Welcome to The Grateful Web—the podcast that connects the rest of the world to our exciting vibrant Northern art scene. Hosted by Manchester-based artist Dr Jo Clements, this series explores the rich ecosystems of artists, curators, and cultural thinkers whose ideas and collaborations shape our cultural landscape. Through candid conversations with artists, scientists, and creative practitioners, The Grateful Web celebrates and acknowledges the generosity, collaborative spirit, support and chance encounters that are essential fuel for artists’ success.
Rooted in the Norths' dynamic art scene, this podcast shines a light on the connections that drive creative communities—from world-renowned institutions to grassroots artist-led spaces. Whether you're an artist, curator, art collector, gallerist or simply someone who loves art and exploring the ideas that bind us, join us as we weave new connections, explore and expand our grateful web.
This podcast has been made possible with generous support from GMCA Inspire Fund (round 3) info here and by an a-n Artists Bursary (2024-25) info here
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Welcome to The Grateful Web—the podcast that connects the rest of the world to our exciting vibrant Northern art scene. Hosted by Manchester-based artist Dr Jo Clements, this series explores the rich ecosystems of artists, curators, and cultural thinkers whose ideas and collaborations shape our cultural landscape. Through candid conversations with artists, scientists, and creative practitioners, The Grateful Web celebrates and acknowledges the generosity, collaborative spirit, support and chance encounters that are essential fuel for artists’ success.
Rooted in the Norths' dynamic art scene, this podcast shines a light on the connections that drive creative communities—from world-renowned institutions to grassroots artist-led spaces. Whether you're an artist, curator, art collector, gallerist or simply someone who loves art and exploring the ideas that bind us, join us as we weave new connections, explore and expand our grateful web.
This podcast has been made possible with generous support from GMCA Inspire Fund (round 3) info here and by an a-n Artists Bursary (2024-25) info here
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A warm welcome to the 14th episode of the Weaving Connections series on The Grateful Web the podcast that weaves connections with some of the fabulous people I’m privileged to call part of my arts community here in Manchester and the North West.
I’m Dr Jo Clements - artist, artists coach and your grateful web host
My guest today is the artist Rowland Hill.
Rowland studied Drama and English and worked as an award-winning artist film curator before graduating in 2018 with a Masters from the Slade School of Fine Art where she received the Clare Winsten Memorial Award. In 2024 she presented her debut institutional solo exhibition Logical Song at Castlefield Gallery in Manchester which she transformed into an ambiguous attraction. In the same year she was shortlisted for the prestigious Jerwood & MAYK Bursary for artists working in radical live performance.
Her projects have been supported and commissioned by institutions including the Jerwood Foundation, Raven Row, Hospitalfield, Turner Contemporary, and Flux Factory in New York and she’s performed and directed work at the Southbank Centre, Tate Britain and The Lowry among others.
www.rowland-hill.com
@row.land.hill
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Welcome to The Grateful Web, I’m Dr Jo Clements and In this episode I’m delighted to speak to curator Chris Bailkoski.
Chris is an independent curator with over 20 years’ experience developing collaborative practices with artists to co-create dynamic exhibitions and events, predominantly focusing on grassroots visual and musical artists in Greater Manchester. He has founded several cultural spaces including music venue SOUP (2010), artist development platform PROFORMA (2017) and resident-led gallery Longsight Community Art Space CIC (2022). In 2024, Chris relocated to Norfolk and is currently embarking on new projects in the region and across the UK.
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On this episode of The grateful Web I’m honoured to be joined by Sara Hindhaugh, a visual artist whose work weaves together fragments of memory, autobiography, and myth. Born in the Solomon Islands, Sara studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art and is a valued member of AWOL Studios in Manchester. Her practice spans drawing, painting, printmaking, embroidery, book arts, and sculpture.
Themes of time, grief, vulnerability, and salvation run through her work, shaped by delicate, time-consuming processes and materials that are as fragile as they are powerful. With threads of Oceanic and Chinese culture, humour, and deeply personal storytelling, Sara creates intense and moving narratives that reflect her emotionally honest, formidable approach to life.
https://www.sarahindhaugh.com @awolstudiosmcr @saraehindhaugh
Please note there is mention of suicide in this episode.
