Alan Birch will be showing his work as part of the Pendle International Print Biennial which takes part on September 1st and 2nd 2012 at Higherford Mill near Nelson. Alan will be showing a variety of prints including the on going series Contemporary Saints, Monsters , Dancing with the Devil and others. The inaugural Pendle […]
Printmakers Chris and Lorraine Waites demonstrated the process of Gum Arabic printing at Prospect Studios in Waterfoot. Artists were shown many ways to produce prints from photocopies and drawn plates. A variety of rich images were produced on this short course, which may be repeated at a later date.
Alan Birch will be showing his work as part of the Pendle International Print Biennial which takes part on September 1st and 2nd 2012 at Higherford Mill near Nelson. Alan will be showing a variety of prints including the on going series Contemporary Saints, Monsters , Dancing with the Devil and others. The inaugural Pendle […]
Alan Birch is currently working on a new series of mono prints and etchings, based on medieval saints. Inspired by seeing a series of woodcarvings in the Wellcome collection in London, these saintly figures were used to alleviate medical conditions.Alan has brought these into the contemporary world by combining saints from early illustrations and adding […]
Year 9 Pupils from Newall Green High School, worked with artists Sara Marsh and Alan Birch to explore the world of Public Art. Pupils viewed the public art pieces outside the Whitworth and in Whitworth Park, and were encouraged to give their views on the pieces. Later pupils drew inspiration from the works in the […]
Over a period of 5 weeks residents at Berkeley Court in Didsbury will be working with artist Alan Birch in conjunction with the Whitworth Art Gallery to produce a series of drawings and prints to display in their communal area. Residents will visit the We Face Forward exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery, and explore […]
. As part of the We Face Forward exhibition currently on show at various venues in Manchester , prints produced by artist Alan Birch and members of the African Caribbean Carers Group are on display in the foyer of Manchester Museum. Working with Andrea Winn at Manchester Museum, centre users have been using printmaking to […]
Artists Alan Birch and Lucy Burscough worked with patients from the Adult Acute Care Ward in Manchester Hospital, working on memories from Belle Vue Zoological Gardens. Patients told of their memories of happy times spent at the attraction. One patient even told of the time the wrestler Big Daddy drank in their local pub! From […]
In June, Alan Birch worked with the entire pupil population of Christ Church Primary School in Chadderton. All pupils worked on the theme of “Patterns in Our World”, cutting shapes from patterned wallpaper prior to his visit to the school. A printing studio was created where all pupils experienced the joy and magic of printing. With […]
During the months of June and July, Alan Birch worked with over 400 secondary pupils in a number of schools within Tameside, Manchester , Bolton and Salford. Pupils explored a wide range of print techniques, including drypoint, chine colle, collage, chine collie, relief printing and mono printing. Themes explored were self, identity, mexico day of the dead […]
As part of the Working for Wellbeing Conference held in Preston in July, Alan Birch ran a short printing session for attended by a host of representatives from the health and gallery sectors. The conference featured inspirational and informative inputs from Mike White, Sue Hacking and Emma Varman. In the short printing session artists created […]
Alan Birch and Jill Randall will be exhibiting their work at the Pendle print Fest in Barrowford on the weekend of 1st and 2nd of September 2012. The Festival will run in conjunction with a print exhibition by Paula Rego at Colne Library. The print exhibition on the theme of the Pendle Witches is not […]
I am currently working on a new body of work , exploring the subject of Saints and Martyrs. The starting point for the series was hearing that Roberto Mancini had been to church on the final day of the season, which seemed to have been successful. The first monoprint was Saint Last Minute, followed by […]
Congratulations to class members Jo Beggs, Carolyn Murphy, Neil Robinson and Pete Marsh for being selected for this North West open exhibition. The exhibition runs for a couple of weeks yet.
On Wednesday the 30th of May, Castlefield Art Gallery will be hosting a fund raising auction. The auction featuring 60+ original artworks from nationally and internationally acclaimed artists/curators many of whom have worked with Castlefield Gallery before such as Pavel Büchler (Northern Art Prize 2009 winner), Leo Fitzmaurice (Northern Ar…See More. Alan Birch has donated […]