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

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Artists

Quinza Ashraf

Quinza is a talented textile artist, producing stunning embroidery work.

Digital illustration by Quinza with a repeated colourful floral design, displayed on a yellow background

Quinza Ashraf

Lavender Olive

Digital drawing in a flower pattern, in blue, yellow, pinks and orange.

Quinza Ashraf

Blossom Blue

2020 Digital
Four embroidery hoops, each with a unique, floral design on a different colour which were created by Quinza Ashraf

Quinza Ashraf

Star of Youth - Rays of Sun - Nature Trail - The Design

Mixed Media
A mixed media design by Quinza Ashraf featuring faces and text, stitched together and embroidered

Quinza Ashraf

Quinza is a talented textile artist, producing stunning embroidery work. She also works in print and digital illustration, and gains much inspiration through her love of horror films and spiders.

In 2022 Quinza collaborated with artist Kirsty Marsh, a Venture Arts volunteer and freelance textiles designer. Kirsty took Quinza’s drawings and produced a repeated pattern piece using Adobe Illustrator. Quinza then embroidered on to the pattern, creating a new textile artwork.

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I love making art, it makes me feel calm and relaxed, just like how I feel in ‘Dreaming in Wonderland’, I’m taking a nap in nature

Digital illustration by Quinza with a repeated colourful floral design, displayed on a yellow background
Four embroidery hoops, each with a unique, floral design on a different colour which were created by Quinza Ashraf
Digital drawing in a flower pattern, in blue, yellow, pinks and orange.
A mixed media design by Quinza Ashraf featuring faces and text, stitched together and embroidered
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Exhibitions and events

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Event

Museum After Hours | Manchester Science Festival

Science and Industry Museum, Liverpool Rd, Manchester, M3 4JP.

26th Oct 2024 - 26th Oct 2024
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Exhibition

We Are Gathered Here Together

Fitzrovia Chapel, 2 Pearson Square, London, W1T 3BF.

10th Oct 2024 - 16th Oct 2024
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Event

Portraits of Recovery + Venture Arts in Dialogue: Spaces Between Creative Workshop

HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN.

21st Sep 2024 - 21st Sep 2024
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Exhibition

Green

The Royal Northern College of Music, 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9RD.

4th Jul 2024 - 10th Jul 2024

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

Explore our different programmes and see what could work for you.

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Exhibitions & Events

Discover all our exhibitions and events, past and present.

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