Join us today + tomorrow 12-4PM
Open Call 2023 winner Haydn Albrow exhibits their solo show ‘Monster Truck Museum’
Show continues weekends Sat + Sun 12-4PM until 21st July.
Haydn Albrow (b.1993, London) is a London based artist whose practice explores tangible and textural works spanning across multiple platforms including sculpture, installations, poetry and sound. Her work is inspired by dreams, language and the ways in which we interpret the two. Using reoccurring motifs throughout her work such as teeth and the body, Albrow’s practice straddles the grotesque and humorous.
Albrow’s work addresses themes of the conscious and unconscious mind; thinking of our brain as a machine that manipulates and interprets memories, language and dreams into sensical thoughts. In particular their work explores the ways we attempt to share our dreamed experiences and the difficulties we face in conveying their ephemeral sensations and sentiments. There are gaps in our language that cause us to struggle to articulate these unique and deeply personal experiences and the artist tries to use physical materials to create a new form of dialogue for when words fail us. @haydndoesart
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Tomorrow! Our Open Call 2023 winner Haydn Albrow exhibits their solo show ‘Monster Truck Museum’
Join us Friday 21st June 6-9PM for opening night!
Show continues weekends Sat + Sun 12-4PM until 21st July.
Haydn Albrow (b.1993, London) is a London based artist whose practice explores tangible and textural works spanning across multiple platforms including sculpture, installations, poetry and sound. Her work is inspired by dreams, language and the ways in which we interpret the two. Using reoccurring motifs throughout her work such as teeth and the body, Albrow’s practice straddles the grotesque and humorous.
Albrow’s work addresses themes of the conscious and unconscious mind; thinking of our brain as a machine that manipulates and interprets memories, language and dreams into sensical thoughts. In particular their work explores the ways we attempt to share our dreamed experiences and the difficulties we face in conveying their ephemeral sensations and sentiments. There are gaps in our language that cause us to struggle to articulate these unique and deeply personal experiences and the artist tries to use physical materials to create a new form of dialogue for when words fail us. @haydndoesart
Bankley: 30 Years of Artist Led + Open Studios | Friday 20th May 2022 6-9 PM
Thank you Joanna Hart @joanna_h.art for this unbelievably special footage, of the making of Bankley, 30 years ago! 📹
To celebrate our 30th anniversary, Bankley Studios + Gallery present a headline exhibition, looking back at the history of Bankley, as well as acknowledging and highlighting the importance that artist-led activity, studios and galleries continue to have for our artists and communities. The exhibition will feature artists past and present, archival material and a new film exploring the legacy of Bankley.
This moment of celebration will elevate the profile of artists, studio holders and Gallery at Bankley. On the opening night, the Gallery will be inviting many people who have been involved with Bankley Studios + Gallery over the years; creating a space of reflection: reigniting old ideas, new ideas, reconnecting and connecting creatives whose lives have moved into different directions.
Opening Night + Bankley Open Studios
6-9pm Friday 20th May 2022
Exhibition Continues
12-4pm Saturdays + Sundays until 5th June
Bankley Open Studios
6-9pm Friday 20th May
12-4pm Saturday 21st May
Bankley House, Bankley St, Manchester M19 3PP
#eatmanchesterartists #amodestshow
#bas9
Last chance to visit ‘Half Awake’ this Saturday + Sunday 12-4pm! An exhibition of paintings by Joe O’Rourke and Parham Ghalamdar, from guest curator Matt Retallick.
@joeor_ @parham.ghalamdar
@matt_retallick
‘On first glance, you may think that Joe O’Rourke and Parham Ghalamdar are very different painters. However, this exhibition, the first time their work is presented together, demonstrates the strong parallels between them. After all, both artists offer portals into artificial worlds, present alternate realities, and paint as a societal critique. Their paintings are proxy stage sets, uncanny representations rooted in the complexities of life (...) Themes include a questioning of humankind, the role of the body, a sense of individuality verses collective, an ever-present vein of dark humour, mismatched imagery, and absurdity, but I notice one of the overarching focusses of their work is surveillance’.