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Welcome to this FINAL edition of my special series The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
Today I’m joined by artist Martin Nash.
A long-standing member and director of Rogue Artists’ Studios, in this last episode of the 30@30 series before we open our doors tomorrow, Martin tells us about his work and the history of the origins of Rogue Studios, it’s journey and expansion through 3 different buildings and how our marvellous artists community came to our current home at the former Varna St School.
Having first studied Architecture and Martin completed a Degree in Printed and Woven Textiles at Manchester. This grounding in Architecture and Textiles, both arts which have a practical application and deal with the flat surface as well as 3 dimensional space and form, has informed the evolution of Martin's work. From his early days in a Manchester studio near Piccadilly, producing prints and paintings inspired by architectural shapes, he’s gone on to create public sculpture commissions, corporate works, and exhibitions across the UK.
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
Today I’m delighted to be joined by Rebecca Davy. Rebecca is an artist- predominantly a painter- based in Rogue Artists Studios. She studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, graduating with a BA in Fine Art in 2003, where she was awarded the Ken Billany Prize for Painting, and went on to complete her Masters in Fine Art there in 2006.
Rebecca’s practice centres on still life painting. She describes the act of pushing paint around a canvas as both lush and meditative—a way of finding stillness in a chaotic world. Her work often focuses on colourful, ephemeral objects that spark curiosity and that carry echoes of still life’s traditional association with memento mori.
The slow meditative process of painting is in contrast to the way she initially captures the objects in photography. A fraction of a moment stretched out through paint, to appreciate little things that make life joyful.
Rebecca has exhibited in the UK and abroad, both in solo and group shows.
She exhibits with Comme ca Art and her work has been seen in the Lowry Hotel, Harvey Nichols, Manchester, and INNSIDE by Melia
Rebecca’s instagram is @rdavyart
Her work via Comme Ca Art can be seen at www.commecaart.com/rebecca-davy
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
Today I’m joined by Karol Kochanowski, a Polish-born artist and painter based at Rogue Artists Studios in Manchester. A graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University, Karol’s work has been shown across the UK, Germany, the US, and Greece, and in 2020 he received the Granada Foundation Gallery Exhibition Award at the Manchester Open for his piece Class.
Karol’s paintings explore the hidden layers of the subconscious, drawing viewers into a dialogue with what is unspoken and unseen. His practice is shaped not only by this fascination with the mind, but also by a deep commitment to human rights, cultural diversity, and the LGBTQI+ community. He is also a co-founder of EARTS, a collective supporting European artists in Manchester and beyond.
https://www.karol-kochanowski.com @karolkochanowski
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
Today I’m joined by Julie Cassels a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores textiles, clothing, and the way fabric has been depicted and reinterpreted throughout art history. Working with photography transferred onto fabric, paper, and aluminium, Julie’s series-based works are not displayed behind glass but rather exhibited to embrace the materiality of their surfaces
After an early career as a Systems Analyst in England and New Zealand, Julie graduated with a degree in Visual Arts from Salford in 2004 and an MA in Textiles and Fashion at MMU in 2005. Since then, she’s exhibited widely in the UK, Europe, and New Zealand.
Her work appears in ‘Everyday Delight’ a Shutter Hub Editions publication and her practice is discussed in the book ‘Reframing Photography – Theory and Practice’, published by Routledge.
She has been a finalist in the GM Arts prize 2019, the Women in Art Prize and in The Eve Arnold Photography Prize Category, in both 2024 and 2025.
Instagram @julie.cassels
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
Today’s guest is the painter and printmaker Michelle Leigh. Working in oils, watercolour, etching and woodcut, Michelle creates richly imaginative works that weave together myth, memory, and everyday experience.
She studied Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic, graduating with First Class Honours, and went on to complete a Master’s at Newcastle with support from the British Academy. Her work has been exhibited widely including at The Whitworth Gallery, and Manchester Art Gallery, and her work is held in both public and private collections worldwide including in the UK, the US, Portugal, Vienna and beyond.
