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⏰We're open 10am-5pm today & for the rest of the week.
🛗 Our lifts are undergoing maintenance, if you require assistance getting around the gallery, our visitor team are happy to help.
☕Choose items from the cafe's takeout menu, while our seating area is temporarily closed.
For more information visit:
https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/visit/planyourvisit/openingtimes/
Dark, dank and full of mystery, holes and underground spaces are central to many of our tales. In this blog post at A Place Between the Trees, Jake from the Visitor Team explores why they have such a grip on the imaginations of artists and adventurers alike.
https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2024/01/03/the-folklore-of-holes-from-bus-de-la-lum-to-blackley/
Photo of Nico Vascellari's Bus de la Lum in Whitworth Park © Martin Henderson / Art UK
Join our team! 📢
The Whitworth is recruiting 2 full-time and permanent positions in its Collections and Exhibitions team to lead and deliver our exceptional artistic programme within a global context.
Head of Collections and Exhibitions
Full time, permanent position
Are you an innovative curatorial leader? We are seeking someone to develop the gallery’s exhibition and collection programme, heading strategic, organisational, and everyday management of the Collections Care and Access Team (CCAT) and Curatorial Team.
Curator (Modern and Contemporary Art)
Full time, permanent position
Are you a dynamic curator? We are looking for an experienced curator to lead on the care, development, and presentation of our internationally significant collection of modern and contemporary art.
For the full job descriptions and information about how to apply, see the link: https://bit.ly/3RIc1v7
It's Christmas Eve, and for today's 🎄🎁, our gallery director has a seasonal message to round off our digital advent calendar.
Read the blog: https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/24/seasonal-message-from-our-director/
Today's 🎄🎁 is by Sarah, our Preventative and Sculpture Conservator, who shares how to keep our seasonal heirlooms & treasures safe, helping preserve them for future generations.
Read the blog: https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/23/whitworthadvent-how-to-look-after-your-seasonal-decorations/
Today's 🎄🎁 entry features the Visitor Team getting crafty! Get some inspiration for fun activities to see out the old year and welcome the new one.
Read the blog:
https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/22/whitworthadvent-skill-share-day-the-visitor-team-get-crafty/
Festive opening times ❄️
During the festive period, the Whitworth will be closed on the 24th, 25th, 26th December & 1st January 2024.
On Thursdays until 4 January 2024, the gallery is open until 5pm, instead of the usual 9pm.
For more details, visit: https://bit.ly/WhitworthOpeningTimes
Today's 🌲🎁 post contains a painting and a poem created by Aisling from the Visitor Team to evoke the more reflective aspects of the holiday period.
Read the blog:
https://ow.ly/3Ojl50Qky38
📣 Are you an experienced and innovative curatorial leader?
We're seeking to appoint a new Head of Exhibitions and Collections to our team at the Whitworth.
The Head of Exhibitions and Collections role will shape and develop the gallery's exhibition and collection programme & provide strategic and organisational management to the team.
This is a full time and permanent position. For the full job description and information about how to apply, see here: https://bit.ly/3RIc1v7
📅 Closing dates for applications is Saturday 20 January 2024 at midnight.
Today's 🎄🎁 invites you to explore Mary Louisa Molesworth, one of Victorian Britain's favourite female authors, and her partnership with Walter Crane. 📚🎄
Read the blog: https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/20/whitworthadvent-walter-crane-and-winter-fairy-tales/
Today's 🎄🎁 is an interview. Listen to the musings of Bria, Oliver, Rosy, Zoe and Tahmina as they discuss the cold season. ❄️
Read the blog: https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/19/whitworthadvent-winterviews/
Today's 🎄🎁 Fancy playing something with your family and friends but can’t face the tensions of the monopoly board? Jake, from the Visitor Team has created this festive game for you to try.
Read the blog: https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/18/whitworthadvent-festive-exquisite-corpse-create-your-own-christmas-critter/
Today's 🎄🎁 is about the perfect festive cocktail mix. Lucy has been getting into the festive spirit by creating a Christmas Cosmopolitan; follow the recipe🍸
Read the blog: https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/17/whitworthadvent-christmas-cosmopolitan/
Today's 🎄🎁 is a guide to creating your very own junk journal! Hone your bookbinding skills with this tutorial.
