I am thrilled to announce that I have been selected for the Manchester Open 2024 at HOME. My work will be on display in the gallery space along with 480 other creatives from Saturday 3rd February until Sunday 28th April. It promises to be a huge celebration of the creative talent Manchester has to offer and I am very much looking forward to taking part.
Stay tuned for more information!
Really happy to have received news that a couple of my works have been selected for Open 2023 at Bury Art Museum. This is the museum’s first ever open exhibition and it will be showing the best of the North West as selected by a panel of highly esteemed judges:
Paulette Brien (Curator – Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool), Mike Chavez-Dawson (Artist/Curator), Jez Dolan (Artist) and Tony Heaton OBE (Artist).
The OPEN 2023 Preview & Prize Giving is due to take place on Friday 20 October from 18:00-21:00. The show will run from 21st October 2023 – 3rd February 2024 with most works available to purchase.
Exciting news to share… I have been invited to take part in Tees at Rogue Studios; an exhibition exploring the t-shirt as art form. Taking ‘Article 19’ as its point of reference, the show poses the question: “Protest / Self-expression, what is the difference?”. It will feature work by Sir Peter Blake, Jeremy Deller, David Shrigley, Bob and Roberta Smith and artists from Rogue, Paradise Works, Suite (my studios), Bankley, AWOL, Islington Mill and beyond.
The preview is due to take place on 30th September 2023 from 2-5pm (to coincide with an open studios event). You can catch the show until 31st October 2023 (opening times are between 12-4pm on Saturdays or by appointment.
The exhibition is curated by Mike Chavez-Dawson and assisted by; Jamie Kirk, Grecia Balassone, Vincent Patterson, Maggie Stick and John Paul Brown.
What a fantastic turn out for the preview of my solo exhibition “Beyond the Linear” last night at Salford Art Gallery. It was wonderful to share the opening of my latest show with both familiar faces and new ones too! Special thanks to Luke Moore, Helen Milroy and Isabella Baker who took part in “Roll Play” (a unique couple of performances we devised especially for the event) and all who managed to make it over despite the bitterly cold weather and the pretty dire traffic / public transport situation.
If you haven’t managed to see it yet, there is plenty of time to visit as it will be running until 28th April 2019. For opening hours and more information please click here. There will also be an artist’s talk with a difference… stay tuned to find out more!
Almost time for the opening night of Ciara Struwig’s show “Body of Evidence” (due to open this Saturday, 9th April)! I am really proud to be a part of this fantastic project which saw Ciara collaborating with a variety of artists from around the world. The exhibition takes place in Gauteng and will run until 22nd April. More information regarding the project and other artists involved in the collaboration can be found on her site.
I am pleased to share the results of my involvement in the “Evidence Project” (initiated by South African artist Ciara Struwig).
Collaborating with both local and international artists, Struwig collects samples of by-products generated during the creative process. Through the collection of such materials she explores the dialogue between forensics and art.
You can view more images from this collaboration, find more information on her project and see the work of other contributing artists by visiting her site.
All images contained in this post appear courtesy of Ciara Struwig.
My piece “Lowson’s Textbook Erosion” will be on display in Creative Arts department, Trafford College over the next couple of weeks. You will be able to find my piece in the glass display cabinets opposite the gallery space (Altrincham site).
Little piece in the college magazine “Connect” about my solo exhibition at Trafford College library, Talbot Road. Works by other members of staff can be seen in the Creative Arts gallery space (Altrincham site).
A couple of sections from “Evolution Triptych” will be on display at Trafford College in the Creative Arts department this month. Look out for them in the glass display cabinets opposite the gallery space (CA1).
