Graduates showcased at Castlefield Gallery
7 November 2013
Trio part of annual "launchpad" exhibition
WORK by three Manchester School of Art graduates is currently being showcased at Castlefield Gallery.
Calum Crawford, Sophie Mitchell and Darren Murphy will all feature in Launch Pad: Manchester School of Art 2013 at the gallery.
They were selected for the exhibition by Penny Macbeth, Head of Art at MMU, and Kwong Lee, Director of the gallery.
The exhibition will run until November 10.
Exceptional work
Penny Macbeth said: “Castlefield Gallery is renowned for the exceptional work it does in showing and launching emerging artists work, Launch Pad: Manchester School of Art 2013 is a fantastic platform for our three graduates in this early stage of their career.
“This is the first of a series of three exhibitions which will take place annually, and it will help to raise the profile of artists graduating from Manchester School of Art. The artists will benefit from the exceptional mentoring provided by the Castlefield Gallery team and the opportunity to develop new work in response to an exhibition commission.”
Kwong Lee said: “Castlefield Gallery is continuing its significant and long standing partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University with the Launch Pad series of exhibitions. Over its 29 years history, Castlefield Gallery has worked with students, graduates, lecturers, researchers, course leaders and department heads as artists, advisors and experts in the field of contemporary art.
“The quality of graduating students from the BA (Hons) Fine Art and BA (Hons) Interactive Arts 2013 courses was exceptionally high and we are really pleased to be able to platform three of the most promising artists from this year.”
