The Whitworth

19/10/2026

What's on this week at Whitworth ✨

Swipe across to find out what events are taking place this week.

From a free concert to a film and Q&A with the artist Bobby Baker, there's something for everyone at the gallery this week.

You can also learn more about sustainable practices in the cultural sector, or connect with others interested in care-led co-creations and midwifery.

Find out more and book your tickets via our Linktree - https://linktr.ee/thewhitworthart

*Note: our Sunday Concerts are free, drop-in events. All other events listed above are ticketed.

19/10/2026

We're hiring - interested in developing a career as a curator? 🌟

The Whitworth Curatorial Fellow is supported by the Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship. This is a paid traineeship, which aims to widen access to curatorial careers in the visual arts and support the professional development of an emerging curator.

We particularly encourage applications from people from Global Majority backgrounds, who remain underrepresented in the UK cultural sector, alongside others from backgrounds underrepresented in museums and galleries.

A key focus of the role will be the Whitworth's Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection, the only significant collection of its kind held by a UK institution. Comprising more than 1,200 works by over 120 artists from Europe, the USA and beyond, it includes works by artists who developed their practices outside formal art education and gallery structures, including neurodivergent and working-class artists. The collection brings together practices historically described as 'Outsider Art'.

📍 The Whitworth, Manchester
⏱ 1.0FTE, Fixed Term - 18 months
🗓Application closing date: Midnight, Sunday 1 November 2026

For more information and to apply, visit the link in bio.

Image Credit: Pearl Alcock, Untitled [procession], acrylic paint on hardboard, Presented by The Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Trust in 2010 (O.2010.16). The Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection was supported by the Eric and Salome Estorick Foundation. © Pearl Alcock

17/10/2026

How do you capture a life in an artwork? 🪞

Listen to Somi Ko talk about her works "People of One, Moment" (2025) and "People of One, Continuum" (2025).

These works, as well as seven other new works from artists and collectives, is on display in Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven.

📅On now until 3 January 2027
🎫Free entry

Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven is co-organised with the Cheongju Craft Biennale 2025, in collaboration with the National Crafts Museum & Hastkala Academy, and presented in partnership with Hyundai Motor Company.

Filming and editing credit: Rhys Fagan

15/10/2026

Congratulations to Michaela Yearwood-Dan, whose work Peace Unknown (2026) has been acquired for Tate’s collection through this year’s Tate Frieze Fund! ✨

There are just a few days left to experience her first UK institutional museum exhibition, The Practice of Liberation, here at the Whitworth, before it closes this Sunday, 18 October.

Bringing painting, ceramics and sound together, Michaela transforms the gallery into a space for reflection, exploring memory, identity and personal and collective liberation.

🗓On until Sunday 18 October
🎫Free entry

Image Credit: Michaela Yearwood-Dan: The Practice of Liberation, Spring Preview. Photo by David Oates.

14/10/2026

Join us for a special evening at the Whitworth as we celebrate the opening of our latest exhibitions and explore the gallery after hours. 🪡

Be among the first to experience Bagri Commission: The Manifold of Memory by Gulnur Mukazhanova, a monumental felt installation exploring memory, identity and the shifting meanings of textiles, presented in partnership with the Bagri Foundation.

Hear from Gulnur Mukazhanova as she discusses her work with Indira Dyussebayeva-Ziyabek, independent curator and co-founder of the International Art Development Association (IADA).

You can also explore Reflections – Sangat and the Self, The Labour of Care and Our Collections, Reimagined.

📅 Thursday 19 November 2026
⏰ 6–8pm
🎟️ Free entry – book your place

To book your place, vist our Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-whitworth-after-hours-autumn-preview-tickets-2002423936899?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&_gl=1*ace5n5*_up*MQ..*_ga*NDgwNjE2NDQ4LjE3OTE5OTA5Nzg.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3OTE5OTA5NzYkbzEkZzAkdDE3OTE5OTA5NzYkajYwJGwwJGgwJGR4eGd6MFMwczhkWlFCc1pQdzZmM2N3ZTJfT0xmYm5sZ3dR

Image Credit: Fragment from Gulnur Mukazhanova The Manifold of Memory. Photo by Frank Sperling.

14/10/2026

We're hiring - come and work with us 👋

We’re looking for a Digital Content Officer to join the Whitworth’s Audiences & Communications team.

