Workshops/Tours

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Educator with group drawing in the galleriesAvailable throughout the year

Choose from a range of activity sessions, all of which:

Last 1 hour 45 minutes (maximum).
Include practical activities led by artists/educators.
Are cross-curricular in approach and wherever possible, cross-cultural.
Are based on the permanent collections and often include current special exhibitions.

New Workshop
Thinking Visually

Open your eyes, follow the artist’s gaze and engage your senses to explore ways of seeing, feeling and understanding. Working individually and collaboratively, students use objects to create dialogue, discover meanings and form their own interpretations of images and artefacts in the gallery.

Events and Activities

Take part in a wide range of events, from guided tours to hands-on workshops.
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Gallery Tours

We’ll tailor guided tours of the gallery to your group’s needs. All our tours are led by a gallery educator, who will take you through the building – introducing highlights of the permanent collection, destination galleries and current special exhibitions.
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Picturing Landscapes

Use the gallery’s collections to research how artists have developed and produced landscape paintings throughout the last century. In the studio students collect and explore observational drawings of Manchester’s ever-changing cityscape using print techniques.
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Portraits and Identity

Investigate relationships between people and objects through a range of works of art in our permanent collection and special exhibitions. Critical studies inform analysis. Photography and alternative drawing techniques document observations.
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Sculpture with Susie MacMurray

Practising artist Susie MacMurray introduces students to traditional and contemporary artwork, using her own artistic processes and the gallery’s collection. Students explore unusual materials and a range of methods. Drawing and sculpture become entwined using wire, withies and wool.
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Who’s in the News?

Explore people, power and perception through the cult of celebrity. Debate historical and contemporary ideas of fame and notoriety. Students create unique mixed media montages that transport Victorian depictions of women into the 21st century.
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To make a booking or for further information please contact us.
Tel: 0161 235 8842
Fax: 0161 235 8899