Read the blog: https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/16/whitworthadvent-bookbinding-and-diy-junk-journals/
Join our fantastic team! 📢
We are looking for a Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art⚡
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our collections and exhibitions team at the Whitworth, as we are recruiting a dynamic Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. 🖼️
This is a full time and permanent position, the curator role will make an active contribution to the work of the collections and exhibitions team by leading the care, access, understanding, and presentation of the collection of modern and contemporary art, from 1880 – present.
Supporting the Whitworth’s mission to connect art with current social, global, and political contexts, you will develop rigorous and inclusive exhibitions using the gallery collections and with artists and other external parties, including academic partners and gallery users. In your role, you will liaise closely with teams across the gallery to deliver the Whitworth’s innovative and audience-focused vision, with a focus on raising the international profile of collections and exhibitions.
For further information including the detailed job description, see link in our bio ☝️
📅 Closing dates for applications is Monday 15 January 2024 at midnight.
Today's 🎄🎁 is inspired by traditional festive wreaths. Tahmina from our Visitor Team has created a delicious, florentine wreath with a recipe for you to try.
Read the blog:https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/15/whitworthadvent-make-your-own-mouth-watering-florentine-wreath/
Today's 🎄🎁 is a poem written that speaks to last-minute Christmas shopping and festive nostalgia.
Read the blog: https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/14/growing-up/
We’ve come a long way from the likes of Alexa and Google Assistant, so where are we now with AI?
https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/13/ai-ai-human/
Now open - Exchanges
A vibrant display of new art and textiles from the Whitworth’s collection.
The Whitworth holds an outstanding collection of over 60,000 items, across art, textiles, and wallpaper. This display presents over 20 recent additions alongside existing collection works to reflect on the history of the collection and share our vision for its future.
Spanning from the 1490s to 2021, the display consists of paintings, photography, prints, drawings, as well as stitched, printed and woven textiles. It reflects the increasing diversity of the Whitworth’s collection, as we work to expand understandings of identity, place, creative expression, and global art histories.
Highlights include works by Artpro Art Initiative, Simeon Barclay, William Blake, Li Yuan-chia, Lucienne Day, Althea McNish, Jade Montserrat, Yasmin Jahan Nupur, Marcantonio Ramondi, and the ABC Wax Archive, the last surviving industrial design archive of a Manchester textile printing company.
https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/currentexhibitions/exchanges-gallery1/
21 November 2023 – 24 November 2024
Image: Artpro Art Initiative, Rainy Season, detail, 2019-2020. © Artpro Art Initiative
Courtesy: The Whitworth, The University of Manchester
Today we explore the tradition of the in Medieval and Tudor England, and offer our last artwork giveaway
https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/12/festive-artworks-come-to-animal-crossing-twelfth-night/
Image credit: Edmund Arthur Hunter (designer) for St Edmundsbury Weaving Works (manufacturer), Twelfth Night, c.1920-1926. Accession number: T.1990.80
Today, Francine shares a plant that can brighten our winter and an invitation to a festive decoration workshop this week!
https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/11/the-christmas-rose/
Today's 🎄🎁 features work currently on display from our exhibition on display until March 2024.
Explore some of Albrecht Dürer’s engravings depicting the Virgin Mary, read about Nuremberg's relationship to the Virgin and find out what Dürer got up to around the festive period.
Read the blog: https://ow.ly/Wlji50QgQMR
Image credit: Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), The Annunciation (from the Life of the Virgin), c.1502-3. Accession number: P.3036
Today's 🎄🎁 features of our festive artwork transformed into a digital work available in a video game. Check out Little Robin's digital glow-up in our latest blog post.
Read the blog: https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/09/festive-artworks-come-to-animal-crossing-but-whos-afraid-says-the-robin/
Today's is a crochet pattern that will keep your coffee cup cosy, created by Steph from our Visitor Team. Why not give it ago and create a handmade gift for friends and family.
Read the blog: https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/08/whitworthadvent-how-to-crochet-a-coffee-cup-cosy/
Today's 🎄🎁 features the squirrels at Whitworth Park. Urussa from the visitor team pays tribute to our furry friends in this festive poem.
