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The big picture: street art
Conrad Astley24/ 3/2006
A window display is ensuring new artwork is seen by people who wouldn't normally go to a gallery. Conrad Astley took a look.
ART has been brought out of the gallery and literally onto the
street, thanks to a city centre window display.
The art window, at the Direct Line offices opposite The Opera House
on Quay Street, has been attracting admiring glances from passing
office workers and workmen from a nearby construction site.It has
been set up by Art In The City, which started as an online gallery
used to promote North West artists.
The not-for-profit organisation now has dozens of artists on its
directory, as well as arranging regular exhibitions and sponsoring
the degree show for Manchester Metropolitan University's embroidery
department, while the site has received over a million
visitors.
Their exhibitions, held at the Dukes 92 bar in Castlefield, have
been intended to bring art to people who would not normally set
foot in a gallery.
Now they have gone one step further with the window gallery which
has been open since January.
It holds work by new artists on seven-week cycles and Art In The
City's founder Sylvia Swiffin has planned a full programme running
until next January. She says the latest artists to be displayed
there are a diverse pair - Jo Scorah and Hasan Dhaimish.
Hasan, who was born in Libya but now teaches art at Nelson College
in Lancashire, usually works on canvas and screen print. His
pictures often express his fascination with jazz, as well as his
past and memories of his cultural heritage.
Jo works from her studio in Bowdon, Cheshire, is a recent graduate
from Manchester Metropolitan University's School of Design, and is
interested in fashion and celebrating the beauty of the body.
Although her background is in embroidery, she attempts to fuse fine
art with dress making, producing one-off garments or creating
paintings which are embellished with print and stitch.
The artists' work will be on display until April
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