Thresholds is an exhibition which takes as its subject the area just to the north of Manchester’s city centre, along the Irk valley towards Collyhurst. This is a part of the city which is now seeing massive new building and redevelopment, and at an extremely rapid pace. But interspersed amongst the new, the gleaming, the smooth and neat, are fragments of the old, the neglected, the eroded: thresholds to another kind of space and time, the historic soul of the city interwoven with the new, the disused, the overlooked, the transitional.
The six artists featured in this exhibition have also each been inspired by a series of monthly walks through the area over the last year, and have responded to it each in their own particular way and through a diverse range of media. These include drawing, painting, photography, film, music, video, 3D work and textiles, which come together in a unique dialogue with this area, a hugely significant part of which is Angel Meadow. This mass pauper burial site, of such huge significance to the history of the city, also features as a major part of the exhibition, potently symbolizing as it does a threshold between the past and the present, the living and the dead.
Thresholds will utilise diverse juxtapositions of artworks as a kind of parallel to walking through this area of Manchester: an assemblage of unexpected elements joined together by moving through the exhibition space, which it is hoped will make for an exciting and unexpected experience.
Project Space ROGUE ARTISTS STUDIOS
Exhibition Opening and Preview - Saturday 8th March 12 – 4pm
Continues Fridays and Saturdays 12 – 4pm or by appointment until March 29th
For more information, questions about the work and for viewing by appointment, please contact Phil Porter at philporter114@gmail.com
Artists exhibiting:
Lucy Evans
Neil Greenhalgh
Marguerite Heywood
Not Quite Light
Phil Porter
Wanda Roslyn
MY ARTIST STATEMENT
Artefacts (The Final Fridays)
Instax wide prints, collaborative drawings, found objects, LED display
The Final Fridays is a series of collaborative mark-making walks in the edgelands of just to the north of Manchester city centre. On the final Friday of every month, we set out from Altogether Otherwise walking, drawing, and investigating to look more closely at the otherwise ignored, neglected, or disused.
Using processes such as frottage, we are interested in exploring feedback from surfaces and seeking active interchange with non-human agents by using slow looking and tactile engagement. Time moves differently in the edgelands, and alternative ways of experiencing the world often grows in the gaps of liminal spaces.
The Final Fridays walks are open to anyone with an interest in experiencing the world around them in a different way and forming closer connections with time and place. We meet at Altogether Otherwise at 5:30pm. All materials are provided.
