PINK Manchester

28/08/2026

Studio update 👀

The new studios are taking shape, with SAWN WORKSHOP building out the latest spaces at PINK.

There’s something slightly strange about choosing to grow at a time when so much around artist-led culture feels unstable. Rents are rising, funding is uncertain and maintaining space for artists often feels harder rather than easier.

For us, expansion has never really been about getting bigger for the sake of it. It’s about responding to demand and making a calculated creative risk: committing (until recently, personal) money, labour and time to the belief that artists still need affordable, practical spaces in which to work.

So, walls are going up. New studios are appearing. And we’re continuing to make space where we can.

Big thanks to Sawn for turning another bit of the building into something useful 🪚

We’ll have new studio spaces becoming available over the coming months. If you’re interested in having a studio at PINK, complete our Studio Expression of Interest form via the link in our bio.

27/06/2026

Only 1 week to go until stockparty_, which means only 1 week to go until we throw the next PINK NOISE event.

Saturday 4 July
9pm–1am
Free entry

📍PINK, Hilton House, Lord Street, Stockport SK1 3NA

This time, we’re joined by our close friend Tom2Trax for an extended set following Stockparty.

Tom is the founder of Alltrax radio station in Wigan and one half of . Tom loves to play an extended set and that’s why we’re giving him 5 hours to lock in for a set of clubby, dubby, groove-centric and euphoric house.

PINK NOISE is our in-house party series at PINK — a night for old friends and new faces, for people who dance in the cracks and build from the margins. Since moving to Stockport in 2023, we’ve been committed to making as much noise as possible. Stockparty brings that energy into the town centre, and we’re carrying it through into the night.

Free entry, but limited capacity, so get down early!

See you in Stockport.
Disruptive. Amplified. Unpredictable.

09/06/2026

SHARED STUDIO SPACE

We’ve had a little reshuffle of our studio holders and now have x1 spot available in a shared studio!

What we have:

📌 x1 desk space: 2-person shared studio (3rd floor, step-free access)
£150pp per month (includes Wi-Fi, utilities + shared facilities)

This space is best suited to 2D/smaller-scale practices, with a focus on desk-based work. We also welcome those from across the wider creative sector, including craft, design, writing + theatre.

What you get:

📌 24/7 access
📌 Use of communal kitchen w/ white goods + complimentary tea, coffee + consumables
📌 A structured studio development programme, inc. bi-annual open studios, monthly crits + 1:1 professional development sessions w/ PINK Co-Director Katy Morrison
📌 Use of gallery + project spaces (for testing/photographing work)
📌 Discounted hire of gallery + project spaces (for public events)
📌 A community of 30+ local artists
📌 Access to talks, networking + professional development through our wider programme

PINK is an artist-led space built from the ground up to support sustained practice. We operate as a working infrastructure where studios, exhibitions + public activity run side by side, not as separate strands but as part of the same ecosystem. Our studios sit within an active cultural programme, connecting your day-to-day practice to a wider programme of exhibitions, events + peer exchange.This is a space designed for long-term development, where your work stays in dialogue with others + within a live, public context.

As we grow, so does what we offer — from the space itself to the programme + support around it, with every surplus penny reinvested back into PINK, taking our studio holders with us. Over time, this shows up in expanded facilities, more opportunities + stronger support around your practice.

This space is available from 1 July on a 1-month rolling contract.

Interested? Submit an expression of interest via the link in our bio.

07/06/2026

TRONDHEIM x STOCKPORT

This week we welcome the wonderful and .correia.studio to Stockport for an orientation week ahead of Forlengelser, a collaborative project that will be hosted with PINK later this year.

First presented at in December 2025, Forlengelser is a performance-exhibition created by choreographer Rannei Grenne in collaboration with the international artist duo BUTCHER & CORREIA. Sitting between choreography, visual art and live encounter, the work invites audiences into a space where movement, costume, material, body and architecture unfold in real time.

The work asks how the body’s inner logic shapes the ways we move through the world, and how dance can offer a quiet resistance to the constant demand for productivity and growth. Rather than presenting dance as a fixed performance, Forlengelser opens up a process: one rooted in attention, presence, bodily knowledge and collective experience.

Later this year, the project will be reconfigured for Stockport, extending the work from its first presentation in Trondheim into a new civic, social and architectural context at PINK.

