SPARK #41: Remember Nature

Tuesday 4^th November is the 10^th anniversary of artist Gustav Metzger’s call for all creatives to Remember Nature and to ‘follow the path of ethics into aesthetics’. Since Metzger’s death in 2017, Phil Barton has organised a public-facing Day of Action to Remember Nature every other year on 4^th November – in Salford, Kings Cross, Launceston & Rossendale – and this year has invited local SPARK members to join him in organising a Day of Action at Platt Hall in Platt Fields Park in his home community.

SPARK #41 will focus on the radical and visionary artist, with a presentation and discussion about his life, work and legacy, and will include creative exercises inviting participants to reflect on the connections, or otherwise, between their own practice and Metzger’s legacy.

Please bring a sketchbook and your preferred drawing materials to the workshop.

Alongside the 4^th November Platt Hall walks and workshops (to be led by Rae Story; Helena Lees; Sara Davies; Steve Sutton, Robina Ullah, Jane Andrews and Phil Barton), Castlefield Gallery is participating in the national project Remember Nature 2025 and has commissioned Yu-Chen Wang who will be hosting a walk from Manchester City Art Gallery to Hulme Community Garden Centre where a variety of informal presentations and discussions will take place. Local eco-activist Jane Morris, who is a tree/nature walk leader and Biodiversity Champion with the Friends of Platt Fields and a BeeWalk leader & Forest Gardener with the Friends of Birchfields Park, will lead a walk from Platt Hall to Hulme Community Garden Centre on the afternoon of the 4^th. See https://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/event/remember-nature-2025/ for more info.