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The studios currently have over 30 Artists in residence working across a range of disciplines including painting, textiles, photography, installation, sculpture and ceramics. The studios are located in Levenshulme, Manchester and were set up in 1992, officially becoming a co-operative in 1998. Each year there is an Open Studios event which enables the public a view into the individual work spaces of the resident Artists over one weekend.

Prices and sizes of the studios ✨Get your application done before midnight tomorrow! To apply the link is in our bio
17/10/2026

Prices and sizes of the studios ✨

Get your application done before midnight tomorrow! To apply the link is in our bio

🌟Announcing the Bankley Open Call winner: Sahara Patel Sahara Patel 🌟✨We’re so excited to introduce Sahara Patel, a rece...
16/10/2026

🌟Announcing the Bankley Open Call winner: Sahara Patel Sahara Patel 🌟

✨We’re so excited to introduce Sahara Patel, a recent Manchester School of Art graduate as the winner of the 2026 Open Call! We can’t wait to Welcome Sahara to Bankley Gallery in 2027! ✨

💫Artist Statement: Sahara Patel 💫

Sahara Patel is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring materiality through experimentation with glass, ceramics, water, sand, metal, and light, often working with biomorphic ephemeral forms. Fascinated by materials that feel ‘alive’, she explores the collaborative exchange of agency between material and artist. With a desire to present fleeting moments unseen, Patel gifts viewers with conditions they emerge from through found forms, onomatopoeic language and sound.
 
Her installation environments connect the nature of time, space, causality and phase transition. She invites viewers to witness the transformation of
 
Solid                                                                    Amorphous                                                                    Liquid
Permanent                                                                                                                                            Transient.
 
In play with
Heat, Cool                                                                                                                                           Push, Pull.
 
Patel investigates the material composition of materials commonly overlooked.
 
Glass is                                                                                                         whilst sand is
                    fragile                                                                                                                        silica
                    delicate                                                                                                                    political
                    precious                                                                                                                   contested.
 
She highlights the natural cycles and longevity of time involved in its formation, encouraging greate

Apply by Sunday 19th October, midnight! * 24-hour access* Secure locking door* Access via stairs* Returnable rent + key...
12/10/2026

Apply by Sunday 19th October, midnight!

* 24-hour access
* Secure locking door
* Access via stairs
* Returnable rent + key deposits
* £1 Co-op membership fee

3 Studio Spaces Available!

BANKLEY is a co-operatively run artists’ studio group, home to 30+ artists across three floors, with a public gallery on the ground floor. As a co-op, all members help run the gallery including invigilation, upkeep, and taking part in open studio weekends.
Roles also include: secretary team, treasury team, coordination team, gallery team, social media and maintenance.

Studios available on a fixed term tenancy until October 2027.

To apply:
Fill out our google form linked in bio.
This includes 5 images of your work + max 300 words about your practice and why you’d like to join Bankley (include website if you have one)

Make sure to double check your portfolio link works!

Good luck! 🤞

💫The wait is nearly over💫This weekend Bankley Studios and Gallery opens its doors! 📅 Date: 9/10/26, 6-9 PM - 10/10/26, 1...
08/10/2026

💫The wait is nearly over💫

This weekend Bankley Studios and Gallery opens its doors!

📅 Date: 9/10/26, 6-9 PM - 10/10/26, 12-4 PM
📍 Location: Bankley Studios and Gallery, Levenshulme
🎟️ Free Entry

Studio 24 Ella Budgen will have her door open!Ella Budgen (b. 2002) is a multidisciplinary artist working across paintin...
08/10/2026

Studio 24 Ella Budgen will have her door open!

Ella Budgen (b. 2002) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, photography, sculpture and installation.

Drawing on an archive of photos, textures and found objects, her practice is shaped by a desire, longing and yearning- searching for comfort in things that are seemingly lost.

Reflecting on the intimacy of human connection in a world increasingly shaped by environmental degradation, her impulse to salvage becomes a small act of resistance to capitalist cycles of consumption and productivity. Attempting to reasserting value, presence and care in the remains we leave behind.

