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Venture Arts, 43 Old Birley Street, Manchester, M15 5RF

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Artists

Chloe

A hand and machine embroidered artwork by Chloe, a studio artist at Venture Arts. The picture is of a lady wearing black dress with a colourful necklace on. Here mouth is open and you can see her teeth and she has bright blue eyes and lilac coloured hair. The picture is on a blue background and there is an arc of differently coloured neon shapes around her.

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Louise Taffe

2025 machine & hand embroidery
A piece of artwork by Chloe, Venture Arts studio artist. The artwork is of a person who looks like an angel, wearing white clothes with shoulder length brown hair. The piece has been created using hand and machine embroidery on fabric.

Chloe

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2024 Hand and machine embroidery on fabric

Chloe is a talented studio artist at Venture Arts who has exhibited her work widely, and featured in exhibitions in London and New York.

More recently, Chloe has been exploring portraiture and the use of free hand embroidery. Her work – Louise Taffe – has been selected to be exhibited at Manchester Open 2026 at HOME.

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Exhibitions and events

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Exhibition

Cover The Walls

Altogether Otherwise, 6-10 Hanover Street, NOMA, Manchester M4 4BB.

11th Jun 2026 - 12th Jul 2026
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Exhibition

Venture Arts Presents: Our Full Studio Show

The Old Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, Manchester, M20 2RQ.

3rd Apr 2026 - 26th Apr 2026
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Exhibition

Out Here

Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt St, Greater Manchester, M15 4GB.

3rd May 2026 - 19th Jul 2026
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Event

Delaine Le Bas: Live working sessions with Sarah Lee and Sally Hirst

The Whitworth, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M15 6ER.

24th Mar 2026 - 7th May 2026

Commissions

We are delighted when people want to commission work from us and our artists. This can either be as a group project or an individual artist creating one of their unique pieces for you.

To find out more and to arrange a studio visit please contact Katherine Long on 0161 232 1223 or email katherine@venturearts.org

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About Us

We work alongside learning disabled artists to create new, contemporary visual artwork.

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Programmes

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