Venue: Coniston Institute, Yewdale Road, Coniston, LA21 8DU

Alison Kershaw invites you to commission your own mini masterpiece! 



Castlefield Gallery has selected Alison Kershaw to represent the gallery with her project Modern Nail Art at Grizedale Arts Art, Craft and Farmers Market. 


The stall will feature a nail artist who will paint a classic work of art on your fingernail for a small charge per nail. The choice of the works of American abstract expressionist painting, from the canon of great art of the 20th century, reproduced in miniature for you personally by a genuine nail art technician. Obviously the purchase of the originals would be impossible and these could only be seen in public or private galleries. Reproductions are available in postcards, books or even hand painted canvasses but these unique works are individualised and yours alone.

Castlefield Gallery and Creative Industries Trafford team up to offer a day of portfolio sessions for contemporary visual artists with leading art professionals.

Artists will receive intensive one-to-one 45 minute sessions to discuss their arts practice. With expertise in areas such as curation, the art market and publishing, the portfolio viewers will be able to provide critical feedback and advice on professional practice, marketing, fundraising and finding the right platforms for artwork.

With the portfolio reviewers guidance, all participants will create a simple action plan which we may use to monitor your progress.

Portfolio viewers will be Sarah Brown, Exhibitions Curator, Leeds Art Gallery; Kwong Lee, Director, Castlefield Gallery and Clarissa Corfe, Curator, Castlefield Gallery.

Booking: Please register your interest for the Portfolio Surgery by emailing info@creativeindustriestrafford.org. Include your name, address, a contact telephone number and a statement of 50 words or less outlining your artistic practice and the reason for wanting a portfolio review. Statements will be used to select successful applicants and to best match applicants to a portfolio viewer. 
Successful applicants will be issued with a 45 minute session. There will be a fee of 5 pounds for successful applicants.

Portfolios can be presented either in digital format on a laptop or in 2D format maximum A1 size

Venue: Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt St, Manchester, M15 4GB

Castlefield Gallery is pleased to announce that it is one of the key partners at this years The Manchester Contemporary art fair where it will be representing Andrew Bracey.

Andrew Bracey is an artist based in Manchester. For Manchester Contemporary 2011, Castlefield Gallery will be showing his most recent body of work ReconFigure Paintings, which features the artists alterations to well-known reproductions of historical paintings. Every human figure and piece of clothing have been painted out of the original composition with geometric, triangular shapes, forcing our vision to oscillate between the artists painterly additions and the usually obscured mise en scene of original photographic reproduction. Devising a set of guidelines for the creative process, the entirely unique images have been playfully transformed with suggestively haunting undertones.

Castlefield Gallery gratefully acknowledges sponsorship from Frames: Bespoke Picture Framing, Didsbury, Manchester.

Win tickets to The Manchester Contemporary VIP Preview with Castlefield Gallery.
Enter this free prize draw to win one of ten pairs of tickets to the VIP preview of The Manchester Contemporary on Thursday 27 October 2011. Winners will be announced on Tuesday 25 October 2011. Click here to enter.

Castlefield Gallery and The Beating Wing Orchestra team up for The Manchester Weekender Festival. Forty-eight hours of art, culture, music, film, food, literature, walks, politics, poetry, photography, theatre, spectacle and games all wrapped up into a single weekend across Manchester.

The Beating Wing Orchestra, a Manchester based international music collective that includes musicians from refugee and migrant backgrounds will stage a one off performance within Turkish artists Osman Bozkurt and Didem zbeks ambitious, multi art form exhibition at Castlefield Gallery.

FREE EVENT. To book tickets for this event go to our eventbrite.com

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To accompany Life in the UK / Balance of Probabilities, Zeynep Ozler and Melih Ozsoz from the Economic Development Foundation (IKV) in Turkey will share their research on the VISA Hotline Project alongside Tony Venables from the European Citizen Action Service (ECAS), Brussels.

Raising awareness of the VISA issue as a major barrier to the fundamental right of free movement of Turkish citizens, the speakers will highlight the human experience within this pertinently political issue.

To book a place at this free event email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk or register at Eventbrite.com

Take artist Didem Ozbek's version of the UK citizenship exam Life in the UK - Performance Test on alternate Thursdays (5-6pm) and Sundays (2-3pm).

Slots are available for Thu 6, Sun 16, Thu 20, Sun 30 October & Thu 3, Sun 13, Thu 17 and Sun 27 November. To book your free place email events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk or call 0161 832 8034.