Exhibitions
Creative TouristFrom post-it-sized art to commissions that fill entire gallery walls, this month’s five exhibition picks are joined by an interest in what lies beneath, what risks being lost, and what the overlooked reveals.
Peripheries at 1853 Studios gathers eight artists around the literal and personal meanings of existing on the margins. Before We Were Proud at Waterside turns the camera lens on LGBTQ+ community members with firsthand testimony of homosexuality’s criminalisation. Common Ground at Manchester Craft and Design Centre is less interested in what the Peak District looks like than what lies beneath it.
10 x 10 at Saul Hay Gallery asks what each of 100 artists reaches for when given just 10 square centimetres to play with. And Curtain Up at Lowry finds something just as revealing in the charged, collective energy of being part of an audience.