Bankley Studios & Artists Gallery

PS Mirabel
14-20 Mirabel St, Manchester, M3 1PJ

24 August – 28 September 2013

Saturdays 11 – 5

Preview: Thursday 29 August 6 – 9pm

An exhibition of artists’ responses to the subject of artificiality. Art by its very definition is artificial (from Latin artificialis “of or belonging to art”). Artifice explores this premise from a number of angles. Included are themes of masks and disguises, ersatz artefacts, online personas, ambiguous reproductions, synthetic bodies and geographical features, places abandoned by nature, and the role of religion in a scientific age.

featuring artists:
Lisa Denyer, Jack Doyle, David Hancock, Jonathan David Hughes, Katarzyna Jablonska, John Lynch, Aziza Mills, Holly Rowan Hesson, Claire Tindale, Michelle Topping, Richard Ward, Warp & Weft, Dai Williams

http://psmirabel.co.uk/

Cube Gallery
Portland Street
Manchester
M1 6DW


20 - 25 Sept
Preview 20 Sept 2013
6.00 - 9.00pm

'Its disposition in space possesses a geometrical description as determined by its external boundary- abstracting from location and orientation in space, size and other properties such as colour, content and material composition.'

Stacey Coughlin
Cheryl Ann Dawson
Thomas Evans &
Rebecca Rogers
Clara Walsh &
Sharon Walsh

http://www.cube.org.uk/

Bassment, 1 Primrose Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 6AQ

Sunday 25th August
12-5pm

A car boot with a twist, Northern Art Carbooty artists, some represented, will be challenged to make available their work through an easily recognisable platform and allow the public to acquire items and access services at rock bottom prices, perhaps even for free.

Common Ground Collective have a stall presenting ‘Produce’, a collection of artworks and edible treats, in response to our relationship with food and where it comes from. Featuring members of the collective:- Claire Tindale, Tracey Eastham, Elizabeth Wewiora and Tasha Whittle.

http://carbootymcr.tumblr.com/
@carbootymcr

16 August 2013

The Bankley Open Call 2013 is our first annual open exhibition inviting contemporary artists of any age or experience living within the UK, and working in any 2D media, video, or sculpture, to participate and be in with a chance of winning our first prize of £500 and a solo show at Bankley Gallery. We also have a fantastic second prize of £200 vouchers to spend at Fred Aldous, Manchester.

Our prizes will be judged by an impressive panel:

Mark Kennard - Director of Bureau Gallery, Manchester
Sophia Crilly - Director and Curator of Bureau Gallery, Manchester Mary Griffiths - Curator of Modern Art at Whitworth Gallery, Manchester Katy Saide - Owner of Trove, Levenshulme, Manchester

SUBMISSION DATE: 16TH AUGUST, 2013
ENTRY FEE: £10


SUBMISSION DATE: 16TH AUGUST, 2013 --- Exhibition starts from 4th Oct with PV and Awards ceremony. Then Thursday - Sunday, 12-4pm until 25th Oct, 2013

Schwartz Gallery
London

Private view: Wednesday 17th July 6 -10 p.m
Exhibition dates: 17/07/13 – 03/08/13
Summer Opening Hours: Thursday – Saturday 12 – 6 p.m
First Thursdays late opening: Thursday 1st August, 6 – 9 pm


HOT-ONE-HUNDRED is a show of 100 emerging contemporary artists based in the U.K. One artist will be offered a solo show at Schwartz Gallery at the end of 2013 at the end of the exhibition. Following an Open Call format the 100 artists and the subsequent solo-show artist will be selected by Ismail Erbil and Patrick Michalopoulos, artist-curators of Schwartz Gallery, one of the largest and longest-running of the current crop of artist-run spaces in London. A reference to ranking systems seen in late-night popular music T.V programmes and art world power lists the exhibition creates a ‘HOT-ONE-HUNDRED moment’ in the emerging U.K contemporary art scene offering up a very real opportunity for a solo show in the gallery. Playfully mimicking the creation of power lists in the worlds of art, entertainment and business HOT-ONE-HUNDRED satirises this ‘heat’ phenomenon while simultaneously becoming an agent for its proliferation.

Conceived and curated by Ismail Erbil & Patrick Michalopoulos

Bankley artist, Claire Tindale is one of those featured in the exhibition, visit website for the full list.