Read the blog:
https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/07/whitworthadvent-arboreal/
The squirrels of Whitworth Park are known for being quite bold. Seldom a day goes by that they don’t trick unsuspecting members of the public into sharing their lunch wi. This festive poem by…
Today's 🎄🎁 delves into the toxic history of the Christmas rose - Hellebore. Steph from the visitor team looks at their use for medicinal purposes in the past.
Read the blog: https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/06/hellebore-a-herbal-history/
We're proud to announce our 2024 exhibition highlights✨
Spanning survey exhibitions of John Lyons & Turner Prize nominee Barbara Walker, and a new moving image acquisition by Ayo Akingbade & a collection display of post-war textiles by Shirley Craven.
👉 https://bit.ly/YearAheadPR
Today's is by Steph from the visitor team; she has created a tutorial on creating your own pocket-sized star plush in time for gifting this Christmas. 🗓️ 🎄⭐
Read the blog:
https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2023/12/05/whitworthadvent-catch-a-falling-star-and-put-it-in-your-pocket-diy-plush-pocket-stars/
Today’s is by Richard from the Whitworth shop 🗓️🎄
Richard tells us about how he started making his own paper from old books, his is available to purchase in person from The Whitworth Shop.
Read the blog: https://ow.ly/AQxR50QeMaA
(Un)Defining Q***r exhibition closes this weekend.
Last chance to see the exhibition which delves into the Whitworth’s collection to examine how we can use a q***r lens to define what the term 'q***r' means.
Presenting collection works that have never been on display before as well as loans, the exhibition includes artists such as: Ajamu X, Niki de Saint Phalle, General Idea, David Hockney, Maggie Hambling, Pearl Alcock, Keith Vaughan, Matthew Bamber, Sarah-Joy Ford, Wolfgang Tillmans, Chester Tenneson, and Jez Dolan.
In proud partnership with the LGBT Foundation
The exhibition is on until 3 December 2023.
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Image Credit: Michael Pollard, Jonathan Blackburn
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📣 Are you an experienced and innovative curatorial leader? We're seeking to appoint a new Head of Exhibitions and Collections to our team at the Whitworth. The Head of Exhibitions and Collections role will shape and develop the gallery's exhibition and collection programme & provide strategic and organisational management to the team. This is a full time and permanent position. For the full job description and information about how to apply, see here: https://bit.ly/3RIc1v7 📅 Closing dates for applications is Saturday 20 January 2024 at midnight. #hiring #weAreHiring #TheWhitworth #ArtJobs @OfficialUoM
We're proud to announce our 2024 exhibition highlights✨ Spanning survey exhibitions of John Lyons & Turner Prize nominee Barbara Walker, and a new moving image acquisition by Ayo Akingbade & a collection display of post-war textiles by Shirley Craven. 👉 https://bit.ly/YearAheadPR
New exhibition opening✨ Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery 🧵🪡explores the historical life & contemporary significance of Palestinian embroidery over the past century. See the exhibition from Friday 24 November. Find out more 👉🏽https://bit.ly/47obJz2 #textiles #history #craft #dresses
We are supporting Manchester Art Fair this Saturday & Sunday, 18-19 November 2023, at Manchester Central. Look out for our Whitworth Shop pop-up stall and say hi 👋 Book your FREE WEEKEND tickets today! 💛 Use this discount code 👉 MAFCP23 💛 Via this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/611140797577 💛 More: https://www.manchesterartfair.co.uk #MAF23
Are you looking for family activities to suit this mixed-weather forecast this summer? If so, look no further... this year's PLAYTIME at @whitworthart has you covered. We have indoor and outdoor activities; you can pick and mix depending on the weather. ☀️⛅🌦️☔☀️ This summer we invite you to explore ways of 'doing things differently' inspired by the exhibition Economics the Blockbuster: It’s Not Business as Usual. Make and trade with friends in our market role-play area. What will you make? Mud pies in exchange for pebbles or magic potions for conkers? PLAY Market Drop-in Tuesdays 10.30am–1pm, Wednesdays 1-4pm, Thursdays 1-4pm throughout August, FREE Check out the link in our @whitworthfamilies bio for more info. You should