Pat Flynn, Untitled (Mobile), 2006
The students-led exhibition projects: This Lonely World and Into The Blue
4 July 2022
Responding to the key themes of ‘loneliness", This Lonely World and Into The Blue showcasing focus on various quasi-representational constructs
The series of student-led projects part of our new international collaboration with Videocity aims to foster different ways of working digitally together as a global team.
Videocity connects video and time based art with broad audiences in public spaces around the world, both indoors and outdoors, as well as in unusual locations.
The project will be hosted in various locations: Holden Gallery; 70 Oxford Road; Horsfall Art Gallery and launched on the 7th July:
Screening: This Lonely World
17.00-18.00 pm, Holden Gallery
Opening: Into The Blue
18.00-20.00 pm, Horsfall Art Gallery
The idea of feeling lonely in one of the UK’s most densely populated cities can feel abstract. However, Manchester’s economic and social infrastructure can often present conditions that can drive its residents to live this shared experience. The works each approach the idea of loneliness in different ways.
Antony Barkworth-Knight
“Homage To The Rain”, 2019
Co-Commissioned by Quays Culture and University of Salford Art Collection, 2019
Screening: This Lonely World
Opening: 7th July 2022, 17.00-18.00 pm
Location: Holden Gallery
Participating Artists: Antony Barkworth-Knight, Fiona Brehony, Bridget Coderc, Pat Flynn, Mishka Henner, Andrew Mcdonald, Darren Nixon
Exhibition: This Lonely World
Dates: 07.07 – 28.08.2022
Location: 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
Participating Artists: Yana Bachynska, Antony Barkworth-Knight, Fiona Brehony, Bridget Coderc, Pat Flynn, Mishka Henner, Alina Kleytman, Andrew Mcdonald, Darren Nixon
Curated by Sophie Edmondson, Joe Lang and Georgie Parker
This exhibition project This Lonely World showcases seven artists with ties to Manchester and two Ukrainian artists selected from the Videocity archive, who’s video art will be screened at the Holden Gallery and then displayed on screens located in a window space at 70 Oxford Street.
The exhibition takes place at the head of Oxford Street corridor, at a busy junction which hosts Oxford Road train station, Palace Theatre, and O2 Ritz Manchester. The location has always remained a highly trafficked area, with popular bus routes to and from the city centre, the universities and many residential areas of Greater Manchester.
Lynn Murphy
Hiraeth, 2022
Exhibition: Into The Blue
Opening: 7th July 2022, 18.00-20.00 pm
Dates: 07.07 – 09.07.2022
Location: Horsfall Art Gallery
Participating Artist: Myrid Carten, Orla McHardy, Lynn Murphy, Alice Rekab
Curated by Lynn Murphy
The exhibition project Into The Blue brings together existing and newly commissioned works on the theme of Loneliness by established and emerging Irish artists. The artists Myrid Carten, Orla McHardy, Alice Rekab and Lynn Murphy’s works all reflect an extreme awareness of oneself and the world around them.
The title Into The Blue, is a journey into creating ambient spaces which convey a sense of lacking or longing for a person or place using moving image and video. Bringing works together under this theme puts emphasis on the ephemeral and transient nature of our lives. It tentatively asks the viewer to consider vulnerability and loneliness as vessels from which to view the world.
