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What’s New??Collecting for Manchester
This new display explores the different ways artworks enter the collection and showcases many new works which haven’t yet been on show. In our 200th anniversary year, we are reflecting on how the collection has been formed, how we can best use it and how it might grow in the future.
The display explores how the gallery works with patrons, collectors, artists and their estates and funding bodies to build the city’s collection of art. We benefit from the generosity of gifts and bequests to the collection. When we purchase artworks, we don’t use public money but raise funding through the Friends and Patrons of Manchester Art Gallery, trusts and foundations like the Art Fund. We also take part in specific acquisition schemes with the Contemporary Art Society and the Manchester Contemporary Art Fund. We also once mounted a crowdfunding campaign.
The collection is formed through a mixture of intention and opportunity and we want to make the collecting process, something which has happened behind closed doors, more transparent.
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This new display explores the different ways artworks enter the collection and showcases many new works which haven’t yet been on show. In our 200th anniversary year, we are reflecting on how the collection has been formed, how we can best use it and how it might grow in the future.
The display explores how the gallery works with patrons, collectors, artists and their estates and funding bodies to build the city’s collection of art. We benefit from the generosity of gifts and bequests to the collection. When we purchase artworks, we don’t use public money but raise funding through the Friends and Patrons of Manchester Art Gallery, trusts and foundations like the Art Fund. We also take part in specific acquisition schemes with the Contemporary Art Society and the Manchester Contemporary Art Fund. We also once mounted a crowdfunding campaign.
The collection is formed through a mixture of intention and opportunity and we want to make the collecting process, something which has happened behind closed doors, more transparent.
Artists on show
- Adeela Suleman
- Adolphe Valette
- Anya Gallaccio
- Arthur Hughes
- Boris Nzebo
- Dean Hughes
- Douglas Gordon
- Edward Allington
- Emily Allchurch
- Gavin Turk
- George Melly
- Hetain Patel
- James Durden
- Jamie Holman
- Joana Vasconcelos
- Liam Spencer
- Linda Stein
- Louise Giovanelli
- Mariele Neudecker
- Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
- Matthew Darbyshire
- Nahem Shoa
- Nicolaes Berchem
- Nina Chua
- Philippe Starck
- Rut Blees Luxemburg
- Simon Bayliss
- William Mackrell
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