Skip to main content

Blog

CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Jesse Glazzard

Glazzard is a photographer and creative director working across personal, commercial and editorial fields. Their series LGBT+ Letters serves to counter the ‘complete lack of queer visibility’ the artist was met with upon coming- out while at secondary school; and aims to challenge the ‘stale stereotypes’ that still hamper the LGBTQIA+ community. - now on show at CATALYST: Celebrating 10 Years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme. Read more about it here!

CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Joe Fowler

‘Call to Industry’ is a ‘tongue-in-cheek exploration of Manchester’s fetishisation of industrial spaces and history, via a parody cult initiation video for an organisation which worships industry’ - now on show at CATALYST: Celebrating 10 Years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme. Read more about it here!

CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Elliott Flanagan

'A piece of something bigger' (2018) is a film by artist Elliott Flanagan, exploring class subcultures, and personal and social histories. It was shown as part of Art Film Season, but is back for CATALYST: Celebrating 10 Years of the Graduate Scholarship Programme. Read more about it here!

#WMHD2024 – Mindful gallery tours

To celebrate World Mental Health Day 2024, we've launched a new self-guided mindful gallery tour. Pickup a leaflet in the gallery, or download a copy online.

Recent acquisitions: British printmaking

During the pandemic, the Art Collection was successful in acquiring two new prints from the Derbyshire SLS (School Library Service) deaccessioning scheme, co-ordinated by Buxton Museum & Art Gallery. We received works by artists Brendan Neiland and Michael Stokoe, complimenting prints we already held by them. The works add to our modest but strong collection of regional printmaking. Art Collection Intern Cami O'Hagan finds out more about the artists & their work below.

Introducing: Art Collection Intern Cami

An introduction post from Collection Intern and recent graduate Cami O'Hagan, working with the team this Summer / Autumn on collections care, cataloguing and our exhibitions & events programme.

CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Aidan Doyle

Aidan Doyle's work explores the relationship with the inner self and the outside world. Using fragmented imagery devoid of original context, the artist considers the choices we have to make on how we portray ourselves to the world: what we choose to share and perform, and what we choose to hide from view. Read more about it here!

CATALYST: Scholar Spotlight – Heather Bell

Rorschach Women is part of a larger body of work titled Bathing in the Rorschach. Using a Go Pro camera submerged underwater, the artist captures ethereal and fluid moments, which are then digitally manipulated to create intriguing semi-abstracted imagery, intricate patterns, and symmetrical forms. Read more about it here!