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: 20th Nov 2009 | Ended: 6th Dec 2009
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.
Started: 23rd Oct 2009 | Ended: 8th Nov 2009
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
Started: 2nd Oct 2009 | Ended: 11th Oct 2009
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
Started: 3rd Oct 2009 | Ended: 4th Oct 2009
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.
Started: 8th Aug 2009 | Ended: 14th Aug 2009
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.