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Lydia Gifford, Porous, 2014
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Jo McGonigal, Yellow Yellow, 2015
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Angela de la Cruz, Mini Nothing 9 (Pink), 2010. © the artist & Lisson Gallery. Photo Ken Adlard
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Deb Covell_From Nowt to Summat, 2014
Exhibition
Real Painting
12 Jun 2015 – 2 Aug 2015
Regular hours
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:30
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:30
Cost of entry
Free Entry
Address
- 2 Hewitt Street
- Knott Mill
- Manchester
- M15 4GB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- No.2 Metroshuttle Bus
- Metrolink Tram: Deansgate/Castlefield
- Deansgate Train Station
Castlefield Gallery presents Real Painting, an exhibition of new and existing work by ten artists working nationally and internationally including 2010 Turner Prize nominee Angela de la Cruz, and 2004 John Moores Painting Prize winner Alexis Harding.
About
Curated by Deb Covell and Jo McGonigal the exhibition emphasizes the essential grammar of painting, considering not necessarily what a painting means but what it ‘does’.
Each artist shares a purposeful interest in the material components of painting and its ability to assume its own presence, rather than being symbolic of something else. Slipping between painting and object, the visual and physical, the work in the exhibition highlights the expressive capacity of the materials and processes specific to painting to be sites of investigation in their own right.
Throughout the exhibition painting is transformed from subject matter to object matter, transcending its flat surface to fix the viewer’s attention on ‘seeing’ as both a visual and physical encounter.
