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EXHIBITION & EVENTS ARCHIVE
‘New Art North West 1991’ – Rodney Dickson, Fiona Moate, Lawrence Elliot & Robin Blackledge
21/07/1991New Art North West ’91 promises to be one of the most exciting regional exhibitions to date. The fact that it embraces such a diversity of art supports claims of a new dynamism in the region and a definite trend towards new artists moving into the North West.
Making Places: Contemporary Architecture in the City
13/09/1991Three Manchester Architects: Holford Associates, Simpson Associates & Stephenson Architecture.
Places and buildings create a city’s image and atmosphere. As makers of places and images, architects provide the means by which the city is perceived by it’s inhabitants, recalled by visitors and explored in the imagination. Architecture is the most powerful expression of a community’s self-image and aspirations.
‘Recent Paintings’ – Alex Ramsey
16/03/1991Alex Ramsay’s paintings are unashamedly sensual and teeming with life. Their initial impact is one of richness, exuberance and a degree of chaos. Figures, fish, birds, boats, cats, children, mermaids and barking dogs are amongst the characters that fill the picture surface and jockey for position.
‘Nursery Rhymes’ – Paula Rego
03/11/1990“ Paula Rego has always identified with the least, not the mighty, taken the child’s eye view, and counted herself among the commonplace and the disregarded, by the side of the beast, not the beauty….her sympathy with naiveté, her love of its double character, its weakness and its force, has led her to Nursery Rhymes as a new source for her imagery.”
– Marina Warner introduction to Paula Rego ‘ Nursery Rhymes’.
‘Hand-coloured prints 1986 -1991’ – Howard Hodgkin
25/05/1991In contrast to the small, dense paintings Hodgkin has been creating in recent years, the twelve hand-coloured prints that form this exhibition, surprise the viewer by their huge size and stunning simplicity.
‘A Friend in Need’ – Auction Show
18/10/1991Craigie Aitchison & Peter Seal
14/09/1990During September and October the Castlefield Gallery is mounting and exhibition of two Scottish artists: Craigie Aitchison, now in his 60’s and recognised as one of the country’s leading painters (though he does not fit into any particular genre), and Peter Seal, in his 20’s and fighting to survive as an artist.
‘Lament For The Poetic: Recent Work’ – Brian Chalkley
06/04/1990Brian Chalkley’s new work seduces immediately. It celebrates the craftsmanship of painting and sculpture, combining the relative freedom of oil with the demands of using lead, cooper and the etching process.
‘Night & Day: Comic Rationalism’ – John Gledhill
22/02/1990In these post modernist times it is perhaps only with tongue in cheek that one can label one’s work with any other ‘-ism’, especially one which could be translated into mock seriousness. Yet John Gledhill’s use of the term ’comic rationalism’ really does have a serious point.
‘Changing Tack’ – Jill Randall & Roxy Walsh
08/06/1990During the city’s Olympic Festival Castlefield Gallery is showing the work of two Manchester artists, painter Roxy Walsh and sculptor, Jill Randall.