Featured in publications such as Who’s Who in Art 2008 and A Colourful Canvas: Twelve Women Artists in the Northwest by @wendyjlevyfineart Michelle has also been recognised internationally, including as runner-up for the Ben Uri Gallery’s Artist of the Year Award. Her latest solo show, A Taste of Arcadia is currently at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, running until February 2026.
In summing up Michelle adds '...I cover flat surfaces with paint, it could be said to be a frivolous occupation in many ways, but I take it dead seriously'.
You can see her work on Instagram @michelleleighartist or at www.michelleleighart.com currently showing work @salford_museum
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
Today I’m joined by painter Ruth Murray. Her paintings often place women in quiet, everyday scenes—yet beneath the familiar lies a tension. They can evoke feelings of alienation, paranoia, or the subtle weight of social expectations, while also finding a contemplative beauty in isolation and mourning. By loading these domestic or natural settings with psychological depth, Ruth gently unsettles traditional depictions of women, making space for gestures and details that shift our sense of what might otherwise seem ordinary.
Ruth graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008, and her career since has been widely celebrated: she’s a past Derek Hill Scholar at the British School at Rome, recipient of Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants, winner of the 2020 Jackson’s Painting Prize, and an elected member of both Contemporary British Painters and Contemporary British Portrait Painters. Her work is held in private and public collections worldwide, including UNESCO’s Creative Cities Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, and the Whitaker Museum.
She has exhibited extensively across the UK and Europe, with recent shows at the Garden Museum in London, Cambridge University’s ARB, and Manchester Art Gallery, among many others.
@ruthmurrayartist @gardenmuseum
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
On this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with Mike Black
Mike is a photographer based at Rogue Studios Manchester UK he works in both commercial and fine art photography and has worked for a wide range of clients and artists. Please do check out his Instagram @mikeblackphoto where he has taken lots of really beautiful images of Rogue studios in the run up to our Open studios on the 20th September 2025.
🎧 You can listen to a new conversation - one released everyday - over the 30 days leading up to our Open Studios - on @the_grateful_web — available on Acast, Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you get your podcasts! Do like, follow and share!
To mark Rogue’s 30th anniversary we will be showing two group exhibitions during open studios - ‘Soft Proof’ featuring work from studio members past and present curated by Short Supply, celebrating the unfinished, the in-progress, and the unapologetically imperfect and ‘From the Shadow’ - new work by Ten Obstructions.
📍 Save the date:
🗓 Saturday 20th September, 12–8pm
📍 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1
Over 100 artists’ studios to explore inside the historic Varna Street School! 🏫
From the Shadow runs September 6th – 28th and Soft Proof September 20th until 5th October.
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
On this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with Simon Woolham
Simon is an artist, curator, performer and academic whose practice centres on expanded drawing and narrative. Simon studied Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University before completing an MA at Chelsea College of Art, and later a practice-led PhD exploring walking, and narrative in physical, virtual, and psychological space, expanding on the notion of an artists’ residency of the mind. He has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally and was the artistic programmer and curator at PAPER Gallery here in Manchester for a decade and has developed projects with numerous organisations across the UK. Simon also performs as The Frog a roaming, shape-shifting alter-ego and plays in the band L.A.S.H. He’s currently co-editing a new book, Drawing as Placemaking: Environment, History and Identity for Bloomsbury alongside a current collaborative residency project at Gorton Monastery, funded by the University of Huddersfield.
Frog on the Water: HOMWAARD BOUND JustGiving link:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/frogonthewaterakahomewardbound
Drawing Out The Canal project with DPUK:
Drawing as Placenmaking: Environment, History and Identity Bloomsbury Publishing pre-order link:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/drawing-as-placemaking-9781350457058/
@simonwooham @thefrogperformer @l.a.s.h.1
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
On this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with Lucy Ridges
Lucy is a visual artist and photographer based in Manchester, specialising in analogue photography and traditional mark-making techniques. Over the past decade her work has focused on the representation of the female form through experimental photographic processes such as cyanotype printing, multiple exposures, photopolymer gravure and hand colouring.
