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Art historian and critic Claire Bishop presents Ancestral Avant-Gardes

The Art Research Group at Manchester School of Art invites you to a conference organised by Professor Claire Bishop from The Graduate Center, City University of New York and the Visiting Chair on Campus 2025 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University

Karen Barbour, ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’

Karen Barbour’s first solo show in the UK. Comprising twenty-nine paintings on paper that include a new body of work as well as paintings and collages that have been re-visited over the years, it dwells on the California-based artist’s intense concern for the spiritual in painting and how it might serve to alter psychological perspectives on landscape, cityscape or our internal relationship with our environment in general.

19th Century Now!

This event celebrates Man Met’s 19th Century roots in art and design education, and the transformative impact 19th Century ideas.

Conversations with History: Past, Present and Futures of Manchester’s Art Ecology

Dani Child, Senior Lecturer in Art History brings together historians and creatives working in Manchester and local regions on the occasions of the 200 year anniversaries of Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester Met and the 40th anniversary of Castlefield Gallery for two public events. These events initiated important conversations about the past, present and future of Manchester (and the North)’s art ecology.