Exhibitions
Creative TouristHave we ever featured two exhibitions centring around sound art in the same guide update? Possibly never. To change that, Richard Hards’ new sound work on the Strangeways protest pairs with Auris, Manchester’s very first dedicated sound art festival.
Two exhibitions look back at defining cultural moments: In HOME’s To See and Be Seen, Conor Collins responds to the newly created Queer Up North archive celebrating Manchester’s pioneering LGBTQ+ arts festival, while Tate Liverpool & RIBA North revisit the Architectural Review magazine’s Manplan series, a radical 1969 photographic survey of Britain’s built environment.
In SEESAW’s Un Seen Me, Dr Shanali Perera’s paintings offer a unique perspective on illness, having made the unlikely jump from a career in medicine to one in contemporary art. And closing on something very wholesome, the New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery’s Carry the Clouds Away spotlights a group of local artists reflecting on the inspiration, connection and solace we find in places of nature.