Meet the Artist - Nicola Dale
Did you know schools go free at Manchester Art Gallery?
Pupils from Manchester schools can Meet the Artist, in workshops like Bodies: Movement and Stillness with Nicola Dale.
Artworks are full of movement and stillness and so are we. Use your eyes, arms, legs and imaginations to understand what we see in the Gallery.
For more information check out our schools programme via our website 👉 https://bit.ly/404yEwv
#MAGlearning #ManchesterSchools #ManchesterEducation #ArtandEducation
Calling all art technicians!
Manchester Art Gallery is currently looking for skilled freelance art technicians to join our team. If you have experience in the field, please get in touch.
Follow the link to apply 👉 https://bit.ly/3T6vX9F
#ArtsJobs #MCRjobs #GalleryTechnician
The lovely Mary is leaving us after 18 years working at the gallery. We couldn’t let her go without telling us some interesting facts about her favourite painting, The Chariot Race
🖼️ Alexander von Wagner, The Chariot Race, 1872-3, on display in gallery 9
#MAGcollection #StaffPicks #DailyDoseOfArt #AncientGreece #GalleryHistory #ChariotRace
Draw from Nature with Nikita Gill. Free creative workshop to celebrate Manchester Pride. Sunday 27 August 1-2pm
Drawing from Nature with Nikita Gill
Sunday 27 August 2023
1-2pm
Come along and join our garden volunteers and artists in our urban oasis and celebrate Manchester Pride. You can sketch from nature, have a go at photographing our flora and fauna with your phone and create your own biodegradable plant pot to grow beautiful nasturtiums at home.
All events are free, will take place in the Derek Jarman Pocket Park at the front of the building (weather dependant!) and are open to everyone.
Free, book here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drawing-from-nature-with-nikita-gill-tickets-700753110417
(Re) imagining the Rutherston Collection
6 artists, 100 years, 500 artworks - (Re) Imagining the Rutherston Loans Scheme
In 1925 Charles Rutherston donated almost 500 artworks to the gallery on the condition that they would be loaned to art schools and galleries to enrich the lives and contribute to the education of ordinary people.
100 years on, the work of 6 emerging artists questions the value that this collection continues to hold.
1. Rakaya Cohen
2. Nehal Aamir
3. Meg Oliver
4. Jay Zjawinski
5. Linda Mohammed
6. Isaac Grubb
Watch the full films 👉 https://bit.ly/3OtOc7n
How beautiful is this sculpture? 😍
Its liveliness suggests it was carved from life. The sculptor, Alessandro Algardi has captured the process of ageing, the soft wrinkling of the eyes and mouth, blood coursing through delicate veins, the thin cartilage of the ears. And if you look closely at the eyes, you’ll find a surprise!
👀 👉 Why do you think the sculptor might have done this?
🖼 Alessandro Algardi, Monsignor Antonio Cerri, 1630-1640 Circa
👉 Purchased with funds from a national appeal and grants from the Victoria and Albert Museum Special Fund, National Heritage Memorial Fund, National Art Collections Fund, Patrons and Associates, and friends of Manchester City Art Galleries
#MAGexhibitions #OutOfTheCrate #SculptureOfTheWeek #SupriseEyes
What story do you think the intricate carving on this tusk tells?
👉 This tusk shows tea processing in China. After picking, tea leaves were spread out in bamboo baskets which were left out in the sun for at least six hours, turning them dark, due to oxidisation. Next, they were dry fried in enormous pans, then they were rolled and crushed between rollers.
The carving would have taken hundreds of hours and was commisioned, possibly by a wealthy tea merchant.
The tusk is made from Sri Lankan ivory, it was carved 1875-1900. Today, trade in ivory dating after 1947 is illegal. A total ban on the trade in ivory of any any age is likely to be enacted this year.
Currently on display in Trading Station: How hot drinks shape our lives
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#MAGcollections
Join us for the preview of Jerwood Makers Open on Saturday
1 February, 2-4pm 👉speeches start at 2.30pm
Launched in 2010 to recognise and promote the significance of making and materials within contemporary visual arts. This seventh edition of the Jerwood Makers Open brings together new commissions by artists Mark Corfield-Moore, Forest + Found (Max Bainbridge and Abigail Booth), Lucie Gledhill, Bethan Lloyd Worthington and Tana West.