Her work explores the relationship between the human body, nature, and the cosmos, embracing the tactile and unpredictable qualities of analogue processes. Lucy also works as a portrait photographer, primarily shooting musicians, comedians and actors. Work has been published in: The Guardian, The Times, New Scientist, Vogue.
She has exhibited widely across the UK, including at The Lowry, Salford; HOME, Manchester; Bankley Gallery, Manchester; and Lumen Crypt, London. Lucy has also participated in artist residencies in Iceland, La Gomera, the Isle of Skye, and Cornwall.
Lucy holds an MA in Photography from Manchester Metropolitan University and a BA(Hons) in Fine Art from the University of Central Lancashire. She lectures in Photography at Salford University and is working towards a solo show which will be held in the project space at Rogue Studios next November.
https://www.lucyridges.com/about @lucy_ridges
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
On this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with Margaret O’Brien.
Margaret works between the UK and Ireland, creating large-scale installations that combine sculpture, live sound, light, moving image and kinetics. Her practice is rooted in experimentation, exploring failure, malfunction and instability as spaces of discovery.
She’s interested in how things fall apart, break down, or resist control — and how that reflects our everyday and existential struggles. There’s always a psychological charge in her work, whether it comes through unexpected sound, light, or even smell, and although her perspective can be dystopian, it’s not without humour.
Margaret has exhibited widely, completed major international residencies, and her work is held in public and private collections, including the Arts Council of Ireland. Alongside her practice, she’s been a lecturer, subject moderator, and collaborator with art-science groups such as Paralab here in Manchester.
https://www.margaretobrien.co.uk @obrienmgt
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
On this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with Hannah Leighton-Boyce.
Hannah works across a variety of sculpture formats including collage, writing, installation, and live event. Her most recent work explores processes of joining, repair, renewal, and transformation to reimagine a means of holding together fragments of writing, body, form and landscape.
At the recent night of performance and video, ‘The Same deep Water as You’ @pinkmcr
she read from the work ‘Notes from meanwhile’- a series of vignettes where she recalls, amongst other things - fever-induced hallucinations and dreams in which she willed her body to accept cells that had travelled across the world and returned to her in a clear plastic bag, the thoughts of a piece of chewing gum, the feeling of slipping away, being a body of water, and a conversation with a hip.
In recent years she has exhibited work at The National Festival of Making, White Columns, Bury Sculpture Centre Castlefield Gallery and Glasgow Women’s Library. Next month she begins both a ‘Women in Print’ residency at art lab contemporary print studio @artlabcps and a collaborative DYCP funded project with @row.land.hill building on conversations around their collage practices and, later in the year, will be heading to the Scottish Sculpture Workshop to develop some new work.
Website: https://www.hannahleightonboyce.com @hlboyce
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
On this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with Susie MacMurray
Susie is a British artist whose work includes drawing and sculpture. She is also known for her architectural installations. She has an international profile, showing in the USA and Europe as well as the UK.
As a former professional classical musician and mature student at MMU in the late 90’s, Susie was drawn to interrogate the elements that moulded her sensibilities as an orchestral performer. That language and focus became the bedrock of her practice. An interest in fragility and sensuality, the immersive and the ephemeral, alongside the process of building up, layering and orchestrating material dialogues in the form of repetition remains at the core of her practice today.
Susie is represented by the sculpture gallery Pangolin London.
https://www.susie-macmurray.co.uk www.pangolinlondon.com @susiemacmurray
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
I’m Jo Clements – artist, coach, and host of this podcast and today I’m swapping roles – instead of being the one asking the questions, I’m being interviewed for Rogue Studios’ 30@30 series by the brilliant Mollie Balshaw from Short Supply.
My work explores how knowledge- especially knowledge that is embodied, gendered, or classed – is transmitted, stored, and valued. Through sculpture, drawing, sound, and digital media, I investigate how meaning is constructed through both physical and cultural systems, from neural networks to educational materials. Frequently sensual, tantalisingly tactile and often tongue in cheek my work exudes an ambiguous mix of the serious and the absurd.
