Including life-size edible sculptures, a ceramics fair, and collaborative textile works, here are some of the best exhibitions around Manchester this March.
Holly Graham’s new work, which takes the form of a Victorian-style dress, will be exhibited at Manchester Art Gallery for two days in March.
Co-created with her mother, Jennifer Graham, the piece is modelled after a dress worn by African American abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond during a visit to Manchester in 1859.
Graham, a London-based artist, has been in residency at the Manchester Art Gallery since 2023, and her work explores the material history of the cotton industry through its legacies of expansionism, colonialism, and exploitative labour.
Running until June 2025, Manchester Museum’s Wild exhibition challenges how we think about nature, explores the way we relate to the natural world, and how we define what is ‘wild’.
This exhibition features immersive and interactive installations, audio, and film, in addition to natural history collections and artwork, to demonstrate how a diverse range of people create, rebuild, and repair their connections to nature around the world.
The Whitworth will showcase the work of over 50 talented ceramicists, giving opportunity to independent pottery makers in the North West to sell and display their work across a weekend dedicated to stunning, local creations.
Beginning in March and running until late December, Salford Museum and Art Gallery is hosting a collaboration between four female artists, brought together through the common themes of their artwork.
The exhibition features Naomi Kendrick’s drawings, Lizzie King’s immersive soundscape, and printworks by Maggie Thompson and Susan Wright, which each explore the themes of fragility, strength, place, mortality, and change.
A collaborative textile art piece incorporating painting, drawing, and collage created by ten artists is being displayed at the Granada Foundation Galleries at Home Manchester until April.
Lead artist Sarah-Joy Ford, and contributors Matthew Bamber, Grace Collins, Gwen Evans, George Gibson, Alicja Mrozowska, Venessa Scott, Kay Shah, Will Belshah and Freya Wysocki, have created a quilted time capsule to explore their individual artistic legacies.
- Words:
- Ellie McCreedy
- Published on:
- Mon 10 Mar 2025
Opening in time for International Women’s Day, this exhibition will feature over 90 women artists spanning 20 years of social, economic, and political change, and will delve into themes of maternal and domestic experiences, anti-racist and LGBTQ+ activism, Greenham Common and the peace movement, as well as punk and independent music.
This exhibition includes Bobby Baker’s life-size sculpture formed of real cake and biscuit, titled An Edible Family in a Mobile Home.