Bob Dickinson gives us a tour of Castlefield Gallery’s new pop-up project spaces for Manchester’s artists, providing room for large-scale, time-limited creative projects.
As Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary, it is launching its most ambitious initiative yet for artists, artist groups and development agencies. Federation House, an eight-storey building near Corporation Street in Manchester city centre, was until recently the headquarters of the Co-Operative Group’s food business, but along with other office workers in the area, its workforce recently migrated to the brand new Angel Square complex nearby.
For the next five years, Federation House will be home to Castlefield’s new ‘pop up’ project spaces, putting new art at the heart of NOMA, the Co-Op’s redevelopment scheme for the 20 acre area, a stone’s throw from Victoria Station.
On the day New Art Spaces Federation House was launched last week, visitors had a chance to tour 80,000 square feet of floor space, meet artists, and find out what it’s like to work there. The building is already busy with activity. On the upper ground floor, Lauren Sagar and Sharon Campbell have set up their glowing Chandelier of Lost Earrings, a floor-standing, glittering artwork made of jewellery donated by staff and patients at St Mary’s Hospital maternity unit... Keep reading on an
As Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary, it is launching its most ambitious initiative yet for artists, artist groups and development agencies. Federation House, an eight-storey building near Corporation Street in Manchester city centre, was until recently the headquarters of the Co-Operative Group’s food business, but along with other office workers in the area, its workforce recently migrated to the brand new Angel Square complex nearby.
For the next five years, Federation House will be home to Castlefield’s new ‘pop up’ project spaces, putting new art at the heart of NOMA, the Co-Op’s redevelopment scheme for the 20 acre area, a stone’s throw from Victoria Station.
On the day New Art Spaces Federation House was launched last week, visitors had a chance to tour 80,000 square feet of floor space, meet artists, and find out what it’s like to work there. The building is already busy with activity. On the upper ground floor, Lauren Sagar and Sharon Campbell have set up their glowing Chandelier of Lost Earrings, a floor-standing, glittering artwork made of jewellery donated by staff and patients at St Mary’s Hospital maternity unit... Keep reading on an