Artists
Deborah Makinde
Working mainly in illustration and printmaking, with scenes and characters from her favourite films and musicals.
Deborah Makinde
Men in Black
Deborah Makinde
Beauty and the Beast
Deborah Makinde
European Badger
Deborah Makinde
Brother and Sister
Deborah Makinde works mainly in illustration and printmaking, with scenes and characters from her favourite films and musicals featuring most prominently in her work. She also has a love of animals, and since undertaking a Venture Arts Cultural Enrichment placement in 2018 she has been volunteering regularly at Manchester Museum, demonstrating artefacts from their natural history collection to visitors. Her favourite museum object, a taxidermy badger, inspired a painting which she sold to a collector in 2019.
In late 2021 Deborah ran a clay votives workshop with Manchester Histories, exploring disability history in classical civilisation as part of Disability History Month.
In 2022 Deborah took part in Narratives, the third in our pioneering Conversations Series, in which artists from Venture Arts work alongside other contemporary artists over several months, producing new work through an equal exchange of art and ideas. This collaboration resulted in an exhibition at The Lowry in January 2023.
Deborah Makinde's exhibitions and events
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Conversations Series III: Narratives
The Lowry
26th Feb 2023
Salford Quays, Manchester M50 3AZ -
Narratives: The Julie Party
St Margaret’s Social Club
2nd Dec 2022
Brantingham Rd, Whalley Range M21 0TT -
The Manchester Contemporary 2022
Manchester Central, Windmill St, Manchester M2 3GX
6th Nov 2022 -
Narratives: The Julie Party
The Lowry, Pier 8, The Quays, Salford M50 3AZ
26th Feb 2022 -
Completely a Hustling Place
Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square.
31st Dec 2021 -
Environments, Outside In
National Open Art Exhibition, London, 2019.
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PERSPECTIVES, Venture Arts
various venues in Manchester and Salford, 2018.
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MADE, Venture Arts Studio Show
People’s History Museum, Manchester, 2015.
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The Art of Nature, Venture Arts Studio Show
The Lowry, Salford Quays, 2014.
[My art is inspired by] films, things from Manchester museum, animals and wrestling. [My proudest moment as an artist was] being in exhibitions and selling my badger painting. Art is fun, it makes me very happy!
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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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