- excerpt from ‘There Are No Choices Without Chances’, an exhibition text written by Matt Retallick on the occasion of Half Awake.
Access Information
Bankley Gallery is situated on the first floor of an old mill building, which unfortunately is currently only accessible by stairs.
The building is located just off the main road, with regular bus services from Manchester and Stockport, and is around 450m from Levenshulme train station. The station has no lift and both platforms are only accessible by stairs.
Free Entry for All - No Booking Required
Last chance to visit ‘Half Awake’ this Saturday + Sunday 12-4pm ! An exhibition of paintings by Joe O’Rourke and Parham Ghalamdar, from guest curator Matt Retallick.
@joeor_ @parham.ghalamdar
@matt_retallick
‘On first glance, you may think that Joe O’Rourke and Parham Ghalamdar are very different painters. However, this exhibition, the first time their work is presented together, demonstrates the strong parallels between them. After all, both artists offer portals into artificial worlds, present alternate realities, and paint as a societal critique. Their paintings are proxy stage sets, uncanny representations rooted in the complexities of life (...) Themes include a questioning of humankind, the role of the body, a sense of individuality verses collective, an ever-present vein of dark humour, mismatched imagery, and absurdity, but I notice one of the overarching focusses of their work is surveillance’.
- excerpt from ‘There Are No Choices Without Chances’, an exhibition text written by Matt Retallick on the occasion of Half Awake.
Access Information
Bankley Gallery is situated on the first floor of an old mill building, which unfortunately is currently only accessible by stairs.
The building is located just off the main road, with regular bus services from Manchester and Stockport, and is around 450m from Levenshulme train station. The station has no lift and both platforms are only accessible by stairs.
Free Entry for All - No Booking Required
TODAY + TOMORROW 12-4PM
‘Half Awake’, an exhibition of paintings by Joe O’Rourke and Parham Ghalamdar, from guest curator Matt Retallick.
‘On first glance, you may think that Joe O’Rourke and Parham Ghalamdar are very different painters. However, this exhibition, the first time their work is presented together, demonstrates the strong parallels between them. After all, both artists offer portals into artificial worlds, present alternate realities, and paint as a societal critique. Their paintings are proxy stage sets, uncanny representations rooted in the complexities of life (...) Themes include a questioning of humankind, the role of the body, a sense of individuality verses collective, an ever-present vein of dark humour, mismatched imagery, and absurdity, but I notice one of the overarching focusses of their work is surveillance’.
- excerpt from ‘There Are No Choices Without Chances’, an exhibition text written by Matt Retallick on the occasion of Half Awake.
This Friday 15th April 6-9PM!
Bankley Studios + Gallery invites you to ‘Half Awake’, an exhibition of paintings by Joe O’Rourke and Parham Ghalamdar, from guest curator Matt Retallick. @parham.ghalamdar @matt_retallick
With a performance at The Talleyrand by The Accident Group from 10pm
Exhibition Continues: 12-4pm Saturdays + Sundays until 1st May
‘On first glance, you may think that Joe O’Rourke and Parham Ghalamdar are very different painters. However, this exhibition, the first time their work is presented together, demonstrates the strong parallels between them. After all, both artists offer portals into artificial worlds, present alternate realities, and paint as a societal critique. Their paintings are proxy stage sets, uncanny representations rooted in the complexities of life (...) Themes include a questioning of humankind, the role of the body, a sense of individuality verses collective, an ever-present vein of dark humour, mismatched imagery, and absurdity, but I notice one of the overarching focusses of their work is surveillance’.
- excerpt from ‘There Are No Choices Without Chances’, an exhibition text written by Matt Retallick on the occasion of Half Awake.
Two weekends left to visit Alistair Wood’s solo exhibition ‘Beyond the Parameters of Officaldom’. Alistair Woods was our Open Call winner from 2019 and after a very successful opening night last weekend, the exhibition continues Saturday and Sunday this weekend 12-5PM
See you soon!
Alistair Woods working towards his solo show ‘Beyond the Parameters of Officialdom’
Opening Night at @bankleygallery next Friday 20th August! @_alistairwoods
This clip is from a film project by Stephan Iles
