Greater Manchester Artist
Snail Sculpture Graffiti Style
This Snail doesn't leave a trail of slime thank goodness ???? This colourful art sculpture is around 6 inches high and spans just short of 10 inches. Sprayed with various bright graffiti paints and detailed with black acrylic paint and then a matt spray varnish....
SMOBLES Sculpture Number 03
SMOBLES Sculpture Number 03. "THE PIGS WITH NO NAMES” I think once sold, the owner should choose the name they want?I have named her "Juleka Unbrasaluka" until a suitable home is found!! This happy piggy stands at around 30cm tall, 20cm wide and 30cm long. What a...
“SMOBLES” Sculpture Number 02
Edward, one of the SMOBLES would brighten up any home or office! This piggy stands at around 30cm tall, 20cm wide and 30cm long and the number 02 of the series of pigs that I will be making over the coming year. The names SMOBLES came from the amazing Chrissie...
Manchester is known as England’s second city and it is full of culture, diversity and some pretty amazing and talented artists.
Over the last few years, the city has started to come alive with colour and as graffiti splatters its creative mark on walls and buildings. Often illegally so the council are often behind artists trying to either protect it or erase it. Like most councils, they pick and choose with no real framework or rules as to what should stay or go. I bet a Banksy piece would not be cleaned off a wall!
In recent years, Machester has become the big rival for London’s art scene and the city has introduced and hosted many art events giving many gallery artists the opportunities for more exposure with their art. Sadly, during the pandemic at the start of 2020, all these events ground to a sudden halt. The events scheduled for 2021 if open should be even better quality as many artists like me have used the time during lockdown time to produce new collections. So if you do visit Manchester, be sure to hunt out these types of events that support the local artists.
In 2020 and during lockdown I also seized the opportunities to learn even more skills related to the changes happening within the art world such as the new craze of crypto art. I won’t explain the in’s and out’s of it on this page, but the art industry is evolving and galleries will need to either embrace it or could one day become extinct. Manchester does however have some wonderful art galleries still very much alive for you to visit.
Like Brighton, the actual city is full of creative people and therefore many building pops with colour and clever art pieces, some commissioned and some illegal. This captures the attention of locals and visitors to the city as they snap a photo for Instagram. The hashtag #Manchester has an incredible 15,831,108 posts, almost double the number of Brighton pictures. Many of these pictures are art-related pictures, like building with art on them, art canvases and people trying to express their artistic skills with photography, even spray-painted mannequins
Go visit Manchester, it is a fantastic place for all ages.