Manchester Art Gallery retail showcase
As winner of the Manchester Art Gallery retail showcase award at the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair Manchester 2019, I am doing a takeover at the gallery shop from 16 September 2021. The work includes a small flock of city pigeons, settled in various places around the shop, work inspired by the gallery collection, things on wheels, and a whole host of creatures of debatable character. The showcase will run until the end of the year.
Nameless Wonders
Glasgow, Scotland
Pigeons are literate, own imageTwo of a flock of toeless city pigeons installed in the shop at Manchester Art Gallery
Punk crab, own imageOne of the creatures in the seafood section of the showcase at Manchester Art Gallery shop
Glasgow bus, own imageA mixed media textile bus featuring embroidered stories heard, and various characters encountered, on bus journeys in Glasgow
Three creatures, own imageA springsekt, a supah chikin and a rabbit on wheels, sitting atop a display cabinet in Manchester Art Gallery shop
Crab puppet, own imageA Japanese spider crab puppet suspended in the Manchester Art Gallery shop
Bat automaton, own imageInspired by a bat discovered on close inspection of Briton Riviere's painting 'In manus tuas domine', in the gallery collection
Three children in a park, own imageInspired by a painting of the same name, artist unknown, in the gallery collection
Bad Bunny evolution, own imageA timeline depicting the evolution of my longest-running small character, Bad Bunny, from his origin in 2008 until present