Rogue Artists Studios and Project Space – Open studios weekend
Manchester, the town of a million stereotypes.
Rogue Artist’s Studios celebrates the opening of a new floor of studios and Project Space with an open studios weekend, showcasing the 59 artists and two floors of studios which make Rogue one of the largest independent artist’s studio groups in the North West.
With recent Arts Council expansion funding, this is a chance to meet the various artists, talk about their work and purchase works directly from the studios. The artists are recent graduates to established practitioners and work in a wide range of disciplines and media to include drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, textile design, installation, video, interactive art and illustration.
Coinciding with the Open Studios, Rogue Project Space launches with o p e n e n d e d, an exhibition of new works by emerging Bristol-based artists, the first in a series of national exchanges. Following the launch o p e n e n d e d exhibitions will then take place between Manchester, Bristol and London, creating a three-way exchange and network.
Check out this exciting concept for national creative exchange, and see the North West’s finest at this excititng seminal open studios.
How much? FREE
Website: www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk
What to Wear: Shabby chic creative clobber
Who'll be there: Locals, arts students, artists, ttrendsetters, those sniffing out a bargain.
Go with: Anyone with an eye for the next big thing
Secrets and Shadows: The Twilight World of Thirteen
What is reality? I am sure we all sometimes wonder, not least Brighton cabbie Stephen Bardot, whose nightshift exhaustion drives him to hallucinate and experience some rather strange passengers…Celebrating the paperback launch of Thirteen by Sebastian Beaumont, the WithDrawn group of artists have created a collection of intimate images that explore what lies within our innermost thoughts, that odd place we call the mind.
A collection of paintings, drawings and mixed media explorations of personal psyche and discovery make up this enigmatic collection of works at Foyles this week.
How much? FREE
Website: www.foyles.co.uk/events.asp
What to Wear: Nothing padded
Who'll be there: The men in white coats, artists, bookworms
Go with: Your Prozac bottle on hand and a firm grip on reality
Magic Me, with Mulberry School for Girls
Sisters really are doing it for themselves, and this interactive afternoon and exhibition at the Women’s Library is a celebration of five years of creative collaboration. Since 2004, creative projects have brought together women from 14 to 90 at The Women's Library , and this Saturday past and present participants will gather to share their creative journeys.
Local arts charity ‘Magic Me’ has led women who are diverse in age, culture and ethnicity and from a melting pot of backgrounds living in the East End to meet and work together, challenge each other and explore their creativity. The results of past projects, from photographic images, poems, film and sound will be on display at the celebration, and remain on show as part of What Women Want, a public exhibition until September 2008.
Meet the women who have worked together and take part in practical arts activities led by project participants before taking in the exhibition.
How much? FREE
Website: www.magicme.co.uk
What to Wear: Your womanhood with pride
Who'll be there: The participants, locals, families, the open minded and exploratory East Enders
Go with: The girls
Starstruck:Contemporary Art and the Cult of Celebrity
Just like fast food, we love to consumerize our celebrities. It’s all about who has put on a few pounds this week, who Is pregnant, who is wearing what and what is wearing who. Live by the media, die by the media, or be the subject of an exhibition at the New Art Gallery Walsall.
This show brings together artists whose work discusses the cult of celebrity in a variety of ways, including Candice Breitz, Peter Davies, Alison Jackson, Yasumasa Morimura, Mario Testino, Gavin Turk, Francesco Vezzoli and Jessica Voorsanger.
Put down your Now magazine for a moment and get some real culture.
How much? FREE
Website: www.artatwalsall.org.uk
What to wear: The lastest look, an It bag and a pout - what else?
Who’ll be there: Social commentators, ironic observers, fans, gossip-mongers and those on the way to be botoxed.
Go with: Your guilty pleasure that you love all that gossip too....
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