Maja Lorkowska

LEGACY: A WAY TO LIVE IN THE WORLD at Saul Hay Gallery has been inspired by the Mid-century Modern movement, building on its style and energy.

The former cotton mill of Quarry Bank is currently home to ‘Gathering Downstream’, an exhibition exploring the site’s legacy of the industrial revolution alongside environmental change and disruption.

Allie Crewe’s ‘I Am’ project, displayed in the heart of the city, bears witness to the experiences of survivors of domestic violence from Manchester and across the UK. Rather than focusing on the resulting trauma, the project challenges perceptions, focusing on the sense of possibility and transformation instead.

Come along and explore ‘MDZ’, Jimmy Cauty’s movable, dystopian model village housing a tiny city full of atmospheric scenes and surprising details in a shipping container.

Manchester Craft & Design Centre, the city’s greatest craft treasure trove, is celebrating its 40th anniversary on the 14 May with food, drinks, live music, craft activities and an interactive exhibition.

The Vasseur BALTIC Artists’ Award 2022, in its third edition, will gather the work of some of the most exciting international artists working today, exploring themes of ancient mythologies, contemporary politics and ecology.

The Bluecoat’s Colonial Legacies is the culmination of a year-long project with a group of young people, with the aim of interrogating the gallery building’s past.

Emily Hesse imagines what a cultural institution run by a community of witches would look like for her brand new show ‘The Witches’ Institution (W.I.)’ at The Tetley.

The practice and rituals of masquerading are the focus of Bubu Ogisi’s new show ‘I am not myself’ at The Tetley, exploring tradition, spirituality and bodily consciousness.

Stephen Dixon’s ‘Maiolica and Migration’ at Williamson Art Gallery contemplates the ongoing tragedies of forced migration and the journeys of refugee vessels via the medium of ceramics.

The photographs in ‘Follow The River, Follow The Thread’ document the ways in which different communities across the African continent are responding to the challenges of the climate crisis, while also encouraging an exchange of ideas via the photographic medium.

Tate Liverpool’s summer show ‘Radical Landscapes’ delights with a fresh, rebellious and thoroughly modern look at the subject of landscape via a display of over 150 works, spanning a century of landscape art that falls far from the traditional.