Exhibition
My New Favourite Shop
9 Apr 2022 – 4 Jun 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- Closed
- Friday
- Closed
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Free admission
Address
- 14-20 Mirabel Street
- Manchester
- M3 1PJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 59, 2
- Manchester Victoria
‘My New Favourite Shop’ is Venture Arts artist Leslie Thompson's shop front and residency space. Influenced by beloved trips to the model shop at Afflecks Palace, Leslie has built an installation at PAPER based on these experiences and his drawings.
About
Leslie Thompson's shop at PAPER Gallery is an organic departure from his black comic book heroes series of the pandemic years, his focus now turns to personal heroes and significant life influences. Ranging from Donna Summer to his brothers, to Brown Bear and Mr T, he selects figures that have repeatedly appeared in his work throughout the years.
In his own words:
“It was all those years going to the Afflecks Palace Shop with my mum when she was alive. The good Afflecks Palace Star Wars shop is the best place to have fun to spend on action figures. I bought the type from the USA, the big country far away. It was reward of the awards. They have a cafe there as well. It’s good news. It is fun in the hard and tough Afflecks Palace shop. Hooray.
‘My New Favourite Shop’ will be my action figure heroes that I can sell soon in Manchester far away from Hulme, like never before. This new gallery will be with all the action figure drawings from entertainment of show business, a tribute to family members, an old teacher to remember or a famous wild animal. I feel good as a superstar artist drawer drawing the heroes in cartoon.”
