Events and Exhibitions

A black and white image of a man standing in a pigeon enclosure holding a pigeon looking at camera
12 January 2023 to 30 March 2024

The University of Salford Art Collection presents Craig Easton: Is Anybody Listening? a touring exhibition at galleries across the Northwest. Craig Easton: Is Anybody Listening? is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, showcasing two award-winning series of photographs, alongside an engagement programme for young people called Our Time, Our Place.

A person sat with opened bean pods around them and putting hand in a bowl of beans with vibrant print clothing
18 January 2024, 10:00 to 31 March 2024, 17:00

Open Eye Gallery are running LOOK Climate Lab - a biennial programme exploring how photography can be a relevant and powerful medium for talking about climate change. Running from 18 January to 31 March 2024, they'll transform the gallery into a lab: bringing together researchers and artists to test their ideas and encouraging their audiences to discuss systematic changes needed for dealing with the climate crisis.

a tent next to a hut in the rural countryside
11 March 2024 to 30 April 2024

SixBySix presents: Lost in the Wilderness by Kalpesh Lathigra, exhibition currently showing at Ropes and Twines until 30 April, 2024.

Venues

Past Events and Exhibitions

15 September 2012 to 25 November 2012

American artist Mark Morrisroe was 30 years old when he died from an AIDS-related illness in 1989. In the final years of his short life Morrisroe produced photograms using x-ray imagery of his own body alongside cuttings from pornographic magazines and other ephemera.

This archive exhibition forms part of Liverpool Biennial 2012 – The Unexpected Guest.

Image: courtesy of The Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection) at Fotomuseum Winterthur.

15 September 2012 to 25 November 2012

Using colour as a primary material, Sinta Tantra creates architectural interventions on a grand scale.

Taking the Liverpool Biennial's theme (of The Unexpected Guest) as a point of departure, Tantra reflects upon how buildings welcome or repel us, and how bodies navigate environments shaped from light, colour and physical structures.

Tantra’s intervention will transform the external facade of Open Eye Gallery and the public space adjoining it, creating a spectacle of submergence and superabundance.

15 September 2012 to 25 November 2012

First exhibited in Tokyo in 1979, Kohei Yoshiyuki’s (Japan, b. 1946) twin projects 'The Park' and 'Love Hotel' ignited furious debate about photography’s relationship with voyeurism and surveillance.

In The Park, as observer, and with his camera loaded with infrared flashbulbs and film, he photographed in three different Tokyo parks over several years. The resulting body of work captures heterosexual and homosexual couples engaged in sexual activity, and the peeping toms who stalked them.

29 October 2012, 10:30 to 17:00

In this hands-on masterclass, delivered in partnership with Redeye and Open Eye, Kenny will guide participants through the camera-less art of the photogram, giving people the opportunity to create their own unique images using darkroom processes.

Developed over the last thirty-five years, Paul Kenny’s exquisite images have evolved through a range of camera-less techniques. With an increasing move towards abstraction, Kenny’s work focuses on awe-inspiring details of the landscape, addressing ideas of fragility, beauty and transience.

2 June 2012 to 16 September 2012

This multi-venue celebration of art from West Africa features significant photographic content.

At Manchester Art Gallery:

Hélène Amouzou Abraham Oghobase, Charles Okereke, George Osodi, Nyaba Léon Ouedraogo, Nyani Quarmyne.

At Whitworth Art Gallery:

Charles Okereke, Nii Obodai, Francois-Xavier Gbré, Romuald Hazoumè.

At Platt Hall, the Gallery of Costume:

Malick Sidibé, Abderramane Sakaly, Soungalo Malé, Hamidou Maiga.

15 September 2012, 11:00 to 12:00

Artist Sinta Tantra discusses her new commission Together Yet Forever Apart with Open Eye Curator Karen Newman.

22 June 2012 to 2 September 2012

Still Outside (or Unexplained) presents four artists, from the UK, France and Switzerland.

They share common ground, closely observing and reworking parts of their environments that might otherwise be unseen or neglected. Using still and moving images, they question what we see as natural and artificial, and what we think we know about the world around us.

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Still Outside (Or Unexplained)
Review by Stephen Clarke

22 June 2012 to 2 September 2012

Open Eye Gallery presents a selection of eighteen photographs of Wurm's earliest One Minute Sculptures, made in the late 1990s.

Since the late 1990s Wurm has been developing One Minute Sculptures, an ongoing series in which we see the artist or his models pose in spontaneous ways with everyday items, inserting pencils in ears, propping chairs on eyes, and bringing a host of inanimate objects to life.

27 July 2012, 23:00 to 10 August 2012, 23:00

Open Eye are running a series of one-day Saturday courses for beginners this summer, to guide you through how to get the most out of your digital SLR camera.

The courses are led by professional photographers Mark McNulty and McCoy Wynne. See Open Eye's website for all details and how to book.

16 June 2012 to 20 June 2012

The Degree Show celebrates the achievements and talents of final year students at Manchester School of Art.

The show is open to the public and will take place between 16 and 20 June 2012. It is held at Manchester Metropolitan University's All Saints Campus and at Quay House, Quay Street, Spinningfields in Manchester city centre. All venue details are available on their website.

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