also join us for: National PLAY Day Wednesday, 2 August, drop-in 11am to 2pm, FREE On top of our PLAYTIME games and interventions, join us as we fill the galleries with song, dance, arts and crafts celebrating our partnership with the charity Afrocats. All the resources as part of this year’s PLAYTIME have been kindly donated by our partners @pentagonplay, the UK’s No.1 School Playground Provider. All these activities are FREE; for more information, www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk Or Find out more: bit.ly/PLAYTIME23 Gallery opening times: Closed on Mondays Open: 10am – 5pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and until 9pm on Thursdays. Thanks to the brilliant @tripledotmakers for the film 🎥 And thank you to @WhitworthFamilies 😀 and #WhitworthVolunteers 😀 for creating and supporting our summer PLAYTIME activities! #whitworthplaytime #playtime23 #whitworthxpentagonplay #play #playthissummer #NationalPLAYDay
Alongside our exhibition Economics the Blockbuster, presented as part of Manchester International Festival 2023, we have a live programme of events happening at the Whitworth https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/currentexhibitions/economicstheblockbuster/liveeventsprogramme/ #EconomicsTheBlockbuster
✨Albrecht Dürer’s material world 30 June 2023 - 10 March 2024 The exhibition presents three thematic spaces which transport the viewer to pivotal points in #AlbrechtDürer's lifetime; these themes are titled: Home, The Workshop & The Study. 👉 https://bit.ly/ADurer1
✨Albrecht Dürer’s material world, showcases Dürer’s print-making techniques, including woodcuts , engravings and etchings. During his time (1471-1528), Dürer was a leading figure of Europe’s artistic revolution in the Renaissance. This exhibition’s novel approach reconsiders how a changing Renaissance material world, characterised by increasing globalisation, sparked artistic creativity and major innovations in the production of art and craft in Dürer’s native Nuremberg and beyond. The show also takes a fresh look at the history of collecting Dürer’s art in the northwest of England, and the role those local collectors – many themselves involved in trade, industry, and design – played in amassing one of the country’s most significant holdings of this Renaissance artist’s graphic work. ✨Albrecht Dürer’s material world exhibition 30 June 2023 - 10 March 2024 Join us for the celebration evening, Thursday 13 July, 6pm - 8pm at the Whitworth. This exhibition has been co-developed and draws on the expertise of a team of Manchester-based and international researchers who have been examining Dürer’s art from the perspective of material culture studies for over three years. 👉 https://bit.ly/ADurer1 #AlbrechtDürersMaterialWorld #AlbrechtDürer #TheWhitworth 📸: Albrecht Dürer from the Whitworth's collection.
JOIN US: Economics the Blockbuster – It’s not Business as Usual 30 June - 22 October 2023 Exploring new ways of being, working and doing business. How can artists reimagine and disrupt conventional ideas of value, ownership, trade and economy? How might artists inspire us to practice our economic life more equitably, radically and sustainably? Economics the Blockbuster is an exhibition that presents a selection of extraordinary art projects that operate as real-world economic systems. Together they propose new ways of 'doing business', driven by the needs and concerns of the communities in which they are created. Image: lazer cutting @typawb #EconomicstheBlockbuster #ItsnotBusinessasUsual #MIF23
FRIDAY OPENING✨ ⚡Economics the Blockbuster -It's not Business as Usual, opens at the Whitworth this Friday. The exhibition presents a selection of extraordinary art projects that operate as real-world economic systems. Together they propose new ways of 'doing business', driven by the needs and concerns of the communities in which they are created✨ Bringing together existing and new works, Economics the Blockbuster draws on global strategies explored by 10 artists and arts organisations including: ⚡Association de Arte Útil ⚡ Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) and Renzo Martens ⚡ Company Drinks ⚡Goldin+Senneby ⚡ Kathrin Böhm and Kuba Szreder (Centre for Plausible Economies) ⚡ lumbung Kios ⚡Owen Griffiths ⚡ Alessandra Saviotti, ⚡Rosalie Schweiker ⚡The Alternative School of Economics ⚡Tŷ Pawb Responding directly to the failures and limits of current systems, Economics the Blockbuster creates ideas for other ways of being. Learn more About the Artists: https://bit.ly/ArtistBio1 Photos kindly supplied by the artists and artist group in the #EconomicstheBlockbuster exhibition. 📸 1: Quantitative Melancolia, Goldin + Senneby, 2022. Image credit: Sofia Johansson. 📸 10: Documenta fifteen: lumbung Kios, Harvest, 2022. Image credit: Angga Cipta. #EconomicstheBlockbuster #ItsnotBusinessasUsual #MIF23
