Current Events at Bankley Gallery
Starts: 10th Oct 2025 | Ends: 26th Oct 2025
Bankley Gallery & Studios is delighted to invite you to our Open Call Exhibition & Open Studios.
Opening Night: Friday 10th October
6–9pm
Join us in celebrating the talented artists selected for this year’s Open Call. Explore the exhibition, discover the vibrant studios of Bankley’s resident artists, and be present as we announce the winner of the Open Call on opening night.
Open Studios continue: Saturday 11th October
Exhibition open weekends, 12–4pm, until 26th October.
This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with artists, experience new work, and see creativity in action within one of Manchester’s most established artist-led spaces.
Previous Events at Bankley Gallery
Started: 2nd Jul 2011 | Ended: 16th Jul 2011
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/
Started: 27th May 2011 | Ended: 12th Jun 2011
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
Started: 18th Mar 2011 | Ended: 3rd Apr 2011
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
Started: 12th Nov 2010 | Ended: 28th Nov 2010
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
Started: 23rd Oct 2010 | Ended: 23rd Oct 2010
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
Started: 25th Sep 2010 | Ended: 3rd Oct 2010
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.
Started: 4th Sep 2010 | Ended: 19th Sep 2010
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
Started: 17th Jul 2010 | Ended: 25th Jul 2010
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
Started: 3rd Jul 2010 | Ended: 4th Jul 2010
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.
Started: 15th Mar 2010 | Ended: 31st Mar 2010
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/