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Jason Carr

Thursday, June 29th, 2023

Born and raised in New Zealand Jason Carr holds a Degree in Character Animation however after studying he quickly turned his hand to the Fine Arts when he moved to the UK in the early Noughties. He is an award winning, established artist with his studio based at AWOL, Manchester.

Jason has exhibited throughout the UK and internationally including New York and New Zealand. His work is collected all over the world with a significant number of collectors based in New York City ,the Hamptons and London. Jason uses oil paint to delve into his contemporary and unique style of painting the human and natural form, he uses his own lived experiences and the stories of his sitters to deliver contemporary and detailed work with raw and honest narratives.

In November, 2023 Jason will be showing at the Manchester Art Fair and has created some exciting and exclusive work to be shown.

To make a studio appointment or enquire about commissions please email jasoncarrartist@gmail.com

To see Jason’s process and shows follow Instagram @jasoncarrartist

To view available work online please visit www.jasoncarrartist.com

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Brink Studio

Thursday, June 29th, 2023

Founded by artist Rob Lenihan, Brink Studio brings together the strands of his varied career as a mural artist, Hip Hop performer, children’s illustrator, portrait artist, writer, and product designer. His love of collectible toys, comic books, classical art, act as an accessible vehicle to look deep within ourselves to reflect on who we are.

Using recognisable shared cultural icons, street art motifs, typography, psychological theories, and philosophy, Brink Studio explores how growing up and navigating the world in a western urban environment can be an exciting yet complicated journey. Each work of art is created to encourage a journey of reflection whilst empathising with modern urban cultural experiences.

brinkstudio.co.uk

Instagram: @brink.art.studio

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Cate Blanchard

Thursday, August 11th, 2022

Cate Blanchard, also known as The Sober Painter began making artwork after overcoming alcohol addiction in 2019. She was later diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in 2021 at age 34. She paints abstract acrylics with bold colours and textures detailing Cate’s storyboard of emotions on her journey of diagnosis and recovery. She finds comfort in rhythmic, repetitious patterns and consistent movement.

Website: www.artfriends.co.uk

Contact email: cateblanchard@icloud.com

Instagram: @cateblanchart (http://www.instagram.com/cateblanchart)

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Mark Kennedy – Mosaic Artist

Wednesday, January 20th, 2021

I am a mosaic artist whose work has been on on the streets on Manchester and beyond for 30 years…notably Affleck’s palace and the Etihad stadium. I have made untold amounts of work for untold amounts of people ..a list that I couldn’t possibly detail. A list that would go from street cleaners to hotels to department stores to art institutions to cafes from gangsters to princes to billionaires to the homeless for film stars to magicians for footballers and alchoholics from high lamas to burglars…I think you get my drift…from high end to lowlife…everybody’s pound note is worth exactly the same every publication is worthy of a reader..my most proud moment and career high was i drank the ashes of Bernard Manning. And if you buy me a Guinness one day I’ll tell you the story…

Watch youtube videos about my work here, and here, and here!

My website is crap ..the work is old and bobbins and I cant be arsed with it…www.markkennedy.co.uk

I’m on Instagram as @markkennedymosaics

Contact me on info@markkennedy.co.uk

Mobile 07970101699

Thankyou Mark

Tags: art, hope mill, manchester art, mark kennedy, mosaics
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John Wardle

Thursday, December 5th, 2019

John Wardle is an enigmatic painter and musician…

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Hatitze Achmet

Thursday, December 5th, 2019

Hatitze Achmet has been living and working in Manchester since 2018. She was born and raised in Greece. Between 2011-2017 she lived in Istanbul, where she studied painting at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. During and after her studies she took part in a number of group exhibitions and workshops.

In 2016 after her graduation, she was hosted at the “One year in the Passage” project for young artists in Istanbul. In the period of 2017-2018 she worked on her ‘OLYMPOS’, ‘BOTANICAL GARDENS’, ‘REFLECTIONS’ and ‘CONNECTIONS’ series.

Her latest works are the ‘Reflections’ and ‘Connections’ projects. Hatitze aims to reflect what she gets from the world around her. We see a confusing scene in her canvases and chaotic city plans on her paper works. We can see only some parts of the people, things, nature or city which are depicted in her works.

Beside her basic practice on oil painting she is practicing on linocut printing. Her interest is concentrated on the surfaces, the textures and the materials which she uses each time.