Supported by Jerwood Arts, with additional support from Art Fund for curatorial development activities on the tour.
At the heart of newest exhibition Trading Station, is a gathering space for visitors and groups to use freely. The space is designed to host making workshops, talks and performances to encourage new debate, thinking and action on how better to live together today. The gathering space has been shaped and co-designed by a group of 24 people from groups who regularly use the gallery, working with Manchester-based design studio Standard Practice to realise ideas. The space is open for all to gather and participate in, either in a programmed event or as a space to stop, reflect and take stock.
🎁🎄🎁 Looking for a Christmas present for your friends or loved ones?
👉 Give the gift of a Friends membership, it gives access to exclusive events and discounts! You’ll also be supporting your local art gallery 🙌 - buy online or at the Gallery shop! http://ow.ly/HwGH50xsNZf
Have you visited our exhibition Out of the Crate yet?
We’re open until 9pm this evening, come have a look at ‘What’s in Store?’ 👀 in room one, investigate ‘Cold Cases’ 🔍 in room two and have a good chat in room three where ‘It’s Good to Talk’!
#OutOfTheCrate #MAGexhibitions
☕️ Explore the changing social use of tea, coffee and hot chocolate in our upcoming exhibition.
👉 Trading Station traces the history of how these drinks arrived in the UK, revealing their global histories, connections to slavery, colonisation as well as contemporary ethical issues.
#MAGexhibitions
‘Please touch this work!’
How often do you hear that in an art gallery?
Since the opening of Halima Cassell: Eclectica–global inspirations, our visitors have been asking if they can touch Halima’s works, which undoubtedly have an alluring tangibility. So now on display are a sample cast of Jesmonite and a sample of hand carved clay by Halima Cassell for you to touch.
#MAGexhibitions #youcantouchthis
We have been very fortunate to have one of the UK’s most distinctive and dynamic #ceramicists and #sculptors Halima Cassell in residence at the gallery this week. Halima has been #carving #clay live in the atrium and today is the last day to meet her as she creates a new work.
Cassell is gifted with an exceptional ability to visualise complex patterns and mentally project them on to 3-D objects. Her work is diverse in inspiration and form, but her personal style is instantly recognisable due to her bold, energetic designs, crisp carving and intuitive understanding of how to integrate #pattern, #form, #material and scale.
➡️ Join us from 11am–2pm!
#️⃣Free, just drop in 👋
#HalimaCassell
🎉 Only 3 days to go to @TheBigDrawOfficial launch this Sunday!! 🎉
We’ll have artists delivering activities and workshops throughout the gallery for all ages and abilities! These are just some of the awesome activities you can join in at this creative extravaganza...
👉 Join cartoonist and illustrator Jim Medway (www.jimmedway.com) who will be working with @poscauk pens in the gallery’s glass atrium where you can doodle your response to ‘What makes you feel good?’ on all that glorious glass!
👉 The Big Draw Ambassador Gary Andrews will be inviting you to contribute to our collaborative #ThingsThatSparkJoy mural!
👉 Experiment with embroidery and mark making with artist Sam Hull (www.samowenhull.co.uk) to construct a playful response to the gallery!
👉 Join artist Tavia Panton to make a fabric dreamscape installation featuring your very own handcrafted dreamcatchers!
👉 Create aqua inspired artworks using the sound of water & rain ☔️ as tools with artist Rabia Begum!
So get your #drawing on this Sunday and get #creative! We can’t wait to see you and your scribbles!
Full details and more info can be found here ➡️ http://manchesterartgallery.org/exhibitions-and-events/event/drawn-to-life/
https://thebigdraw.org
#DrawnToLife #TheBigDraw #BDF19 #MAGfamilies
We are absolutely delighted to be selected as the winner of the Valeria Napoleone XX Contemporary Art Society award and welcome two new acquisitions by artist Berni Searle.
The Valeria Napoleone XX Contemporary Art Society (VN XX CAS) is a joint initiative of philanthropist Valeria Napoleone and the Contemporary Art Society. The scheme purchases and donates a significant work by a living female artist each year to a UK museum that that has made a strong case for addressing the representation of female artists within their existing collections.
Manchester Art Gallery’s collection has relatively few works by women artists but many depicting women, especially nude women, created by male artists for male patrons. In using her body in her work, Searle takes back control of female representation. Although her work comes out of the context of South African history and politics, it raises universal questions which transcend place and speak to works in the collection, the gallery’s history and the people of Manchester.
