial side. Were all superficial- its our instinct when it comes to appearance. It's down to the individual to cognitize that.
In the paintings glossy magazine cuttings are set next to scribbles and crude brush strokes. I find mass media imagery as beguiling as I do poisonous. The collage and other materials make up narratives. Some are intentional others are accidental.

For more information
email: gilmore.art@hotmail.com

Laura Tester & Alan Freeman

3 October - 11 October 2009
Saturday and Sunday 12 - 5 pm

Preview: Friday 2 October, 19.00 - 22.00

This exhibition of work inspired by the weather by artists Laura Tester and Alan Freeman opens in conjunction with Bankley's yearly Open Studio event (see news and events for more details).

For more information about the featured artists visit:
www.lauratester.com
www.alanfreeman.org.uk

3 & 4 October 2009
Saturday and Sunday 12 - 5 pm

Preview: Friday 2 October, 19.00 - 22.00 pm

The yearly event when resident artists open their studio spaces to the viewing public. This year the Open Studios event is accompanied by an exhibition of work by Laura Tester and Alan Freeman in the Gallery.

Hannah Morris, Simon Clear & Rachael Statham

Bankley Studios Gallery

9 August - 14 August 2009
12.00 - 18.00 pm

Preview: Saturday 8 August, 18.30 - late
Drinks, food, live music... kind of

An exhibition of new young painting, drawing and sculpture.

Nicholas J Ridehalgh

Bankley Studios Gallery

4 July - 26 July 2009
Saturday and Sunday 12 - 5 pm
or by appointment tel: 01625 267391

Preview: Friday 3 July, 7 - 10 pm

The Psychiatrist said, “I think we can get him back”

This is the most recent glimpse into the visionary world of English painter Nicholas J Ridehalgh, a point in time capturing his pursuit of the other in paint & drawing.

Bankley Studios Gallery

30 May - 21 June 2009
Saturday and Sunday 12 - 5 pm

Preview: Friday 29 May, 7 - 10 pm

SoTart Contemporary Artists invite you to Bankley Studios & Gallery for their latest exhibition

Bankley House Studios & Gallery

The annual event which invites the public into the working spaces of the Artists. Fair Play an exhibition in the Gallery.

Fair Play is supported by Arts Council of England, North West and The Levenshulme Festival