Made for Manchester: Craft Objects of Exchange

Made For Manchester will show work from British and Indian makers, who have explored, united and utilized each other’s creative worlds.

Manchester Craft and Design Centre will showcase the craft outcomes from a series of cultural exchanges, completed by makers from the North West of England and Ahmedabad, India. The exchanges gave the makers the opportunity to investigate current international craft practice.

The exhibiting makers have explored what a cultural change does to each of their practice, combined practices to make new work and tested craft boundaries. In a time when India’s craft practice is rapidly expanding, partly to support our creative industries, it’s interesting to see how practices from both areas can learn from each other.

The exchanges were initiated by a series of projects, led by the cultural practice organisation, A Fine Line. The exchange projects included HAT (Here and There) and PALlab. The UK based makers are academics and practicing artists, affiliated with MIRIAD: Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design. Indian Artists are associated with the Arts Reverie house in Ahemedabad, India. Arts Reverie was co-founded by A Fine Line.

Made For Manchester will link with the Extending the Line exhibition at the Holden Gallery, which will present further evidence of investigations into cultural pairings by participating artists. Also, artists Pushpa Kumari and Manisha Parekh, will be exhibiting new works. Both of these artists are established and working in India. 

Artists:

CJ O’Neill
Amanda Ravetz
Lokesh Ghai
Steve Dixon
Sahil and Sarthak
Lynn Setterington 
Alison Welsh
Jane Blease

17 Oak Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M4 5JD
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Opening times
Monday to Saturday: 10am–5.30pm
Closed Bank Holidays.

Free entry