NEW EXHIBITION | Jennie Franklin: Well Done Good Draw | 5 March – 28 April

Jennie Franklin: Well Done Good Draw Bury Art Museum 5 March – 28 April   We’re delighted to announce that studio artist Jennie Franklin will have her first solo exhibition at Bury Arts Museum in March. Marking Jennie Franklin’s first solo exhibition, Well Done Good Draw brings together a new series of drawings on different … Continued

Venture Arts’ Creative Producer, Jennifer Gilbert, begins her new year by returning to the Outsider Art Fair in New York.   Taking place at the Metropolitan Pavilion from January 17-20, 2019, in it’s 27th edition, Jennifer Lauren Gallery will be championing and exhibiting the visionary works by a selection of self-taught and overlooked artists who create art … Continued

PERSPECTIVES in Contemporary Art Thursday Lates | The Whitworth 29th November 2018   Thank you to everyone who came to PERSPECTIVES in Contemporary Art on Thursday 29th November for our Thursday Late event at The Whitworth, our penultimate event in the PERSPECTIVES series. Visitors were presented with a wealth of knowledge through talks and presentations from … Continued

This Christmas, your money can buy happiness. Please donate to our Christmas Appeal   Venture Arts is good for people. Every year we help learning disabled people from Manchester to achieve great things through the arts. With us, people make great friends, make fantastic art and enjoy good times.    Donate today – just look how happy it makes us all!   … Continued

      Venture Arts Christmas Fair | Friday 7th December | 6-8:30pm | Studio 53   We hope that you can join us at our Venture Arts Christmas Fair. There will be refreshments including mulled wine and mince pies to enjoy while you peruse gifts and crafts from a number of Manchester artists and … Continued

VENTURE ARTS BLOG | Disability Arts Online   ”Each PERSPECTIVES exhibition celebrates not only the hard work of the artists featured but also the workshop leaders, carers and supporters of the participants. It was a real pleasure to enable these individuals to express themselves.”   Artist Hamble-Rose Dean shares her experience of supporting learning disabled artists … Continued

We hope you can join us on Thursday 29th November, 6-9pm, at The Whitworth for Thursday Lates: Perspectives in Contemporary Art.   This event seeks to open up conversations about the visibility of learning disabled artists within contemporary art and how this relates to both the world of outsider art and the disability arts scene. We’ll be talking … Continued

Check out our accompanying events to coincide with PERSPECTIVES, our latest series of events and exhibitions showcasing over 80 artists across Greater Manchester. Get inspired and learn something new at a number of unique artist led workshops and ‘Meet the artists’ events. Learn more about Venture Arts, meet the artists and learn about their creative … Continued

Thank you to all our visitors who came down to The Manchester Contemporary 2018 at visited our ‘Spilling Out’ booth. We had a brilliantly busy weekend sharing our joint presentation with Castlefield Gallery, profiling artists living and working in the North West region. Artists included: Frances Disley, Barry Anthony Finan, Jennie Franklin, Katie Tomlinson, John Powell-Jones, … Continued

Join us for the preview of our PERSPECTIVES exhibitions at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Thursday 1 November 2018 | 5:30-7:30pm 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester, M13 9LW   Text and line are leading themes in the artwork displayed at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, the restored home of celebrated English novelist and writer Elizabeth Gaskell in Longsight. Taking place … Continued