This Half Term we are super excited that our partnership with the brilliant @afrocats.mcr is back 🥳 Afrocats x Whitworth is a dynamic partnership that first began in February 2022 when the Whitworth and Afrocats joined forces for a creative arts, dance, and music 'Takeover' aimed at families. Following the success of the Afrocats Takeovers, the powerful pairing is now working alongside each other to bring cultural and creative experiences to families throughout 2023 and beyond. 📆 Dates… Tuesday 30 May drop in between ⏰ drop in between 10am - 1pm - 😴 Please note this new time which we're trialling to be more accessible to our younger audiences, who need a nap 😴 📆 Wednesday 31 May ⏰ drop in between 12 noon - 3pm 📆Thursday 1 June ⏰ drop in between 12 noon - 3pm On all dates we are running… 🤸♀️Multi-Cultural inspired music, dance and circus skills. Free, no need to book Location: Gallery 3 Suitable for all the family, free, and no need to book just come along. & 🎨Mulit- Cultural Arts & Crafts activities Free, no need to book Location: School of Creativity Suitable for all the family, free, and no need to book just come along. Afrocats is an award-winning charity that supports refugees, asylum seekers, and anyone facing social exclusion in Greater Manchester. Afrocats work with adults, young people, and children, to build agency, aspirations, and opportunities to improve overall life chances through creative engagement. #WhitworthxAfrocatsAfrocats film.mp4
Make the most of a Thursday Late with a last chance to see Familiar Phantoms by Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind
Don't miss your last chance to see Althea McNish: Colour is Mine – exhibition on until 23 April 2023 #AltheaMcNish #ColourIsMine
How can artists reimagine and disrupt conventional ideas of value, ownership, trade and economy? How might artists inspire us to practice our economic life more equitably, radically and sustainably? Economics the Blockbuster opens at The Whitworth during #MIF23, presenting a selection of extraordinary art projects that each operate as real-world economic systems. Together they propose new ways of ‘doing business’ and the project addresses economics as a social and financial set of relations that we all take part in.
TODAY: Join us from 6pm for the Whitworth premiere of Familiar Phantoms, a new film by artists #LarissaSansour and #SørenLind, described as Sansour's most personal film to date. ✨Film Premiere ✨ 6 pm – 8 pm The Whitworth Free entry and refreshments #ThursdayLates
This year, our Still Parents life after baby loss exhibition has been shortlisted for a #CreativeLivesAward in the category ‘People’s Choice award’. The exhibition has touched the lives of many families and individuals who have experienced baby loss. Watch the video of the work we havdnd please vote for ‘the Whitworth’ to help raise awareness of the exhibition and the people who it has supported.☟ Vote before 27 January: http://bit.ly/3ISlQ5E #stillparents
📹 Timelapse from our first install of the Open House exhibition of wallpapers and your photographs. The exhibition is on until February 2023. Going home for the holidays? Why not have a look through your family photo albums to reminisce together - and see how many wallpapers you can spot. In the New Year your photographs and the collection will move to an online archive. Find out how you can add to the collectioon, visit our new page: www.whitworthopenhouse.co.uk #Exhibition #OpenHouse #OpenHouse
Ready to pull the ribbon and unwrap some presents? 24 days of incredible crafts, tutorials, recipes and stories to share with you all. The countdown begins soon...
Looking for half-term family fun next week? Our AFROCATS x WHITWORTH partnership continues with African & Caribbean songs filling our galleries, alongside cultural creative Arts & Crafts workshops in our School of Creativity. @afrocats.manchester Drop in - Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday October 25-27, 12-3pm. (Free). http://ow.ly/ymj750LgAMk