Valerie Clark will be in studio 16 for the Open Studios! Come down on Friday Clarke’s work explores the relationship bet...
07/10/2026

Valerie Clark will be in studio 16 for the Open Studios! Come down on Friday

Clarke’s work explores the relationship between the body and the landscape and the transience of human existence.
Clarke often uses natural materials such as soil, vegetation and sand to draw on the processes of growth and decay, creating work in situ which allows the work to return to the landscape.

Her work has also investigated aspects of society such as homelessness, communication, consumerism and hidden threats.

Clarke has undertaken residences and workshops in education and community groups.

Her work has been seen in open landscapes and in galleries such as Mount Grace Priory, Pickering Castle, The Cooper Gallery, Chorlton Arts Trail and Waterside Arts Centre.

Hazel Stileman will be in studio 17X at the Open studios. 9th and 10th October. Human connection to the urban environmen...
06/10/2026

Hazel Stileman will be in studio 17X at the Open studios. 9th and 10th October.

Human connection to the urban environment and collective experience in a space is what interests me- the process behind my work always seems to come back to the deconstruction and reconstitution of found objects working primarily through the intimate process of hand stitching.
By exploring the possibilities of the unnoticed and the universal experiences in our environment, I aim to breathe life back into neglected landscapes.
Recently, I have been embellishing pieces with an accumulation of waste to create these playful, monstrous garments, holding on to memories in excess. Much of the ephemera I collect is family members’ old jewellery and beads from my childhood. I think about nostalgia, and staying playful in my practice.
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Aisling Davis is in studio 8 and you can come see her studio space this Friday. Free entry! Aisling Davis is a filmmaker...
05/10/2026

Aisling Davis is in studio 8 and you can come see her studio space this Friday. Free entry!

Aisling Davis is a filmmaker, composer and researcher working across film, sound, sculpture and installation. Her interdisciplinary practice explores oceans, polar regions and off-world spaces through oceanography, marine biology, polar and space research, and underwater archaeology. Using sensory and experimental methodologies, she explores how scientific data and remote environments can be communicated through creative practice, with interests in deep-sea and polar ecologies, mining and space science.

She is currently undertaking interdisciplinary doctoral research at Glasgow School of Art, working across art, ocean science and data communication.

Aisling Davis /Thalia Styx

Alex Williams is in Studio 9! Our Open Studios and Bankley Open is only a few days away! Alex has been a stop-motion pup...
05/10/2026

Alex Williams is in Studio 9! Our Open Studios and Bankley Open is only a few days away!

Alex has been a stop-motion puppet and prop maker for 23 years, working with directors including Tim Burton, Wes Anderson and Guillermo del Toro.

About five years ago she stopped making puppets and built her own mushroom farm in Stockport.

Alex was fascinated by the strange sculptural nature of mushrooms, but became particularly interested in the mycelium and what potential it had for growing into models and functional pieces.

She spent a lot of time watching the mycelium grow through the substrate, gradually binding everything together. The individual grains that had been inoculated with mycelium would send out hyphae shoots to find each other. As it spread through the substrate, the mycelium would join everything together, eventually completely colonising it. It would grow into the empty corners and folds at the top of the bag, filling all the shapes and folds as it went.

“When I took the bag off, the mycelium had kept the shape perfectly. It made me think that if it could do that, I could probably use it to make models.”

This became the starting point for Alex’s work with mycelium as a material. It brought together something she already knew very well — making models and forms, with something completely different: a material that grows, connects and makes some of the decisions itself.

Alex is now being commissioned to create installations and individual pieces, and has several exciting projects currently in development, including a stop-motion film made entirely from mycelium.

Alex Williams Stockport Fungi

Stockportfungi.com

Apply by Sunday 11th October, midnight! * 24-hour access* Secure locking door* Access via stairs* Returnable re...
02/10/2026

Apply by Sunday 11th October, midnight!

* 24-hour access
* Secure locking door
* Access via stairs
* Returnable rent + key deposits
* £1 Co-op membership fee
* £81.72 per month studio 26

BANKLEY is a co-operatively run artists’ studio group, home to 30+ artists across three floors, with a public gallery on the ground floor. As a co-op, all members help run the gallery including invigilation, upkeep, and taking part in open studio weekends.

Studios available on a fixed term tenancy until October 2027.

To apply:
Fill out our google form linked in bio.
This includes 5 images of your work + max 300 words about your practice and why you’d like to join Bankley (include website if you have one)

Good luck! 🤞

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