I hold a Fine Art practice-based PhD, have exhibited in solo shows at mid-Pennine Art Gallery, Bury Art Museum, The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery and Claudel hall, Clermont-Ferrand, France and was the overall winner of the Greater Manchester Arts Prize in 2018. My work is held in private collections across the UK.
I also support artists through coaching and mentoring across the UK and Ireland.
Artists website: https://www.joclements.co.uk
Coaching website: https://www.joclements.uk
Insta @jo_clements
Podcast @the_grateful_web
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
On this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with Mollie and Rebekha Balshaw from Short Supply
Short Supply are an artist-led organisation based in the North of England and since 2019, they’ve been carving out radical, joyful, and accessible pathways into the art world—especially for early-career artists who are queer, working-class, or from regional backgrounds.
Through exhibitions, commissions, public programmes, and partnerships, Short Supply has supported hundreds of artists and become a trusted platform for cultural equity—bridging the gap between emerging voices and established institutions ensuring talent doesn’t go to waste just because it sits outside of traditional networks.
Whilst also maintaining strong visual arts and curatorial practices Mollie and Rebekha with their characteristic self-determination and humour lead Short Supply’s artist-first mission with empathy, resilience, radical imagination, and care.
You can find out more about their practices at https://www.shortsupply.org where you can also find links to their book ‘517 Degrees’ and on Instagram @shortsupplymcr
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
On this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with Nicola Dale.
Nicola is an artist from Manchester. She has performed at major institutions including The Hepworth Wakefield, Saatchi Gallery and Turner Contemporary. She has exhibited widely in the UK and undertaken residencies internationally. She is a keen collaborator, working with practitioners across the arts, recently including performer Florence Lam (Peer to Peer, Hong Kong); artist/curator Garth Gratrix; and composer Ailís Ní Ríain (A-lesh Knee Ree-un) (IMBOLC festival, Northern Ireland) amongst others. Her work is included in a number of collections including The Grundy, Blackpool; University of Salford Art Collection; John Rylands Library; The University of Manchester and Tate (artist’s book archive).
You can see Nicola’s work here https://www.nicoladale.com and @nicola_dale_
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
On this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with Jen Orpin
Jen lives and works in Manchester, she’s been a member of Rogue Studios since 2000 and is a Member of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.
She co-founded Rogue Women in 2019 and is the founder of A Small Space collective.
Her motorway paintings have featured in several publications including the Guardian online and twice in the Observer’s New Review and on BBC Radio 6music and ITVX. As well as being selected and invited into group shows across the UK and abroad, she’s also exhibited at art fairs in Manchester, London, South Korea and has had solo shows in Manchester, London and Seoul. She’s currently exhibiting in ‘Rolling, Action…Paint! in Norway and has been selected for the three previous Royal Academy Summer Shows. Her work is held in private collections both here and internationally and in two UK public collections, including the New Art Gallery Walsall and Manchester Art Gallery where you’ll find her painting hanging in the Lowry and Valette room.
Web: www.jenorpinpaintings.com
Instagram: @jenorpinpainter
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.
On this episode I’m delighted to be chatting with Mike Chavez-Dawson
Mike is an interdisciplinary artist curator based at Rogue Artists’ Studios (since 2000). He is also a lecturer on the Foundation course at the University of Salford.
Mike has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally at Tate Britain, the Barbican, ICA, the British Art Show 7 at Nottingham Contemporary, ART BUSAN in Seoul, South Korea, Juxtapose Art Fair with PINK in Aarhus, Denmark, ZsONAMACO MEXICO ARTE CONTEMPORANEO 2017, Design Miami, GEEK Art in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, The Whitworth Art Gallery, HOME, Castlefield Gallery, and the Grundy Art Gallery.
His works are held in public collections at Manchester Art Gallery, Bury Art Museum, the Pod Collective (Coventry), and The Whitaker Art Gallery and Museum, as well as in numerous private collections.
He won the Whitstable Biennale Open in 2008, was selected for Fountain 17 as part of Hull’s UK City of Culture program in 2017, and was longlisted for Artangel’s 2013 Open, making the top 100. @mchavezdawsonart
We look forward to seeing you for Open Studios at 2–6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU on Saturday 20th September from 12–8pm
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