This marks our third international project shaped through long-term relationships with artists met through ’s wider curatorial networks. We first met Kate (Butcher), one half of .correia.studio, at Juxtapose Art Fair in Aarhus in 2023. Through our ongoing collaboration with and BABEL in Trondheim, we later met Carlos (Correia), and in 2025 had the pleasure of being introduced to Rannei Grenne.

These relationships really matter to us. They show how artist-led spaces can build international exchange slowly: through conversation, trust, shared values and a commitment to making work across places.

We’re excited to spend this week introducing Rannei, Katherine and Carlos to Stockport, PINK and the wider Manchester creative communities around us.

This is where the project will begin to take shape.

More soon.

15/04/2026

MY HAT AND MY OTHER HAT

It's the final week of My Hat and My Other Hat, an installation by Utrecht-based artist 🎩

My Hat and My Other Hat forms part of PINK’s international residency series, inviting artists to develop site-responsive work through engagement with Stockport’s materials, histories, and cultural landscape.

Developed through a two-part residency at PINK, Egelie approached Stockport’s history of hat making as a structure through which questions of identity, performance, and authorship are rehearsed.

The installation transformed the gallery into a medieval-inspired tavern, whilst evoking a costume rental shop, storage room, or theatrical stage. Here, the boundaries between industrial production and craft, performer and spectator, self and character remain unsettled. Underlying it all is the hat’s oldest social function: its power to conceal as much as it signals, allowing a person to arrive somewhere unread, or to arrive as someone else entirely.

On 13 April we launched this project with a constellation of bespoke actions designed to activate the installation. A huge thank you to for capturing these so beautifully.

This project was supported using funding from the UK Government, the Haworth Trust and

With special thanks to:

Design: Nick Booton
Fabrication: Johnny Billinge and Robin Broadley
Project Coordination: Katy Morrison, Luca Sutton, Daniel Waite and Amber Clouston
Project Support: Esme Bull, Charlie Fallon, Katie Byrne and Sadie Rogerson
Photography: Liza Wolters
Photography Models: Ylja Band, Ahmed El Gendy and Rabin Huissen
Creative Direction: Zoë Hollander & Caz Egelie
Performers: Nathan Taylor, Hattie Thomas, Luca Sutton and Kaoruko Takehara
Videography: James Measom
Costume Hire (Hats): Royal Exchange Theatre

02/04/2026

KNIP. Six weeks. Six young people. One big question: what does PINK look like through fresh eyes?

Our pilot work/learn programme for 18–24s (supported by the UK Government via Stockport Council) brought together voices from the visual arts and beyond to get inside the organisation, ask difficult questions, and help us think differently.

It feels like a lifetime ago now. But the work didn't stop when the programme ended.

We've been working behind the scenes to shape the cohort's findings into something lasting — a glossary and publication that documents their thinking, their language, and their vision for what youth engagement in the arts can genuinely look like.

It's coming soon. Stay tuned.

02/04/2026

01/04/2026

WHAT'S ON: APRIL

My Hat and My Other Hat
14 March - 19 April

Open Saturday + Sunday, 2-6pm (or by appointment where possible)

Only 19 days left of our current installation by Utrecht-based artist 🎩

My Hat and My Other Hat forms part of PINK’s international residency series, inviting artists to develop site-responsive work through engagement with Stockport’s materials, histories, and cultural landscape.

Developed through a two-part residency at PINK, Egelie approaches Stockport’s history of hat making as a structure through which questions of identity, performance, and authorship are rehearsed.

The installation transforms the gallery into a medieval-inspired tavern, whilst evoking a costume rental shop, storage room, or theatrical stage. Here, the boundaries between industrial production and craft, performer and spectator, self and character remain unsettled. Underlying it all is the hat’s oldest social function: its power to conceal as much as it signals, allowing a person to arrive somewhere unread, or to arrive as someone else entirely.

This project was supported using funding from the UK Government, the Haworth Trust and

With special thanks to:

Design: Nick Booton
Fabrication: Johnny Billinge and Robin Broadley
Project Coordination: Katy Morrison, Luca Sutton, Daniel Waite and Amber Clouston
Project Support: Esme Bull, Charlie Fallon, Katie Byrne and Sadie Rogerson
Photography: Liza Wolters
Photography Models: Ylja Band, Ahmed El Gendy and Rabin Huissen
Creative Direction: Zoë Hollander & Caz Egelie
Performers: Nathan Taylor, Hattie Thomas, Luca Sutton and Kaoruko Takehara
Videography: James Measom
Costume Hire (Hats): Royal Exchange Theatre

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