The innovative technique Sarah MacFarlane has developed to create her work is immediately striking. The ruched surface of her landscapes comes about through using layers of dried paint to build up dimensions, collage-like.

Brilliant graduates continue to arrive at the gallery, and it’s a joy to curate them.

This week’s emerging artists show fantastic sensitivity to the possibilities of their medium – applied in very different directions..

For this week’s Director’s Picks, Sarah reflects on how environment can imbue you taste. In this case, it’s sun, sea, and a different tempo that have caught her eye.    This week’s artwork selection has been informed by my recent week away in the sunshine on the beach: experiencing a certain saturation of colour and […]

2022 Manchester Metropolitan University graduate Rhianna Mone makes hybrid wall hangings. In her process the artist uses chance to foreground the interrelations of shapes and colours. As artist Elsworth Kelly said of using chance to make his collages of colourful squares: “I want to eliminate the ‘I made this’ from my work.” The title of many […]