If you know how to create engaging, accessible and visually compelling content and want to work at one of the UK's leading art galleries, we’d love to hear from you.

📍 The Whitworth, Manchester
⏱ 0.6 FTE, permanent

Find out more and apply: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=45979

Image credit: Detail of Wil Bolton's "Sumida Colours" in Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige, from the Spring Preview. Photo by David Oates.

06/10/2026

What can we learn when we slow down, listen deeply and create together? 💌

Go beyond The Labour of Care exhibition with our two-day series of events focused on how we can think about co-creation and maternity healthcare differently.

✨Care-led Co-Creation Symposium
📅Friday 23 October 2026
⏰11am–3pm
🎫£3-£10, booking required
Join the Still Care project team and participants for a generous day of conversation, shared learning and creative reflection, exploring what care-led co-creation can look like in practice. There will also be optional curator-led tours of The Labour of Care before and after the main programme.

✨Midwifery Today Panel Discussion
📅Saturday 24 October
⏰2pm-4pm
🎫£3-5, booking required
Join us for a thoughtful panel discussion exploring the realities, pressures and possibilities of midwifery today. Hosted by practising NHS midwife, activist and bestselling author Leah Hazard, with contributions from Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Naomi Pemberton, Abigail Latif, Zainab Sarwar.

🔗 You can book your tickets now via the Eventbrite link - https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-labour-of-care-4861827/

Image Credit: 1st image - Lucy Sugden Smith. 2nd image - Ruth Horrell, “Both the joy, the magic but also the stress”, [Photographed: Christa, Delivery Unit Co-ordinator, Cambridge Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust] 2026 Archival pigment print on paper.

03/10/2026

What inspires Kaimurai? 🔔

Listen to Kaimurai talk about his work, "The Answer to All My Prayers Are in the Questions I Never Asked" (2025), and learn more about his practice.

This work, as well as seven other new works from artists and collectives, is on display in Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven.

📅On now until 3 January 2027
🎫Free entry

Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven is co-organised with the Cheongju Craft Biennale 2025, in collaboration with the National Crafts Museum & Hastkala Academy, and presented in partnership with Hyundai Motor Company.

Filming and editing credit: Rhys Fagan

01/10/2026

We're hiring - come and work with us 👋

We’re looking for an Integrated Designer to join the Whitworth’s Audiences & Communications team.

If you’re a creative designer who’d like to work across exhibitions, campaigns and everything we do at the gallery, we’d love to hear from you.

📍 The Whitworth, Manchester
⏱ 0.6 FTE, permanent

For more information and to apply, visit The University of Manchester's job page:
https://ow.ly/rjXO50ZTqtJ

Image credit: Our Collections, Reimagined, installation shot. Photo by Michael Pollard.

30/09/2026

Do you remember paying a visit to An Edible Family in Mobile Home when it was on our Sculpture Terrace as part of the exhibition, "Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990"?🍰

Join us for a special screening of Bobby Baker’s new documentary An Edible Family in a Mobile Home: The Film, followed by a conversation about the work between Dr Andy Hardman (Head of Department, Art History and Cultural Practices at The University of Manchester) and the artist. Together, they will reflect on the work's journey from its first installation in 1976 to its reincarnation at the Whitworth last year.

An Edible Family in a Mobile Home is a bold feminist statement on domesticity, care, and the unseen labour that holds our world together. The film, created with acclaimed filmmaker Hugo Glendinning, captures this unique, ephemeral artwork, preserving its legacy for future generations. Audiences witness the intricate process behind crafting the edible family and the warm, communal experience of its gradual consumption, as visitors are welcomed into the work and become part of it. Featuring reflections from art critic Louisa Buck on Baker’s place in the artistic canon, the film also explores what it meant for Bobby to return to a work she first made nearly fifty years ago, and what she has learnt about the work – and herself – in the intervening years.

📅 Thursday 22 October 2026
⏰ 6pm – 7.45pm
🎟️ Free, booking required

Book your tickets via the link - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bobby-baker-an-edible-family-in-a-mobile-home-screening-and-qa-tickets-2002512322262

An Edible Family in a Mobile Home was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England with additional support from Acme, Necessity and People’s Postcode Lottery

Image credit: © Hugo Glendinning

Institute For Cultural Practices- University of Manchester UoM Humanities

Join us for a film screening and in conversation with Bobby Baker