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An exhibition exploring the use of white in art, an installation featuring a nine-foot hand-stitched rag doll and the first solo show of artist Rachel Clowes... just some of the events taking place in Manchester over coming weeks.
Exhibition
British Art Show
Various venues
Until April 2.
The Hayward Gallery's sixth British Art Show takes over every major art gallery in Manchester to showcase the best of contemporary British art. It features work in all media made by 50 artists and artists' groups over the last five years.
Exhibition
Enrico David
Chinese Arts Centre, ThomasStreet, Northern Quarter, untilApril 2. Free.Tel: 0161 832 7271.
Part of the British Art Show 6, Enrico David will be displaying an installation featuring a nine-foot hand-stitched rag doll at the Chinese Arts Centre. David's work focuses on the thin threshold that separates art from craft and his giant alter ego dolls have been the topic of many a conversation among artists and art critics.
Exhibition
Revelation
The Lowry, until April 2. Free.Tel: 0870 787 5793.
Featuring some of the most famous and controversial names in the contemporary British art scene, this is a specially created companionexhibition to the British Art Show 6. Drawn exclusively from the Arts Council Collection, Revelation includes work by Tracey Emin, Lucien Freud,Tony Cragg and Paula Rego to name just a few.
Exhibition
Life scars
Manchester Craft and designCentre, Feb 4 Ð April 8. Free.Tel: 0161 832 4274.
The first solo show of artistRachel Clowes, investigatingbody scarification as ameans of telling the scarwearer'sstory. Clowes studiedembroidery at ManchesterMetropolitan University and herwork has been shown at theDKNY flagship shop in London.She is now back in Manchesterwith two collections of dressesraising interesting questionson identity, culture and socialnorms.
Exhibition
THE ART OF WHITE
The Lowry, until April 17. Free.Tel: 0870 787 5793.
An exhibition exploring theuse of white in art spanning500 years. From religiouspaintings to photographsand sculptures, the exhibitionreveals how this elusive colourhas, despite its apparentneutrality, always been anintensely powerful elementwithin the artist's palette.
Exhibition
FUSION
Hat Works Museum,Stockport, until April 21. Free.Tel: 0845 833 0975.
An exhibition exploring thecreativity of communicationthrough 22 sets ofcollaborations betweendesigner jewellers and textileartists.
Exhibition
WITNESS
Imperial War Museum North,Feb 4 Ð April 23. Free.Tel: 0161 836 4000.
A new major special exhibitionthat reveals how the First WorldWar shaped lives through theeyes of its artistic witnesses.It includes internationallyrenowned paintings such asWe Are Making A New Worldby Paul Nash (pictured) andA Battery Shelled by PercyWyndham Lewis, displayedalongside powerful first-handaccounts of life at the frontline and at home.
Exhibition
CARRYING THE COLOURS
People's History Museum,Bridge Street, until Oct 29.Free. Tel: 0161 839 6061.
The People's History Museumin Manchester boasts the mostimportant collection of tradeunion banners in the country,many of which are on displayin its new special exhibition.Carrying the Colours tells thestories behind the bannerson display, with archive filmfootage, oral history and lotson hands-on interactives toengage the whole family.