Schwartz Gallery, 92 White Post Lane, Ground floor, Building 2, London, E9 5EN
www.schwartzgallery.co.uk

We had been invited by the Levenshulme Art Action Group to paint one of the temporary 8 shop designs on hoardings on the A6 in Levenshulme.

The theme was inspired by a gallery space filled with people for a preview event, with member's art work in the window. Information and a map is also pointing people to the studios just down the road.

Other local artists have done shop designs filled with sweets, flowers, fish, shops from the past, the A6 road, Hats for Cats and a design inspired by the Grand cinema which used to stand on that spot.

Artists involved in Bankley's Gallery Shop:

Clair Graubner
Marnie Matthews
Philip Kennedy
Stacey Coughlin

FletcherMossArtGallery
Didsbury Parsonage

Monday 8th July – Sunday 21st July 12.00 -4.00pm
Preview: Sunday 7th July 1.00 - 5.00pm

As the Manchester International Festival descends upon the city centre, in the leafy suburbs of Didsbury a smaller but no less significant event unfolds. 'If Not Here Where', is a contemporary art exhibition with a difference. In the walled garden of Didsbury Parsonage, perhaps Manchester's best kept secret, a Garden Party in conjunction with Didsbury Parsonage Trust and Friends of Fletcher Moss Park and Parsonage Gardens, launches the event on July 7th. If Not Here...Where else would you wish to be? Art celebrating life.

http://fletchermossartgallery.wordpress.com

FletcherMossArtGallery
Didsbury Parsonage
Didsbury Parsonage Trust,
Stenner Lane,
Didsbury.
M20 2RQ

‘The Playmaker’
An Exhibition of Football in Contemporary Art

Thurs 11- Sat 13 July, 10am - 6pm - Sun 14 July 10am-5pm
PRESS PREVIEW: Thurs 11 July 5.30 - 6.30pm
OPENING NIGHT: Thurs 11 July 6.30 – 10pm

The Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Road, Waterloo, London SE1 8TJ

QUIET BRITISH ACCENT | SIR PETER BLAKE | STANLEY CHOW | JEANNETTE EHLERS | THOMAS GODDARD | VICTORIA HALL | HAARALA HAMILTON | PHILIP KENNEDY | PRAVDOLIUB IVANOV | MOIRA LOVELL | OTTO LI | ZORAN LUCIC | JACOPO MAINO | DAVE MERREL | EZEQUIEL SURANYI | RICHARD SWARBRICK | PHILIP WATKINS | STEVE WELSH


Seemingly worlds apart, the domains of art and football rarely have a chance to collide. ‘Fantasista’ aims to explore some of the similarities between these apparently disparate realms. Most striking is the inexplicable and unrelenting passion, bordering on obsession; followers have for these respective worlds. Most interesting of all is this unwaning passion often without tangible reward for the majority of players, fans, artists and art lovers who indulge their passions.


Much like the art world, football can seem as a closed club to many, the inflated salary of the premiership footballer comparable to the astronomical prices of deceased and living artists at auction houses are luxuries most find it difficult to relate to. But for artists and footballers alike great struggles, skill and sacrifice precede any success, and for many who dedicate their lives to either discipline tangible rewards are rarely seen at all.

Fantasista is the brainchild of Richard Swarbrick, animator and football fanatic, whose signature style highlights the poetry of football, and explores the relationship between sport and art on a wider scale. Swarbrick has teamed up with Hotspur & Argyle and Bearspace to deliver a dynamic event, which aims to promote this little explored but highly productive symbiosis.

www.fantasista.co.uk

Friday 5th July 2013
2.00 - 4.00pm

Come and have a tour around Bankley Studios & Gallery to see how a co-operative runs...

Interested in finding out more about co-operatives and social enterprises in Greater Manchester?
Want to attend visits, but need your travel costs paid?

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Visits are for adults (aged 18 and over) with an interest in co-operative and social enterprise methods of working together to create social and environmental change.

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Opening 5 April 2013

Inspire
747 Stockport Road
Levenshulme
M19 3AR

An exhibition of work from artists in residence at Bankley Studios & Gallery.

Hannah Brown
Stacey Coughlin
Philip Kennedy


www.lev-inspire.co.uk