Exhibitions and workshops participations :

-2018, GaleryDeniz of DenizBank, ‘One year in the Passage’ (group show), Istanbul

-2017, Bankside Gallery (group show), ‘National Original Print Exhibition’, London

-2017, ARTIST, Art Fair, “AMA/ BUT” (group show), Istanbul

-2017, Tophane-I Amire Culture and Arts Centre, ‘Painting and Drawing Exibition’ (group show), Istanbul

-2017, Zorlu PSM, ‘The Arts for Goodness Association’, Istanbul

-2017, Bazaart, The Sofa Hotel (group show), Istanbul

-2016, Gallery Soyut, ‘New Space’ Project (group show), Ankara

-2015, ARTIST, Art Fair, MSFAU (group show), Istanbul

-2014, ARTIST, Art Fair, MSFAU (group show), Istanbul

Also:

-2016, ‘Olympos Painting Workshop’, MSFAU, Antalia

-2014, ‘Kilyos Painting Workshop’, MSFAU, Istanbul

-2013, ‘Kilyos Painting Workshop’, MSFAU, Istanbul

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Felicity Meachem

Thursday, December 5th, 2019

FELICITY MEACHEM

Felicity Meachem is a contemporary British artist. Shortly after completing her BA in Fine Art Painting at the University of Brighton in 2018, she has moved to pursue her practice, now based in Manchester. She has since been awarded Runner Up of the Graduate Art prize 2018 for her painting ‘I’m Alright, Hiding Tonight’ and has had selected work in the Manchester Open Exhibition 2020.

Burgeoning with an overload of pattern, Meachem’s work celebrates the use of the decorative within contemporary Fine Art Painting. While pattern can still signify twee, kitsch, and the feminine, she believes that with the right use of decoration in painting it can be evocative and empowering. Her paintings depict dreamscapes made of collaged Images. Figures are suspended in an indefinite psychedelic space, reminiscent of the BFG floating and tumbling about in his phiz-whizzing dream country.

I :: @felicitymeachempainting

Tags: art, awol studios, felicity meachem, hope mill, manchester art
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Sandra Robinson

Thursday, December 5th, 2019

Sandra is a graduate of the Manchester School of Art. A contemporary abstract artist, primarily a painter but also working with collage contemporary drawing and mixed media.

Email :: Sandra.m.robinson@ntlworld.com

Instagram :: sandrarobinsonart

Twitter :: @colourofideas

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Sharon Campbell

Wednesday, October 19th, 2016

Sharon Campbell is co-creator of the award winning ‘The Chandelier Of Lost Earrings’.

Currently collaborating with Rachel Ramchurn on ‘A Museum of Journeys in a Chest of Drawers’ an Arts Council England funded project, aiming to discover and exhibit familiar stories that which unite us through there commonality. Working with a Stockport based mental health and wellbeing group and a Nottingham based Refugee woman’s group.

This is based on the research and development project ‘A Pocketful of Treasure’.

Sharon’s work is motivated by the storytelling and narrative possibilities of familiar and personal everyday notions and objects, which resonate and connect with people. The aim is to create transformational works, which draw out the extraordinary from the ordinary, to speak of identity and community, the common themes that bring us together.

Sharon works in the field of contemporary visual art creating process led public artworks which focus on engaging with people, local communities and building relationships.

Sharon has worked in schools, hospitals and community centres, libraries and galleries.

E sharonkdoc@yahoo.co.uk

W www.axisweb.org/p/sharoncampbell/

W www.apocketfuloftreasure.wordpress.com/

Instagram sharon_m_campbell

T @skdocampbell

Images credits:

The Chandelier of Lost Earrings – Geoff Brokate

A Pocket Full Treasures – Jana Liggett

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Jude Wainwright

Tuesday, October 18th, 2016

Website: www.judewainwright.com

Instagram: @judewainwright_

Jude Wainwright is an artist living and working in Manchester, having settled there after receiving a BA Hons in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2009.

Wainwright is currently based at AWOL studios in Ancoats and is also an active member of the artist collective 10STRONG.

Her work has been commissioned by both commercial and private collectors throughout the UK, including commissions for television dramas and film.

Wainwright was named ‘Manc of The Month’ in November 2022 by Cotton On MCR and she reached the semi-final of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year in 2022. Jude is also an associate member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Artists.

‘Self-portraiture frames the basis of my work, the result of dreams or flashes of thought. Like diary entries, the paintings serve as keep sakes, a space for reflection and rumination.’

Commissions welcome! Email: judepwainwright@gmail.com

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