BLOG: Artist Louise Hewitt reviews The Portico Library’s latest exhibition

Venture Arts artist Louise Hewitt is passionate about visiting Manchester’s museums and galleries, gaining inspiration for her own art and poetry.    This is the first of a new bi-monthly blog from Louise, in which, acting as ‘Venture Arts Cultural Correspondent’, she’ll review an exhibition she has attended, giving an insight in to how it … Continued

In a normal year we’d work with young students from a range of schools across Manchester, providing them with an important opportunity to gain valuable skills and experience in the work place. We work in partnership with Our Futures, who support young people with careers advice and work experience.   Of course last year and … Continued

We are delighted to announce a new creative partnership with specialist architectural lighting company, Studiotech.   Venture Arts will be working with Studiotech on a series of creative projects, together finding new and dynamic ways to bring artwork projects to life and present illuminated work in unusual public settings.   The partnership will begin with … Continued

This year artist Anne-Marie Atkinson has been contributing to the Venture Arts blog, sharing with us insights from her research for her PhD thesis, ‘Challenging Outsider Art: How are learning disabled artists informing contemporary art’. She has written three blogs for us, sharing the ideas and motivation behind her research, how it’s been impacted by … Continued

Staff at Bolton-based Barry Bennett Ltd. (and its sister company, Bennett Workplace Solutions Ltd.) has stepped up to the challenge to raise funds for our Warm-hearts Winter Challenge.    35 staff members put their best feet forward to walk a combined 8,211,128 steps, collecting sponsorship along the way. The company topped up the £1,642 total … Continued

As part of this month’s International Women’s Day celebrations MCR Sew Social have curated an exhibition titled, ‘What does International Women’s Day mean to you?’   MCR Sew Social was established in 2018 and is run by textile artists Rowan Bridgwood and Louisa Hammond. A community of textile and fibre artists who meet in Greater … Continued

On 25th March 2021, Venture Arts is delighted to present a digital ‘Artist Open Studio’ – sharing the work of Poppy Maguire and Josh Brown, alongside Rory White from Creativity Explored in San Francisco, USA.   As part of her PhD research, Anne-Marie Atkinson has spent time with these three artists over the last several … Continued

Last month we shared our first blog from artist Anne-Marie Atkinson, who is currently conducting her PhD research with us, through a partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University. For her thesis entitled, ‘Challenging Outsider Art: How are learning disabled artists informing contemporary art’, Anne-Marie immersed herself in the daily life of the Venture Arts studio.   … Continued

George Parker-Conway has been a Venture Arts artist for the past 11 years, having joined our studio when he was only 12 years old. A talented portrait artist, George is passionate about illustration, typography and graphic design. He also pursues a strong interest in women’s rights and the great feminist characters who pushed forward the … Continued

Announcing a series of three exciting virtual exhibitions to showcase artists work from ActionSpace, Project Ability and Venture Arts, beginning with ‘Electric Dreams’ (launching 11th March)     We are delighted to announce that we are joining forces with our amazing partner organisations ActionSpace (London) and Project Ability (Glasgow) on a project entitled x3. Together, … Continued