Exhibitions, Lecture

Barbara Brown

17 March 2017 - 15 March 2018
Barbara Brown was the golden girl of Heal Fabrics in the 1960s and early 1970s. Talent-spotted as a student, her designs for furnishing fabrics are some of the most striking and unusual…

Beyond Borders

20 May 2017 - 3 June 2018
Beyond Borders, explores South Asian textiles bringing together four artists working on issues around post-colonial identity, ruptured spaces, authenticity, displacement and belonging.…

Cecily Brown: Shipwreck drawings

17 November 2017 - 15 April 2018
This is an exhibition of a extraordinary series of drawings by Cecily Brown, of wrecked ships and their passengers. Brown’s practice of painterly interrogation of an existing image,…

Cozens and Cozens

16 June 2017 - 24 June 2018
Father and son, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, were influential watercolour painters of the 18th century. Alexander was a drawing master who dedicated his career to teaching young…

In the Land

27 January - 4 November 2018
Rethinking the form, texture and space of the natural landscape. This exhibition looks back at a period of intense experimentation in British painting and sculpture where artists,…

John Stezaker

1 December 2017 - 24 June 2018
Using vintage photographs, old film stills, postcards and book illustrations, John Stezaker makes collages that subvert their original imagery, creating unique and compelling works…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

19:30 - 21:00 1 February 2018
The Curious Case of the Pulsating Star Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell We’re absolutely thrilled to be welcoming Jocelyn Bell Burnell to Jodrell Bank for our first Lovell Lecture…

Maeve Brennan: The Drift

30 September 2017 - 1 February 2018
Maeve Brennan: The Drift 30 September 2017 – February 2018 The Drift, is a major new film commission by contemporary artist Maeve Brennan in her first institutional solo exhibition.…

Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language

30 September 2017 - 25 February 2018
Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language 30 September 2017 – 25 February 2018 The first major UK exhibition by Raqs Media Collective at the Whitworth and throughout Whitworth Park…

Reena Saini Kallat

10:00 30 September 2017 - 17:00 25 February 2018
Acclaimed artist Reena Saini Kallat has delved into Manchester Museum’s natural science and human culture collections for her solo exhibition. Her newly-commissioned sculpture Chorus…

South Asian Modernists 1953-63

30 September 2017 - 15 April 2018
South Asian Modernists 1953-63 30 September – 15 April 2018 South Asian Modernists will explore the works of Pakistani and Indian artists who worked with Victor Musgrave between 1953-63.…

Steve McQueen: Ashes

22 September 2017 - 12 March 2018
Steve McQueen: Ashes 22 September 2017 – March 2019 Ashes (2002-2015), a double video projection, tells the story of a young Caribbean man known by this name. On one screen we see…

Apna: Ours Yours Everybody’s

3 February - 13 May 2018
Apna is a word used in many languages across South Asia meaning ‘ours, yours or everybody’s’. This reflects how the Whitworth shares the collection that is housed here. In the Collections…

Rutherford's Manchester: the birthplace of nuclear physics

13:00 - 14:00 3 February 2018
In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford became the first person to create an artificial nuclear reaction, here in laboratories at the University. To mark the centenary and…

GDI Lecture with Dr Ha-Joon Chang: 'Are some countries destined for under-development?'

16:30 - 18:00 5 February 2018
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series and the Post-Crash Economics Society is pleased to present Dr Ha-Joon Chang, University Reader, University of Cambridge, toexplore the…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Tim Ingold, 'The Creativity of Habit'

17:00 - 19:00 7 February 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Tim Ingold (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen), will deliver a public lecture…

Baroness Hale gives the 2018 Christabel Pankhurst Lecture

17:30 - 19:30 8 February 2018
The 2018 Pankhurst Lecture will be delivered by The Right Honourable The Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE PC FBA and is entitled: 2018 – A Year of Anniversaries 2018 is the anniversary…

CTIS Seminar: Jan Van Coillie, "Nibble, nibble like a mouse/ Who is nibbling at/ the source text’s house? Fairy tales in translation"

14:00 - 15:30 8 February 2018
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

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