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On the 200th anniversary of Peterloo, Blue Badge guide and historian Jonathan Schofield talks about the Peterloo Jug, created to mark the massacre, probably in 1819.
The jug isn't on display currently, though George Cruikshank's prints of Peterloo are on display in our exhibition Get Together and Get Things Done.
If you’d like to get together and get things done, we have spaces and resources free for non profit groups. We are especially interested in supporting people who are looking to make Manchester a better place to live work and play. There are two spaces available – Studio 1 (ground floor) and the Exhibition Gallery 17 (second floor). Both spaces can accommodate up to 30 people for talks and meetings.
http://manchesterartgallery.org/exhibitions-and-events/exhibition/gettogether/
#Peterloo2019
"Looking at Private Pennington’s face today, [...] we might recognise that stare as someone suffering from Post Traumatic Stress..."
✍On the latest MAGnet blog post Patrick Kelleher, Visitor Services team member and writer, takes look at The Battle of Balaclava and a brief history of PTSD. Inspired by Elizabeth Thompson's painting Balaclava, Patrick delves into this painting and the different interpretations of PTSD throughout history and asks how do you think our attitudes have changed?
➡ Head over to www.magnetmanchester.org to have a read!
Pictured: Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler, Balaclava, 1876
Textile Time Hop, Creative Families sessions continue today, Friday and Saturday 1-3pm 😎
Free, suitable for all ages.
We’re proud to be a part of Fly The Flag 70 with artist Ai Weiwei, marking the 70th anniversary of the declaration of #humanrights.
We'll be flying the Flag this week & artist Tania Bruguer will be joining us for a Human Rights discussion 27 June, 1–2pm. No need to book just turn up! More info here: http://ow.ly/igyn50uIXcw
#FlyTheFlag70 #HumanRights #StandUp4HumanRights
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing
Martin Clayton, Head of Prints and Drawings, The Royal Collection Trust talks about our new exhibition opening on Friday 1 February, Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing.
Marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the exhibition displays of 12 of the Renaissance master's greatest drawings in the Royal Collection. Alongside the nLeonardo works we'll show a selection of drawings from our collection, reflecting on the depiction of the body in art.
#Leonardo500
Martin Parr: Return to Manchester
Ahead of the opening of our new exhibition, Martin Parr: Return to Manchester, Senior Curator Natasha goes behind the scenes to discuss Martin Parr and his photographs.
Martin Parr: Return to Manchester, 16 November 2018 – 22 April 2019. http://ow.ly/hvyD30mC9e4
Mobile Makers 2018
Family volunteers Vicky, Heather and Rabia are taking over our Instagram today for the first day of our family workshops! Head over to our Instagram stories now!
Join Mobile Makers every Wednesday-Saturday in August, 1-3pm. http://ow.ly/1v8q30ldA4X
If you're blown away by our Nordic Craft and Design exhibition, pop into our shop. There are pieces available to purchase, which are featured in the exhibition, including textiles from MARIMEKKO, ceramics from Studio Arhoj and glassware from Iitala. #NordicStyle
Soundbites 4
Creating new work is challenging! #FutureCreatives from @TheManchesterCollege were invited to make a fashion garment, sculpture or design piece for the South Asian Design Gallery. Take a listen to #soundbites from a few of the students who took part & displayed their wonderful work.
Curator, Jennifer, takes us behind the scenes as she and her team apply the finishing touches to our upcoming exhibition, Nordic Craft and Design. Opening 6 July 2018. #NordicDesign
Soundbites 3
"I think what surprised me is it's shown me the abilities I have, helped me achieve more & shown me how to be better at what I do"
During 2017/2018 students from @TheManchesterCollege were invited to create either a fashion garment, multiple sculptures or surface pattern design in response to the South Asian Design exhibition. For more information on the Future Creatives programme, please visit our website: https://bit.ly/2lorccW
Future Creatives soundbites
#FutureCreatives is a programme in partnership with @TheManchesterCollege. During 2017/2018 students were invited to create either a fashion garment, multiple sculptures or surface pattern design in response to the South Asian Design exhibition. Listen to #soundbites with selected students who took part and displayed their work at the Gallery.
https://bit.ly/2lorccW
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