Exhibitions
Creative TouristFive exhibitions. Five galleries. One of them sprawling across an entire residential street.
Starting small, The Edge in Chorlton is hosting a pretty fascinating exhibition from local photographer Alan Jones. His work takes huge global systems – from mass manufacturing to climate change – and understands them in the only way we can: fragments.
The 200-year-old Portico Library, meanwhile, is looking at how it understands itself – as a place sustained by people whose stories don’t always make it into the official record. Read about their archival exhibition Everything and Nothing here.
Over at the Whitworth you can catch the first UK institutional exhibition by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, who combines abstract paintings and ceramic vessels with a bespoke score.
Out Here at Castlefield Gallery draws attention back to the ground beneath our feet – to natural materials in which histories, politics and possibility are held.
Finally, some community goodness. There’s something quite beautiful – maybe even radical – about turning your living room into a gallery and inviting strangers in to see it. For one weekend each May, that’s exactly what happens on Green Walk in Whalley Range.