Hilary Jack Archives - Art in Manchester

Art in Manchester – Castlefield Gallery: 35 years of Sculpture, Berni Searle & Victoria Baths

1st September 2019

No Particular Place to Go? 35 years of sculpture at Castlefield Gallery Venue: Castlefield Gallery, Manchester Exhibition Dates: Friday 6 September – Sunday 27 October 2019 Public Preview: 6–8pm, Thursday 5 September 2019 Artists: James Ackerley, Sir Anthony Caro, Nicola Ellis, Ana Genovés, Lee Grandjean, Charles Hewlings, Hilary Jack, Stephanie James, Stephen Lewis, Jeff Lowe, Michael Lyons, Henry Moore, Jill Randall, Veronica Ryan, Laura White. Established by artists in 1984, 2019…

Contemporary art snippets – May

14th May 2018

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Contemporary art snippets – May In this contemporary art snippets blog I’ve included, alongside local Manchester events, a Hilary Jack exhibition in Scotland, and Altrincham’s Word Fest. Plus we have a new contemporary art exhibition from Louise Garman at Air Gallery and two from Cross Street Arts We also have a reminder of some great contemporary art events which we have featured in recent blogs but are still on…

Paradise Works – ‘Tipping The Scales’ PV 2nd March

28th February 2018

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Paradise Works – ‘Tipping the Scales’ Venue: Paradise Works Project Space 3rd – 31st March 2018 Preview: 6-9pm, Friday 2nd March 2018 Artists: Corey Bartle-Sanderson, Alexander J Croft, Richard Hughes, Precious Innes, Kieran Leach, Sam Porritt, Sara Procter, Gwyn Williams and Alistair Woods. Tipping the scales is the inaugural exhibition presented by Kieran Leach and Precious Innes under the moniker Show.me.up. The curatorial duo will program a series of exhibitions, the…

Art2c in Manchester – BeesBlogs Round up of Art2c in November

14th November 2017

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Artc2c in Manchester There’s an amazing amount of Art2c in Manchester this November. With a new exhibition ‘Is Seeing Believing’ at Saul Hay Gallery, Lemn Sissay announcing the Manchester Histories Festival 2018, Castlefield Gallery have their latest Launch Pad exhibition. Artist Kate Collins talks about her career at Contemporary Six, More news of Paradise Works, the new artist-led studio’s in Salford, Cecily Brown’s Shipwreck Drawings at The Whitworth, who also…

Paradise Works & The Manchester Contemporary 2017- Manchester’s Great Weekend of Art

23rd October 2017

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Manchester Contemporary & Paradise Works Opening – Manchester’s Great Weekend of Art It’s going to be a great weekend for art lovers and artists alike this weekend as Manchester Contemporary 2017, now in its tenth edition, and the only UK invitational art fair for critically engaged contemporary art outside London comes to Manchester Central and Artists Hilary Jack and Lucy Harvey, with the support of Tom Bloxham’s Urban Splash…

HOST – Helping Manchester’s Homeless

13th February 2017

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I met artist Hilary Jack at the recent Castlefield Gallery Launch Pad event and found out more about her commission to provide the Spinnigfields Art Commission 2016 artwork for sponsors Allied London. The commission called HOST, is a series of nine discreet and intricately rendered bronze sculptures of hybrid plants, and will eventually be sold to help the homeless of Manchester through the Manchester Homelessness Partnership. Hilary Jack is well used to…